Rudolf

HT2 made $113m in China

HT2 seems to have an exceptionally high percentage of its OS coming from China 44.7%. Does anyone know of higher percentages (or the record)? TF4 had 37.3%, Titanic(incl.3D) had 12.4% Spectre has 72.9% at the moment, but that will probably come down

Job's biopic shows that critics and some yuppies in NY and CA don't represent the US as far as "I want to see this movie" goes.

A big animated movie, that makes less than 60% of its WW in OS, is an oddity today. This year we have 3: In side out 57.8%, HT2 58.4% and Home 54.0% Is Hollywood losing its touch with overseas markets? I was questioning this with last year's Lego Movie with only 45.0% (most of the OS coming from the English speaking world. Last year was also the first time in like forever that no animated movie cracked the Top10 WW.

also totally agree with that - I hate it when I must see the xx-th version of a story I know since decades definitely the first DM was the best (there are very few franchise where it is otherwise- maybe Godfather 2)

chances are that it will be only No.4 movie of 2015 nobody predicted that - funny

the Despicable Me/Minions - franchise is the new Ice Age for the International market The progression is awe inspiring : 300 - 600 - 800 compare this to other top-franchises: Shrek: 220 - 480 - 480 - 510 - 400 Toy Story: 170 - 240 - 650 Madagascar: 340 - 420 - 530 - 290

All 3 Hobbitses had 6mill. Germans are true.

probably not, but they love tiny men

2015 has really bad OS numbers for the animated movies: SpongeBob 148.6 Home 193.0 IO 117.3 (will grow but not overwhelming either) 2014 was even more terrible BH6 429.6 (not so bad) HttyD2 441.9 ( a lot less than predicted) Rio2 368.7 Lego 211.0 Penguins 290.2 we need Minions doing well OS badly

In Vienna/Austria I can watch all movies in every format ( in English and German) I want. I read that making a movie not available dubbed in the national language, was done to hurt the BO of that movie - and the country to "invent" that praxis were the United States. There are no foreign movies dubbed in English there. During Silent Movies aera they needed material and foreign movies made a lot of money there. When the talkies came, studios killed foreign competion by prohibiting English synchronization - very succesful What is the reason for doing so in your country?

perhaps Universal is afraid of angering Disney maybe they think that the empire will strike back at them - maybe even with a Star Wars movie

OS Ice Age made 200, 450, 700 I think DM will be similar 300, 600, 900

sub $400m OS

right, but what Pixar movie had to compete with a monster, we all think will make between 85 to 110?

MOS had Monsters University to compete with on 2nd weekend. Why should IO (an original) be more of a threat than this proven classic?

For original animated movies ($70.5m)?

I think JW ~ IO+75%

As long as it is beating TA1 numbers on weekends and TDK numbers on weekdays everything is possible. And OS Jurasic Park has more love than Marvel (except in Latin America maybe).

so WW about equal with The Penguins with 60% coming from English speaking countries - that is on par with average Pixar percentages but atleast not as bad as Lego Movie(74%) Inside Out will have more than 60% from the English speaking world Minions will have less than 50% for sure

Before LOTR movies with medieval setting were never as successful in NA as in Europe. Peter Jackson changed that, but could not repeat that for Hobbit. The reasons are probably manyfold and you all have given very plausible ones. I as European could only guess. (btw I liked the Hobbit trilogy but one movie would have beeen enough).

It would be interesting to know, why it took them so long for the sequel! Were the stars from the original too greedy?

maybe AoU has higher percentage of younger viewers, so MMFR has 2m more per weekday, but only 1m more per weekend?

still needs some $$$ for Penguines WW How can a film studio like Dreamworks ignore International Markets like this? BTW: what is the most succesful movie with a black female main character (if AVATAR does not count)?

and when are they starting with an Universium where all there main characters assemble together to fight a common enemy?