James

Wow, the butthurt is strong with that one.

You Americans are so weird...

Then why is Dory making money?

Alice 2 is a sequel to a movie that benefited from the 3D craze and Apcalypse dropped because of the ER and it's not like TMNT was very big OS to begin with. As for Dory, it doesn't look to make more than 600m OS. Ice Age will beat that. And unwanted sequels? Where do you get that from. If that was the case then the last one, the FOURTH in the series, wouldn't have increased even more OS. I find all this America-doesnt-want-something so the-entire-world-doesn't-want-it thing ridiculous. Fact is, Ice Age is bigger OS than any Pixar movie ever made. Actually, the only movie that comes ever close is TS3, and even that one falls about 65m short. The rest of them are over 150m smaller.

Considering it is the biggest sport in the world, I'd say it is a real sport. And it is called football for fuck's sake.

Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $61,605,086 40.6% + Foreign: $90,200,000 59.4% = Worldwide: $151,805,086 By the end of the weekend it should reach around 210m WW and close to 140m OS. By the end of the next weekend it should beat TC's OS total.

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Considering it will very likely beat Dory and Pets OS, I don't think Fox really gives a fuck about what it makes DOM. Also, they are so cheap to make they are bound to be just as or even more profitable than Dory or Pets. The first 4 Ice Age movies cost 320m together to make and they brought in 2.8b at the WW box office. Just like Illumination, Blue Sky knows how to keep their budgets from spiraling out of control, something Pixar and WDAS can't seem to be able to do.

Did anyone actually expect that?

So just because it is a horror sequel we will ignore all it's great daily holds till now? The problem I have with that prediction is that Deadline says NYSM2 will only drop 55%, despite always having worse holds than TC2. It just doesn't make sense. On an unrelated note, it seams that Dory is headed for around $30m total in China. Flopping at it's finest.

I expect a better drop for Conjuring 2 than 60%. It held best among all openers throughout the week. Why would it suddenly drop so much?

Do we have a thread for this movie:? I really dig the trailer.

Just watch The Martian. It was the best movie I've seen in theaters last year. Damon is just insane.

So are we doing rankings? Well, my Top 5 of this year so far is: 1. X-Men: Apocalypse 2. Batman v Superman 3. Deadpool / 10 Cloverfield Lane Which is kinda hilarious considering I'm not a big fan of SH movies. But then again, I haven't seen a lot of movies this year. That being said, two of the best movies I've seen this year are not even from 2016 (The Ghost Writer and Stargate - the 1994 one)

That basically locks 20m right? May be headed for 25m?

My dad loves LOTR and animation classics such as The Lion King, plus horror movies. So I grew up with those. As for Nemo, it barely registered here. Dory looks to follow suit. It will likely flop horribly this weekend based on presales.

The only truly great movie that ever came from Pixar was Ratatouille. The rest were either acceptable or downright bad. But it's ok. We can't all have good tastes.

From all the things that could've break out this summer, this shit does it. Jeez. The only good thing coming from it is that it's a success for Ellen. I love that woman.

Not just China. OS wise, I think FD will be the most overestimated movie in a long time.

PRESALES UPDATE 2: Now You See Me 2 is still going strong. I'd say at lest 70.000 adm OW. It could go higher. Finding Dory is barely registering. Maybe it will have strong walk-ins, like most animated movies do, but for now I am doubtful.

I only now read the synopsis. My interest in this just skyrocketed. Maybe my most anticipated movie next year, next to Justice League.

Ok, am I the only one super excited about this movie? For some reason I remembered about this today and I realized this is one of my most anticipated films for 2017.

PRESALES UPDATE: After a massive weekend with Warcraft, it looks like we'll have another one. Now You See Me 2 has previews starting tomorrow and the presales look massive, with a lot of sellouts. The first one opened to 47.333 admissions. I have no doubt the sequel will top that. Actually, right now the presales for Wednesday/Thursday look almost Warcraft level. Finding Dory finally has tickets on sales, but it's pretty useless to predict an animated movie based on that. That might've worked for a phenomenon as Minions, but Finding Dory won't come anywhere near that. Making half as much as Minions would be incredible for it. Tickets also went on sale for Independence Day: Resurgence, in 2 weeks, but it's too soon to say how it will fare.

Very good. It might end up in the all time Top 20. But if it manages some legs and hit a 3x multi or more, which most blockbusters here do, then it could as high as 1.8 - 2m.

WARCRAFT OW: 104.898 admissions (8th biggest OW ever) and $601k. It's opening is essentially the same as 300: Rise of an Empire's in admissions, but in USD 300 opened to $692k thanks to a better exchange rate. Either way, if Warcraft follows that movie (read: a bit frontloaded) it will end up with around $1.5m.