REVISED Weekend Estimates 6/14--6/16: Man of Steel OW $116.7M($128.7M including WM)

[riczhang]

 

Wait so people bought tickets at Walmart or Walmart just bought a bunch of tickets? What? I have no idea what's going on.

 

Walmart bought 1 million tickets from WB at the price of $12 million. The plan at walmart was to resell them, but apparently that didn't work out so well and many were just given away. 

[filmscholar]

Rotten Tomatoes up to 59%.   I think it could finish with a barely fresh 60-61%.  Audience rating is currently at 82%.

[Lordmandeep]

Walmart bought 12 million dollars of tickets to resale.The problem how to interpret the numbers for box office projections.

[RyneOh1040]

100 OW is pretty much a done deal at this point.  Saturday is going to be massive.

[Alpha]

I guess we will get early Friday numbers at noon?

[Dementeleus]

well they have given the Midnight numbers. so if people dont want to include the 12mill in the Ow they can overlook it

 

No they can't. We don't go by admissions here, we go by sheer, unadulterated dollars. Should we subtract a couple of bucks from IMAX for a movie just because we don't think as many people went?

[The Futurist]

The fact is that WB got $12 million from Walmart. End of story. What they did with the tickets are irrelevant. 

 

Nope.

Because, if Walmart hadn't done this, we would not have this 21m number right now.

 

Pretending otherwise is wrong.

 

Everybody understands that it changes nothing for WB and that they have those 21m in the bank.

 

This 21m number is mathematically right but "morally" ( lack of a better word) wrong.

 

I understand America is obessed with money and dollars but sometimes you have to think a bit further than that.

Edited June 14, 2013 by The Futurist

[#ED]

I really hope we're not the only forum arguing this.This is beyond pathetic.

[Neo]

Plan was to resell them to the public but it didn't quite work out like that. WB got 12M but it skews things as to how much of it was purchased by public. 

Does it matter how much was purchased by public? End game isn't how much WB makes, not Wal-Mart, didn't WB make 12M off this, so the Wal-Wart end only deals with Wal-Mart.

[Heretic]

I'm really sick of the word Walmart.

[Dementeleus]

Walmart bought 1 million tickets from WB at the price of $12 million. The plan at walmart was to resell them, but apparently that didn't work out so well and many were just given away. 

 

There were some given away, but any guess as to how many is just wild Internet guessing.

 

But more importantly: IT DOESN'T MATTER.

[#ED]

Walmart bought 1 million tickets from WB at the price of $12 million. The plan at walmart was to resell them, but apparently that didn't work out so well and many were just given away.

This isn't a fact. It this forums WOM.No one has a clue how Walmart did in ticket sales.

[Alpha]

100 OW is pretty much a done deal at this point.  Saturday is going to be massive.

 

Opposite. Bigger-than-average Sat drop because of the Walmart previews. A $21M number for both midnight + previews is huge, and it's going to need to contract with what OW number this film is destined for.

[CenterMeOnSam]

This.

 

It's like Walmart purchased all tickets for a Lady Gaga show to sell them then claiming the gig is sold out even if no actual audience bought all of those tickets.

 

People are trying to say shipping tickets to a retailer for 12M is the same thing as selling those actual tickets to an audience for 12M.

 

Umm.... in regards to Box Office... IT IS.

 

WB made 12 million dollars selling tickets to Man of Steel.

 

It does not, any in way, matter HOW they sold the tickets. It was a smart move and they are reaping the awards from it.

[ddddeeee]

Audience rating is currently at 82%.

Lower than the detested and loathed IM3 already.

[Alpha]

I'm really sick of the word Walmart.

 

[Lordmandeep]

Of course it should be counted but it a clusterf-*- for box office predictions

[Elessar]

Some people are stupid. Before you guys prepare for your next flop pun, think about how good $9M is for a reboot of a franchise that hit it's bottom in 2006.

 

It hit its bottom in 1987 

[CenterMeOnSam]

Opposite. Bigger-than-average Sat drop because of the Walmart previews. A $21M number for both midnight + previews is huge, and it's going to need to contract with what OW number this film is destined for.

That's assuming that WB actually sold all those tickets.

 

For all we know... they only sold half and got stuck with a bunch of extra tickets! Like that kid in Boy Scouts who says he can sell 10 cases of popcorn, but only manages to sell 5. Looks like that kid has a LOT of extra popcorn for the year.

[Alpha]

Of course it should be counted but it a clusterf-*- for box office predictions

 

Not a clusterf--k, but a state of confusion.