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The billion dollar move and the overseas market
| May 8th, 2017 at 1:53:19 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18755 |
Seeing as a grizzly is more likely to rush you, I feel safer around alligators. I used to go out in a rubber raft around gators in Florida. Gators take care of careless people, like if you're an idiot and sit down in front of one. That's probably a good thing though. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 8th, 2017 at 1:54:38 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
Gators are nothing to be afraid of. I love going kyaking and gator hunting with my camera. Of course I keep my distance, they are wild animals On the flip side, size is everything to a Gator. They are interested in small. They have no interest in large such as an adult person. If swimming in a river and see a gator in the river. Swim underwater so the gator sees your size and it will lose interest. Dont ever feed gators. They lose their fear of humans and may go after a small child Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| May 8th, 2017 at 3:27:15 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18755 |
Don't forget, if you see a gator in the river while swimming it could be one someone has been hand feeding. Which means it may come right at you. I know they warn people about feeding them periodically, but you know how that goes. The water is rarely clear enough, being brinish and who knows what, to see what's swimming around you for very far. At least where I lived growing up. Of course my mom would have killed me if the alligators didn't if she saw where we swam sometimes. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 8th, 2017 at 4:42:01 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4492 | I guess it is the devil you know. I have fished for salmon on one side of the river with multiple grizzlies doing the same thing on the other side. They pretty much ignored me, I kept an eye on them. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| May 13th, 2017 at 1:29:26 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12502 | It's weird to me how much money the Fast and Furious movies make overseas. On paper, I don't see much that would seem to appeal to an overseas market. As of this weekend, Fate of the Furious has only made $215 million in the US. That's not that great.... but the foreign box office has been huge. Marvel, on the other hand, has been known to cater certain aspects of their movies to China to help boost their foreign box office. I know Iron Man 3 had extra scenes added with Chinese actors for the release in China. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| June 24th, 2017 at 11:08:36 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Now that the Fate of the Furious has been out 10 weeks, revenue numbers are almost final. USA and Canada is still the most important market as the studio keeps 50%, but the even retaining 25% of China is almost as good. But the movie translated fairly well into almost every country in the world. The film has fallen just short of domestic ticket sales for the original film 16 years ago. But foreign ticket sales went from $63 million to $1013 million. Domestic ticket sales estimated 6/22/01 The Fast and the Furious 25.54 million 4/14/17 The Fate of the Furious 25.46 million Millions for The Fate of the Furious $225.1 USA and Canada $392.8 China $41.8 Brazil $37.5 United Kingdom $36.3 Mexico $35.6 Japan $32.5 Germany $29.9 France $28.8 Russia - CIS $26.7 South Korea $21.4 Taiwan $21.4 Australia $20.8 Argentina $19.8 India $19.3 Indonesia $16.4 Italy $14.5 Spain $12.7 Colombia $12.2 Malaysia $11.5 Panama $10.2 United Arab Emirates etc. |
| June 25th, 2017 at 5:32:10 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I've tried to watch a couple F&F movies and never made it past 20min. Boring and juvenile with terrible acting and lack of good scripts. I guess if you're 19 they're entertaining, I wouldn't know. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| June 25th, 2017 at 5:43:23 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12502 |
Wait, are you Benjamin Button-ing through life?! “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| January 2nd, 2018 at 11:06:17 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Four new billion dollar movies this year, two from Disney and two from Universal. Beauty and the Beast (2017) BV $1,263.5 The Fate of the Furious Uni. $1,235.8 Star Wars: The Last Jedi BV $1,056.4 Despicable Me 3 Uni. $1,033.5 The count of billion dollar movies is now up to 32 films with three from the 1990s. 1993 Jurassic Park (counting re-releases) 1997 Titanic 1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Dunkirk took in over half a billion dollars worldwide, the most respectable showing for a film aimed primarily for adults. |
| January 2nd, 2018 at 11:10:20 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12502 |
What about IT? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |