James

So love the first one! It was quite big in Latin America too when comparing to the total OS gross.

Good. I liked her.

Books: 1. Deathly Hollows 2. Order of the Phoenix 3. Goblet of Fire 4. Prisoner of Azkaban 5. Half-Blood Prince 6. Chamber of Secrets 7. Philisophers's Stone Movies: 1. Deathly Hollows Part 2 2. Order of the Phoenix 3. Goblet of Fire 4. Prisoner of Azkaban 5. Deathly Hollows Part 1 6. Chamber of Secrets 7. Half-Blood Prince 8. Sorcerer's Stone Movies no. 5, 6, 7 could change places depending on my mood.

It did: Initial theatrical run[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)

Wow, so much bigger than here. There's no specific data about the number of screen anywhere, but the widest release was the second Hobbit movie on 99 screens. Since it will be the biggest movie of the year I'm curious to see on how many screens Hobbit 3 will be and how the market has grown.

An prediction on Top 3 for the year?

The fact that a generic movie universe like MCU will soon pass HP as the biggest franchise globally is just sad, but with 2-3 movies a year it's not really that surprising.

So boring numbers again... ugh, Maze Runner can't come soon enough.

I seriously don't see how TA 2 (or any 2015 movie for that matter) will beat Maleficent. Is the Venezuela market expanding at such a rapid pace to make a 100% increase possible, since no other Marvel movie even passed TA since 2012?

How many screens are there in Poland?

Make it 5. I found the first HG movie boring, the second - decent. Liked the second Hobbit more than the first.

Twiligh made 200M OS. It was in no way huge. And was the beginning of the YA revolution (you could count Potter, but that's way above the YA level). I wasn't talking about a select country, but in general results. Of course you have Russia, that's so rapidly expanding HG was bound to beat the first Twilight). We're talking like the first HG was some huge success OS, when in fact it was not. TMR will probably make more than the first Twilight, but considering the expanding markets it is no surprise (that's why it's useless to compare the first twilight with pretty much anything from 2014). It's all about perspective.

But Hunger Games did quite bad in most Eastern European markets. Even Divergent beat it here, despite the HG books being way more popular.

I'm surprised by how much I liked this episode. It felt like Doctor Who again, after 2 seasons: scary, exciting, thrilling, fun. The next episode looks good as well.

I see that's a general trend in Eastern Europe. A few very big movies and a lot of medium sized hits.

For real? YES! How much can it make? Any chance it gets 45m so it can pass 700M WW?

In the end, he won an Oscar for his work so he knows his shit. And he's a brilliant cinematographer: TDK, TDKR and especially Inception showed that. Maybe he's not that good of a director (yet), but it doesn't change the fact that people are butthurt when they hear something bad about a movie they like. Avengers had A LOT of problems and cinematography wasn't the worst one, not even by far. But again, I'm no professional like Pfister is. Looking at the comments for the article, you can see only fanboys talking shit about how successful TA was without having absolutely no clue about how things work.

But TF will still lead in $$$ right? I imagine QecqoafaBD lacking 3D keps it's gross lower. What about HTTYD2?

A perfect example is Maze Runner that managed to look expensive on a 40M budget, just because the director has a history in CGI and knows how to put things together. Some mega budgeted movies deserve their money, but others...

My main problem with the MCU. It really depends on one's taste for spectacle. I liked but TF3 and MOS action scenes way more. They just left my staring in disbelief.

I'm not a purist by any means, but the action scenes in TA did not look like the 220M budget mentioned on Mojo. It was ok and enjoyable? Of course. But you live in an age where other directors can create action spectacle way above the one in Avengers with the same or a smaller amount of money.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Well, I thought that this weekend would be decent...boy, was I wrong! We just had the second worst weekend of the year, despite 4 new releases. - Into the Storm opened on top with 11.860 admissions. I expected it to at least be over 15.000. No such luck. It's better than 'The Giver' last weekend, but that's not saying much. It will finish with maybe $250K and around 50.000 admissions if lucky. - As Above, So Below opened with 8.725 tickets. That's worse than 'Deliver Us From Evil' that opened to over 10.000 a few weeks back. Looking in perspective though, it's not a beyond horrible result simply because horror movies don't do well here. Unless you count 'I, Frankenstein', 'Deliver Us From Evil' is actually the highest grossing horror for the year, with around less than 200K. 'The Purge' is second with 110K, so 'As Above, So Below' will become the second biggest horror of 2014 . - In third place, If I Stay opened with a bit less than 8.150 tickets sold. That's not surprising. 'TFioS' also bombed here with a bit more than 11.000 adm on OW. - The fourth movie opening was The Crypt, a local film. I have no data for it, but it bombed for sure. The local market is dead. The highest grossing local movie of the year is '#Selfie', a comedy that made around 350K. To figure out how bad things are, you gotta know that '#Selfie' is actually the second highest grossing local movie ever, behind only 'Pozitia copilului', that made a bit more than 370K last year. And the trend will continue. It's a huge difference from 2002 for example, when a local movie ('Garcea si oltenii') won the year with over 250.000 admissions, beating the likes of LOTR, SW or Spider Man. An interesting point to make it's that it actually made less than 250K, so the average price of a ticket back then was less than $1, a huge difference from the $5.5 today. Back to this weekend, once again, the real story was about the holdovers. - Let's be Cops dipped only 21% and became the highest grossing comedy of the year. It has enough gas in the tank to finish with over 700K (maybe even 750K) - an excellent result. - In fifth place, The House of Magic is probably one of the most surprising things to see. The positive side of having weak openers is that little, unknown movies tend to do good and this is a perfect example: it is slowly turning into a little animated hit. It only fell 10% this weekend and will likely finish well above 500K and 100.000 admissions. It already has an over 4x multiplier (that is the average for this market) and a lot of fuel left in the tank. With no huge brands opening, this was a slow year for animations. The top looks like this: 1. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - 730K 2. The Pirate Fairy - 650K 3. The Nut Job - 485K (LOL... and still in theatres... more LOL ) 4. The Lego Movie - 416K 5. Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 404K 6. The House of Magic - 373K 'The House of Magic' should end up on no.3 before 'Penguins of Madagascar' arrives. - TMNT fell 26% and should end with over 500K --> decent for a new franchise. - GotG also fell 26% and that has a lot to do with the absurd number of theatres it is on. It is actually the second widest movie in release, after only 'Into the Storm' . Still, it will probably hit the 1M mark next weekend, becoming the 10th movie this year to do so, and thus tiying the 2010 record. With 'Hobbit', 'Penguins', 'Exodus', 'Interstellar' and 'Mockingjay 1' still to come, we could have 15 1M+ movies, almost double the 8 last year. - Lucy had another beautiful drop, easing just 23%. In the process it passed 'Transformers', becoming no. 7 for the year and it should have no problem ending on no. 4, ahead of 'Maleficent'. It's already no. 4 in terms of admissions, with over 200.000. - The Giver dropped a huge 60%. - And finally, The Expendables 3 can't seem to catch a break. I dropped another 50% and it will even have trouble getting a 3x multiplier. That is absolutely horrendous for this market. Here is the top 10: The overall 2014 box office is still running 20% ahead of 2013. Next week's openers: - The Maze Runner - Life of Crime - America, venim! (America, here we come! - local movie) 'The Maze Runner' is the first high-profile movie since TMNT a few weeks ago and with an empty market place I fully expect it to open with at least 20.000 adm. 'Divergent' opened with a bit over 19.000 and legged it's way to over 100.000 and $540K. 'The Maze Runner' should do more than that . Also, 'Life of Crime' seems the kind of comedy audiences here dig, and having Jennifer Aniston certainly doesn't hurt. If it opens with over 10.000 admission it should have very good legs and end up being a success. The local movie will likely bomb.

1. Spider-Man 2 A+ 2. Spider-Man 3 A 3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 A- 4. Spider-man B+ 5. The Amazing Spider-Man B