Comments on: Weekend Box Office: Audiences Stay Home In Droves As ‘The Help’ Defeats Weak New Releases

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

\’fright night\’ got fucked by its promotion and release date.

By: padre

padre — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

Young Hercules holds on to the number 10 spot. Yes! You can\’t keep a good man down! They should have featured him and the girly more in the ads and ditched the old people, who were a buzz kill. That would have doubled the box office right there.

By: appetit

appetit — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is just as much institutionalized racism as The Help. Think about it. It\’s probably crossed your mind once or twice before. Only now I\’m typing it, and you\’re reading it. That makes it true.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

“The Help” could gross more than $150 million in US.

On the other hand, Anthony Kaufman wrote that “The Help” may be this year’s “Crash” . (He disliked both films)
http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/archives/is_the_help_this_years_crash/

I had some doubts about the Oscar potential of “The Help” , but Anthony Kaufman’s article explained my doubts; now I feel that “The Help” would become a big Oscar winner like “Crash”.

I am willing to shamelessly say that “The Help” is almost locked to win the Best Picture award at Oscar 2012. Other Oscar contenders may be the masterpieces; but on surface, their subject matters seem to have much less mainstream appeal than “The Help” (which clearly has huge appeal to both mainstream audience and the Academy’s mainstream branches).

I even think that “The Help” could become the highest-grossing Best Picture Oscar winner in US since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.

BTW, “The Help” and “Crash” have the same editor (Hughes Winborne).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003893/

By: Nicole Lindsay

Nicole Lindsay — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the greatest Conan of all time. Jason Momoa looks more like Tarzan than Conan.

It is unfortunate that 5 Days of War only got a limited release in the U.S. and has already gone straight to DVD here in the UK. It has Renny Harlin directing and a stellar cast – Rupert Friend, Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Dean Cain, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Heather Graham, Antje Traue, Rade Serbedzija. It would have been interesting to see how it would have done commercially if released nationwide.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:59:29 +0000

Hang on. Len Wiseman was given a $200 million budget?!?

Holy shit. Hollywood really is well and truly fucked.