Monday Movie Roundup...6/27/2016

Good morning Pepe! Let's see how the weekend went.

Finding Dory has made over $396.8 million worldwide.

This puts it at fourteenth place, between #15's A Bug's Life (which made more than I thought it would) and #13's Cars (which didn't do as well as I thought it did). Dory needs another $65.1 million to move up, but since it hasn't been released yet in some countries - like Brazil, Japan and South Korea - I'm sure that won't be a problem.

$523.8 million worldwide.

This puts it in third place in the X-Men movie franchise, with only X-Men: Days of Future Past ($747.9 million) and Deadpool in it's way. Speaking of...

Deadpool made just under $200,000 worldwide since last week, and Japan really needs to step it up. 

CA:CW made an additional $2.7 million worldwide.

This puts it $67.8 million behind Iron Man 3.

So close.

And finally, Dark Horse has made all of $493,122. 

This bugs the hell out of me. Between such awesome characters as X and Ghost (never mind the Star Wars, Buffy, and Alien/Predator franchises they currently own), I would have expected a bigger response from fans...

...wait. What?

 Oh. Well, that explains it then.

Have a good week Pepe!

WTF? Friday...6/24/2016

Mornin' Joe. Hey! Guess what's happening this weekend:

Yep. 15 years and going strong.

What's that? What's PortConMaine?

Imagine if you will, San Diego Comic Con. You've heard of it. 4 days of geeky, nerdy, dorkiness invading an otherwise normal neighborhood. Cosplayers standing in line at Starbucks, famous (or not quite yet famous) artists showing their work, actors talking about their careers and upcoming projects, local businesses with cool deals, etc... All cool stuff.

Only here it's anime-themed, and in South Portland, Maine.

There's still the cosplayers, artists and (voice) actors, and local businesses are filled with anime-themed goodies. All within driving distance. 

Sounds great. Right? One problem...

...it's anime themed. And I know jack about anime.

The biggest event of the year, close enough to where I live to not have to worry about hotels, and it's about something...else.

W...T...F...?

I appreciate art, and admire cosplayers. I like a good story and respect various forms of storytelling. But why the hell couldn't there be a comic-based event of this size in this place?

 There's one in Boston,

there's one in Rhode Island,

there's even one in Bangor.

The closest comic themed event all year is a single-day convention at a single building. 

Damn straight.

I'll still go and admire the creativity, but I'd prefer comics is all I'm saying.

Monday Movie Review...6/20/2016

 Yes Pepe, it's Monday again...

...and yes Pepe, I worked the weekend. So I'm a little slow this morning.

Finding Dory? You want me to talk about Finding Dory?

 

...sluuuuurp... Fine.

Finding Dory made $186.2 million over opening weekend. Apparently, that's a big deal for animated films. It's definitely good news for director Andrew Stanton. He directed Finding Nemo...and more recently the widely panned John Carter - which made me wonder if Stanton wasn't blacklisted from Disney for life. But he wasn't, so he can now pay back the $250 million-plus he owes them. 

As for the Pixar "franchise",

Finding Dory is in last place...for now. It needs $145.8 million to beat 16th place The Good Dinosaur, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happens before the end of June. 

At $510.1 million worldwide, X-Men: Apocalypse is third among the X-Men/Mutant films.

But at $780.5 million worldwide, Deadpool still reigns supreme.

Japan's only given $11.4 million to the cause. They better step it up, 'cause I want Deadpool to break $1 billion before it leaves theaters forever.

 $1.1449 billion. Worldwide.

$1.2154 billion. Worldwide.

Do the math.

That's what I'm sayin'.

G'night Pepe...

Orlando (WTF? Friday...6/17/2016)

Ah Orlando, city of controversy.

Where places of wonder...

...can turn dark when you least expect it.

Kinda like everywhere else in the world.

Guns, like all things, have their place.

 Like here,

and here.

Not here,

or here.

W...T...F...?

This country has a lot of problems,

but has a lot going for it too.

Things are gonna happen that piss people off, and they're gonna be vocal about it. One way or the other.

All we can do, is keep living our lives.

 The way we want to.

And form our own opinions.

Monday Movie Roundup...6/13/2016

Hey Pepe, what do you want to talk about?

Deadpool?

Well it's now almost at $777.2 million worldwide, thanks solely to Japan - which has added $6.5 million to the Deadpool 2: With Cable fund.

 X-Men: Apocalypse?

That's at $478.4 million worldwide, making it the third highest grossing film in the franchise.

Yes Pepe...that's still at #1.

Filling the #2 spot (for now...)

Now this is interesting.

Captain America: Civil War's worldwide total is now $1.143 billion...

...still in fourth place behind Iron Man 3...

...by about this much.

There's less than $100 million difference ($72.3 million if you wanna be precise) between them. Iron Man 3 was in theaters (in the States anyways) for 133 days. CA:CW has been out for 38. 

Exactly.

I can't even find it on Box Office Mojo's weekend page.

After 77 days in American theaters (and who knows how long everywhere else), BvS:DoJ  has made over $872.3 million worldwide. 

I'm not sure what that means either.

It's been a weekend. I'm off to bed.

Have a good week buddy!