WEEKEND THREAD! FRI #s: Lego: 8M: 50SD: 6.6M: GW: 5.8: JW2: 4.1 (pg 8)

[zackzack]

5 hours ago, filmlover said:

Great Wall headed for a similar run to Dracula Untold. Obviously a dud, but likely would've been even worse without Damon.

 

Fist Fight's number is solid. Should be between $20-25M for the 4-day holiday given that it's not an early showing movie at all.

 

Well, TGW is supposed to make most of its money in China & Asia anyway. Whatever the movie earns in NA is supposed to cover the catering, trailers, celebrity make-up artists, TV appearances, publicists, legalities, "pr/media advisors" & other nonsense fees.

[CJohn]

I need @AndyLL to change the Derby to 4 days this week or I will get something like a 50% score  

[Fancyarcher]

2 hours ago, Jay Hollywood said:

Isn't Great Wall going to actually get 2x as much back form China as a regular  Hollywood production? 

 

Yep. It's not even really a Hollywood production, it primarily a Chinese production, which made some of the complaints earlier, a bit sillier. 

[trifle]

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Rank LW Title Distributor Theater Count Change % Change Est. Screens Change Est. Shows Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 3 - The Great Wall Universal 3,326 - - - - - - 1 4 - Fist Fight Warner Bros. (New Line) 3,185 - - - - - - 1 6 - A Cure for Wellness Fox 2,704 - - - - - - 1 22 - Everybody Loves Somebody Pantelion 333 - - - - - - 1 39 - Running Shaadi Reliance Big Pictures 51 - - - - - - 1 48 - Irada Reliance Big Pictures 27 - - - - - - 1 50 - XX (2017) Magnolia 10 - - - - - - 1 > EXPANDING 2 2 Fifty Shades Darker Universal 3,714 +4 +0.1% - - - - 2 12 11 Lion Weinstein Company 1,542 +205 +15.3% - - - - 13 13 27 Passengers (2016) Sony / Columbia 658 +443 +206.0% - - - - 9 14 20 Manchester by the Sea Roadside Attractions 568 +114 +25.1% - - - - 14 16 18 Fences Paramount 560 +106 +23.3% - - - - 10 18 22 Moonlight (2016) A24 455 +104 +29.6% - - - - 18 23 25 Arrival Paramount 329 +58 +21.4% - - - - 15 35 47 Toni Erdmann Sony Classics 102 +53 +108.2% - - - - 9 37 46 Silence (2016) Paramount 72 +17 +30.9% - - - - 9 40 65 A United Kingdom Fox Searchlight 45 +41 +1,025.0% - - - - 2 43 50 The Red Turtle Sony Classics 36 +7 +24.1% - - - - 5 46 51 Duckweed China Lion 30 +3 +11.1% - - - - 2 51 66 Land of Mine Sony Classics 5 +2 +66.7% - - - - 5 > NO CHANGE 1 1 The LEGO Batman Movie Warner Bros. 4,088 - - - - - - 2 5 3 John Wick: Chapter Two Lionsgate/Summit 3,113 - - - - - - 2 > DECLINING 7 5 Split Universal 2,445 -516 -17.4% - - - - 5 8 4 A Dog's Purpose Universal 2,400 -625 -20.7% - - - - 4 9 8 Hidden Figures Fox 2,217 -450 -16.9% - - - - 9 10 9 La La Land Lionsgate/Summit 1,587 -478 -23.1% - - - - 11 11 6 Rings Paramount 1,560 -1,371 -46.8% - - - - 3 15 10 Sing Universal 561 -918 -62.1% - - - - 9 17 12 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Sony / Screen Gems 508 -705 -58.1% - - - - 4 19 14 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Buena Vista 435 -494 -53.2% - - - - 10 20 13 xXx: The Return of Xander Cage Paramount 435 -743 -63.1% - - - - 5 21 17 Moana Buena Vista 424 -37 -8.0% - - - - 13 24 7 The Space Between Us STX Entertainment 317 -2,441 -88.5% - - - - 3 25 23 Patriots Day Lionsgate 257 -89 -25.7% - - - - 9 26 19 The Founder Weinstein Company 253 -201 -44.3% - - - - 5 27 24 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Warner Bros. 235 -42 -15.2% - - - - 14 28 15 Monster Trucks Paramount 230 -612 -72.7% - - - - 6 29 30 Jolly Llb 2 FIP 166 -7 -4.0% - - - - 2 30 21 Sleepless Open Road Films 152 -233 -60.5% - - - - 6 31 31 Doctor Strange Buena Vista 136 -35 -20.5% - - - - 16 32 33 Why Him? Fox 123 -24 -16.3% - - - - 9 33 35 20th Century Women A24 115 -12 -9.4% - - - - 8 34 26 Gold Weinstein Company 107 -108 -50.2% - - - - 4 36 36 Hacksaw Ridge Lionsgate 87 -40 -31.5% - - - - 16 38 39 Paterson Bleecker Street 64 -6 -8.6% - - - - 8 41 45 Elle Sony Classics 43 -14 -24.6% - - - - 15 42 16 The Comedian Sony Classics 41 -571 -93.3% - - - - 9 44 37 Un Padre No Tan Padre Pantelion 36 -81 -69.2% - - - - 4 45 42 Julieta Sony Classics 31 -32 -50.8% - - - - 9 47 49 The Eagle Huntress Sony Classics 28 -6 -17.6% - - - - 16 49 40 Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back Sony / Columbia 14 -53 -79.1% - - - - 3 52 55 Live By Night Warner Bros. 5 -7 -58.3% - - - - 9 << Prev. Week < Last Year View Index Next Year > Next Week >>

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/chart/?yr=2017&wk=07&p=.htm

 

I guess the earlier report that Passengers would be running with Resident Evil really meant Passengers was picking up a lot of its screens.

Edited February 17, 2017 by trifle

[Barnack]

37 minutes ago, cookie said:

Still don't get why Universal didn't just release Great Wall domestically back in December along with the China release. Holiday legs could have saved some face.

 

It is really not easy to get a December wide release for non-franchise, non-family/christmas movie like that, you need to fight for it and win over the competition, Universal cannot decide to release a movie a certain popular date for movie release.

[zackzack]

2 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

 

Yep. It's not even really a Hollywood production, it primarily a Chinese production, which made some of the complaints earlier, a bit sillier. 

 

Yea, I don't know why people are treating TGW as a typical blockbuster. Crouching Tiger did $128M and the more cerebral Hero did $40M plus. But those movies are bad-ass martial art movies with some of the best state-of-the-art choreography. You mix in CGI, NA audiences bail. Also, I think people are sick of Lord of the Rings-inspired CGI-enhanced "massive battle sequences" The best FX movies like Gravity, Revenant & Fury Rd, you tend not to see the special effects.

[Fancyarcher]

2 minutes ago, zackzack said:

 

Yea, I don't know why people are treating TGW as a typical blockbuster. Crouching Tiger did $128M and the more cerebral Hero did $40M plus. But those movies are bad-ass martial art movies with some of the best state-of-the-art choreography. You mix in CGI, NA audiences bail. Also, I think people are sick of Lord of the Rings-inspired CGI-enhanced "massive battle sequences" The best FX movies like Gravity, Revenant & Fury Rd, you tend not to see the special effects.

 

 

 

The Great Wall will probably do poorly because it looks like shit. Fascinating shit yes, but shit nonetheless. 

Edited February 17, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[MCKillswitch123]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

I forgot Seventh Son even existed  

 

The Great Wall's future in a nutshell.

[CJohn]

I may or may not own Seventh Son on Bluray.

[Jonwo]

I wonder if The Great Wall was the reason Tull was booted from Legendary? Apart from Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton which were already in development before Legendary were brought in to finance, none of their projects have been successful at Universal, Warcraft doesn't count because Universal didn't handle the Chinese release 

[MattW]

Is there a thread about the box office mojo survey, anyone concerned that they might do something bad to the site?

[grim22]

Will The Wall end up making more than The Great Wall domestic?

[trifle]

6 minutes ago, MattW said:

Is there a thread about the box office mojo survey, anyone concerned that they might do something bad to the site?

 

not a thread, but some people have commented on it. Here or in classic conversation, I forget which.

[DeeCee]

31 minutes ago, CJohn said:

I may or may not own Seventh Son on Bluray steelbook 

fify 

[franfar]

26 minutes ago, MattW said:

Is there a thread about the box office mojo survey, anyone concerned that they might do something bad to the site?

It's just a survey. Anything other than that is baseless speculation, so there's no need for a thread.

[narniadis]

26 minutes ago, MattW said:

Is there a thread about the box office mojo survey, anyone concerned that they might do something bad to the site?

 

no thread - not sure they will do anything bad persay, but I am concerned they may eventually take most of the information pay-to-view.... Mojo has gone way down since IMDB bought them out but they are still the most well laid out and archived website for historic data.

[YM!]

@Fifty Shades Rth is it time for an early update? (in particular should I expect heartbreak over LB?)

[Nova]

I don't believe those John Wick numbers. I refuse. It's hands down one of the best action movies and people are gonna ignore it like that. 

 

Deadline is being Deadline. That's the only

explanation. 

[Maxmoser3]

These early numbers make me want to get drunk I 

[AndyLL]

43 minutes ago, franfar said:

It's just a survey. Anything other than that is baseless speculation, so there's no need for a thread.

 

It is not baseless speculation to worry that BOM could go away with no warning.   Perhaps you should read about how these forums came about...