Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

[Drtooth]

Personally, I'd rather someone just go back to the books and forget all the previous tellings, but this film looks fun. It can't be worse than Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland or ABC's Once Upon A Time program.

Yes, yes, yes, a million times yes. I HATE how Oz has to live in the shadow of that one film from almost a century ago, instead of moving forward and getting different adaptions that do their own thing. Even the Muppet version borrowed from the movie (and The Wiz). I always hated the term remake when it comes to a movie based on a book. Book stories are meant to constantly be retold because everyone adapts them in different ways. That's what reading is about anyway. Everyone reads something different, and we should get different adaptions of each story with a different angle.

I respect the tastes and opinions of others, but I cannot support wanting others to fail. That's just unmuppety.

I know you're talking about the Oz film, but I still cry karma should have the G.I. Joe film flop. Seriously, I can't wait till the next Michael Bay abomination screws up Transformers Prime. I blame the retailers, clearly... but whenever Hasbro has a movie property and a cartoon property on the air at the same time, they take the cartoon behind the barn and blow it's head off for movies that no one likes anyway and merchandise that winds up on clearance at Marshall's for years to come.

Poor, poor G.I. Joe Renegades and Transformers Animated....

 

[Muppet fan 123]

I hope people remember that it's not Disney coming up with this story. It was Frank L. Baum himself! The story "Oz: The Great and Powerful" was a book that he wrote along with The Wizard of Oz and the other books in the Oz series.

 

[Drtooth]

You know how close Disney was to actually making a WOZ movie? That's what's really funny about it.

 

[Hayley B]

I've been watching Wreck-It Ralph atleast once aday this week. It has become one of my favorite movies ever. Too bad it didn't get the Oscar. I feel that the Annie Awards got this one right.

Also I so want to see Oz: The Great and Powerful. I'll try to bug my mom to take me to the theater. But I'll most likely have to wait til it's on DVD.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Haha. Although WIR wasn't exactly what I expected, I still enjoyed it very much, and it was one of those movies I can't stop watching. I already saw it twice in theaters and once on DVD.

 

[Drtooth]

I've been watching Wreck-It Ralph atleast once aday this week. It has become one of my favorite movies ever. Too bad it didn't get the Oscar. I feel that the Annie Awards got this one right.

Ralph was my hands down favorite animated film of the year. It's tied with Avengers as my favorite movie of the year period. The Oscar went to Brave out of pity for the female director that got booted out, but even then I think Paranorman deserved something for its craft.

So... apparently OZ got an 80 million dollar opening. Something tells me it's still going to tank because of the obviously high budget. I rully Hope The Muppets... Again can catch that kind of fire when it comes out next year.

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

Weekend Estimates
1 N Oz The Great and Powerful BV $80,278,000 - 3,912 - $20,521 $80,278,000 $215 1
2 1 Jack the Giant Slayer WB (NL) $10,020,000 -63.2% 3,525 - $2,843 $43,811,000 $195 2
3 2 Identity Thief Uni. $6,319,000 -34.9% 3,002 -228 $2,105 $116,530,000 $35 5
4 N Dead Man Down FD $5,350,000 - 2,188 - $2,445 $5,350,000 - 1
5 4 Snitch LG/S $5,100,000 -34.3% 2,340 -171 $2,179 $31,855,000 - 3
6 3 21 and Over Rela. $5,056,000 -42.2% 2,771 - $1,825 $16,840,000 $13 2
7 7 Safe Haven Rela. $3,800,000 -39.5% 2,541 -410 $1,495 $62,884,000 $28 4
8 8 Silver Linings Playbook Wein. $3,745,000 -34.6% 1,727 -109 $2,169 $120,749,000 $21 17
9 6 Escape From Planet Earth Wein. $3,207,000 -51.6% 2,549 -561 $1,258 $47,832,000 $40 4
10 5 The Last Exorcism Part II CBS $3,120,000 -59.6% 2,700 - $1,156 $12,083,000 $5 2
11 9 A Good Day to Die Hard Fox $2,100,000 -54.1% 1,725 -864 $1,217 $63,346,000 $92 4
12 12 Life of Pi Fox $1,625,000 -31.6% 671 +45 $2,422 $119,413,000 $120 16

 

[jvcarroll]

Oz is estimated to have taken over $150M worldwide. That puts it on the fast track to being a certified hit. I still predict it will make over $600M worldwide.

 

[MissMusical12]

Ralph was my hands down favorite animated film of the year. It's tied with Avengers as my favorite movie of the year period. The Oscar went to Brave out of pity for the female director that got booted out, but even then I think Paranorman deserved something for its craft.

So... apparently OZ got an 80 million dollar opening. Something tells me it's still going to tank because of the obviously high budget. I rully Hope The Muppets... Again can catch that kind of fire when it comes out next year.

Wasn't the budget for OZ $200 million or something like that?

 

[Slackbot]

I hope people remember that it's not Disney coming up with this story. It was Frank L. Baum himself! The story "Oz: The Great and Powerful" was a book that he wrote along with The Wizard of Oz and the other books in the Oz series.

That's L. Frank Baum. And there is no book titled "Oz the Great and Powerful" among the fourteen Oz books he wrote, or fifteen if you count Little Wizard Stories of Oz. What book are you referring to?

(Hardcore Oz fan here, and author of A Refugee in Oz, link in my sig.)