StarSaber

Saturday was not as busy as expected at my theater, management came to the conclusion that Cinco de Mayo and Prom prevented some adults and teenagers from coming to the movies. This may have been the case for many areas if they were similar to mine.

This happened at the theater I work at. I saw Lego Batman in IMAX and La La Land started to play. Luckily I told them and they changed it before Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone flipped each other off. I was secretly hoping it would stay long enough to finish the opening number so I could see it again on the big screen.

Cars 2 had a 20% bump on the same July 2nd Saturday albeit with much smaller numbers and was on its 2nd weekend. Going by that too, Dory will have a strong Sunday hold at the very least. So Around 41-42 for the 3 day.

How come Zootopia is expected to drop 50% on Sunday? That seems like a really harsh drop for mothers day. No other animated comp fell like that which.

Shrek is love.

Nothing, that is a normal school-day drop for a kids movie. Jungle Book was down 82.6%

Great for Jungle Book and even pretty good for Zootopia. It was pretty much unfazed despite facing a big family film breaking out!

Zootopia heading for $7.5m and 47% drop. Batman heading for $8.5-9.5m depending on what Friday is and 59-64% drop. It looks like Zootopia will be ahead of it next weekend and should finish ahead overall. Who saw that coming!?

That was epic!!!!

It's not even evening on west coast yet. Even from RTH, it's too early.

Um, that's a 91% increase. That's great for it! It will finish around 14 million for the weekend. That is down less than 30%. That is great for it! Also, it will very likely enter the list for top 10 6th weekends unadjusted. That is great for it!

Still not good enough, it should have increased...

I did not forget that, I was noting the situation.

No. 'Twas a joke, but Zootopia's 2nd Monday was higher than BvS 2nd Monday it seems. Also, did anyone else notice that Zootopia's 2nd weekend was $4,000 larger than BvS'?

15m pretty much guarantees that BvS doesn't hit 50m. 70%+ drop. That is, if it follows Furious 7. On the bright side that Zootopia number is great! Looking at 18m or so, about a 25% drop. Top 10 5th weekends ever unadjusted.

Go read the reviews thread. My personal issues are there. You'll find others too.

Didn't like it. The first hour and a half was bad except for a few scenes. The action with doomsday at the end was okay but looking back is pretty forgettable (this sucks because I actually like Man of Steel). Amy Adams was horrible and Wonder Women was pointless and felt like a throwaway. She served no purpose except to beef up the action at the end and build up Justice League. If her role was more ambiguous or she was introduced like Cyborg or Aquaman were I wouldn't have a problem with it. Affleck was good as Batman, his scenes were the only ones that I had any interest it. The editing was horrible as well. The movie was way too long and it just felt like it would never end. There were way too many stories trying to be told. It was a jumbled mess that had an overabundance of scenes that abruptly cut to black. The movie was a chore to sit through. D+/C-

This is why my theater was so quite this weekend. Everyone went here...

My theater tonight: 635 admissions (3D + 2D). There were 438 last night. 1073 total for opening day. Comparisons: AoU did 693 admissions for previews and 1314 for Friday. 2007 Total for opening day. Deadpool: 314 for previews and 957 for the day. 1271 total. Furious 7: 373 for previews and 1055 for day. 1428 total. These seem like the most comparable movies I have access to. Big blockbusters released during school and for similar audiences. I'm not sure why BvS is doing poorly at my theater. Maybe the darker tone (as my area has a large family population) or people were particularly effected by the poor reviews in my area. One other possibility is because of the large amount of showtimes at many theaters, they are able to fill demand. Some of the above might have had sellouts at other locations so my theater becomes a backup. I'm not sure if that explains Ultron though as that had many showtimes too (that could just be the more family friendly tone).

Yes. A slower theater though. The big theater (Irvine Spectrum) is likely where a lot of business went as they have larger theaters, screens, and true IMAX. I don't know how that theater did but my manager called another big local theater around 630 or so and they said it was surprisingly slow. If it was at all similar to mine than it picked up a little later in the night. But early on (around 6) seemed all around 'slow'.

I couldn't get exact numbers for BvS (I forgot when I left) but it did about 160 admissions for the 3 6pm showings, and for the 4 9-10pm showtimes it was somewhere between 275 and 325. So a little less than 500 for all 2D and 3D showings. For comparison, AoU did 693 admissions for my theater on Thursday night - that's 3D, 2D, and double feature (only 18 admissions). Furious 7 did 373 total for Thursday previews. I don't have the data for MoS.

Fantastic Zoo number. Up 70%.

2 of its dailies were already ahead of the first. Tuesday and Wednesday.

You can find the numbers on BOM too. Just look for the Monday (for an animated movie) that is only down 20-ish percent from Sunday. That is usually the day after Easter. That day this year is March 28th. The day after Easter. The Friday of that week will have a weak increase. The prior Week (March 21st) will see stronger Monday holds and a weaker Friday increase but not as big as Easter week. I'm sure some schools are out this week but this week should be more normal. Friday should be up about 80-110%, similar to Lorax/Cinderella and some others and have 70-ish percent increase on Saturday. Some animated movies are hard to compare. Rio, Home, The Croods, How to Train your Dragon all opened on the weekend before Easter. It's rarely on Easter weekend, its on the weekend before. Studio (Fox at least) plans for those 2 weeks of no school.

March 27th. March 21st and March 28th will be the big Spring Break weeks.