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    JUICY WEEKEND - BJBJ releases with $111M (DHD)

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    19 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

    Didn't understand the parent outage back then, compared to now when The Batman is way more violent and parent groups don't make a fuss. I guess everyone is desensitized to violence now after the 100th PG-13 superhero film.

    It was mainly the sexual content. It's always the sexual content. You can show a character maiming and killing hundreds of bad guys, but if you dare to have a nakey, or even less than that in cases where a character is LGBT, then it's too much for these poor innocent children.

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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    Just now, CheeseWizard said:

    Wait TFOne at 47? I thought it was 43 just yesterday 

     

    Also 25% of 30mil? That sounds like the original estimates of 30-40 mil for the opening weekend arent happening are they!

    Yeah. It was at 43 yesterday (technically Thursday). Quorum does new surveys all the time to track how movies are tracking. That's why they change all the time.

     

    As for the latter point, that is very premature to say. We are more than a week away, and the Awareness and Interest data is going to change. It will likely change to something more favorable once we get closer to release. If it gets above 50% by the end of its run, which I am quite confident in, then it will have a 74% chance of reaching 30M. I suggest that for next time that you be patient and do not automatically jump to conclusions. This does not help anybody and just derails the thread.

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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    Quorum Updates

    Megalopolis T-18: 18.1% Awareness, 39.19% Interest

    Here T-53: 13.9% Awareness, 40.23% Interest

    Y2K T-88: 17.04% Awareness, 39.93% Interest

    Sonic the Hedgehog 3 T-102: 48.26% Awareness, 50.26% Interest

     

    The Killer's Game T-4: 27.32% Awareness, 43.98% Interest

    Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M

    Low Awareness: 13% chance of 10M

    Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M

    Low Interest: 33% chance of 10M

     

    Speak No Evil T-4: 39.6% Awareness, 49.32% Interest

    Final Awareness: 40% chance of 10M

    Horror Awareness: 41% chance of 10M

    Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M

    Horror Interest: 42% chance of 10M

     

    Never Let Go T-11: 28.7% Awareness, 45.84% Interest

    Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M

    Horror Awareness: 27% chance of 10M

    Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M

    Horror Interest: 42% chance of 10M

     

    Transformers One T-11: 46.71% Awareness, 49.15% Interest

    Final Awareness: 77% chance of 10M, 47% chance of 20M, 25% chance of 30M

    Animation/Family Awareness: 83% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M

    Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M, 18% chance of 20M, 9% chance of 30M

    Animation/Family Interest: 80% chance of 10M, 50% chance of 20M, 20% chance of 30M

     

    Piece by Piece T-32: 19.43% Awareness, 33.83% Interest

    T-30 Awareness: 15% chance of 10M

    Animation/Family Awareness: 25% chance of 10M

    T-30 Interest: 30% chance of 10M

    Animation/Family Interest: 50% chance of 10M

     

    Terrifier 3 T-32: 28.52% Awareness, 40.79% Interest

    T-30 Awareness: 52% chance of 10M

    Horror Awareness: 60% chance of 10M

    T-30 Interest: 57% chance of 10M

    Horror Interest: 63% chance of 10M

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    JUICY WEEKEND - BJBJ releases with $111M (DHD)

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    As for Beetlejuice's opening, it's not invalid to say Wednesday is a factor, but it's certainly not the only thing making it successful. Really, Beetlejuice is breaking out due to a tight combination of cross-generation appeal as well as serving a niche that has been absent for ages.

     

    For starters, Beetlejuice has always been popular. Like a lot of other Burton movies, it's been a Halloween staple on cable/streaming, and merch at Spirit Halloween is always available. Heck, the Broadway show was able to be a decent hit despite having basically all the odds stacked against it. Tim Burton’s also one of the few directors who was able to sell a movie on his name for the longest time. He’s a cornerstone for tons of Hot Topic millennials and Gen Xers, so seeing a return of one of his old favorites, arguably the movie he is most synonymous for, was going to be an event for those generations. Only other movie people may think of first when it comes to Tim Burton is probably Nightmare Before Christmas (yes, I know he didn't direct it. Blame Disney, not me).

     

    And yeah, for Gen Z, Wednesday managed to make Burton hip and exciting to a new generation and revitalize that campy gothic aesthetic people know and love about him. But it's not like there wasn't already his older movies already airing on ABC Family or streaming. There's even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which has become just as, if not more iconic than the Wilder film to people my age...ew, but that's nostalgia for you.

     

    It also helps that while Burton’s 2010s output is largely regarded as poor and disposable, he hasn’t made a movie in five years, which is enough for him to be out of the limelight just enough, and make people love him all over again. If this came out like two years after Dumbo, I don't think it would have been the event that it is. Plus, there hasn't really been any other director or franchise that has tried to attempt his campy, gothic aesthetic and atmosphere, making his return even more exciting. Even Wednesday season 2 is taking an eternity to get made. It’s absence that makes the heart grow fonder, after all.

     

    Add on the original cast, who are just as popular and relevant as ever, if not more so, as well as Jenna Ortega fresh off her own big hits, nostalgic toy commercials still as huge as ever, and tons of “remember that” money shots that make people go “OMG MY CHILDHOOD”, and you got a 110M opening.

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    JUICY WEEKEND - BJBJ releases with $111M (DHD)

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    24 minutes ago, John Marston said:


     

     

     

    Glad that Romulus is going to pass 100M  but it is clear  the Alien franchise has become kind of niche. The first two Alien films made more money than the original Beetlejuice yet look at how each respective sequel is performing this year

    Maybe they should have made better Alien sequels then. That would have been a good strategy 

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