Each week Jacob recaps the weekend box office and the winners and losers in the Midnight Warrior Fantasy Movie League.
WEEK 09 BOX OFFICE BREAKDOWN
Where’s that big plate of crow I need to eat? And when I do eat it, will PETA protest against it? Even if they do, apparently it won’t stop a single person from watching me eat that bird.
Yes, as much as it pains me to write it, A Dog’s Life or whatever it was called was the Best Performer this week. I assumed that when the video of the near-drowning of the German shepherd came out a few weeks ago, The Life and Death of Mr. Dog was dead in the water. Then, when the response was that the whole thing was taken out of context, suddenly Dog Time: A Time For Dogs was back at the potential number one spot.
I was so sure that this film would not do well that I called it out specifically in our last episode as the single movie that our former champion O PC, Where Art Thou? would not play in her cineplex. It’s one thing to miss on your prediction, but it’s another to specifically call out the BP as a potential flop.
All Dogs Are Reincarnated Perpetually Until The Heat Death of the Universe was joined by a movie about McDonald’s and a theater showing a blank screen, or as we call it around here, one screen of Rules Don’t Apply.
This makes me sad.
Personally, I was sure that the 6.1 billion Oscar nods for La La Land would propel the musical juggernaut and eventual classic to monster box office numbers. It finished in a solid second place, but you can’t underestimate how much people want to hear the internal monologue of a house pet for an hour and half so that they can tell everybody at work how good A Dog and His Boy was.
As for our league, we find School of Rock back on top for both the week and the season. This endless back and forth between he and O PC continues, with the separation at only about $1.5 million dollars in total gross. With only 4 weeks left, my own cineplex has fallen basically out of contention. It’s not impossible to make up $50 million, but with decisions like mine it will be very hard.
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WEEK 10 PREDICTIONS
Awards season continues with another one of our harder weeks. I’m not really sure what the best course of action is this week, but if you have been following my picks you probably know that already. I will at least try to break down this week’s new arrivals:
- Rings – The third big horror release of the year, and it’s barely February. The marketing push is large on this one, but are audiences getting horror fatigue?
- Lion – This picture returns on the back of it’s Best Picture nomination. Can this feel good picture get audiences to roar, or is it just destined to fulfill some less happy cat pun?
- The Space Between Us – I’m not sure what to make of this one aside from the fact that it looks like it’s a really high budget Disney Channel Original Movie. Can this Zenon meets E.T. draw audiences in who might otherwise see Cloud Atlas 2: Cloud Atlas But Everyone Is A Dog?
I don’t like any of FMLNerd’s predictions this week for one reason or another. Are people really going to go and see Sing? Does Rouge One have any gas left in the tank? I think the best bet is to go with 6x The Space Between Us if for no other reason but I don’t think it can possibly do well and when I think that I’m always wrong. It’s at a bargin basement price of $144 bux, and pairs nicely with XXX: Return of Xander Cage and Big Mac: A Documentary of Mark McGwire.
If you think that 6 screens of a movie that I only saw previewed before Passengers and has almost no ad campaign is a bad idea, please convince me to change my cineplex via twitter, @jakerg23.