It's too close to call No. 1 at the box office this weekend, with Sony's The Emoji Movie and Warner Bros' Dunkirk eyeing the top spot.
Box Office: . 1, Warner Bros.’ Dunkirk gained yardage away from Sony Animation’s The Emoji Movie with the Christopher Nolan WWII epic taking the top spot with $2. M after a $1. 1. 3. M Saturday that was +4. Friday. That number reps a - 4. Dunkirk in weekend two.
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Once again, never bet against Nolan. Imax pumped 2. 2% of Dunkirk. Seventeen of the top 2. Imax venues. Twenty- two percent of Dunkirk. Dunkirk will have the full the large format exhibitor’s domestic supply of screens next week. Sony. The Emoji Movie declined 1. Friday and Saturday from $1.
M to $8. 7. M putting its opening for this $5. M budgeted toon at $2. M. Typically, animated titles see a spike on Saturday due to family matinees and it’s likely bad word of mouth off the pic’s B Cinema.
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Score (very low for an animated title which typically earn As or A- , no matter how hokey they are) and 8% rotten reviews are impacting Emoji. Nonetheless, Sony got this pic to open at this level with all that baggage in this Rotten Tomatoes era and that should be noted, not to mention Emoji is based on a source material mobile concept that lacked any kind of depth or universe. Working in Emoji. Those under 1. 8, 5. Emoji. The last animated release to receive a low Cinema.
Score was 2. 0th Century Fox/Dream. Works Animation’s Captain Underpants with a B+ (though critics embraced it with a certified fresh 8. Rotten Tomatoes score).
That pic opened to $2. M and turned around a 3x multiple for a current running domestic B. O. Sony is hoping for the same multiple.“It’s great when critics and audiences are in sync, but The Emoji Movie reached its intended audience and we’re thrilled that they have spoken and made it a family event < Smiley face Emoji> ,” beamed Sony’s global marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein this morning. Greenstein gave a shoutout to Sony’s domestic marketing presidents Christine Birch and Andre Caraco for delivering the goods this weekend with Emoji Movie.
The campaign obviously tapped the mobile app world, Emoji’s birthplace and stomping ground, with unique executions among key app partners including an “Emoji Match” Playlist on Spotify, augmented reality execution on Shazam, and a themed custom level on Just Dance. The studio also took advantage of these key partners’ social accounts when dropping trailers and exclusive content. Sony. Similar to how Sony conjured up Smurf day as a holiday, so they declared July 1. World Emoji Day whereby the pic’s voiceover cast appeared on Good Morning America, Today, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and Late Night With Seth Meyers. On that day, the cast also rang the NY Stock exchange closing bell and lit the Empire State Building in yellow in honor of Emoji Movie and its partnership with Girls Who Code (a non- profit that seeks to educate and inspire tech skills in teenage girls). Sony went market to market with their walk- about characters from the movie, along with a mobile truck activation which created and co- opted events at each stop.
Also, remember, voiceover star T. J. Miller parachuted into the Cannes Film Festival. The TV push for Emoji reached every demo of the family audience with custom vignettes across the Nickelodeon networks, Disney XD, Cartoon Network, Freeform, Hallmark, OWN and TBS. On Univision/Unimas there was a multi- phased partnership that aired over the last three months with in- show integrations, unique content and sneak peeks inserted into top- rated programming like Premios Juventud, La Reina de la Cancion, Despierta America and CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Because when an animated movie has that groundswell (read Illumination Entertainment titles), audiences don’t hold back their bucks. Universal Pictures.
Focus Features/Sierra Affinity’s Cold War spy movie Atomic Blonde is turning in a solid $1. M at 3,3. 04 venues in fourth. The Charlize Theron action title dipped on Saturday to $6. M from Friday’s $7. M, but remember opening day was boosted by $1.
M in previews. Audience make- up is next to even with 5. Sixty- two percent were over 2. Atomic Blonde. It’s the reason why we opened here; you can play through Labor Day.” Atomic Blonde received an overall 7. Com. Score/Screen Engine’s Post.
Trak. Focus took domestic on Atomic Blonde (license,not equity stake) at Cannes two years ago with Uni taking two- thirds of the world. Sierra Affinity financed this $3. M pic via presales and bridge financing. Universal also had a fantastic weekend with its R- rated African American comedy Girls Trip which registered a 3.
M in weekend two and a 1. M. This week it will become director Malcolm D. Lee’s highest grossing movie at the domestic B. O, surpassing The Best Man Holiday ($7. M). Annapurna. Annapurna’s first theatrical release as a distributor Detroit posted a strong $1. K per theater at 2.
K opening. That’s 1. Kathryn Bigelow’s previous movie Zero Dark Thirty which opened to $4. K. Remember that movie was about a current affairs news topic, the Osama bin Laden hunt which was on the minds of many moviegoers, hence the higher opening. In addition, Detroit beat the opening weekend of the director’s The Hurt Locker which was at four venues and opened to $1. K. At the last minute, Annapurna decided to tee up Detroit with a limited play, much like her last two titles The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty were handled, prior to its wide blast next weekend. The movie has a 9.
Rotten Tomatoes. The pic follows the 1. Street riot in Motor City when a curfew was in effect and the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets. Amid the chaos, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel. Paramount. In four theaters, Paramount/Participant Media’s documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power starring Al Gore put up an impressive $3. K theater average from four runs in New York and Los Angeles or $1. K. Gore made an appearance at Los Angeles’ The Landmark for Q& As over the weekend. The studio, which launched the movie at the Sundance Film Festival, hopes the doc will benefit at the B.
O. The first movie, An Inconvenient Truth, won two Oscars for best doc and best song, and accumulated $2. M- plus at the domestic box office, which was quite impressive.
Studio reported estimates as of Sunday AM for the weekend of July 2. Dunkirk (WB), 3,7. M Fri./$1. 1. 3. M Sat/$8.
M Sun/ 3- day cume: $2. M (- 4. 4%)/Total: $1. M/Wk 2. 2.). The. Emoji Movie (SONY), 4,0. M Fri. Girls Trip (UNI), 2,6.
M Fri. Atomic Blonde (FOC), 3,3. M Fri. Spider- Man: Homecoming (SONY/MARVEL), 3,6.
M Fri. Despicable Me 3 (UNI/ILL), 3,0. M Fri. Valerian and the City of One Thousand Planets (EUR/STX), 3,5. M Fri. Baby Driver (SONY), 1,9. M Fri. 1 spot, $2. M to $2. 7M. Today will determine whether matinees, and any disregard for bad reviews and word- of- mouth, will find families spending more on the animated Emoji than older adults on Dunkirk. Without question, the Christopher Nolan- directed movie will fly past $1. M by tomorrow. When compared to the total running cume of Nolan’s previous movie Interstellar through its second Sunday, Dunkirk will be running 5% ahead of that astronaut movie — and that had a two- day extra start at the time.
Interstellar finaled its U. S./Canada run at $1. M. Warner Bros. While we’ve pointed to PLFs and Imax as factors for keeping this WWII British- evacuation film afloat, it can’t be denied that it’s a remarkable piece of epic filmmaking, one that appeals from 1.
According to com. Score/Screen Engine Post. Trak, 4. 2% are watching the movie in Imax and 1. PLF. The Nolan movie still has an 8. Fifty- nine percent are giving a definite recommend to this Warner Bros. She remains the Burbank studio’s third- highest domestic release of all- time behind The Dark Knight ($5. M) and The Dark Knight Rises ($4.
M). Sony Pictures Animation. The Emoji Movie won Friday with $1. M to Dunkirk. Here’s what’s fascinating about the animated movie: Close to nobody likes it, including critics (6% Rotten) and Friday night audiences (B Cinema.
Score), and yet here’s Sony opening this $5. M- budgeted family movie at a respectful level.
Clone High - Wikipedia. Clone High (occasionally referred to in the U.
S. The comedy centers on a high school populated by the clones of famous historical figures. The show's central cast includes adolescent depictions of Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, John F.
Kennedy, and Cleopatra. The series also serves as a parody of teen dramas; every episode is introduced as a .
It was later purchased by cable channel MTV, and was produced between 2. The show's design is heavily stylized and its animation style limited, emphasizing humor and story over visuals. The Clone High theme song was written by Tommy Walter and performed by his alternative rock band Abandoned Pools, who also provided much of the series' background music. Clone High first aired in its entirety on Canadian cable network Teletoon between 2. MTV. It became embroiled in a controversy regarding its depiction of Gandhi soon afterward, which prompted hundreds in India to mount a hunger strike in response.
Shortly after, MTV pulled the series, which had been receiving low ratings. Clone High attracted mixed reviews from television critics upon its premiere, but it has since received critical acclaim and a cult following. Premise. It's located in the town of Exclamation, USA. The school is entirely populated by the clones of famous historical figures that have been created and raised with the intent of having their various strengths and abilities harnessed by the United States military. The principal of the high school, Cinnamon J. Scudworth, has his own plans for the clones, and secretly tries to undermine the wishes of the Board (Scudworth wants to use the clones to create a clone- themed amusement park, dubbed . He is assisted by his robot butler/vice principal/dehumidifier, Mr.
Butlertron (a parody of Mr. Belvedere), who is programmed to call everyone .
Much of the plot of the show revolves around the attempts of Abe to woo the vain and promiscuous clone of Cleopatra, while being oblivious to the fact that his friend Joan of Arc is attracted to him. Meanwhile, John F. Kennedy's clone (referred to as .
Gandhi acts in many of the episodes as the comic relief. Also on a few occasions, the characters that we see learn most of .
For instance, Gandhi is portrayed as a hyperactive jerk- with- a- heart- of- gold whose biggest dream is to be accepted by those around him, in contrast to his historical legacy of calm nonviolence. Abe Lincoln is similarly portrayed as weak and indecisive, completely lacking the resolve of the President whose DNA he shares. All of the clones are also given mis- matched foster parents who have little in common with them. Gandhi's parents are a stereotypical. Jewish- American couple, while JFK is raised by a homosexual, interracial couple; Joan's .
For example, the diner the clones frequent is called The Grassy Knoll, a reference to the JFK assassinationconspiracy theory about a second shooter, dubbed . Other references seen are the flag at The Grassy Knoll being permanently at half mast and the car on the roof of the diner containing the original JFK's body leaning over the edge. There are pictures of assassinations hanging on the walls of the restaurant, such as the famous Currier and Ives print of the Lincoln assassination (though this version is in color and considerably more graphic than the original print). The genetic ancestors of all of the five main clones died of similarly irregular causes: three assassinations, one execution and one suicide. Other historical figure- based humor includes offhand coincidental remarks to other students, such as Abe mentioning that the clone of Napoleon is so annoying because of . Each episode is introduced as a .
Other episodes tackle drugs (smoking raisins), the environment, and underage drinking in a similarly ridiculous fashion. In a clear sign that it is parodying the high school genre, it even ends at prom: a stereotypical . Even the prom is a joke however, as we learn it is only the Winter Prom. There was a running gag that creators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wanted to include in the show .
Butlertron, John F. Kennedy, Cleopatra, Abe Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Gandhi and . Scudworth (reclining). Abe Lincoln (voiced by Will Forte) is a clone of Abraham Lincoln and the main protagonist. He admires his clonefather Abraham Lincoln and feels that he is struggling to live up to him. He is in love with Cleopatra and has a very na.
Abe doesn't notice that Joan has feelings for him and unintentionally mistreats her by reinterpreting it as a sign of friendship. He later realizes his feelings for her too late. Joan of Arc (voiced by Nicole Sullivan) is a clone of Joan of Arc and Abe's closest friend and confidante. She is an intelligent, cynical and angsty goth. She loves Abe and hates how he ignores her in order to hook up with Cleopatra.
She holds liberal political views, and . He, like Abe, is struggling to live up to his clonefather Mahatma Gandhi. As a result, he reinvents himself as a wild party animal. JFK (voiced by Chris Miller) is a clone of John F. Kennedy and a handsome, popular, arrogant, and horny jock as well as Abe's on- and- off rival for Cleo's affections.
He later develops feelings for Joan and hates how Abe treats her. At the end of the episode, he and Joan begin a relationship. Cleopatra (voiced by Christa Miller) is a clone of Cleopatra VII as well as Abe's love interest and later girlfriend.
She is a self- absorbed, vain, and often mean- spirited popular cheerleader who is the object of desire for every male in the school, most notably Abe and JFK. Principal Scudworth (voiced by Phil Lord) is the literally . Butlertron (voiced by Chris Miller) is Scudworth's Mr. Belvedere- esque sane robotic butler and reluctant sidekick in his stupid schemes. He refers to everyone as . Sheepman, Police Officer and Vincent van Gogh. Murray Miller as Catherine the Great.
Judah Miller as Scangrade. Debra Wilson as Harriet Tubman, Eva Per. The production was overseen by Touchstone Television.
It was originally pitched to the Fox Broadcasting Company, who purchased the show immediately but ultimately decided not to order it to series. Miller deemed it the . Each episode was budgeted at approximately $7. The characters and backgrounds were traditionally drawn, and frames and cels were frequently recycled. Co- creator Chris Miller explained, .
Things that aren't expected are funnier: If an anvil's going to fall on your head, it had better not take more than three seconds. That's why we like the quick pose- to- pose stuff. For scenes with more emotional content, the characters move a little slower and more fluidly. Phil Lord added, .
We strip out extraneous movements, because we don't want to draw your eye to anything that's not part of a joke. Many Scrubs alumni, such as Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, John C. Mc. Ginley, Neil Flynn, and Christa Miller, provided the voices of characters in Clone High. Clone High was notable for subtle jokes hidden in the animation. There is an image of a dolphin hidden in almost every episode.
The use of dolphins (sounds or images) would be later featured in Lord and Miller's later work. In the episode . This sparked an outrage in India over the show's depiction of Gandhi. In 2. 01. 4, he recalled that protestors . Lord and Miller's two potential versions of a second season included one that made no mention of Gandhi's absence, and another that revealed that the character was, in fact, a clone of actor Gary Coleman all along, and the show continued as normal. In 2. 01. 4, they explained that as they at that time were under contract with Fox, Lawrence had a television deal at Warner Bros. Television, and the rights to Clone High were owned by MTV/Viacom, it would be difficult to resurrect the show. Of these include Alkaline Trio, Ritalin, Catch 2.