MovieMan89

200 points that IW breaks the OW record.

And I disagree completely. I think it is the YA female audience that made BATB what it was, and I think their interest in TLK will be a non-factor. A bigger version of The Jungle Book is a much more apt comparison for TLK than BATB, imo, because that's the same audience it will be hitting.

Well obviously X could hit 250m on OW if it's coming in 2030 or something. I doubt that would be particularly impressive by then.

There's a super easy way around the no 3d screenings thing that's impossible to get caught, but I feel kinda sleazy doing it so I've only done it once so far...

Speculating on X’s gross is completely futile right now. Way too many unknown factors. For starters, we don’t know how long the gap will be, which will have a huge effect on how well it does. It’s not going to be massive like TPM and TFA is the gap is only a few years and there’s not time for people to really miss SW. And more importantly, IX has the uphill battle of appeasing the bulk of the fanbase, or else it will be the first trilogy to end on a divisive note, and that won’t be good for X. Finally, one factor that does seem pretty clear that will be a hindrance to X for sure is that we will officially be done with the OT characters, so there goes a very important part of all three trilogy’s appeal.

It's amazing just how dead the mid August to late October stretch of the year is for big grossers compared to pretty much every other time of year. Aside from IT's OW, there is nothing that has even come close to touching 100 adjusted for a weekend in that stretch.

I mean what else were they gonna do when it opened to an abysmal 8m and one of the worst saturated OWs ever? Try to push it harder? Anyone would have been faultless for thinking the movie was DOA at that point. I'd be way angrier about their marketing campaign for it, which was atrocious and the reason it opened that poorly to begin with. The trailers they threw together made this look ridiculously unappealing.

Gone With the Wind (1939).

Considering I liked the art design, I'm pretty sure it's the CGI I'm talking about...

It will probably stop at 175 now, which will irk me to no end since it will be 1m away from that 20x multi.

Hot damn, +44% over last Monday. After it came down to earth a bit in the past month, looks like TGS is gonna go out the same way it started, with insane holds.

I think it can stay above 1m until a week from Wednesday (54 days) with maybe even a small chance it stays above until the Monday two weeks from now (60 days).

Just noticed the crazy run TGS has been having in Japan. Looks like it's already past a 10x multi there and still going strong. That movie's legs are insane around the world.

For my money, BP will definitely end up as the most impressive CBM run ever at the box office. It's having Spider-man's multi with The Avenger's OW, and furthermore it is the first domestic juggernaut released outside of the holiday or summer seasons when weekdays get huge boosts. Beyond all of that, the titular character was never even close to an established or recognizable comic book character in pop culture prior to the film release, unlike every single other huge CBM excluding Guardians of the Galaxy and Iron Man (though the latter was at least somewhat known). BP isn't quite TFA or Avatar's run impressive in terms of huge blockbusters this century, but it's gotta be solidly in third.

The CGI most definitely did look dated here - particularly their avatars - but it was just serviceable enough that it didn't detract. It better not be up for any VFX noms though.

The silent nature of the film 1000% makes it an artsy take on the genre. From some of these reactions, I can already see screenings of this being disastrous with a lot of the demo that makes horror movies hits. Also, the RT consensus literally uses the word "artful" in it, so I'm far from the first to call it artsy.

I'm thinking this is going to be a tad too artsy leaning to get good legs. Artsy horror does very poorly with the casual GA and those films get bad multis. But I do think an OW breakout could happen because I think the marketing has done a good job hooking casuals.

Yay @ the 200k increase for BP. Any little extra bit helps now for 700 purposes.

Week 1: Yes

We have 30,000 points to invest right? Just making sure because right after you say that you also say we can choose to keep our 25,000 points instead. So is it 30 or 25?

Mission Impossible: Full (12,000) Christopher Robin: Full (10,000) Skyscraper: Full (6,000) Crazy Rich Asians: Full (2,000)

A slow build up to becoming Venom is perfectly fine IF the film has an interesting plot and characters. Otherwise, you just end up with the waste of time and money that is Godzilla '14.

Comparing Isle of Dogs to Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest, it looks like the movie is performing in between the two so far. Gonna guess it does $50-55m DOM.

I am interested to see how AQP's run is. I can see something like 40/80 just as much as something like 30/120 or something in between.

Why are you projecting so much lower than Deadline's $5.1m this weekend? Also, TL held like shit and your projection for WiT would be holding even shittier.