MovieGuyKyle17 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 (edited) I got a Smurf for ya Edited August 1, 2013 by Scott Pilgrim vs The Forum 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Still I only care about what Wolverine did yesterday....come on $4m!!! I'm thinking 4.1-4.5 If it's down in the 3.9's that would be disappointing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Still I only care about what Wolverine did yesterday....come on $4m!!! I'm thinking 4.1-4.5 If it's down in the 3.9's that would be disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMP Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I got a Smurf for ya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I bet they expected more for Before Midnight. I really liked it but boy, the fairytale is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJackSparrow Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Drat. I was hoping for less for the Smurfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmpro Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 3 Counties started school in my area today and I'm sure others as well so that could've put a damper on Smurfs 3 somewhat.How many take kids out to an evening film with 1st of school the next day? Not many, wait for weekend. Still I only care about what Wolverine did yesterday....come on $4m!!!WTF CC??You WANT it to drop 33%???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sims Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 It's not a good number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 (edited) 'Smurfs 2' Starts Fast at Box Office in U.S. and in U.K. A- CS Edited August 1, 2013 by firedeep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 'Smurfs 2' Starts Fast at Box Office in U.S. and in U.K. A- CS An A- cinemascore is useless. It would have been more impressive if it had gotten an A cinemascore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I'm surprised it costs $125m but it'll still make money and guarantee a third film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 'The Smurfs 2' looks overseas for more green The first "Smurfs" movie, which like the sequel combines animation and live action, sold a solid $142.6 million of tickets domestically, but made a whopping $421.1 million beyond North America. The sequel, which opened Wednesday, is likely to follow an identical pattern. Competing studios shared the same kind of disproportion: More than half of all tickets sold for Disney's "Monsters University" were purchased outside the United States. The sales were equally tilted for both of Universal's "Despicable Me" films, helping make the most recent film the most profitable release in Universal's history, NBC Universal Chief Executive Officer Steve Burke said Wednesday. Two years ago, Paramount's "The Adventures of Tintin" did nearly 80% of its total business in foreign theaters ($296.4 million of its total gross of $374 million came from international theaters) and last summer Fox's "Ice Age: Continental Drift" did a staggering 82% of its business in overseas theaters, grossing $715.9 million — the most for any animated film ever — internationally. Jordan Kerner, the producer of both "Smurfs" films, said Sony's initial estimate for the first movie was that it would roughly equal its domestic gross overseas. "And I said, 'If it doesn't do two and a half or three times its domestic gross overseas, I will shoot myself,'" Kerner said. "The Smurfs are universal." "It's a much more crowded marketplace [than when the first film came out] and nothing gets a chance to breathe," Kerner said. "As a producer, that worries me." The film's true path to profitability is thousands of miles away. Opening in more than 40 foreign markets, "The Smurfs 2" could gross more than $100 million worldwide this weekend. To bolster those returns, Sony executives have traveled the globe trying to drum up as many euros, British pounds and yen as possible. In June, the studio brought 28 Smurf fans from around the world to Paris to celebrate the birthday of Smurf creator Pierre Culliford, known as Peyo (the Belgian artist died in 1992). On Sunday, the studio hosted 162 "blue carpet" premieres in 50 domestic markets and 60 cities overseas, including special screenings in such far-flung lands as Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. In the United States, animated and family films typically do extremely well with nonwhite audiences, and that tendency is repeated overseas. What's more, international patrons are more willing to pay extra for 3-D admissions than American audiences (Sony is almost hiding the fact that "The Smurfs 2" is available in the stereoscopic format domestically) and don't seem to care that "The Smurfs 2" is not well-reviewed. Given the Belgian roots of the source material, it is not surprising that the returns for the first film were particularly outsized in Europe (although China was the film's top foreign market, with a gross of $39.4 million). In France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, "The Smurfs" grossed a combined $119.7 million. Those numbers should be higher with the new film thanks to the sequel's setting in Paris, a late story switch from Las Vegas. Sony and Kerner aren't counting their chickens before they are hatched, but both are working on a third Smurfs film and have penciled in a July 24, 2015, release date. Said Kerner: "We have a great script." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Last week’s No. 1 movie, Fox’s “The Wolverine,” took in $4.7 million Wednesday and was second. Horror film “The Conjuring” was third with $2.6 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 20% drop for Wolvie and 14$ for Conjuring. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Freak Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 First Class still made over 200 million worldwide. Hmm true. In that case, I present to you the biggest breakout character of 2014- Work that electric blue fierceness to 700m OS, Jamie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Last week’s No. 1 movie, Fox’s “The Wolverine,” took in $4.7 million Wednesday and was second. Horror film “The Conjuring” was third with $2.6 million. That seems like a pretty solid number for Wolverine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Loved the shit out of Monsters University. Sucks that it lost to DM2dm2 was way better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 dm2 was way better No it isn't. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 No it isn't.yeah it was 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJackSparrow Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I give both DM2 and MU a 4.5/5. DM2 was funnier, but MU had a better story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...