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• This proves yet again that America’s taste is in its ass. ‘Up’ is a great film (I saw it last week in Boston)that hopefully will find its audience. ‘Night at the Museum 2′? I’ve seen better film on teeth.

  Comment by sf781 — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 7:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• word on the street is that Up is gonna bomb big time – Pixar dropped the ball on this one, just like no one was very interested in the talking cars, an old coot isn’t an appealing character for the kids.

  Comment by shootasdirected — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 7:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• Up will make 225 domestic

  You heard it here first! From an anonymous person on the internet!

  Comment by Up Up and Away! — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 8:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• Fandango has UP selling 51% of all online ticket sales as of Wed PM, dwarfing NatM2 and the others. Expect Movietickets.com’s nos. to change significantly in the coming days.

  Comment by Jude — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 8:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• “word on the street is that Up is gonna bomb big time – Pixar dropped the ball on this one, just like no one was very interested in the talking cars, an old coot isn’t an appealing character for the kids.”

  That “talking cars” movie still made over 240mil domestic-despite the fact that I and many call it Pixar’s “weakest effort.”

  I’ve seen UP at an advance screening and everyone in the theater loved it, from the kids, teens, adults and so on. It was far more kid friendly than Wall-E and Ratatouille. The kids ate it up and were buzzing like the rest of us as we all streamed out of the auditorium.

  Pixar has another winner here.

  Comment by Daniel — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 9:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Like what Jude said, 51% of Fandango’s online sales are for UP! UP’s online sales will only rise for both online ticketers as the weekend approaches. Besides, the majority of the family audience and moviegores who will come out in droves to see UP will buy their tickets the old-fashioned way (via the ticket booth). Online ticketing is usually most frequented by fanboys, most people still buy their tickets on site.

  Comment by Hardy — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 11:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• UP will open strong at around 60mil, and will play long. I see 250mil domestic. I was at an advanced screening in TX, and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive from everyone, kids and adults. Kids will dig the antics of the animal characters and the whole adventure theme, not to mention the action packed finale. The movie has heart and a ton of laughs.

  Comment by Ron — Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 11:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• I haven’t seen UP yet, but based on the AFLAC ads, I plan to do so. As for “Cars,” that weak effort had to involve a ton of research on the part of almost everybody in the production. Regardless of what happened at the box office, they had to research history including the kind of cars that raced in the 1950’s, day to day NASCAR activity, and research on how a simple road is built including examining how a car could pull a big steamroller. If that is a “weak effort,” I don’t know what more to say.

  Comment by Jessy S. — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 12:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Pixar can’t lose. They just seem incapable of sucking.

  Comment by Alboone — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 7:50am PST  Reply to this post

• Up has lacked the buzz of Pixar’s last two films, and I’m certainly not as “see it on the first day” excited as I was for WALL-E, but then, I come at this as a bit of an art-animation snob who was interested in WALL-E more for the dialogue-free sections than anything else.

  That said, Pixar’s successes have usually come in the form of long legs rather than huge first weeks, and I don’t see finishing behind Night at the Museum (which I consider unlikely anyway) as that major a blow for the film, assuming it gets good word of mouth.

  Where things, for me, are interesting is in terms of 3-D – a technology I’m still convinced is going to bust just like it did the last two times because the fundamental problems of it have not been worked out. If Up finishes behind Night at the Museum, the real loser is going to be 3-D, since people have been expecting 3-D to add a significant bump on the base gross of a film. Should Up fail to maintain that, and with the Pixar brand backing it, a lot of theaters are going to think twice about installing that expensive 3-D screen.

  Comment by Phil — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 8:07am PST  Reply to this post

• I think one concern about Up is that only one of the 16 actors listed on IMDB is female. My 6-year-old daughter wants to see Up, but I think she’d be more interested if there were girls in it.

  My own reaction to the trailers is that the film is probably a classic, and I’ll love it, but I sort of want to boycott it just because of the 16-to-1 male-to-female ratio.

  Comment by A spouse — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 11:11am PST  Reply to this post

• I have a 5 year old kid who can’t stop talking about UP, and when asked about NIGHT @ THE MUSEUM 2 it’s a big shrug.

  You guys who think UP is going to bomb, have a huge head up their rear.

  UP in the end will make more money than MUSEUM 2.

  Comment by morons — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 11:57am PST  Reply to this post

• Shootasdirected, you’re a moron. ‘Word on the street’? What street? You’re clearly not connected to ‘the street’ enough to know how well ‘Cars’ actually did. And do you have any interest whatsoever in whether a film’s good or not, beyond damning it based on (as far as I can see) the poster? Sorry that ‘UP’ doesn’t fit your narrow perception of what an animated film should be, but Pixar happen to believe that animation can and should be inteliigent and appeal to all ages. But don’t worry – I’m sure there’ll be something featuring wisecracking animals for you before too long.

  Comment by Jeff — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 12:19pm PST  Reply to this post