Wednesday #s: ANCHORMAN 2 8.1M/ It's in a glass case of emotion / Hobbit (4.855m) / CF (1.243m)

[baumer]

That's huge, but what about Django and Les M, you can compare their drops. 

 

Different days.  They opened on Christmas Day.  This is a full week before.

[Shawn Robbins]

The only movies to compare it to in terms of release date is maybe King Kong.  It opened on a Wednesday and grossed 9 mill.  If you take the same kind of trajectory, then it will do:

 

Wed:  10

Thurs:  6.5

Friday:  14.3

Sat:  19.3

Sun:  15.0

 

5 day:  65 mill

 

Or Meet the Fockers (which did $12.1m on Wednesday, Dec. 22). Christmas Eve and Christmas break the comparison up somewhat, but that went on to do $46m for the 3-day and $70.5m for the 5-day. I think Anchorman 2 gets close to that 5-day total, but higher for the 3-day.

[Plain Old Tele]

KONG opened on a Wednesday, but I don't know how good a comparison it is -- totally different genre.

[CJohn]

If I remember correctly, Paramount didn't wanted to greenlight this, right? That is just fucking hilarious.

Edited December 18, 2013 by CJohn

[baumer]

Or Meet the Fockers (which did $12.1m on Wednesday, Dec. 22). Christmas Eve and Christmas break the comparison up somewhat, but that went on to do $46m for the 3-day and $70.5m for the 5-day. I think Anchorman 2 gets close to that 5-day total, but higher for the 3-day.

 

I looked at Fockers but opening on the 22nd skews things because Christmas Eve is terrible for movies and CD is huge.  So the only movies I could compare it to were the original LOTR (but that is a full decade ago, and times have changed) and King Kong.

[John Marston]

Anchorman should be a bit more frontloaded than Kong

[baumer]

KONG opened on a Wednesday, but I don't know how good a comparison it is -- totally different genre.

 

But what else can we go by?

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

The only movies to compare it to in terms of release date is maybe King Kong.  It opened on a Wednesday and grossed 9 mill.  If you take the same kind of trajectory, then it will do:

 

Wed:  10

Thurs:  6.5

Friday:  14.3

Sat:  19.3

Sun:  15.0

 

5 day:  65 mill

 

 

Ron Burgundy compared to King Kong????

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, I can go with that.

[baumer]

Anchorman should be a bit more frontloaded than Kong

 

Maybe, but then try to do it with Fockers.  

[Shawn Robbins]

I looked at Fockers but opening on the 22nd skews things because Christmas Eve is terrible for movies and CD is huge.  So the only movies I could compare it to were the original LOTR (but that is a full decade ago, and times have changed) and King Kong.

 

I agree, I'm just saying that I think those things are skewed in the downward direction since Christmas Eve is so strongly deflated. That alone would give a good baseline for Anchorman 2, balanced out by the fact that the 25th and 26th were so strong.

 

Typing on the go, so sorry if that doesn't make a lick of sense.

[baumer]

Ron Burgundy compared to King Kong????

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, I can go with that.

 

It's the day it came out, not the genre.  

 

A movie about an anchorman in the 80's?  That's absurd.  That'll never work.

[tawasal]

Different days.  They opened on Christmas Day.  This is a full week before.

Ooh shit didn't know that. 

[baumer]

I agree, I'm just saying that I think those things are skewed in the downward direction since Christmas Eve is so strongly deflated. That alone would give a good baseline for Anchorman 2, balanced out by the fact that the 25th and 26th were so strong.

 

Typing on the go, so sorry if that doesn't make a lick of sense.

 

Yea it does.  The funny thing is there really isn't another film that Anchorman 2 can be compared to 100%.  So I just went with the same day opening.  

[CJohn]

But what else can we go by?

You can't. It is an entirely new situation, IMO. Kong opened in the time where movies weren't very frontloaded.

Edited December 18, 2013 by CJohn

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

It's the day it came out, not the genre.  

 

A movie about an anchorman in the 80's?  That's absurd.  That'll never work.

 

 

No, I was saying Ron is a beast of a man.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

You can't. It is an entirely new situation, IMO. Kong opened in the time where movies weren't very frontloaded.

 

Yes, baumer and I also fought dinosaurs back in the day.

[baumer]

By the way, I saw it today.  The movie is funny, until the last 20 minutes and then its ridiculously, gut burstingly funny.

[baumer]

Yes, baumer and I also fought dinosaurs back in the day.

 

Yes, AA and I both discovered San Diego together in 1904, which in German of course means, a whale's vagina.

Edited December 18, 2013 by Christmas baumer

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

By the way, I saw it today.  The movie is funny, until the last 20 minutes and then its ridiculously, gut burstingly funny.

 

 

My wife and I may have to see this over DOS on Christmas.

 

 

 

@ShawnMR: Not in the face! Not in the face!

 

[tawasal]

50m seems very big number from a 10m wednesday, lets see what it does tommorow. How much should it make on thursday to make sure it has a chance at 50m OW btw?