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Marvel studios is making the rounds talking with several potential directors a name that keeps popping up is Adam McKay, director of Step-Brothers, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights.
Rawson Thurber and Ruben Fleischer round out the three most mentioned replacements for Edgar Wright, but rumor has it it's Adam McKay's position if he wants it.
What do you think?
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Box Office Report
Posted by Labels: Box Office, Days of Future Past, X-MenAs of Friday May 30th X-Men: Days of Future Past has surpassed $300 M in international Box Office receipts, with a $130 M Domestic Box Office (included an estimated $6M for Thursday) the movie now ranks second in Worldwide Box Office for the X-Men franchise. By the end of the day on Friday it should pass X-Men: The Last Stand as the most successful movie in franchise history, after 8 days of release.
There has been lots of predictions of the movie earning approximately $500 M in foreign box office receipts, however the movie is currently tracking for $620 to $640 M.
With the movie projected to earn $40 M for the weekend domestically the movie should move up the list and be the 4th largest domestic box office in the franchise by Monday Morning, and is still tracking for $250 M total box office take domestically.
If the movie continues as it is tracking it should end up in the $890 to $930 M range and the third largest worldwide box office in the Marvel brand and in the top 30 of all time.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Blu Ray and DVD
Posted by Labels: Blu-Ray/DVD, Captain America, The Winter SoldierAnnounced today that the Blu-Ray and DVD of Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be available September 9th, 2014.
EDIT - This may not be the correct date, trying to confirm.
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| Rogue portrayed by Anna Paquin |
Things that make you go Hmmm was a early 90's pop music (dance) hit be C+C Music Factory but the title seems appropriate here.
For the film X-Men: Days of Future Past the creative team of Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg amongst others created a subplot for the popular character Rogue / Marie. They went so far to bring back Anna Paquin (Star of HBO's True Blood) and film at least ten minutes of additional footage including what has been described as a great fight scene for it.
However Bryan Singer announced a few months ago the sequence(s) were cut from the film because it was considered an appendage to the film rather than a part of the films body. Okay I can buy that.
In talking to the Daily Beast Simon Kinberg adds some more detail.
The Rogue/Anna Paquin scene was by far the biggest cut we made, and that was more my fault than anything. When I was crafting the script, I wanted to create a subplot for old Charles and old Eric—Patrick and Ian—to have a mini-mission together, one final adventure. And that’s what the Rogue sequence was—that they went to retrieve Rogue. But it felt like it didn’t come from the spine of the film, it was an appendage where I just wanted to see the old guys get in the X-Jet for one last ride. It was a narrative detour, and in a film with this much momentum and narrative flow, you can’t afford any detours.
Hmmm?
Okay the weakest points of the film are .... ummmm ... mostly addressed by this subplot and you cut it from the film?
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| Kitty Pryde portrayed by Ellen Page |
This sub plot also addresses the weird Kitty Pryde sequence where she is losing strength that meant nothing to the final cut of the film.
It addresses how the Sentinels are morphing their power to match the mutants they are fighting.
It gives Ian McKellan something to do... it ...
Really you cut it?
And word from someone who has seen the fight scene "Awesome"... and you Cut it?
There has to be a better explanation:
- It added another Mutant to the Story and it was too difficult for the non-comic book readers to keep them all straight.
- The film reached a time length we were told to not exceed.
- We had budget/time constraints that kept us from completing the CGI...
I feel kind of cheated at the moment.
As I look back at the box office of the past two months with three Marvel Movies released over an 8 week period I wondered how much cannibalization occurred?
April 4 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
May 3 - The Amazing Spider Man 2
May 23 - X-Men: Days of Future Past
Part of the problem when talking about cannibalization of the box office people have to make assumptions on what the audience would have done if that movie wasn't there. The flip side of the coin in the discussion is whether or not a movie audience reviews/critical reviews is also involved in the discussion.
In the three movies that was just released we have two problems. The first is with little question from both critics and the audience in general The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [TASM2] was not a very good movie. Earning an unhealthy 54 on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic score of 49 and CinemaScore of a B did the movie no favors. The movie did earn $91 Million in the opening weekend, but by the third weekend it had dropped to $16 Million in the same number of theaters. These reasons for me determine that TASM2 is the cannibal film.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier [CA:TWS] on the other hand earned $95 Million on Opening Weekend and in the fourth weekend in competition with TASM2 still earned $16 Million.
So how much did The Amazing Spider-Man cannibalize CA:TWS? By my math it appears to cost CA:TWS about $15 to $20 Million domestically and internationally another $50 Million (at least).
How much did TASM2 cannibalize X-Men: Days of Future Past [DOFP]? Only one week in $5 at least and maybe as much as $20 Million for the opening weekend and a residual effect of another $5 to $10 Million. Even though TASM2 was released two earlier internationally than its domestic release, it cost DOFP about $30 million and the residual effect maybe another $10 to $15.
From my vantage point the release of TASM2 cost Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox at least $140 million in sales. That amount would put a movie in roughly the top 550 movies of all time in terms of Box Office.
The next question is when does this cycle happen again, 2016, except it's not three movies in eight weeks, its four movies in 9 weeks.
- May 6 - Captain America 3
- May 27 - X-Men: Age of Apocalypse
- June 10 - The Amazing Spider-Man 3
- July 8 - Untitled Marvel Studios
Add in Dawn of Justice on May 6 and you have 5 movies!
IF I were Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal/Kazuo Harai, and/or Jim Gianopulos it would be time to have some serious considerations on Movie dates.
For Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige I totally understand you have worked hard to brand the first weekend in May as your weekend with 5 movies released on that weekend, and I totally get you not want to move because Dawn of Justice (Warner Brothers DC Comics) is also on that weekend, but for Marvel Studios it is finically for the best to move your release date up to April 8th, 2016.
Additionally that July 8th Date, is already looking a little crowded moving that to August 5th again a weekend you have planned for the 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy release looks like a better option.
I would hate to be Kazuo Harai and Amy Pascal at Sony Pictures and dealing with the fallout of TASM2 for the release of TASM3. The Spider-Man movies have been all over the map when it comes to release date and lately it hasn't look good for the brand, its time to seriously consider moving out of the crowded summer into a far less competitive time zone, how about October 2016. For many movies it would kill your Box Office, but considering the state of things.
That leaves 20th Century Fox's release of X-Men: Apocalypse on Memorial Day Weekend in 2016 with movies spread out at least a minimum 8 weeks apart. It would compete against Alice in Wonderland 2 but clear different audiences and that good for the movie going public.
My preferred schedule:
- April 8 - Captain America 3
- May 6 - Dawn of Justice
- May 27 - X-Men: Apocalypse
- August 8 - Untitled Marvel Film
- October 21 - The Amazing Spider-Man 3
Of course no one is asking me and everyone's egos are going to get in the way.
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