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Elysium is going to be a victim of summer burnout from the blockbusters...disappointment with sci fi fare such as Oblivion, After Earth, Pacific Rim, White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen, World War Z, etc.

 

They shouldn't have released it on this particular August date, and they're suffering from 3 other movies opening the same weekend, too.

 

Won't end up doing nearly as well as District 9 did.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 02:29 PM)
The Conjuring was MUCH better than expected.

 

I think Patrick Wilson's found a home in this new genre (Insidious, Hard Candy, The Conjuring, etc.)

After Saw, The Conjuring, and Insidious all killed it at the box office on minimum budgets, James Wan is about to be a Hollywood household name. I guess he kind of is already since they gave him the Fast and Furious franchise.

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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 11, 2013 -> 11:45 AM)
Elysium got very mixed reviews. Of about the 7 or 8 people I know that have seen it, 4 said it was terrible, 4 said it was really good.

I'd say I've heard very similar commentary. This seems like a redbox rental early next year for me.

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Pacific Rim might make more money in China than in North America. The Guillermo del Toro popcorn flick is Warner Bros.'s highest grossing film of all time in the market with $76.4 million after a dozen days in release. The North American total currently stands at $96.5 million, giving the film a worldwide gross of $344.1 million after factoring in the $247.4 million the film has earned from 61 overseas territories.

 

boxoffice.com

 

 

Here's another weird one...in a movie with the title PACIFIC RIM (which conjures up the Marianas Trench)...with a famous Japanese actress, with Japanese vocab (kaiju) and drawing on the monster tradition there...

 

Outside the top 10: Pacific Rim finally opened in Japan, but only managed a 5th place, $3 million opening. Although the film has done well overseas, it failed to capture the Japanese market, which is strange considering Pacific Rim draws heavily from Japanese monster movies and anime. The film is now up to $344 million worldwide, though.

 

I think they must have waited too long and too many had already watched it/downloaded it for free...still, would want to wait it in a theatre in 3D instead of on a computer, tv or ipad, etc.

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QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 03:07 PM)
We're The Millers is hilarious.

 

 

Before I saw the name, thought it was from Greg775.

 

Thought this was interesting...Pacific Rim is basically a homage to Godzilla/Japan, and yet it only finished in 5th place in Japan and barely made a million bucks when it finally debuted this past weekend there.

 

WHY? (apparently due to the presence of the WRONG Japanese actress...if they chose one of the two from Wolverine, it might have made $5-10-15 million, so bizarre)

 

 

Will Japan Finally Adore This Pacific Rim Star?

 

Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro's big love letter to Japanese monster movies like Godzilla and anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Too bad Japan isn't exactly in love with (Rinko) Kikuchi.

 

Actress Rinko Kikuchi is Mako Mori, one of the film's lead pilots to battle the dreaded kaiju in one of this summer's biggest Hollywood flicks. Pacific Rim is already getting good notices—Hideo Kojima and Kanye dig the GlaDOS infused flick. Now if only Kikuchi could turn that into popularity in her home country.

 

The actor made a big splash internationally with her role in Babel as Chieko, a deaf high school girl. This role put her on the map. Prior to Babel, nobody really knew who the heck she was.

 

Kikuchi didn't make a name for herself like many Japanese celebrities and actors typically do, which is either by appearing in numerous TV dramas, variety shows, or in a string of commercials. The Japanese film industry is a shell of its former self. TV is king. Even though she did appear in a few dramas, such as Liar Game, prior to Babel, and she did some car ads, Kikuchi never was really able to parlay that into becoming a huge star in Japan.

 

Even after Kikuchi was nominated for an Academy Award, the first Japanese female to get an Oscar nod in 57 years, and became the face of Chanel, Japanese success remained elusive. She did top an opinion poll about who Japan was most proud of internationally, but that seemed to flitter away.

 

Will Japan Finally Adore This Pacific Rim Star?

 

A Livedoor News article from 2007 talked how in the wake of her international success, Kikuchi wasn't exactly in demand back at home and wasn't popular with Japanese housewives. When you don't have a fan base, being a talented actor isn't enough in Japan.

 

On 2ch, Japan's largest bulletin board, a thread talked about why Kikuchi hadn't become popular in her home country. The thread is fairly brutal (actually, it's really brutal), and some say her looks aren't appealing to Japanese, while others commented about the graphic nudity in Babel—something that seemed unbecoming. Then, some didn't even know who she was.

 

In 2010, Kikuchi appeared on afternoon variety show Waratte Iitomo!, which is an iconic Japanese program. It's an institution, like The Tonight Show. Her appearance went so poorly that people on Yahoo! Japan (here and here, for example) began saying she should never appear on variety or talk shows again. While she seemed stylish, Kikuchi didn't make a very good impression and came off as awkward. Perhaps she was nervous? Whatever the case was, she seemed to lose even more fans.

 

Will Japan Finally Adore This Pacific Rim Star?

 

One of the main issues seemed to be how in Japan the mass media and the country's entertainment complex work in tandem. Her success was achieved outside of that realm. And then when she actually did appear on Japanese TV, she seemed somewhat awkward and not exactly quick with quips—a necessity to survive in mainstream Japanese show business. For many Japanese it's perhaps baffling why she, out of all the Japanese actors, has been successful abroad. For Americans, it's probably akin to when particular entertainers become far more popular in foreign countries than in Hollywood.

 

That year, however, she appeared in two TV dramas in Japan. Since the country's television industry overshadows its film business. The following year, she appeared in a Japanese period drama. But since Babel, Kikuchi has done mostly foreign film work (though, she did do voice acting in a Mamoru Oshii anime as well as appear in a live-action Oshii flick). Then, she appeared in major Hollywood films 47 Ronin with Keanu Reeves and the previously mentioned Pacific Rim.

 

So far, her popularity hasn't really taken off at home. With the good buzz around Pacific Rim, perhaps Japanese fans can focus on her acting, instead of how good she can work the Japanese entertainment machine.

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 06:51 PM)
Jim Carrey is in the new Spider-Man movie, rumor is he will be playing Cletus Kasady

 

Hope the movie isn't too violent for him.

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QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 06:31 PM)
With how much that movie would make, they could probably offer him north of $100 million. I don't think I'm joking.

 

More common like with Downey Jr. now is "back end" shares of profits at certain price/box office points...which ends up limiting the frontside risk and allowing studios to keep budgets lower while incentivizing actors simultaneously.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 07:40 PM)
More common like with Downey Jr. now is "back end" shares of profits at certain price/box office points...which ends up limiting the frontside risk and allowing studios to keep budgets lower while incentivizing actors simultaneously.

Certainly makes sense.

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