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Box Office: Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver' Was The Summer's MVP https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/09/07/box-office-edgar-wrights-baby-driver-was-the-summers-mvp/

According to the-numbers.com: Domestic: $104,055,256 International: $95,978,770 Worldwide: $200,034,026 and counting.

So on day 59 (last Friday) the movie reached the 5x multiplier at the domestic BO. Regarding the worldwide BO I missed asking a few weeks ago if anyone thinks $200M is possible. Not a question anymore, 200M is happening, maybe today. So far the UK has been the number 1 overseas market ($16.3M) for Baby Driver, but China is taking over this week ($13.9M in 5 days). Thanks to great legs, the movie has also done well in France ($6.2M) and exceptionally well in Australia ($10.3M). We'll see how it can hold up in Russia on week two. Release in Italy and South Korea is still coming. Overall I think Sony can be more than happy with these numbers. Digital release is around the corner, DVD and BR comes out in October.

Don't know if it was mentioned, but Baby Driver reached the 5x multiplier this weekend. Shows how impressive it's legs have been during the summer, even as a wednesday release. Also with this decent start in China it will more than likely get to $200M worldwide. Up until now Edgar Wright's biggest box office hit was Hot Fuzz with $80M WW, and half of that money came from the UK.

LOL, the sunglasses.

Yep, it's official. I remember the predictions of a $12M opening weekend, when many feared Baby Driver will be crushed by the summer blockbusters and a $50-60M total gross was considered optimistic... 47 days later: $100,033,833!

Do it, Sony!

Almost there. Meanwhile, the shaded area has no idea what's happening.

Just realized that Baby Driver was originally supposed to be released today. Thank God they were confident enough to move it to June. I guess no one at Sony thought there will be $98.5M in the bag by the time of the old release date.

I have to admit, I wasn't familiar with this T-Rex song before the movie. Baby Driver made it more famous for sure. If I understand the situation, the guy suing the studio owns the rights ot this song only since 2014. I don't know when the clearing of the songs happened, but the songs were written into the script. Wright started writing in 2007 and the first srcript reading happened in 2012, so it seems possible that they had cleared the song way before the rights went to the current owner. It's obviously not a coincidence that this is the only song where this issue came up. Anyways, it's an interesting story, and I'm curious to see how it will end. Hopefully it doesn't affect the home release of the film. As for the possible price-tag, I assume the price of the other 34 songs (including the similarly semi-famous "Debra" by Beck) should be some kind of benchmark.

Indeed! Baby Driver has not produced a single disappointing number so far. Week to week drops were under 40% each day. Even if it starts dropping 40%, it will get to 100M by the end of next week.

That's my Baby! Drops only 22.5% from last Wednesday. Will get to 97M by the end of this week and 100M by the end of next week.

Yeah. I like those performance charts on the-numbers.com, they are quite telling, and I love how Baby Driver pisses on the shaded area. I think moving BD's release date up to June was a master stroke by Sony. Moving it to the most crowded weeks of the summer could have become a suicide, but they probably knew the film will survive thanks to great word of mouth. It was a bold move that paid off perfectly.

May I have the polite request to include BD's number ($0.92M) in the title? It is the only one ignored from the top8.

Baby Driver 100M is happening. It has to drop 40%+ week to week to not get there. Its weekend increased from estimates and dropped only 30%.