Weekend Estimates: Lego Batman 55.6M, 50 Shades 46.7M, John Wick 2 30M

[YM!]

http://deadline.com/2017/02/fifty-shades-darker-lego-batman-john-wick-chapter-2-box-office-1201907911/

50SD: $5.72M

[GiantCALBears]

Going to be one of the biggest February weekends of all time, will it be the biggest even with no Valentine's until Tuesday?

[chrisman0606]

Interesting weekend and hopefully @Fifty Shades Rth will be here this weekend to give us the numbers and hopefully Both Friday and Saturday Night.

Edited February 10, 2017 by chrisman0606

[WrathOfHan]

The first LEGO Movie didn’t hold Thursday night previews 

 

Someone fire these morons.

[GiantCALBears]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

The first LEGO Movie didn’t hold Thursday night previews 

 

Someone fire these morons.

I think this ended up working out OK lmao.

[picores]

Good previews for 50SD....

[WrathOfHan]

How showings look by me:

 

Batman:

 

11:00: 9/124

12:15 3D: 1/78

1:45 3D: 4/124

3:00: 8/78

4:30: 2/124

5:40 3D: 8/78

6:30: 35/78

7:15 3D: 12/124

8:15: 15/78

9:15: 0/78

10:45 3D: 0/78

Total: 103/1,042

 

Fifty Shades:

 

10:15 (just started): 71/78

11:45: 25/78

1:15: 19/78

2:45: 1/78

4:15: 24/78

5:45: 33/78

7:15: 97/113

8:45: 65/78

9:45: 22/124

10:15: 81/113

Total: 438/896

 

John Wick:

 

10:45: 34/78

1:45: 13/78

4:45: 5/78

7:45: 19/78

10:40: 13/78

Total: 84/390

 

[WrathOfHan]

13 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said:

I think this ended up working out OK lmao.

I'm talking about Deadline; TLM had previews at 10:00  

[DAJK]

Very good previews... almost too good  work with me moviegoers! I have a club that needs to succeed! 

Following the first film, that would lead to a 56M weekend; not sure what sort of "sequel" factor can be ignored or not, but this number makes 40-45+ a much better possibility than I was originally thinking.

 

Also, shoutout to @YourMother for starting what was one of my most anticipated weekend threads in a while!

 

 

[kayumanggi]

WB's THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE clicked with preview audiences: $2.2M last night.

— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) February 10, 2017

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

That's good for 50 Shades. Tough to tell how frontloaded it will be though. How much is the bar for success for LB? 2-2.5m?

 

Edit - nevermind

Edited February 10, 2017 by Jayhawk

[DAJK]

2.2 for batman would put it on course to at least match zootopia I would think. I don't know,'at be having batman in the film would have inflated previews a bit, but 75-80M looking rather nice

 

(sorry I'm basically just posting the obvious here, I really should just go back to sleep, I'm going on about 4 hours here. Damn English essays...)

[WrathOfHan]

Good number for Batman. Zootopia did 1.7M by comparison, but that started at 7 PM unlike Batman which started at 5. Anything over 85M is going to be tough.

[75Live]

good previews for both movies reported so far.  

 

50 shades obviously opened lower than the original, but that was expected, but it is still a good number.

 

Lego Batman did a good number as well  

[Eevin]

Never mind

Edited February 10, 2017 by Eevin

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Yeah, thinking it looks good for $75m. Could have been hurt a bit by the bad weather the last couple days too.

[robertman2]

75 would be hella nice

[Webslinger]

Very good for Fifty Shades, even if it indicates that demand is significantly lower than it was for the first film. It's in for a very strong opening weekend, but the fact that Valentine's Day doesn't come until Tuesday should deflate it to some degree.

 

Good start for Lego. The fact that it drew a solid number on Thursday night should indicate that the periphery demographics (i.e. adults who enjoy Batman/the previous Lego film) are going to show up.

 

I'm curious to see where John Wick landed. I really do feel like it could go either way between legitimate breakout or over-hyped Internet favorite.

[Ash Skywalker]

Strong $2.2M THU pre-show start for #LEGOBatmanMovie beating $1.7M of #Zootopia from last spring which reached $75.1M opening wknd.

Edited February 10, 2017 by Ash Skywalker

[Eevin]

Lionsgate reporting $2.2M for John Wick Chapter 2 http://deadline.com/2017/02/fifty-shades-darker-lego-batman-john-wick-chapter-2-box-office-1201907911/

 

Edited February 10, 2017 by Eevin