James

This are so great! Hope you do one for when Fantastic Beasts opens next year too

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE I don't have time for the usual analysis this week, so it'll be just a quite note. - Minions leads again, for a 3rd straight week (-43%), and reaches the $1.3m mark (273.230 adm), making it the 5th highest grossing animation to date, behind the last two entries in the 'Ice Age' franchise, 'Frozen' and 'Puss in Boots'. it will pass the latter by next week and 'Frozen' in two weeks. Also, 'Minions' is now the no. 3 for the year, so Universal holds the top 3 spots ('Fast and Furious 7', 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'Minions'). By next week, it will overtake 'Fifty Shades'. - Pixels debuts in second, with a weak 15.740 adm and $79k. - Ant-Man drops 43% for a total of $296k. - And Trainwreck opens with a meager 12.613 adm and $61k. Next week's openers: - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - A Second Chance Back in 2011, 'Mission: Impossoble - Ghost Protocol' debuted with 37.500 adm on it's way for a 4x+ multiplier. Back then the market was much smaller and the presales for the 5th entry in the franchise look strong. Of course, a prediction for a title like this must be cautious, but looking at the huge jumps for most franchises lately, I will predict an opening in the 80.000 admissions area for MI5. TOP 10 for 2015 ***The bolded titles are still playing

Yeah, it wont happen. Esp DOM. But 500m WW is on the table methinks. This is not Divergent. I think it will turn into a major franchise. And I really hope it does well. The more I see of Dylan O'Brien, the more I think he has a bright future in acting.

Sonny better market this well, because it is their biggest movie from now till their new Spidey in 2017. It can hit 500m WW if they do a good job and keep the franchise going.

Dunno if anyone brought it up, but Magic Mike: XXL just went over 100m on a 15m budget. It will likely make 10x it's budget. That's some pure prophit for WB.

CA2 over Pac Rim and Inception.

Saw this yesterday with my gf. It was just hilarious. Our theatre was quite full and they ate iT up, adults and kids alike. I will see it again sometime next week. A+

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE Another good weekend, but that certainly not thanks to the openers. The Despicable Me spin-off continues to dominate. - Minions fell 61% in it's second outing and while that's a big drop for an animated movie, it's second weekend is still way bigger than 'Despicable Me 2's first one. To date, it has sold 212.883 tickets and made $1.03m. It is already the 7th highest animated title ever and at the rate it is going, it will have no trouble 3rd, after the last two 'Ice Age' films. - In second, Ant-Man debuted with a mediocre 21.879 adm and $119k, despite it's very wide release. Only 4 Marvel titles opened worse and that was in the period before the market really started to expand. 'Ant-Man' debut is a bit bigger than 'Tomorrowland's a while back. That showed some very good legs and now stands at around $330k, so it is not unresonable to expect the Marvel title to end up somewhere in the $400-500k range. - Even though it opened a bit better than it's redecessor, Magic Mike: XXL still didn't manage to make an impact (12.062 adm and $56k). - Terminator: Genisys dropped 58% and reached a so-so $487k. - Inside Out continues to show some sexy legs, easing only 26% for a good $564k after 5 weeks. - Ted 2 was down 54% for a total of $526k, already eclipsing it's predecessor. - Jurassic World (-52%) stands at $1.16m. - Spy (-30%) is at $298k. - San Andreas (-48%) has now made a very good $651k. - And Entourage closes the top, reaching $211k. Top 10 Next week's openers: - Pixels - Trainwreck 'Pixels' is in fine shape if it manages to make around 30.000 adm on OW, while 'Trainwreck' should be happy with 20.000.

1. Batman v Superman - 540m 2. Civil War - 400 3. Finding Dory-390m 4. Star Wars - 340m 5. Fantastic Beasts - 300m 6. Suicide Squad - 280m 7. Moana - 270m 8. X-Men - 260m 9. The Secret Life of Pets - 240m 10. Independence Day - 235m

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You deserve to be slapped for this post.

UPDATE: Looking at presales, Minions will comfortably lead again, though that is no surprise. It still goes ridiculously strong, even after it's massive OW. It's weekdays seem to be huge. It should pass $1m after Sunday. Ant-Man on the other hand its doing awful in presales. And I mean absolutely terrible. Even Magic Mike: XXL does better and the first Magic Mike completely bombed here. I was expecting Ant-Man to have weaker debut than the other Marvel titles, but this looks just bad. Unless it has strong walk-ins it might open to around 20.000 admissions, which in today's market is flop level for a blockbuster. It is important to mention that in many places it gets more shows than Minions, despite not selling. Disney continues their tradition of having the widest releases from any of the studios. But I think this time the PTA is going to be horrendous. This is a top of the MCU movies based on the OW in admissions: * Age of Ultron is still playing

Yeah, but in the end is pure revenue. Those companies paid to have the Minions represent them so that is a huge win for the brand.

Paramount, not WB.

1B WW was locked a long time ago. Or do you mean 1B OS?

It's not that weird. DH2's OS number was updated with almost 20m a year ago or so.

Oh, I love Minions' run. It just shuts everyone up.

What? Maybe it is plain boring to you, you ever think of that?As for well received by the audience, are you kiddin me? Minions already made more than IO WW, it had incredible drops or openings everywhere. You are the only blind person here. And yeah, it will beat IO DOM. Get over it. The better movie wins.

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE As thunder storm mentioned above, we had a great weekend, lead by 'Minions' huge debut. - Being one of the widest releases ever on 111 screens, Minions blew up even the most outrageous prognostications, coming in at 101.889 admissions and $532k. That is not just a new animation record, ahead of 'Frozen's 73.854 adm, but it is also the 6th biggest weekend ever, for any movie. In USD, it is a big trickier, but even so, the yellow fellas still stole one of the of the biggest openings of all time. Comparing it to the previous entries in the franchise, 'Minions' more than tripled DM2's first outing (30.387 adm). Also, it made more money in 3 days than 'Inside Out' made in a month. The success of the Universal title can be attributed to a series of factor, mainly the fact that the film managed to attract both kids and the over 18 demo, the evening and late night shows being the biggest ticket sellers for the weekend. Minions has a healthy 8.1/10 grade on Cinemagia and with pretty much no competition in the coming weeks (Ant-Man will likely open under 30.000 adm and Pixels won't manage much either), it should easily end up with over $1.5m (Top 3 for the year isn't out of reach either). - In second, Terminator: Genisys had the only bad drop in the Top 10 (-60%). It now stands at $383k, same as 'San Andreas' through the same point, but considering it has worse drops than that movie, it will likely end up only in the $600k region. - In third, Ted 2 eased 46% and reached a good $468k. - Inside Out fell 33% from last week and it is ahead of 'Big Hero 6' through the same point, standing at $510k. $600k should happen. - Jurassic World was down 34%and the total is a great $1.11m after 5 weeks. If it continue to have better holds than 'Age of Ultron', it might actually beat it. - Spy fell 27% and the cume is an ok-ish $279k. - San Andreas (-36%) made a nice $641k so far. - Entourage (-31%) reached $200k. - Insidious: Chapter 3 and Tomorrowland close the Top, the last one having a great hold (-14%). Still, the total is a pretty disappointing $324k. Top 10 Next week's openers: - Ant-Man - Magic Mike XXL Last year, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' debuted with around 35.000 admissions. Seeing this doesn't have the SF angle that helped push that movie, an opening under the 30.000 border seems likely. As for MM:XXL, the first 'Magic Mike' bombed here and this one should be no different.

But Minions is supposed to have bad WOM. That's what experts here said!!!!

That would be a pretty bad second weekend drop for Minions. I see it closer to 55-57m.

But look at it's Sunday drop. I dont see any evidence at all of bad WOM. It is just such a huge opener. And it is an animation. It's legs will be good. Can't see anything lower than 350m, which would barely be a 3 multi, and that is if it doesn't increase again from estimates.

The US disappoints me EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME when it comes to my favourite movie. Fuck!

I am very particular with what I like and when a movie looks like that I know I won't find anything wrong with it (case with Minions, Jupiter Ascending, BvS, The Hobbit, POTC and Fantastic Beasts, though I haven't seen any material for it). Some are pure fanboy stuff (Potter, LOTR), some are because of the themes in the trailers and predecessors (BvS - has the best trailer I've ever seen because of the power corrupts" angle + I LOVED MoS, much more than the TDK trilogy), some are because I think they look god-ish (Jupiter Ascending, Minions). Of course, it might turn out that there are movies I like even more. Like, this year, my favourites so far are 'Mad Max' and 'Fury' (I have just recently seen it), both of which did not enter in my 'crazy antticipated' schedule.

My tastes are...