MovieMan89

102 Not Out. Goin after that wildly underserviced over age 100 demo. In all seriousness, The Seagull would be the only May limited release with any potential to find a wider audience, though I doubt it.

BP's holds really have been a thing of beauty. 40% or less for 8 weekends in a row. -44% for weekend 2 was its "bad" hold so far, lol.

Imagine the meltdowns when it only grosses $0 on Wednesday.

You got what you were clearly after with that post the whole time: attention. Next time spare us the dramatic bullshit.

Yep, I was definitely wrong, that Sat hold this weekend proves it sure is. That's a near animation level sat bump. BP needs about a 5x multi off of this weekend for 700. May sound out of reach, however then you look at TA and see it got a 6.8x off its 10th weekend. Granted it had the labor day expansion BP won't have, but hopefully I'm right about the IW boost and that makes up for it.

Yep, I think BP could really surprise next weekend. An increase might be coming. I was thinking Disney should expand it, but it's held theaters like such a champ they don't even need to. Still almost 2k tc in weekend 10.

If this lives up to the quality of Bird's other three animated films, I will say that I think he might be second only to Miyazaki among best animated feature directors. It will at least give him the edge for the time being over Stanton, Docter, and Unkrich among the Pixar crew.

It's unlikely to hit 90 if it drops 70%+ next weekend. I personally don't see why it wouldn't, but I suppose spillover could help it some.

Assuming Rampage doesn't totally collapse after this week and end up more in the mid 80s range. Then we're looking more at 70%, not a whole lot different than TR. Regardless, I agree both should be breakeven at least.

90 on a 120 budget is a "healthy" DOM return?

To be completely honest, I'm surprised drive ins are still a thing at all. I know they've been completely dead in my state for years.

I'd bet money that's exactly what WB is hoping to do here.

The CCU might be a more profitable cinematic universe for WB than the DCEU right now.

I will admit the 4,200 tc is extremely disappointing. I know a bunch of screenings can be added to make room for demand, but I still don't understand why it's opening in a lower tc than movies like GotG2 and Homecoming? Especially with literally no competition.

The RPO and Rampage drops next weekend will be brutal. I see 70%+ for both. Traffik and Super Troopers will probably be even worse than that.

Haha, no I didn't, but I was just saying you could win without doing anything except the pre-seasons. Is that how you won that year?

Eh, I'm horrible myself about keeping up with all the weeklies and SOTMs, but I've still gotten decent placings because of my pre-seasons. That's the bulk of the score, as chasmmi just pointed out as well, so you should at least do that. You never know, you could win the game off of that alone.

Yeah. Especially since at that point it would be so close yet so far. Would seem very anti-climatic for it to get within like 20 or 10m and then miss after all that.

IW is hurting it for the time being. I mean let's be honest, what MCU fan in their right mind cares one bit about an Ant Man movie right now with IW looming so large? That said, if IW generates lots of audience goodwill, it will only be a good thing for AM2 when it opens. Might end up eyeing 100 on OW if IW is big enough and liked enough.

https://www.slashfilm.com/avengers-infinity-war-box-office-opening-weekend/ http://variety.com/2018/film/news/avengers-infinity-war-box-office-tracking-1202764292/ http://fortune.com/2018/04/19/avengers-infinity-war-may-have-the-biggest-opening-weekend-of-all-time/ Lots of OW record chatter popping up now. I have to admit, I will be genuinely disappointed if it doesn't happen at this point.

Yes, it's 100 points.

Do it! We need more people, this seems like a really low turnout if more aren't going to join within the next week.

They should have done something where they replaced the word "train" in each sequel's title with something more appropriate. Maybe How to Know Your Dragon for 2? I mean, Toothless has been trained since the first one anyways.

Honestly though, wtf is WB doing with that one? Market the damn thing already! Unless it's so god awful that any marketing will give away how bad it is, there's no reason for them to still be sitting on it.

They need some kind of actual marketing for the service if they really hope to make their market penetration strategy work. They need to get a huge number of subscribers before they have the bargaining power to make a profit the way they think they will, and even with the low price they don't have enough visibility to grow their base to that scale. There needs to be more awareness for it not solely dependent on word of mouth. But of course where does the money come from for marketing when they've already lost $150 mil? So I guess therein lies the issue. They also need to settle on a sub plan, and stick with it. These constantly in flux sub plans that change by the week are impossible to really spread word of mouth about. Not like I can pitch friends the plan I have, that doesn't exist right now.