Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Now it begs the question if Thor can get to a billion worldwide when it is released. I don't think it will but it's international gross will be significantly higher. One interesting battle box office wise this fall will be between the Hemsworth brothers, Chris with Thor and Liam with Catching Fire.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 One thing that does strike me about these films is the casting they can get. I mean here you have Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley. Man of Steel, you have Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon and Amy Adams. The Captain America sequel just recently cast Robert Redford. Sure it's a great payday, but they must see some merit to doing a film like this.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Sure it's a great payday, but they must see some merit to doing a film like this.<< Yep. Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando paved the way for "serious" actors to appear in these sorts of films, and Jack Nicholson put the exclamation point on it.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Ben Kingsley is awesome in the IronMan3 movie. AWESOME. Of course he always is, but he's just as great in this role.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Yeah not much I can say about him without spoiling a plot twist but he was great in every scene he was in.
Originally Posted By leemac I've no idea what accent The Mandarin had but that whole sequence in Miami had me chuckling. It helped that he was watching my soccer team at the time.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I mean here you have Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley.>> Boy Pearce was better in this than that awful Prometheus nonsense last year. He seems to be the go-to guy for weird prosthetics these days!
Originally Posted By Kimber Kingsley is on a bit of an action adventure/sci-fi roll playing Mazer Rackham (check the tatts)in September's ender's game - with Ford as well.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Lee I am full agreement on Prometheus. It's a film I didn't like when I saw it and it just got worse the more I thought of it
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Looks like the film made around 11 millon today and yesterday so it's total is about 196 million. Tomorrow it will 200. This weekend I would say we're looking at 65-70 million which should be good enough for number 1 again.
Originally Posted By dagobert Yesterday we have seen Iron Man 3 OV 3D and we liked it. The beginning was a little slow, but as the movie progressed, it turned into the best IM movie so far. The 3D wasn't necessary, but unfortunately they didn't show the English version without it. Interestingly in Germany/Austria the movie is distributed by a German company and not by Disney or Paramount.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Ben Kingsley is awesome in the IronMan3 movie. AWESOME. Of course he always is, but he's just as great in this role.> I love Kingsley. I'm straining to think of a bad performance by him, and coming up empty. Every performance I can think of is either good or really good or downright great. Of course, he came to prominence in Gandhi... when I saw "Sexy Beast" it occurred to me his character was essentially the anti-Gandhi; a full 180 degrees away. Yet he was just as believable. And in quieter roles where he's neither saint nor monster he just inhabits the character and makes you feel it. As for RDJ, Chaplain was for me the movie where I said "Wow. He really IS a good actor."
Originally Posted By leemac A good piece on the take that TWDC has to hand over to Para: <a href="http://variety.com/2013/film/news/iron-man-3-paramount-disney-1200479325/" target="_blank">http://variety.com/2013/film/n...0479325/</a>
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Of course in the same article it mentions Disney's cut even after handing over money to Paramount. On “Avengers,” the studio’s theatrical share (after theater owners and Par had taken their cut of the pic’s $1.5 billion global box office receipts) came to roughly $690 million. And with “Iron Man 3,” Disney’s cut is approaching $400 million.<< So regardless, it was a good deal for Disney, had they not "bought out" Paramount then they would have gotten considerably less...
Originally Posted By dagobert I'm going to watch it a second time this weekend in traditional 2D. I just had to watch it in 3D because that was the only way to see it in English. I love the movie and after The Avengers and X-Men First Class it's my favourite Marvel movie. What did you Americans think about the music in the opening sequence? You will not belive it, but Eiffel 65's Blue was one of the most popular titles in 1999. I have to say, well done Marvel, since they paid attention to details.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "What did you Americans think about the music in the opening sequence? You will not belive it, but Eiffel 65's Blue was one of the most popular titles in 1999." It was a hit here too.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>It was a hit here too.<<< Really? I though it was just popular in Europe.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Really? I though it was just popular in Europe.<< No, that's just EVERY OTHER European hit of the last 20 years. We somehow got "Blue". You can have it back.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Estimates have it at 75 million for the weekend. It was neck and neck with Gatsby on Friday around 19 million but then pulled away yesterday with about 33 million. Gatsby is still going to get a very surprising 53 million
