CloneWars

I dub thee summer of 90M openers.

Is the last photo speculation, or did someone tweet that?

My prediction was $100M.

If Godzilla hit $93M, this ain't hitting $80M

Marvel created this series in 2008. It is not long running. They had another GotG series, but that was different. This is practically a new series as far as comics are concerned.

I wanted more of The Collector. He was my favorite character. Also, Howard the Duck ftw.

I agree with everything you said. Maybe, a horror movie would work since those tend to have budgets less than $10M. Actually, I would love to see them market something like 50 shades this way. Also, for what it is worth TPM did not have any US TV spots. There was a lot of advertising, but that came from Pepsi and Pizza Hut and whatnot promoting the film with their tie-in promotions, and that was before social media!!!!!!! I think I recall reading somewhere that George Lucas spent an entire $10M marketing the film, and I think that was for trailer prints and OS advertising. Also, look at how big THG opened. I believe it had a pretty small advertising budget (compared to other movies that opened to $150M).

I think that Hollywood doesn't know how to market well globally and they still haven't figured out the best way to market on the Internet. TV ads are way too much.

Why does Michael Bay keep making these? Wouldn't he want to do something else by now?

Godzilla is a financial success. But, it is not a success with audiences which is what matters when it comes to sequels, HV sales, etc. To have the multiplier it did, opening the week prior to MD weekend during a very weak summer is beyond embarrassing.

Or family audiences find the other choices lacking.

This looks pretty awesome. It looks to be of Pixar quality.

So, it wasn't just a freak accident? that's what i heard/know about Twilight Zone? How so was he reckless?

I don't know the specifics of the Landis case, but do we actually know if he were at fault with what happened on Twilight Zone?

The question is not if this hits a billion. The question is will TF4 beat TF3 WW.

So, in how many years will china be having movies open to $300M OW? Can Avengers 3 pull it off?

Man, $19M Monday in China! With the way things are going, for sure all of TF5 will be shot in China.

Wow! Crazy number, so what is TF4 looking to gross? $300M has to be a lock, right? Can it go much higher? $400M? Sorry, I don't follow China BO enough to really know what this film is capable of.

*Other outlets are reporting that Paramount is inflating the weekend figure for Transformers: Age of Extinction, and that the actual number is around $98 million (or lower). Mojo's policy is to stick with the number that the studio has reported, though, and will list $100 million until Paramount issues a revision.

I'm not playing in the game, but this is what mojo has to say. *Other outlets are reporting that Paramount is inflating the weekend figure for Transformers: Age of Extinction, and that the actual number is around $98 million (or lower). Mojo's policy is to stick with the number that the studio has reported, though, and will list $100 million until Paramount issues a revision.

I just noticed that BOM put a side note about the TF4 gross. They called Paramount out again! Yay!

Not to the degree TF4 does. There is like f'ing Chinese product placement in the film.

I don't see how you fudge at least $1.5M. Paramount is terrible.

Paramount sure loves Puerto Rico. And, the title should be changed to say Puerto Rico saves TF again!

So, this is looking to open nearly the same in China as America. wtf