Alpha Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 My reactions:Assassin's Creed: HOLY CRAP! A $60m opening, my god. The Martian Chronicles: Thanks Spaghetti. Now The Martian Chronicles is John Carter. Slightly better. Considering how it had a $270M budget, this better do darn well overseas. Here Comes Peter Cottontail: Not much but, that's good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Excellent opening weekend for the Wanders and it should find its way to a 110-120M finish which is fantastic actually despite being really frontloaded. It's about on par with Prometheus. I could see why it's frontloaded. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 It's about on par with Prometheus. I could see why it's frontloaded. I was expecting a front loaded film anyway. Its Sunday drop on its first weekend was really good for a frontloaded/horror flick. Friday- 22.6M Saturday- 18.5 (-18.0%) Sunday- 12.0M (-35.1%) Anyway after doing some numbers I think it will most likely end right around 115-118M but should hit 120M if it gets a good boost with Spring Break, which it could because spring break is when the film happens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I was expecting a front loaded film anyway. Its Sunday drop on its first weekend was really good for a frontloaded/horror flick. Friday- 22.6M Saturday- 18.5 (-18.0%) Sunday- 12.0M (-35.1%) Anyway after doing some numbers I think it will most likely end right around 115-118M but should hit 120M if it gets a good boost with Spring Break, which it could because spring break is when the film happens. The boost might happen. I do think I undermined that film a bit, giving it the 9th worst movie of the year score. But the ending was terrible 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 My reactions:Assassin's Creed: HOLY CRAP! A $60m opening, my god. The Martian Chronicles: Thanks Spaghetti. Now The Martian Chronicles is John Carter. Slightly better. Considering how it had a $270M budget, this better do darn well overseas. Here Comes Peter Cottontail: Not much but, that's good. Here Comes Peter Cottontail will play well if over the April season. Zero competition + good reviews + well known material = good legs. It should finish between 125-145M 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'm going to try to be fair to everyone here. For example, if I give you a huge dissapointment, I'll often make it up to you at another point in time, and vice versa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The boost might happen. I do think I undermined that film a bit, giving it the 9th worst movie of the year score. But the ending was terrible That seemed overly harsh but it was your opinion and I respect that. I don't see how the ending was terrible, I mean it was different and very much a drastic twist but not bad. The premise of the ending was original and interesting at least and I wish people gave it credit for that. Aliens creating humanity and setting up religion to keep humans in check....conspiracy theory!!! The Wanders was incredibly fun to write and I am proud of it even though it won't get Oscar attention. I never had so much fun with a film. That in my opinion is the true spirit of CAYOM...just having fun and throwing wild ideas out there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 That seemed overly harsh but it was your opinion and I respect that. I don't see how the ending was terrible, I mean it was different and very much a drastic twist but not bad. The premise of the ending was original and interesting at least and I wish people gave it credit for that. Aliens creating humanity and setting up religion to keep humans in check....conspiracy theory!!! The Wanders was incredibly fun to write and I am proud of it even though it won't get Oscar attention. I never had so much fun with a film. That in my opinion is the true spirit of CAYOM...just having fun and throwing wild ideas out there. I actually didn't think it was all that original. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'm going to try to be fair to everyone here. For example, if I give you a huge dissapointment, I'll often make it up to you at another point in time, and vice versa. I tend to do the same... I felt bad about Spark so I made all your other films break out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'm going to try to be fair to everyone here. For example, if I give you a huge dissapointment, I'll often make it up to you at another point in time, and vice versa. That's means...oh yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I actually didn't think it was all that original. Well the ending is loosely based off an actual religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raëlism 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I plan on just letting chance do the work next year. I've identified 5 movies (well soon to be identified based on a number pairing) movies that will either break-out or disappoint(There's one huge one incoming actually ). The others will get a range and then will get a randomly generated gross. [Oh, and there will be weather.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 That's means...oh yes. Well, that kind of already happened this month with Assassin's Creed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Well the ending is loosely based off an actual religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raëlism I had no idea about that, but I felt that the aliens creating the world thing has been done often in sci-fi before and the entire genre shift thing didn't work very well. The beginning of the movie is what saved it from disaster territory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 When can we expect April? I am waiting to see if Golden Legend will break out or not. Everything of mine performed expected at best. The Wanders had a break out OW but the legs were bad enough to drop the total to an expected finish. Unbalanced 4 and everything else disappointed. Ice Station and Spaghetti Monster did good but not break out good but more of a expected good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 How did Unbalanced 4 disappoint? It opened to 40M+ on the 1st weekend of the year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'll do April when more predictions come in. The only two so far are Hiccup and Alpha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 How did Unbalanced 4 disappoint? It opened to 40M+ on the 1st weekend of the year. It was. Chuck Norris and Liam Neeson with Giant Spiders did 60M+ OW. I thought we would have 50M in the bag. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 It was. Chuck Norris and Liam Neeson with Giant Spiders did 60M+ OW. I thought we would have 50M in the bag. Yeah, except it was the first weekend of the year. That weekend is always desolate, I thought 40M was probably even unrealistic given the time-frame. The public had just come off of a massive holiday season and etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riczhang Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I'll do April when more predictions come in. The only two so far are Hiccup and Alpha. I'm doing it rightn ow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
