James

Considering how profitable and small-risk low budget horror can be I'm surprised studios don't push it more. It is what made Lionsgate big in the first place (that and Tyler Perry movies), before they taking on big franchises. Now they seem to have lost their talent with the horror genre, even though they are looking to get that back (they have 2 low budget horrors and a Madea movie in the next months). Their place as the lead studio in the horror industry seems to have been taken by WB. They hit big with that conjuring sequel this year and from the tracking Lights Out looks to be a big hit. And next year they have Annabelle 2 and IT. Both of them could/will be huge.

This reminds me so much of Death Note!

Despicable Me 1 and 2 had pretty much the same legs as Zootopia. DM1 got 81% on RT. DM2 got 73%. Pets is at 79%. So I really don't see your point.

You seriously have a problem with this movie. A few hours ago you were telling me to take a look at the buzz and tracking thread. Now you have evidence of that tracking and still dismiss it. But no matter, on it's way to becoming the biggest animation studio Illumination has to have some haters.

Look at IDR go! So 10b yuan possible?

That would be amazing for it! So it will reach maybe 63-64m going into the weekend. A decent hold (TF3 type) would lead to a 19m second WE and 82-83m. A great one (-40%) would put it at around 23m and 86-87m. I think it will settle somewhere in the middle for around 85m.

I can't wait to see some Tuesday numbers for Tarzan. TF3 fell 25% from it's 4th of July Monday. That would put Tarzan at round 6m for the day. But then, Tarzan had better holds than TF3 over the weekend. A 20% drop would put it at around 6.4m. That is what I'm hoping for.

Wow, Tarzan's OW was really fun to follow. Went from bomb talk and sub-20m predictions to beating expectations every day and getting a solid OW. Yeh, it's budget is huge and that is throwing a shadow over it's opening, but let's be honest: that is good debut. I'm eager to see what it does this week, but if things go well, it should top 130m and it could go even higher. Really fun watching an underdog succeed.

Lol, I started following BO somewhere in 2011 and the first run I truly paid attention to was DH2.

I agree. I think it can do a bit more than that in China. Apparently it has a very good release date. Thinking 50m at least. Plus 120-130 DOM. So 170-180m from US+China. And around 220-230m from the rest for 400-410m WW.

Lol. But it really did have strong holds over the weekend and that A+ CS for people under 18 shows it is well liked. Also, the audience rating on RT is now up to 74% from 73% yesterday and 69% 2 days ago. There's way too much competition for 150m to happen, but I think with strong WOM 130m (basically the same multi as The Last Airbender) is in the cards.

Conjuring 2: Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $95,283,538 34.8% + Foreign: $178,800,000 65.2% = Worldwide: $274,083,538 It already passed Annabelle OS's total (172.6m) and it is less than 2m shy of Conjuring's (180.6m). With Japan still on the way 200m OS will happen.

No, it won't. It will likely make close to 400m WW. After that, home media + TV will also bring money. It will even make some profit in the end.

How is that for Tarzan?

Is this from IMDB? Because in a lot of cases it's not accurate. Tarzan opens in Romania for example only next week.

Lol, I literally thought Backdraft was a call name you guys used for Warcraft.

These last few choices were almost all on my list. Nice

BvS had 27%, TF 2 had under 20%. It's not connected. Truth is I like big eye candy movies but I can't enjoy them for eye-candy alone. I want some relatable characters (like Shia's in TF) or some great themes (Power corrupts - BvS). ID:R had neither. It was like Emmerich decided: let's throw some scenes together and call it a movie. Seriously, who was the moron who wrote that script?!

Awful. Just awful. D

Sorry man. I really wanted to like this one. I defended it up until now. But it was terrible

Just got back from ID:R. WHAT AN UTTER PIECE OF ABSOLUTE GARBAGE! How did Emmerich, the man responsible for one of my favorite movies ever (2012), manage to fuck this one so badly?!! The characters were terrible, the plot was non-existent, the story was awful, the acting was awful and most surprising, the destruction porn was awful. Like, there's one good scene in the whole movie, the one with London being destroyed. And that's it. It was boring and predictable as fuck and I kept checking my watch to see how much more I have to suffer. I am so freakin glad it bombed because it so deserves it. Might be my worst cinema experience ever. I went into this movie expecting to be amazed, mostly because critics hated it and they also hated BvS (and that one is the best movie of 2016 so far for me), as well as most movies I love (The Hobbit, Transformers, POTC, MoS etc). Now I'm regretting I didn't go to see Tarzan instead...

On RT audience score is up to 73% for Tarzan from 69% yesterday. BFG is the same as yesterday (69%).

I see. But then, why such a weak Monday for Tarzan. Following this pattern, even Dark of the Moon, which opened much higher, had only a 7.5% drop. Assuming a 10m un (and that is rather low) Fri-Mon should come over 46m. Or at least 45.

BFG is not hitting 30m... I think 25m for Fri-Mon is more likely. Maybe Less.

Wow. That is fantastic for Purge and great for Tarzan! Also great for CI. And wow at The BFG. What a bomb...