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It is a genre (specially for the jump scares but in general tension) that the in theater experience can be rather different than the at house experience, specially once it started to be successful and you can watch it in crowded theater like the filmmaker intended. (watching them without zoning out at any moment for distraction change them also quite a bit). It is also an entry door for "riskier" project and new director because of it's relative safety. There is some hope for a pure comedy comeback (and other genre that the crowd change the experience quite a bit)

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It went from: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-announces-official-worldwide-box-office-results-for-weekend-of-march-25-2018-300619111.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-announces-official-worldwide-box-office-results-for-weekend-of-april-1-2018-300622447.html Pacific Rim Uprising 150,505,000 122,500,000 28,005,000 to: Pacific Rim Uprising 40,640,000 31,435,000 9,205,000 110m drop (-73%) Still has Japan/Portugal/Hungary to open Has for missing 300m, it was at 232.3m after a 40.64m weekend, 81.815m week. It need to do 1.66 time it's last weekend, 0.827 is last week to reach it. 50% weekly drop would give: 40.9+20.45+10.2+5.1+2.55+1.275 = 80.475 above 310. Depending on how much it did ow in the 7 or so market it didn't start in, we are maybe talking in an close to 160m global opening, should at least get really close to 300.

I think the publicity stunt conspiracy was more about 50 year's old adult men going public about their feud... In a social media world (for those kind of social media monster) what is publicity and what is not is really blurred. The day 2 actress could have a public feud that break an over 1 billion dollar franchise and people online do not make a big deal out of it, I imagine it will be benchmark of some equality reached.

Except for niche stuff like Goodbye to language did we ever got a mainstream 3d films they are all made to be fully watchable in 2D I think.

Oh don't worry they find a way to mention Avatar in pretty much all threads regardless of the movies (or even the non-movie) subject.

That is more than fair enough, but not sure where the issue with him posting that message yet or being an asshole to go to the 70s interpretation.

The report could be interesting, more detailled in some aspect than in recent year: https://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MPAA-THEME-Report-2017_Final.pdf I would say this, this report match more what I read in studio annual report (about the box office revenues vs tv&home ent) and does not match deadline apocalyptic scenario of them very much. 85b in global revenues, half from theater more than half (with 100% return for the TV section) after theater. According to the MPAA spending report, spending match studios revenus quite a bit: United state spending Theatrical: 35% Physical hom ent: 22% Digital home ent: 43% (and add TV to that....) TV + internet views of tv product exploded in 2016/2017 (doubled), diminished for movie not too suprisingly. Top physical sellers in 2017 according to them 1: moana 2: rogue one 3: Wonder woman 4: Beauty 5: Guardian 2 6: spider man 7: Sing 8: trolls 9: Cars 3 10: Fantastic beasts the-numbers.com Rank Title Units Sold Total Consumer Spending 1 Moana 4,394,672 $116,286,634 Buy 2 Beauty and the Beast 4,255,929 $85,131,977 Buy 3 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3,985,851 $81,081,110 Buy 4 Wonder Woman 3,850,584 $93,095,921 Buy 5 Trolls 3,530,413 $73,822,484 Buy 6 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 3,342,461 $64,933,483 Buy 7 Sing 3,298,699 $62,868,456 Buy 8 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2,780,803 $57,143,378 Buy 9 Spider-Man: Homecoming 2,612,740 $47,895,231 Buy 10 Logan 2,284,265 $46,549,464 Buy With cars 3, 48.3m being quite close to logan. Not sure which is the better source, MPAA is using comscore. You can see a bit of a different crowd and quite the different popularity in what is rented vs bought (The Adam Sandler movies were rented a lot for example in the past vs how much they were sold). 2 of Top 5 rented physical: 1: Accountant* 2: Moana 3: Beauty 4: Wonder Woman 5: Passenger* Are not in the top 25 sold (dominated by family and/or franchise movies and Nolan ), Why Him? is even above Rogue One there. Not surprising to see holder skewing title/family movie like deepwater horizon, Moana doing really well there.

No there is no reason for Bruce to not make bullet out of the material and shoot him I think, the reason he is giving is: wanted/liked to fill it with Christ theme and wanted the killing/Resurrection of Jesus (There is prophecy that the Anti-Christ will be killed by Jesus when he will return also so the other way around) to resonate with audience during those scene. With those superpowered being it is almost impossible to not make them do a lot of stuff without good reason and still have a movie happening. At least that what I understand, not sure what is the issue here or what could possibly make him an asshole.

To put in perspective, Spielberg career opening weekend adjusted for inflation, not ticket price just purchasing power: Year Title OW Total Adj OW Adj Total Theater Adjusted PTA 2008 Crystal Skull $100.14 M $317.1 M $117.11 M $370.84 M 4260 $27,490 1997 The Lost World $72.13 M $229.09 M $113.11 M $359.21 M 3281 $34,473 2005 War of the Worlds $64.88 M $234.28 M $83.61 M $301.92 M 3908 $21,394 1993 Jurassic Park $47.03 M $402.45 M $81.95 M $701.29 M 2404 $34,087 1984 Temple of Doom $25.34 M $179.87 M $61.38 M $435.76 M 1687 $36,386 1989 the Last Crusade $29.36 M $197.17 M $59.56 M $400.06 M 2327 $25,596 2002 Minority Report $35.68 M $132.07 M $49.9 M $184.73 M 3001 $16,628 1998 Saving Private Ryan $30.58 M $216.54 M $47.24 M $334.54 M 2463 $19,179 2002 Catch Me If You Can $30.05 M $164.62 M $42.04 M $230.24 M 3156 $13,319 2018 Ready Player One $41.76 M $58.95 M $41.76 M $58.95 M 4234 $9,864 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence $29.35 M $78.62 M $41.72 M $111.75 M 3242 $12,869 1975 Jaws $7.06 M $260. M $33.07 M $1217.59 M 409 $80,854 1982 E.T. $11.84 M $435.11 M $30.88 M $1135.4 M 1103 $28,000 2004 The Terminal $19.05 M $77.87 M $25.4 M $103.8 M 2811 $9,035 1991 Hook $13.52 M $119.65 M $25.02 M $221.37 M 2197 $11,387 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark $8.31 M $248.16 M $22.99 M $686.86 M 1078 $21,326 1977 Close Encounters $5.38 M $135.19 M $22.39 M $562.75 M 272 $82,327 2016 The BFG $18.78 M $55.48 M $19.7 M $58.2 M 3357 $5,867 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie $6.61 M $29.45 M $16.72 M $74.44 M 1275 $13,113 2015 Bridge of Spies $15.37 M $72.31 M $16.32 M $76.78 M 2811 $5,806 2011 Tintin $9.72 M $77.59 M $10.88 M $86.87 M 3087 $3,525 1979 1941 $2.7 M $31.76 M $9.39 M $110.3 M 325 $28,877 2011 War Horse $7.52 M $79.88 M $8.41 M $89.43 M 2376 $3,541 1989 Always $3.71 M $43.86 M $7.53 M $88.99 M 1016 $7,416 1997 Amistad $4.57 M $44.23 M $7.17 M $69.35 M 322 $22,271 2005 Munich $4.15 M $47.4 M $5.35 M $61.09 M 532 $10,058 1985 The Color Purple $1.71 M $98.47 M $4. M $230.56 M 192 $20,858 1987 Empire of the Sun $1.31 M $22.24 M $2.92 M $49.32 M 225 $12,957 To grossly take into account opening weekend theater count explosion over time, here ranked adj. for inflation per theater opening weekend, over 100+ theater release only: Year Title OW Total Adj OW Adj Total Theater Adjusted PTA 1977 Close Encounters $5.38 M $135.19 M $22.39 M $562.75 M 272 $82,327 1975 Jaws $7.06 M $260. M $33.07 M $1217.59 M 409 $80,854 1984 Temple of Doom $25.34 M $179.87 M $61.38 M $435.76 M 1687 $36,386 1997 The Lost World $72.13 M $229.09 M $113.11 M $359.21 M 3281 $34,473 1993 Jurassic Park $47.03 M $402.45 M $81.95 M $701.29 M 2404 $34,087 1979 1941 $2.7 M $31.76 M $9.39 M $110.3 M 325 $28,877 1982 E.T. $11.84 M $435.11 M $30.88 M $1135.4 M 1103 $28,000 2008 Crystal Skull $100.14 M $317.1 M $117.11 M $370.84 M 4260 $27,490 1989 the Last Crusade $29.36 M $197.17 M $59.56 M $400.06 M 2327 $25,596 1997 Amistad $4.57 M $44.23 M $7.17 M $69.35 M 322 $22,271 2005 War of the Worlds $64.88 M $234.28 M $83.61 M $301.92 M 3908 $21,394 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark $8.31 M $248.16 M $22.99 M $686.86 M 1078 $21,326 1985 The Color Purple $1.71 M $98.47 M $4. M $230.56 M 192 $20,858 1998 Saving Private Ryan $30.58 M $216.54 M $47.24 M $334.54 M 2463 $19,179 2002 Minority Report $35.68 M $132.07 M $49.9 M $184.73 M 3001 $16,628 2002 Catch Me If You Can $30.05 M $164.62 M $42.04 M $230.24 M 3156 $13,319 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie $6.61 M $29.45 M $16.72 M $74.44 M 1275 $13,113 1987 Empire of the Sun $1.31 M $22.24 M $2.92 M $49.32 M 225 $12,957 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence $29.35 M $78.62 M $41.72 M $111.75 M 3242 $12,869 1991 Hook $13.52 M $119.65 M $25.02 M $221.37 M 2197 $11,387 2005 Munich $4.15 M $47.4 M $5.35 M $61.09 M 532 $10,058 2018 Ready Player One $41.76 M $58.95 M $41.76 M $58.95 M 4234 $9,864 2004 The Terminal $19.05 M $77.87 M $25.4 M $103.8 M 2811 $9,035 1989 Always $3.71 M $43.86 M $7.53 M $88.99 M 1016 $7,416 2016 The BFG $18.78 M $55.48 M $19.7 M $58.2 M 3357 $5,867 2015 Bridge of Spies $15.37 M $72.31 M $16.32 M $76.78 M 2811 $5,806 2011 War Horse $7.52 M $79.88 M $8.41 M $89.43 M 2376 $3,541 2011 Tintin $9.72 M $77.59 M $10.88 M $86.87 M 3087 $3,525 Maybe that show more how crazy of a career he had more than anything else too... But Ready player One opened almost exactly like Catch Me If You Can and A.I. while having 1,000 more theater and 3D/IMAX. Adjusted rumored budget, RPO: 175m A.I.: 140.6m Catch me: 72m For him, with that budget and use of IPs to attract attention, with the theater count/IMAX/3D factor, domestic it is around average I would agree, China is where it over-performed.

Not sure what is the issue with Snyder post here at all (or the issue with is reason for using the spear as a weapon, the kryptonnite bullet is boring and uncinematic being a boring reason and still leave a lot of choice to choose from).......

Not sure I follow you (where I am from discount tuesdays always existed it is relatively news to me to learn that it was not the case in the US, it is much older than 12 year's old) are you saying that my point about the size of the tuesday bump getting larger in recent year is invalid or... ?

Oh yeah that should be really true too. 20-25m would also be my feeling, Martian having a bit more universal appeal.

Would that be nearly as much of an issue in the Japan Market than in most other. Civil War was Japan #17 biggest movie of the year, Ultron was #15, Avengers #9. Last year Strange: #26 Thor: #47 Guardian 2: #48 Seem a bit on the declining side and not the monster it is Domestic to start with.

Would The martian be a possible maximum high ceiling ? That did a nice 26.9m in Japan.

Exactly that was my point, not that big of a sample size to judge RPO numbers, not many recent enough movies eastern movie that reflect the new bigger tuesday bump and that had good legs Easter weekend release. Maybe it is a good performance, but maybe not.... At least for me hard to tell. The list above was to show the increase in the Tuesday phenomenon in the very recent time in general not for this particular Tuesday.

I was talking about mine, like that GI joe example from 2013 and even 2014 examples are getting a bit old comparable for tuesdays. Look those 2014 tuesday bump: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2014-03-20&p=.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2014-03-11&p=.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2014-02-11&p=.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2014-03-25&p=.htm +8 to +35% max for the big title. Now: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2018-03-20&p=.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2018-03-06&p=.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2018-02-27&p=.htm +40/+50 type of Tuesday seem to happen much more for the newest release.

Considering how much Dwayne Johnson can make on non Fast 9 movies (on that spin-off for example but even on those 20-25m salary + huge bonus he make on is non franchise movies) there is probably a way to not get these 2 on board. The offer he could not refuse wound probably need to be ridiculously big. I was going to say those guys are turning 50 how long will they do movies like those ? but the answer could be 15-20 year's....

Yeah it was me looking at recent history bringing those comparable but when talking about tuesday bump, I am not sure that 2013/14 is really recent, didn't they got much bigger in the last 2-3 year's ? While many on that list are extremely frontloaded sequels.

It is true that look it is not bad if you go by history: Furious 7: -5 Fast 8: -4.4 BvS: -19% GI Joe: -11.7% Transcendence: +3.5% But recent History do not have a good comparable, at least not with the quick look I gave (recent good legs for a non franchise movie with a big easter weekend, tuesday bump have got bigger in recent time making even GI Joe a bit of a different time comparable) But all of those comparable above would not be good legs for a well received non franchise entry.

Doesn't that rely a lot of what the competition is to be in the top 5 or not ?, compiled absolute sales numbers will be I imagine more relevant.

I had the same thought I thought because it started to play in major festival (like Canne) a year ago and had world's premiere in may 2017, people talked about it a bit back then. That article is from 2015: http://deadline.com/2015/09/a24-john-cameron-mitchell-how-to-talk-to-girls-at-parties-elle-fanning-nicole-kidman-neil-gaiman-hanway-toronto-1201528163/ Filming started November 2015, that a relatively hold movie that has been around quite a bit.

Rabbit do start to feel like a huge win almost everywhere, 230.75 coming from a 34m weekend..... with France, Taiwan, Poland and Japan yet to open....

Not seen the movie yet, but that sound a little bit like a misunderstanding of what most people dislike about CGI, a bit like saying you dislike CGI but you watch Pixar movies and play video games !?!