spatulashack

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 7.53 (+13%) Guardians of the Galaxy - 6.61 (+24%) Into the Storm - 2.09 (+23%) The Hundred-Foot Journey - 1.71 (+35%) Lucy - 1.49 (+22%) Step Up All In - 0.90 (+33%) Hercules - 0.82 (+24%) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 0.72 (+32%) Get on Up - 0.63 (+16%)

.. .... .... Monday: DBZ - $19,300

For you: Monday: Edge of Tomorrow- $38,000 (-47%)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 6.65 (-63%) Guardians of the Galaxy - 5.40 (-58%) Into the Storm - 1.70 (-61%) The Hundred-Foot Journey - 1.26 (-58%) Lucy - 1.23 (-56%) Step Up All In - 0.71 (-53%) Hercules - 0.66 (-59%) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 0.56 (-57%) Get on Up - 0.55 (-63)

Correct. Guardians came in around 13 on Sunday. Disney was estimating 12.2

SATURDAY TO SUNDAY ACTUAL DROPS: Ninja (-20%) Guardians (-23%) Into the Storm (-31%) The Hundred-Foot Journey (-30%) Lucy (-27%) Hercules (-31%) Get on Up (-32%) Step Up All In (-28%) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (-26%)

Someone should update that thread title or I'll have egg on my face for the rest of the day.

I take that back. Guardians came in at 25.5. Looks like Disney's estimated 18% drop was accurate after all.

My comments were in no way trying to get you to hate Disney/Pixar/Marvel films. I love most of them myself. A lot of talented people put their hearts and souls into those projects and I see nothing wrong with loving them.

You nailed it. The Walt Disney World resort is on a downward spiral and that Next Gen debacle which cost upwards of 1.2 BILLION dollars has resulted in deferred maintenance and a host of other sad developments. If Iger has his way, the Parks and Resorts division would have been sold off by now.

My statement had nothing to do with the quality of the film division or the output of that film division. I was referring to the corridors of power within the greater Walt Disney Company.

The success of the film division is in spite of Iger. I'm not knocking any of the great films they've created over the years but it doesn't change the fact that the company itself needs a massive overhaul and a return to what made it so great in the first place.

Next week I'll talk about Amy Pascal and how everyone including the doormen at the Sony building are puzzled by her complete inability to get fired.

People don't like to hear this about Disney but the current regime under Bob Iger is probably the most insidious of all the major film studios. The entire company is built solely around driving the stock-prices up and pleasing the shareholders and nearly every executive is only concerned about the short term and could care less about the long term viability of the company. It's funny to me that the Disney brand still has so many loyal fans who somehow think the spirit of Walt walks the hallways of Burbank. Don't even get me started on what Iger has done to the Theme Park division. The sooner this clown resigns the better.

Disney estimating an 18% Saturday to Sunday drop is just odd.

Yesterday was 31.

Maybe I'm crazy but looking at the numbers now I'm seeing more like 23 million for Sunday.

Kudos to Universal for snatching him up for Jurassic World. So far, nearly everything I've seen or read about that production makes me think it will be bigger than even the most optimistic predictions.

This is complete malarkey and goes against everything we know about the film industry and box office patterns. The folks who went to see Lucy did so because of Universal's pitch-perfect marketing campaign. It had NOTHING to do with Apes at all.

If anything Guardians as a concept was a tough sell from the beginning. Most of the credit belongs to the marketing department for bringing a high-energy campaign that wasn't scared to shy away from some of the goofy tonal shifts that the film itself indulges in.