Universal breaks global box-office records

Two blockbusters, one animated movie, one porno and a musical made global record for Universal. I sure would've liked some more quality to those movies.

You have to be happy for Universal though. They seriously lacked when it came to big blockbuster franchises compare to most studios, until now.

Mecha wrote:

You have to be happy for Universal though. They seriously lacked when it came to big blockbuster franchises compare to most studios, until now.

That didn't stop them from being more successful than ever before:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/12/09/for-universal-pictures-zero-blockbusters-equals-record-profits/

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The studio will have the most profitable year this year in its history. We will have the most profitable year in the…history of Universal.”

Box office =/= profits.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/472617-straight-outta-compton-caps-off-universals-amazing-summer#/slide/1

Jesus! Universal keeps killing it.

It's been a great year for Universal.

RamboOnRedBull wrote:

Two blockbusters, one animated movie, one porno and a musical made global record for Universal. I sure would've liked some more quality to those movies.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/straight_outta_compton/
You were saying.

Mecha wrote:

RamboOnRedBull wrote:

Two blockbusters, one animated movie, one porno and a musical made global record for Universal. I sure would've liked some more quality to those movies.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/straight_outta_compton/
You were saying.

I was clearly stating: "To those movies."

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/475007-straight-outta-compton-wins-its-second-straight-weekend#/slide/1

Mecha wrote:

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/475007-straight-outta-compton-wins-its-second-straight-weekend#/slide/1

No surprise there. Smaller films have a big audience as well. 

I kind of wonder if they'll make more music-based biopics now? Would be pretty interesting if they made a couple more. For me, anyway.

Drake biopic?

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'Jack Says' :

This streak for Universal might come to an end when Jem comes out.

@yonny616 At least they will still have a better year than Fox.

http://www.comingsoon.net/dvd/news/616469-furious-7-home-release#/slide/1

I've never understood the appeal of the Fast & Furious movies. The only one that I kinda liked was Tokyo Drift. And even that one was pretty average.

@RamboOnRedBull I never understood the appeal either. I mean, I guess it appealed more to the urban culture in America, and I think Universal knew that and embraced it at first. When I was a kid I kinda was riding (no pun intended) on the Fast & Furious band wagon. Because it seemed to be very popular with almost everyone I knew at the time. Eventually I began to outgrown the franchise, until out of nowhere the series began to actually be really fun popcorn flicks. I enjoyed Tokyo Drift as well. Mainly because of the Japanese culture and it didn't try to dumb things too down for it's audience like the rest of the Fast movies.

Mecha wrote:

@RamboOnRedBull I never understood the appeal either. I mean, I guess it appealed more to the urban culture in America, and I think Universal knew that and embraced it at first. When I was a kid I kinda was riding (no pun intended) on the Fast & Furious band wagon. Because it seemed to be very popular with almost everyone I knew at the time. Eventually I began to outgrown the franchise, until out of nowhere the series began to actually be really fun popcorn flicks. I enjoyed Tokyo Drift as well. Mainly because of the Japanese culture and it didn't try to dumb things too down for it's audience like the rest of the Fast movies.

Yeah, I liked the setting of Tokyo Drift a lot as well. I also found the "drifting" element to be kind of refreshing from the random driving through blocks of collatoral damage. It felt cooler.

Fast & Furious was part of a "shared universe" this whole time.