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It looks as though the tcm moderator(s) messed up a wee-bit here & have this earlier item posted instead of the heading?
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Yes, I made a bit of an error the other day on posting the all-time topo ten highest grossing motion pictures, so I feel comp[elled to (revise & correct it)
The Top Ten Highest Grossing Films-(U.,S. & Canadian sales only compiled)
1st place is "SW: The Force Awakens"(2015) (Buena Vista/Disney) ($936 million in ticket sales, domestically only)
2nd "Avatar" (2009) (DW) ($760m.)
3rd *"Titanic" (l997) (Fox/Paramount) ($670m.)-(NOTE: To date the only one to win the Best picture *Oscar)
4th "Jurassic World" (2015) (Universal City Studios) ($652m.)
5th place "Avengers" (2011) (Marvel) ($623m.)
6th "The Dark Knight" (2008) (Warner Bros.) ($535m.)
7th "Rogue 0ne: A Star Wars Story" (2016) (BV) ($535m.)-(NOTE: this was the one I accidentally left out before)
8th "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) (Walt Disney) ($503m.)
9th "Finding, Dorey" (2016) (Pixar/Disney) ($486m.)
& 10th place to date "Star Wars" (l977) (20th Century Fox) ($461 million)
Worldwide Top 10-(as of March 2016):
1st place "Avatar" ($2,788.0)
2. *"Titanic" ($2,186.0)
3. "SW:The Force Awakens" ($2,058.3)
4. "Jurassic World" ($1,670.4)
5th place :Avengers" (2011 release) ($1,519.6)
6. "Furious 7" ($1,516.0)
7 "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($1,405.4)
8. "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows, 2" ($1,347.5)
9. "Frozen" ($1,276.5)
& 10th highest $moneyspinner$ worldwide "Iron Man 3" ($1,215.4)
Adjusted for Inflation:
1st place *"Gone With the Wind" (l939-Selznick/M-G-M) (& has sold over $1.6 billion in tickets & or some official stats list it as making $1,757,788,200)
2nd "Star Wars"($1,549,640,502)
3rd "*"The Sound of Music" (l965) (Fox) ($1,239,013,800)
4th "E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial" ($1,234,132,700)
5th place *"Titanic" (l997) ($1,178,627,900)
6th "Ten Commandments" (l956 version) ($1,139,700,000)-(TRIVIA: The famed parting of the red sea sequence was filmed in the Paramount Pictures parking lot)
7th "Jaws" ($1, 114,285,700)
8th "Doctor Zhivago" (l965) ($1,079,978,50)
9th "The Exorcist" (1973) ($962,212,800)
& 10th place to date "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (l938)($948,300,400)
& Most $expensive$:
*"Titanic" (l997 version)
& adjusted "Cleopatra" (l963 20th Century Fox)
NATO-(National Association of Theatre 0wnersvoted: Harrison Ford-(l942-) as #1 all-time $B.O.$ champion (1994 poll)
Highest Grossing Foreign Language Film td:"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) ($127 million)
Performers that currently hold all-time $B.O.$ record for most years as A #1:(TIE) *Bing Crosby-(l903-77) & Burt Reynolds-(l936-) (with 5 consecutive yrs each)
Most successful director: *Steven Spielberg-(l946-)
All-Time most successful film franchise: James Bond-(l962-)
Lowest grossing Best Picture *Academy Award winner: *"The Hurt Locker" (2009) ($17m.)
THANX & PLEASE SEND ANY & ALL COMMENBTS ON ANYTHIUNG I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE MISSED???
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3 hours ago, jakeem said:
The Producers Guild of America has nominated 11 films for best picture of 2017 -- and most of them feature women characters in leading roles. Among them: "I, Tonya," the story of the disgraced American figure skater Tonya Harding (starring Margot Robbie, pictured below); "Lady Bird," the black comedy about a rebellious Catholic school girl in Sacramento; and "Wonder Woman," the origin tale of the Amazonian comic book superheroine.
The complete list of Producers Guild theatrical film nominees is as follows:
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
- "The Big Sick" (Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, producers)
- "Call Me By Your Name" (Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito, producers)
- "Dunkirk" (Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, producers)
- "Get Out" (Sean McKittrick & Edward H. Hamm, Jr., Jason Blum, Jordan Peele, producers)
- "I, Tonya" (Bryan Unkeless, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, producers)
- "Lady Bird" (Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, producers)
- "Molly's Game" (Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal, Matt Jackson, producers)
- "The Post" (Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers)
- "The Shape of Water" (Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, producers)
- "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (Graham Broadbent & Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh, producers)
- "Wonder Woman" (Charles Roven & Richard Suckle, Zack Snyder & Deborah Snyder, producers)
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
- "The Boss Baby" (Ramsey Naito, producer)
- "Coco" (Darla K. Anderson, producer)
- "Despicable Me 3" (Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy, producers)
- "Ferninand" (Lori Forte, Bruce Anderson, producers)
- "The LEGO Batman Movie" (Dan Lin, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, producers)
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
- "Chasing Coral" (Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes, producers)
- "City of Ghosts" (Matthew Heineman, producer)
- "Cries from Syria" (Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor, Aaron I. Butler, producers)
- "Earth: One Amazing Day" (Stephen McDonogh, producer)
- "Jane" (producer eligibility to be determined)
- "Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower" (producer eligibility to be determined)
- "The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee" (Teddy Kunhardt, George Kunhardt, producers)
Although the *Oscar race for 'the biggie" seems to be "Shape of Water" you never know "LadyBird' might sweep, what do you think?
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On 1/2/2018 at 8:41 PM, LawrenceA said:
Then the answer is Vin Diesel. I read it somewhere last week.
XXX: The Return of Xander Cage = $346 million
The Fate of the Furious = $1.26 billion
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 = $863 million
$2.47 billion for the year.
THANX AGAIN! I know it's likely for him to be at the top again, or close, but do you also find it ridiculous that we went from the likes of *Gable, Cary Grant, Garbo,etc to this???
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My ma' just called from the other room & told me he was on. Sadly, you hardly ever hear of William Claude Dunbkfeild anymore?
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This was a big deal in the '80's w/*Woody Allen & others in hearings
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On 12/31/2017 at 11:14 PM, Bethluvsfilms said:
Watch a lot more Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum films as I possibly can.
Ditto Burt Lancaster....have yet to see Elmer Gantry and Atlantic City, definitely need to see those two.
Combined the 2 at first with "Cape Fear" (l962)
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Typically though it's *Going My WAY" & of course "The Quiet Man"
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1 hour ago, jakeem said:
Jordan Peele's contemporary horror tale "Get Out" was named Best Film of 2017 by the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. The film also was named Best Ensemble and Peele won awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best First Feature Film.
The film stars Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams (pictured above).
Here is the full list of winners and runners-up:
BEST FILM
Winner: Get Out
Runner Up: The Shape of WaterBEST ACTRESS
Winner: Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Runner Up: Saoirse Ronan – Lady BirdBEST ACTOR
Winner: Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Runner Up: James Franco – The Disaster ArtistBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Runner Up: Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Runner Up: Allison Janney – I, TonyaBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Get Out – Jordan Peele
Runner Up: Lady Bird – Greta GerwigBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
Runner Up: The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. WeberBEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Jordan Peele – Get Out
Runner Up: Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of WaterBEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Oklahoma City
Runner Up: One Of UsBEST ANIMATED FILM
Winner: Coco
Runner Up: The LEGO Batman MovieBEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: The Square
Runner Up: First They Killed My FatherBEST FIRST FEATURE FILM
Winner: Get Out
Runner Up: ColumbusMOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
Winner: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Runners Up: Justice League & The Dark TowerBEST BODY OF WORK
Winner: Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name, The Post & The Shape of Water)
Runner Up: Tracy Letts (Lady Bird, The Lovers & The Post)BEST ENSEMBLE
Winner: Get Out
Runner Up: The Big SickSoooo overrated (*1/2)
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On 12/31/2017 at 5:06 PM, LawrenceA said:
Isn't that what I posted?
Worldwide it's Beauty and the Beast, domestically it is Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The latter may overtake the former in the next few weeks.
Thanx Lawrence, but I was talking about the top $B.O>$ star for 2017
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Wonder who the annual $B.O.$ leader-(performer) is though for 2017?
To both LawerenceA & Jakeem,. please let me know if you found out yet?
THANX
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32 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
How are you seeing those? I know you say an app, but are you paying for them, or are they torrents?
LawrenceA, don't know if you were asking me how am I seeing all those flix?
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31 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
How are you seeing those? I know you say an app, but are you paying for them, or are they torrents?
WHO & WHAT WILL BE IN THE *GOLDEN RACE???
Just stumbled onsomething *Oscar wise & again, bare with me,below are my running tally sheet-(not final until 7 days before official noms to be announced on Tuesday January 23rd, 2018) & 36th year at handicapping this thing we love called *OSCAR:" though only 3 of my fav. films ever won it?
My still early predictions of the noms for THE 90th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS-(AMPAS)
(*-as usual always denotes official winner & with this leader)
SO, HERE GOES AGAIN & PLEASE THROW IN YOUR TWO CENTS, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM & AM GETTING OLDER SPRTYS FANS
Best Picture?:-(NOTE: Once again there may be 8 to 10)?
"Call Me By Your Name" Sony Classics)
"Darkest Hour" (Focus Features)
"Dunkirk" Universal City Studiosa)-(& amazngly took in $00m. in ticket sales!) (***-out of 4 stars)
"Get 0ut" (Universal) ($175m.)-(has no business being in this race though???) (*1/2)
*LadyBird" (A 24)
"Mudbound" (Netflix)
"The Post": (20th Century Fox)-(never know, is *"Spotlight" hadn't just won?)
"The Shape Of Water (Fox Searchlight": (I projecxt it to leads the fielkd w/most noms.)
& "Three Billboards 0utside Ebbing Missouri"($23m. to date & my fav. in 11 months!)
& if there are ten?
"The Phantom Menace" (Focus.)
Best Actor?:
Tiomothy Chalmamet in "Call My Be Your Name"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Phantom Menace"
Harry Dean Stanton in "Lucky"(would be his 1 shot in 891yrs of life!@)
Tom Hanks,. "The Post"
& *Gary 0ldman in "The Darkest Hour"
Best Actress?:-(closest race)
*Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water"
*Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards..."-(she's just gotta take it again!!!)
Margot Robbie, "I, Tonya"
*Soirse Ronan, "LadyBird"*
& Meryl Streep in The Poster"-=(would mark her astionishging already record 21st shot to date!)
S. Actor?:
*Willem Dafoe in "The Florida Project"
Woody Harrelson, "Three Billboards..."
Richard Jenkins, "Shape of Water"
*Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards..."
& Michael Stulbarg, "Call Me By Your Name"
S. Actress?:
Mary J. Blige ion "Mudbound"
Allison Janney, "I, Tonya"
Holly Hunter, "The Big Sick"
*Laurie Metcalf, "Ladybird"
& Octavia Spencer, "Shape of Water"
AND Best Director?:
*Guillermo Del Toro for "Shaope of Water"
*Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird"
Martin McDonagh, "Three Billboards..."
*Christopher Nolan, "Dunkirk"
& Steven Spielberg for "The Post"
THANX AGAIN & I HOPE YOU CHIME-IN THIS TIME???
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Almost all I've corresponded with over the last 17yrs agrees 100% TCM & I guess "BACKLOT" desperately needs to join all other film areas & conduct it's own & long overdue fans poll on their all-time favs in THE MOVIES
PLEASE CONSIDER
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& some on here may already be aware of this rather gruesome, morbid & perverted item. I forget the guys' name, but he was interred in the niche just above Marilyn & deliberately too. Plus,. he demanded in his will he be buried face down-(you get the idea) even his widow is still furious about this true fact & apparently legal action has been taken to remove him, but still nada has been done
WHO RECALLS HIS NAME?
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19 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Despite the many people they could find around here or on other social media who would be willing to do it for free, like most corporations, TCM would want to have everything legally secured and in writing, and paid compensation to whomever they contracted to write the polls, tabulate the votes, and publish the poll results would be necessary.
Do you think somekind of fans-(US) petition drive would help out at all?
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On 12/27/2017 at 5:08 PM, Zea said:
If this topic has already been discussed, forgive me. Just point me toward its previous incarnation and I'll delete this one.
If not...then in light of the recent showings of so many Lana Turner schmaltzy movies, got to thinking about my all time favorite 'so bad it's good' films.
I KNOW there are others in my HokeyHitList, but first and foremost in my mind is:
"VALLEY OF THE DOLLS"
Patty Duke is as pricelessly over the top as Barbara Parkins is ba-a-a-d. While my heart bled for the great Lee Grant having to be a part of all that hokem, I roared w/the thunderous approval of all the transvestite performer/impersonators out there for the great, 'wigged' Susan Hayward.
A general, gigantic hoot all around, friends & I used to gather for annual "VOTD" parties and sync dialog & sing alongs w/Neely. Good times!
Zea
Originally they desperatelywanted & even somewhat planned for the legendary Judy Garland to be in the role *Susan Hayward took instead
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On 12/27/2017 at 11:19 PM, NipkowDisc said:
what about the oscar?...
& a rare appearance in it by Tony Bennett-(l926-)
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1 hour ago, Bogie56 said:
Sextette (1978) where 85 year-old Mae West plays the most beautiful and sought after girl in the world. Her suitors include Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis, Dom DeLuise, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, George Hamilton (who else), Regis Philbin, George Raft and Keith Moon for crying out loud.
If you thought Pierce Brosnan's singing in Mamma Mia was something else wait until you hear Timothy Dalton croon "Love Will Keep Us Together" to Mae." You will never forget it. Rumour has it that the camera department ran out of gauze and gel after the first day of shooting!
If you think this Mae West-(l893-l980) movie was lousy, you all must check out 19709's stunningly awful-(& not even fun, just annoyingly awful!) I easily rate
it among the top 3 worst flix ever produced (TRIVIA: On all 3 vacations to Tinsel-Town & I';vbe touched on thgis many times, I was lucky enough to stay at exact same motel located at 777 N. Vine. you could even see the Paramount water Tower from there. Anyhow, I just felt that a massive bldgh/apartments seemed fam,iliar to me, so I looked it up & it was/is "THE RAVENSWOOD APTS" at the end of Vine. West lived there 48yrs & passed away inside as well. It's ultra red lights are so bright you can easily see them all the way up at the "Griffith 0bservatory"
She oviously didn't have far to go top work at Paramount, huh Though she chose NYC to be laid to rest
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Of course you can't leave out the works of Edward D. Wood Jr.-(l923-1978) & anybody reading this must see 1994's marvelous "Ed Wood" (****-stars!) & only grossed $6m. *Martin Landau delivered one of thee greatest performances in recent years as Bela Lugosi
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I split a wee-bit with you on 1966's "The Oscar" though & think it's a fair picture (**1/2) but by no means a great one Plus, any moivie that features *"THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: FRANCIS (ALBERT) SINATRA AT IT'S FINALE CAN'T BE ALL BAD
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On 12/27/2017 at 5:08 PM, Zea said:
If this topic has already been discussed, forgive me. Just point me toward its previous incarnation and I'll delete this one.
If not...then in light of the recent showings of so many Lana Turner schmaltzy movies, got to thinking about my all time favorite 'so bad it's good' films.
I KNOW there are others in my HokeyHitList, but first and foremost in my mind is:
"VALLEY OF THE DOLLS"
Patty Duke is as pricelessly over the top as Barbara Parkins is ba-a-a-d. While my heart bled for the great Lee Grant having to be a part of all that hokem, I roared w/the thunderous approval of all the transvestite performer/impersonators out there for the great, 'wigged' Susan Hayward.
A general, gigantic hoot all around, friends & I used to gather for annual "VOTD" parties and sync dialog & sing alongs w/Neely. Good times!
Zea
YEP, inthe immortal words of both *Gary Cooper & *Clint Eastwood. It is a sloppy film & the also already gone Roger Ebert-l942-2014) cool guy, but always actually bragged about writing the screenp0lay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?"
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3 minutes ago, spence said:
But be certain it & "Shape of Water" d the field with the most overall nominations come Tuesday January 23rd., 2018
& even if "Dunkirk" doesn't take home the biggie for Best Film, it's already a lock to win for Best Sound Mixing, Sound Effects, Film Editing & maybe it's score by past winner *Hans Zimmer & Hollywood is dying to recognize for the first time to date Christopher Nolan
If I were among the approx 8,467 voters I'd easily cast my ballot for "Three Billboards..." however I am still seeing "Darkest Hour" "The Post" & maybe "Shape of Water" It was the first new releasew I'd give 4 stars to in a year with "La La Land" ($155m.)
THANK YOU!
I loath The Kardashian's & this is typical of the HCOC-(Hollywood Chamber of Commerce) I think they even have a "Walk-of-Fame Star?"
& that reminds me of something very sad, *Joanne Woodward-(l930-) was chosen as the very first celeb to be given her "WOF-Star:" in 1958. Probably due to her just winning her *Academy Awardfor "Three Faces of Eve" All insist she has really bad ALZHEIMERS
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4 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Maybe because it would cost money, and TCM doesn't like to spend money. If they were to do a survey, it would most likely be via the TCM Backlot paid membership.
THANX FOR ULTRA FAST REPLY! But why would an online poll cost $dough$? they should also let the folks vote via regular mail
& you also hit the nail on the head in it being TCM Backlot-(WE SHOULD START A PETITION DRIVE!!!) I mean in my massive & ever increasing files of all things cinematic, this is the only hold out??? Even AMC had a fans survey
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