These are really nice, and not just the subject matter, the Stockholm background is great.
Valter is proud of his big brother:
FINALLY saw
#LegendOfTarzan and I am as proud as can be!!Better late than never, and if you haven't seen it yet you should!
@legendoftarzan
https://twitter.com/ValterSkarsgar/status/752736437980786688
https://twitter.com/ValterSkarsgar/status/752736437980786688
Scott Mendelson, who's been down on LOT since the HR article, has something of a 'I was sort of wrong' article:
Jul 12, 2016 @ 10:00 AM
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'Legend Of Tarzan' Box Office Muscle Proves Superhero Fatigue Still A Myth
I will admit it. Heading into the July 4th weekend, I thought
The Legend of Tarzan was dead meat. But while the film may have still cost too much and may not actually be a money maker, it may end up being one of the bigger live-action grossers of the summer. And it held rather well on its second weekend, especially for a July 4th live-action release that opened on a Friday, dropping just 46% to bring its ten-day cume to $81 million off a $46m Fri-Mon debut. It will top $100m by the end of next weekend with a $125m domestic total now entirely plausible. People saw it, they liked it, and they are continuing to see it after opening weekend. The film’s relative success is yet more proof that “superhero fatigue” is a fiction.
I discussed
this back when Deadpool broke out in a major way last February, but it bears repeating as we turn the corner on a year that was supposed to suffer due to so-called “superhero fatigue.” We had a “whopping” eight comic book superhero movies slated for 2016, minus one when
Channing Tatum’s theoretical
Gambit got shifted to (
for the moment) March 13, 2024. We now have just two comic book superhero movies remaining for the year, including one that I’m predicting to be a breakout and another that should be relatively fine. And not only did four of five of them thus far do pretty okay, but part of the reason for
Legend of Tarzan’s comparative success is that Warner Bros./
Time Warner TWX -0.15% Inc. successfully sold the reboot as an old-fashioned superhero movie.
Looking at the
domestic box office thus far, it is (among live-action releases) the superhero movies that are still leading the pack. Looking at the North American box office champions, we see two kinds of films in the “upper class” of grossers. You have splashy animated features (that’s a separate conversation), and you have comic book superhero movies. The leaders thus far are (deep breath)
Finding Dory ($423 million),
Captain America: Civil War ($406m),
Deadpool ($363m),
The Jungle Book ($360m),
Zootopia ($340m),
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($330m),
X-Men: Apocalypse, ($154m),
Kung Fu Panda 3 ($141m),
Secret Life of Pets (at least $110m+ as of today), plus wherever
Tarzan ends up..
The Legend of Tarzan is not based on a comic book, but nor were
The Shadow (pulp novels and radio serials),
The Mask of Zorro (serialized novel), or
Dick Tracy (daily newspaper strip), yet we tend to count those among cinematic superhero cinema. Warner Bros.’ marketing campaign for the David Yates adaptation sold the traditional “handsome and ripped super-powered bad-ass (Alexander Skarsgård) saves the girl (Margot Robbie) and the day” from a sneeringly over-the-top villain (Christoph Waltz) template. For most paying consumers,
The Legend of Tarzan was arguably a superhero movie.
So, with the (hopefully big) caveat that
Star Trek Beyond,
Ghostbusters, and
Jason Bourne are yet to come (God help us if
Ghostbusters ends up under $125 million), all of the year’s biggest domestic grossers (thus far) are animated films and superhero movies. And it is all-but-certain that
Suicide Squad will become one of the bigger (biggest?) hits of the summer/year when it opens next month. Looking at the rest of the pack, the would-be biggies are likely to be Marvel’s
Dr. Strange, Walt Disney’s
Moana, Illumination’s
Sing (an all-star singing animals comedy that just had a four-minute trailer played before
Secret Life of Pets), plus the arguable exceptions
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
I am not predicting what the top 10 or top 15 biggest domestic earners of the year will be, but I am willing to wager that they will be filled with animated features and superhero movies. I cannot say that
The Legend of Tarzan did as well as it’s doing thus far in America, over-performing compared to doomsayer predictions (mea culpa) and having decent legs to boot, specifically because it was sold as and accepted as a superhero adventure. But it bears noting that the would-be superhero movies have almost all done exceptionally well compared to the rest of the live-action competition this y
Now, this doesn’t mean that
The Legend of Tarzan is a hit in terms of its alleged $180 million production budget, or that a new franchise has been born. Yet, audiences still crave cinematic superhero thrills, be they come in capes, armor, or mere loin cloth. We can debate the individual results of these particular titles, but the biggest live-action films of the year are still unabashed superhero melodramas. We may reach a point of real superhero fatigue, but we aren’t there yet, at least comparable to every other live-action genre.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...-superhero-fatigue-still-a-myth/#347af4214c4b
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