Movie prediction!

1) Bolt. Prediction = $29.7 million.
2) Twilight. Prediction = $71.3 million.

What's interesting this weekend is that both movies are crossing over a bit into the same target audience. Females + people who can read. By all normal rules any audience crossover is a lose-lose situation, but lucky for these flicks, this is an audience market with money t-o b-u-r-n.

Bolt will do gangbusters.
1) It's Disney
2) Stars Miley Cyrus.
Any of those on their own is enough to be a hit. Combined, it could very well form a black hole... on our wallets! haha

Twilight will do gangbusters.
1) It's based off a book that girls love
2) It has sappy romance (inherently different reason from #1)
This was the winning formula for Titanic (which was based off the bestselling book: The Ship of Ice). Twilight could very well be a contender to knock off Titanic from it's box office throne. Countless repeat viewings from the female market are a given. If the Twilight marketing team can milk it, we'll be seeing this film in the top 10 box office lists for months to come (until the inevitable sequel of course).



In other movie news, I saw an incredibly moving film last night entitled Amal. Upon initial viewing, it was an extremely good film, very solid in all aspects of it's being. But after the screening there was a Q&A with the director and that's when the film started to take on a life of it's own. The director is an incredibly fascinating, sensibly nerdy (as opposed to the fat overweight nerdy-archetype), and is a beautiful storyteller in his adventures of making his FIRST!!!!! film!!!!! As he stripped away to the underlying words of the story that he wanted to tell, the movie become a whole different being, something that can be interpreted uniquely from a wide-variety of viewpoints depending on one's background. Definietly a director I will be keeping an eye on though his last name is unfortunately identical to another famous brown director.

What's moreso interesting is the sudden rise of brown-movies by Western companies. Perhaps a sign of a future mainstream trend?