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How does this work. 224K admissions, 239K total adm and 267K presales? The presales are for the entire weekend? I don't get it. But taking after that 224K OD and looking at similar titles, 35M+ should happen, right?

Well, it IS the saddest movie I've ever seen. But I loved it exactly for that. My then gf cried about 15 minutes after it was over

I freakin love the movie. Can't wait for this.

The Possession of Michael King (2014)

Last time I checked both Rio and Rio 2 made around 500M WW with most of that coming from OS. They both did way more OS than Brave, which was the last original Pixar movie. So... yeah.

Great, great movie! Probably the best cinematic space opera ever made. Top notch acting (Pine nailed it), incredible effects and amazing soundtrack! A+

Well, most of my favourite movies made profit or received sequels because OS audiences liked them. Pacific Rim is just one example. Cloud Atlas is another. TF, Ice Age, POTC, The Hobbit and most original SF movies these days. It's not like they didn't make money in the US (hell, it still was their biggest market in most cases), but I love these franchises and many others and if the entire world would follow the US trend the studios would stop making them.

Not always (I'm still struggling to see what's so great about GoTG), but most of the time. I agree with the WW audiences much more than US ones (they are too pretentious sometimes), but there are exceptions, like Star Trek for example, which I love to death (the new movies I mean, never seen anything else from that universe).

Considering WW audiences seem to enjoy Illumination and Blue Sky animations much more than Pixar lately, yeah, I expect a good animation, just like the first two DM movies.

Yeah, I like my new, shinny, good looking stuff. Sue me.

It will most likely affect it in a negative way. How's piracy in France? Here, the late realease date is pretty much going to kill it.

The best SH movie ever made, with a lot of breathtaking scenes. The plot, the hero turns dark idea was so appealing to me (the scene where Scott finds Jean and she kills him is so mind boggling) and I love Famke Janssen. She was the perfect Jean. Also the ending for this was the best of any CBM I've ever seen. Fitting and not affraid of getting people mad. A+

That is actually the second highest grossing animation of the year here. Did really good lol. Also, bad for Interstellar. Maybe it will have good legs.

Same here. And people my age (20) and older share it. It's crazy.

Nah, I see my champion on No. 4, so Top 3 has no relevance for me.

Ah, fuck! I was hoping this would win.

No, I was just presuming since the the average ticket price sky rocketed here from 0.05$ to 6-7$ now. That's the reason why, at least here, we have movies with more than 1M admissions in the 1990-2000 era, and only 1 movie to pass 400.000 admissions ever since (The Hobbit 1). Funny thing is, Titanic is not even the most attended movie here, but even so, it's gross in USD (even if it made close ro 1.4M adm) is around $ 50.000.

I guess it had a lot to do with ticket prices. Titanic made about the same number of admissions her, but the price for a ticket back then was insignificant.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE 'John Wick' opened very strong and ruled the biggest overall weekend in more than 2 months. - Keanu Reeves' John Wick sold 31.797 admissions this weekend and made $180K. That is an unexpected result and way above expectations. The opening is stronger than that of similar titles like 'Fury' or 'The Equalizer' and is about on par with Liam Neeson's 'Non-Stop' earlier this year. That film, with pretty sucky legs, ended up with about 610K, which is a good target for 'John Wick'. - Fury fell and ok 45% this weekend and reached 330K. It's a bit behind 'The Equalizer' through the same point, but that started falling horribly after the second weekend, so expect 'Fury' to top it in the end. 600K remains the target. - In third, The Boxtrolls opened with 14.574 admissions and while that's almost as much as 'ParaNorman' did in it's entire run, it's still a disappointing result, considering the total lack of animated competition. It will have good legs till 'Penguins of Madagascar' opens, a month from now, and probably end in the $300-400K area. - Thanks to Halloween, Annabelle increased 9% this weekend and reached almost 300K. That already makes it probably the highest grossing horror movie ever (the horror genre is dead here). 400K+ seems like a safe bet at this point. - Dracula Untold had a nice 28% drop and passes 990K. With over 191.000 admissions, it's already the fifth most attended film of the year, ahead of 'Maleficent' or 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. It will pass them in gross eventually and it will reach 200.000 adm. (and 1M) by next weekend, an excellent feat for a 2D movie. - Horns debuted with less than 6.000 adm from 40 theatres. Bomb. - Gone Girl had another beautiful drop (21%) and reached 411K (and a 4.5x multiplier already). The target remains 500K. - Cuscrii (local comedy) and Serena dropped 48%, respectively 53% in their second frames. - The House of Magic closes the top, easing a light 30%, despite direct competition from 'The Boxtrolls'. It now reached a very good 581K (and almost a 7x multiplier) and should end it's run with close to 650K. - Outside Top 10, we have Two Night Stand, selling a decent 2.095 admissions from just 5 theatres; Love by Design, making a horrible 2.423 adm from 37 locations; Maps to the Stars - 2.076 tickets from 23 screens (another bomb) and Alphabet - 1.062 adm from 14 theatres (yet another bomb). Top 10: Next week's openers: - Interstellar - Stations of the Cross - The Stag 'Gravity' debuted with 32.000 admissions last year and had VERY GOOD legs, that carried it to a gross north of 1M. 'Transcendence' opened with almost 40.000 admissions this year and 'Edge of Tomorrow' wasn't far behind with 38.000. Of course 'Interstellar' does not have a huge star like Depp or Cruise, but even so, with very agressive marketing and more than a month since the last event movie ('Dracula Untold'), it has to open in the 30.000-40.000 area. Anything more than that locks 1M. Stations of the Cross is the kind of movie (faith based / religious themed) that usually does good business here, but I haven't seen any advertising for it, so it should get a pass if it manages 10.000 admissions. The Stag will likely open below that mark.

I hope it does. After Frozen did it, I really need a good animation there to compensate.

Jupiter Ascending

Yeah. Thanks for the heads up.

It's almost the same situation as with DM2 and MU. MU opened 13 days before DM2 and Inside Out opens 20 days before Minions. When DM opened the late legs for MU were gone. It started falling really ugly after that. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3697&p=.htm Inside Out has a bit more time to get money, which is good since it's not a known brand like MU. But it will likely won't have good late legs that are a pretty big deal for animations. 250M is the absolute floor for Minions. I see it making more in the 300M area. As for Inside Out, it should max out at around 220M, which is very good for it.

This is now my second most anticipated movie for 2015!

The Road is a very well made movie, with great acting and emotional tone. You don't need big action scenes to make things interesting. It is supposed to be a drama and it succeeds nicely.