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Movie: ‘World War Z’ and 'Star Trek' bring Back Double Feature
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Looks intriguing. Although I'm not keeping any expectations considering its based on a book.
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Originally posted by xDiamondx
Looks intriguing. Although I'm not keeping any expectations considering its based on a book.
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It's not a direct adaptation of the book
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I didn't really like the ending. And they should've gone with an R rating. Everyone loves gorey zombies.
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It's not a direct adaptation of the book
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Okay. That's a little better. Probably going to see it next weekend.
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It was ok, the ending was meh.
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I enjoyed it. Shame it's almost completely lacking in gore due to the rating, but there's a bit of genuine tension in there. Not as good as the book, but it isn't trying to be.
Easter egg: near the end, in a hallway, Britney's career is standing amongst the zombies.
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I enjoyed it.
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Awful movie. Extremely cheesy and very nonsensical. Also, it was borderline racist at times.
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So is your avi.
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So is your avi.
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My avi is not borderline racist.
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the waste thing about this movie is
so many great actors gone waste
like Matthew Fox.... is such waste of talent in th emovie
maybe the director and the producer didnt want other actors to stand front of Brad Pitt
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Me and my friends loved it and enjoyed it tbh
Brad tho
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The movie ain't based on the book. I read it and when I saw the trailer, I knew it was not going to be.
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Weekend Estimates: 'Monsters U' - $82 million, 'World War Z' - $66 million, 'Man of Steel' - $41.2 million... http://ow.ly/miMV9
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It opened at $66 million this weekend.
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Big part of WWZ success is from Brad Pitt's sex appeal. Aud 51/49 female. Amazing gender split for zombie action flick!
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Whoa. Surprised, Brad didn't even look hot from the trailer.
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Such great opening numbers! Largest ever for a zombie film I think!
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Slay a bit King Brad. I'll see this next week and my sister told me she loved it
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I liked it a lot!
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The original WWZ ending had been revealed. Basically, Paramount totally hated it and called for a reshoot.
Below was how the WWZ ending was to be
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The plane Gerry and Segen board is bound for Moscow. Upon safely landing, everyone on board is rounded up by the military. The elderly and the sick are executed and the healthy people, including a very shaken Gerry, are immediately drafted into armed service, though not before one particularly nasty Russian soldier takes Gerry's cell phone. The story then jumps forward an unknown amount of time and we catch up with Gerry, who now has a full beard and has been a part of Russia's zombie-clearing squad at least long enough for it to have changed to winter. He looks almost dead inside, but the reality is that over this time he's become an experienced and ruthless zombie killer, and he's the leader of his own equally capable unit.
Gerry's unit is tasked with clearing subway tunnels of zombie hordes. This is the first time we see the Lobo, a perfected zombie-killing tool that's sort of a shovel/battle axe that would have been one of the few things from the book to make it into the movie. Gerry and his team use them to slice their way through every poor zombie that tracks them through the tunnels by following their sounds. It's all routine work for them, and when they're not in the tunnels killing, they're basically just preparing to go back in. During this downtime we see a bit of bonding between Gerry and another English-speaking friend, Simon. The two play a guessing game of what celebrities would have survived the outbreak.
We get a couple intense scenes of tunnel combat (at one point Gerry has to kill one of his own after being bitten), and eventually they emerge above ground and are right in the middle of The Battle of Red Square (pictured in the banner above, though this is likely not from the movie and was created just for marketing purposes). This is a much, much larger set piece that involves several different front lines constantly fighting the hordes. There's a kind of weird plot point of Gerry's team now getting re-assigned to different front lines based on what their religion is (Gerry and Simon are atheists), the logic being that people would fight harder alongside people of the same faith. But they're segregated and Gerry tries to convince the General in charge that his elite, tunnel-sweeping crew should be allowed to teach those other people how to fight with Lobos and makeshift shields and what not.
There's arguing with this Russian General, but eventually Gerry convinces him to let him teach some of the other front lines how to fight, but this involves having to go back into the tunnels with Simon so they can sneak past the zombies on the other side. It's there that Gerry notices the zombies are having a hard time dealing with the severe Russian winter by remembering just how fast they were in Jerusalem, and so it occurs to him that the way to defeat the zombies is to let their bodies freeze.
Gerry and Simon are now on a mission to inform the Russian command to extinguish all fires and move their battle lines so as to keep as many of the zombies in the cold as possible, but then they run into a generator room where the nasty Russian soldier who took his phone upon arrival in the country is boozing it up with some very reluctant girls. One of those girls is Segen. Gerry grabs a belt of grenades and tosses one into the room. He, Segen and Simon duck behind a couch to survive the blast before making a break for it.
Once again Gerry meets up with the General and convinces him to use Russia's cold to their advantage, as they have done in past homeland wars. This works and he orders everyone to extinguish all of their fires. Eventually this gives them the upper hand in the battle. Gerry takes this turn toward the offensive to retreat. He takes a couple of shots of vodka, then picks up the phone he retrieved from the soldier and calls his wife, Karin.
Even beyond the entire Russian battle sequence, it's this call to his wife that's the real game changer for the (aborted) tone of World War Z.
Gerry reaches Karin. He explains to her that the cold is the way they'll win battles, which does her no good because it just so happens she and the kids are in a refugee camp in the sweltering heat of the Everglades. They're in the type of camp where you have to have something to trade to survive, and it just so happens the one thing Karin had to trade was herself. She doesn't explicitly tell Gerry this, but after she hastily hangs up the phone we see that she's in some kind of reluctantly consensual relationship with the soldier who rescued them from the rooftop at the beginning of the movie.
Did you happen to notice that soldier on the helicopter was played by Matthew Fox? Did you wonder why they bothered to cast someone as recognizable as him in a role that was pretty inconsequential and had almost no lines? That's because his real payoff wasn't until the end.
Fox' parajumper soldier then calls Gerry back and explains to him that he should just stay wherever he is and start a new life like he and Karin have. Gerry refuses to accept this, though, and he embarks on a rage mission to get back to his wife and daughters. Trouble is the nearest port that won't be frozen is thousands of miles away, so there's a montage of Gerry, Simon and Segen crossing various terrain until they ultimately end up on a boat. They're now off of the Oregon Coast and they attack the American shore like it's D-Day. And that's how the movie ends. Not with Gerry having discovered a cure, but with him storming across the United States of America to get Karin back.
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source: http://www.movies.com/movie-news/wor...l-ending/12638
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I'm ready for the sequel!
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Weekend Report: 'Monsters' and Zombies Both Win On Busy Weekend
Coming off Man of Steel's record-breaking opening last weekend, it seemed unlikely that both Monsters University and World War Z would score strong debuts this weekend. Ultimately, that assumption proved very wrong: Monsters University had one of Pixar's highest openings ever, while World War Z crushed even the most generous expectations. The loser here was Man of Steel, which took an abnormally large drop against this tough competition.
Overall, the Top 12 earned an estimated $230.5 million, which makes this the ninth-highest-grossing weekend ever at the domestic box office.
Playing at 4,004 locations, Monsters University took the top spot with an estimated $82 million. That's Pixar's 14th-straight number one debut (a perfect batting average), and it ranks as their second-highest opening ever behind 2010's Toy Story 3 ($110.3 million). However, it did sell slightly fewer tickets than predecessor Monsters, Inc., whose opening weekend adjusts to over $87 million.
Monsters University always seemed like a slam dunk—Pixar has a fantastic box office track record, and the characters from Monsters, Inc. are some of the more popular ones in their library. By setting this entry in college, it was differentiated from its predecessor and had added appeal for older audiences (who ultimately make the ticket-buying decisions). Finally, after Epic failed to really take off last month, Monsters University was able to benefit from a market that was begging for a family-friendly choice.
The movie's audience was 56 percent female, and 60 percent were 25 years of age and under. As usual with family movies, 3D ticket sales accounted for an incredibly low share of the gross (31 percent).
Pixar movies typically hold on well after opening weekend, and Monsters University should generate good word-of-mouth (it received a solid "A" CinemaScore). A final tally over $230 million is a guarantee at this point—there's no way it hangs on worse than Cars 2—though it could take a major hit when it goes up against Despicable Me 2 in less than two weeks.
Proving once and for all that average audiences couldn't care less about behind-the-scenes drama, Paramount's beleaguered zombie epic World War Z scored an excellent $66 million in its opening. That's the second-highest second place debut ever behind The Day After Tomorrow ($68.7 million). It's also the highest start ever for a Brad Pitt movie ahead of 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith ($50.3 million), and it's ahead of past June mid-range hits Prometheus ($51.1 million) and Wanted ($50.3 million).
From a press standpoint, the story on World War Z was always about the troubled production, which went way over budget and ultimately resulted in an entire act three reshoot. The vast majority of moviegoers don't pay attention to such things, though, and instead make their buying decision simply on whether or not the movie looks appealing. With massive real-world destruction, a movie star (Brad Pitt) operating within his wheelhouse, and reviews that were fine enough, this wound up looking like perfect escapist entertainment for a hot Summer weekend.
World War Z's audience was 51 percent female and 67 percent were 25 years of age or older; one has to think Pitt's presence helped skew the data in those directions. The movie earned a fine "B+" CinemaScore—with lots of competition on the way, this probably won't hold up too well, though a $140 million domestic total is a lock at this point.
In third place, Man of Steel added an estimated $41.2 million. That's off 65 percent from last weekend—68 percent if you roll in grosses from the Thursday ahead of opening day. The 65 percent decline is worse than The Incredible Hulk (60 percent) and only slightly better than notoriously front-loaded comic book movie Green Lantern (66 percent), which is not a flattering comparison. Still, at $210 million it's already topped the final tally of Superman Returns ($200 million); if the bleeding slows down next weekend, the movie could still ultimately wind up with over $300 million.
On strong word-of-mouth, This is the End eased 37 percent to an estimated $13 million. Through 12 days, the apocalypse comedy has grossed $57.8 million. Meanwhile, Now You See Me had another great hold—the movie dipped 29 percent to an estimated $7.8 million, and has so far earned $94.5 million.
The Bling Ring expanded to 650 locations this weekend and stole away with an estimated $2 million. Its per-theater average was $3,077, which was below Spring Breakers's $4,401 average during its nationwide
Around-the-World Roundup
While Man of Steel fell off at the domestic box office, it thrived overseas this weekend. The movie expanded in to 52 markets and added $89 million. That includes a strong $25.5 million debut in China, and good starts in France ($8.2 million) and Spain ($4.4 million). It was less impressive in Germany ($3.8 million) and Italy ($2.3 million), though neither were disappointments either. The movie has already earned $188.3 million, which is just a bit lower than Superman Returns's $191 million; it reaches Australia next weekend, Brazil in July, and Japan in August.
Monsters University debuted to $54.5 million from 35 markets this weekend, which represents about 48 percent of its potential. Unfortunately, Disney did not provide details on individual territories.
World War Z opened in around 30 percent of its foreign markets and earned an estimated $45.8 million this weekend. It took first place in South Korea with a great $10.3 million, and also performed well in the U.K. ($7.1 million) and Australia ($5.5 million). Next weekend, the zombie thriller expands to Germany, Italy, Russia, Brazil and Mexico.
Nearly two weeks ahead of its U.S. debut, Despicable Me 2 opened to $6.4 million in Australia. It expands in to a few more markets—including the U.K. and France—next weekend, the reaches the majority of its foreign territories over the July 5th weekend.
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