James

Edit: that new prediction seems much better.

Good for Fury. But that would be plain bad for BH6.

For your consideration:

What can we expect for the final Hobbit movie?

The old Total Recall is listed as sci-fi, but the new one is not. So can I use the new one?

Me reading the thread title: "13 Hours. Michael Bay directing..." Yeah, I'm there on opening day.

I was referring to how much can it make since it had a similar OW. The fact that it would have made more has no importance to me. It makes what it makes. Over a few years when we'll compare animated movies to this, no one will remember that BH6 opened the same level as Brave because of ***insert reason***. We will only remember that it did.

So that's pretty much Brave level. Depending on holds what could it end with? 16-18M?

Rewatched this with a few people in 3D at home. Everybody seemed to like it. It's light hearted, fun, acting's pretty good. I found it actually waaaay better than first time I saw it. That was immediately after I read the book. The movie is good-very good till the last 10 minutes. Then it all goes horribly wrong, because Kronos seems to be so weak. If they followed the book everything would've been so much more convincing. But I'm a sucker for fantasy movies and I love this books series to death, so... B+ / A-

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE A slower than expected weekend because of the mostly weak openers ('Fury' was the exception). - Fury finally ended 'Dracula Untold''s reign, after 3 weeks at No. 1. It debuted with over 29.000 admissions (and $160K), a VERY strong result for an adult drama. In comparison, it was stronger than 'The Equalizer', and much stronger than 'Gone Girl' (which opened to less than 17.000). WOM seems to be good, so a total around 600K is in the cards. The succes of 'Fury' can be largely attributed to Brad Pitt's draw power. He's one of the, if not the most recognizable movie star here. - In second, Dracula Untold dropped 45%. It already made 920K and it's now No. 13 for the year, ahead of 'Captain America 2'. It should have no problem ending in Top 4, behind '300: Rise of an Empire', 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'Noah'. - Annabelle fell 53% in it's second outting. That's an OK drop for a horror movie. In fact, with 220K, it is already the highest grossing film of it's genre this year. 400K is a good target for it. - The next three places are occupied by newcomers. And, as predicted, none of them opened above 10.000 admissions. The first one is Serena that opened to 7.529 admissions. Not surprising. The marketing was bad, the movie looked dull and Jennifer Lawrence is not a big draw here (or at least not on the Pitt, Cruise, Jolie, Depp or DiCaprio level). - In fifth, we find Cuscrii, a local movie that opened to 7.559 admissions. Quite decent for it actually, though it'll probably fade quickly. - Next place we have Automata. The SF film made 6.529 adm. Not good, but neither very bad for such an unknown little movie. - Gone Girl fell 38% in it's fourth weekend. It grossed a good 365K so far and it should end up with around 500K. - The House of Magic had another nice hold and reached 560K. - A Walk Among The Tombstones and Before I Go To Sleep both had bad drops in the 64-65% area. - Outside Top 10, English Vinglish debuts with a weak 1.044 adm from 7 theatres. Top 10: Next week's openers: - John Wick - The Boxtrolls - Horns - Maps to the Stars - Two Night Stand - Love By Design - Alphabet Since for some reason 'Two Night Stand' was moved from this weekend to the next one, we have 7 new openers. That's pretty crazy. After a long time with no animated movies, 'The Boxtrolls' should easily take the lead. A debut north of 20.000 admissions is likely. My bet is over 30.000. 'John Wick' looks good and people seem excited for it. Still, the marketing push wasn't very strong. It should get a pass if it opens above 15.000 adm. 'Horns' is a wildcard. It could go either way. If it openes on around 40 screens, it should be able to do more than 10.000 admissions methinks. The other 3 openers - under 10.000 admissions.

It's no. 4 or 5 for me.

Ugh, forgot to put Fight Club in my Top 5. Fuck! It would've been higher. Too low on the list.

So apparently I was the only one that had a problem with that Hulk smash scene. I hate it with passion because it's so... how do I put this: disrespectful. You have this interesting character (Loki) and then you have this completely blank, stupid and annoying character (Hulk). I don't get why everyone likes that. It's a movie were it's way easier to root for the villain because of how uninteresting the heroes are (IM aside).

Doubtful. And Alice and ST where mostly Depp. I mean, he was front and center of Alice. Alice herself did nothing. People still refer to that movis as "the Johnny Depp film".

http://pro.boxoffice.com/news/2014-10-26-global-annabelle-opens-big-in-mexico-crosses-200m-worldwide

So it took another 28M OS this weekend. And it's Mexico opening was wayyy above the 4.3M of Conjuring. Just wow! 250M+ is pretty much a lock.

That's another great hold for Annabelle!

So we could expect better legs. Still, 20M + / - a few bucks is where it should land. I know it's too early, but based on these results and comparable titles, it should do over 350 OS (WIR made 280M and Brave - 300M). Maybe even close to 400M if it breaks out in some places. Good for it. It's biggest problem is the stupid release schedule. It arives here at the end of January. By then, torrents should have it in almost Bluray quality. Same with a bunch of other countries. I understand that Disney wanted less competition for it from Penguins of Madagascar, but still.

Well, Home Alone is the greatest comedy ever made. It's in my top 10 movies all time. I rewatched it so many times and it's still as good as the first time

What kind of OW can we expect? If it manages to open to 7M, the same multiplier as Brave would give it a around 21M. WIR multiplier would mean less than 20M.

I don't know how it is where you live, but I speak from what I see with my highschool and uni friends: Depp is one of the very very few actors that, at least here, manages to get people to see a movie, even if they have no interest in that particular movie.

Was? The last one made 1B last time I checked. Did they cancel the next one? Because if not, that one will make 1B too for sure. Forgot about SW.

POTC is the biggest franchise Disney has. You could say TA, but we're not talking here about 3-4 franchises united, we talk about a classic franchise that can make 1B per movie with ease. Because it's about tastes. I'm a movie buff but one of my favourite movies this year was TF. Why? Because it is a non-pretentious has-it-all movie, that GA loves. Good visuals, relatable characters, hot girls, awesome soundtrack, adrenaline pumping action and fast cars. A recipe for succes. And since when a movie decreasing in North America does mean it is bad? Since when America's taste in movies has become the norm? If a movie makes 300M in China it is clearly good for the audiences.

It doesn't matter. POTC could make 100M DOM and it would still could hit 1B WW. It's just THAT massive. This way of thinking is the same people apply to The Hobbit. Despite making almost 2B between 2 films, it is still (stupidly) said that people don't care anymore. No movie makes 1B or 750M, or even 400M if people don't care.

When I said "other movies" I was replying to a post that was talking about AoU. It and Avatar will make more without problems. BvS and all the others - I think not.