Argentina Box Office - Minions: first movie ever to do $35m+!!!

[Hernan Gonzalez]

So BH6 is basically smashing in Argentina? Urgh I hope I can say the same in the remaining markets.

I am thinking it will do $5-$5.5m before the end of the year and the arrival of The Hobbit 3 on January, 1st.

[Fullbuster]

I am thinking it will do $5-$5.5m before the end of the year and the arrival of The Hobbit 3 on January, 1st.

 

Latin America, a real source of growth for many movies

[Fullbuster]

Big Hero 6 - $4.1m

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Weekend Top 7:

 

1- Big Hero 6, 165898 admissions, -11%. Cume: 688013 adm, around $4.1m

2- Exodus, 49590 adm, +10%. Cume: 389939 adm, around $2.4m

3- Dumb and Dumber To, 44235 adm, +4%. Cume: 798439 adm, around $4.4m

4- Left Behind, 33087 adm, new. 

5- Paradise Lost, 27559 adm, new.

6- Mockingjay, 27354 adm, -7%. Cume: 964461 adm, around $5.4m

7- Wild Tales, 16116 adm, +139%. Cume: 3421308 adm, $17.9m

 

Big Hero will finish 2014 doing around $5m. It looks like Christmas moves religious people to see Exodus, it was up 10% this weekend. Dumb and Dumber To passed TASM and GotG and it will be part of the Top 10 movies for 2014 next weekend... The new releases didn't impress. And the possibility of an Oscar nomination pushed Wild Tales up 139%.

[James]

Weekend Top 7:

 

1- Big Hero 6, 165898 admissions, -11%. Cume: 688013 adm, around $4.1m

2- Exodus, 49590 adm, +10%. Cume: 389939 adm, around $2.4m

3- Dumb and Dumber To, 44235 adm, +4%. Cume: 798439 adm, around $4.4m

4- Left Behind, 33087 adm, new. 

5- Paradise Lost, 27559 adm, new.

6- Mockingjay, 27354 adm, -7%. Cume: 964461 adm, around $5.4m

7- Wild Tales, 16116 adm, +139%. Cume: 3421308 adm, $17.9m

 

Big Hero will finish 2014 doing around $5m. It looks like Christmas moves religious people to see Exodus, it was up 10% this weekend. Dumb and Dumber To passed TASM and GotG and it will be part of the Top 10 movies for 2014 next weekend... The new releases didn't impress. And the possibility of an Oscar nomination pushed Wild Tales up 139%.

I really hope TH will open strong.

[Fullbuster]

Weekend Top 7:

 

1- Big Hero 6, 165898 admissions, -11%. Cume: 688013 adm, around $4.1m

2- Exodus, 49590 adm, +10%. Cume: 389939 adm, around $2.4m

3- Dumb and Dumber To, 44235 adm, +4%. Cume: 798439 adm, around $4.4m

4- Left Behind, 33087 adm, new. 

5- Paradise Lost, 27559 adm, new.

6- Mockingjay, 27354 adm, -7%. Cume: 964461 adm, around $5.4m

7- Wild Tales, 16116 adm, +139%. Cume: 3421308 adm, $17.9m

 

Big Hero will finish 2014 doing around $5m. It looks like Christmas moves religious people to see Exodus, it was up 10% this weekend. Dumb and Dumber To passed TASM and GotG and it will be part of the Top 10 movies for 2014 next weekend... The new releases didn't impress. And the possibility of an Oscar nomination pushed Wild Tales up 139%.

 

How is the performance of BH6 for you?

[Hernan Gonzalez]

I really hope TH will open strong.

 

I hope that too!! BOFA opens on Thursday. Frozen sold almost 100k tickets this year on that day

 

DOS, Final: $5.2m, 736k admissions

AUJ, Final: $7.4m, 1.05m admissions

 

Those 2 movies opened a week before Christmas. Let's see if this change of release date affects the movie performance. 

[Hernan Gonzalez]

How is the performance of BH6 for you?

 

December is always a quiet month in this market. But this year BH6 injected life to it. It's around 50% better than last december. If BH6 can hold in January it will be a big success. Frozen opened on the first week of January and it was hugh (BH6 needed more than 2 weeks to do that). So next week is crucial for BH6. But I think it will succeed. 

[Hernan Gonzalez]

The Hobbit BotFA opens today but many movie theaters are closed (including the biggest chain of the country). On Friday, when all the theaters are open, it is going to be shown in more than 300 screens, which is a good number in this market. On Saturday morning we will know how good its OW will be.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

39k admissions for The Hobbit BotFA, something like $0.25m-$0.30m. Pretty good number taking in account that half of the theaters were closed yesterday. And the ones that opened did it after 6 PM

[Elessar]

Doesn't look that good to me if we compare it to Frozen, which sold over twice the amount of tickets.

 

I guess it's gonna make as much money as DOS - half the amount Frozen did.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Elessar

[Fullbuster]

Doesn't look that good to me if we compare it to Frozen, which sold over twice the amount of tickets.

 

I guess it's gonna make as much money as DOS - half the amount Frozen did.

 

Animated movies are much more successful in Latin America than heroic-fantasy movies.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Doesn't look that good to me if we compare it to Frozen, which sold over twice the amount of tickets.

 

I guess it's gonna make as much money as DOS - half the amount Frozen did.

BotFA opened yesterday in only 141 screens, because the other theaters were closed and it sold 39000 admissions. DoS opened in 360 screens and it sold 40500 tickets. Today BotFA should do so much more than that in more than 300 screens. It OW should be so much better than Smaug's

[Elessar]

You sure it's gonna be so much more today? Is there no fanboy rush in Argentina? That could dampen the increase. Anyway, as long as it can do AUJ numbers in the end i'd be fine. If it's just DOS numbers... well, at the end of the day, we are talking about a few million dollars here. Not that much of a deal, anyway.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

You sure it's gonna be so much more today? Is there no fanboy rush in Argentina? That could dampen the increase. Anyway, as long as it can do AUJ numbers in the end i'd be fine. If it's just DOS numbers... well, at the end of the day, we are talking about a few million dollars here. Not that much of a deal, anyway.

You are right Argentina is a small market, 50% over DoS only means $2.5m. It's not making a difference WW. But the sum of all the small markets count and it could put the movie over $1B WW. Anyway we will know tomorrow morning how much it is doing today. I hope I am right and it does good

[Hernan Gonzalez]

BotFA opened yesterday in only 141 screens, because the other theaters were closed and it sold 39000 admissions. DoS opened in 360 screens and it sold 40500 tickets. Today BotFA should do so much more than that in more than 300 screens. It OW should be so much better than Smaug's

86 admissions on Friday, as I expected more than 100% bump!!!

Around $0.8m in 2 days!!! It is so going to beat DoS OW

[James]

86 admissions on Friday, as I expected more than 100% bump!!!

Around $0.8m in 2 days!!! It is so going to beat DoS OW

Niiiiiice! I'm really curious how much it will end up with and how it will do compared to here.

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Niiiiiice! I'm really curious how much it will end up with and how it will do compared to here.

It should do something between $1.7m and $1.9m. That's 20-30% more than DoS. So it could end its run at around $6.2m-$6.7m...

Edited January 3, 2015 by Henry II of Arendelle

[Hernan Gonzalez]

86 admissions on Friday, as I expected more than 100% bump!!!

Around $0.8m in 2 days!!! It is so going to beat DoS OW

After Saturday BotFA is already on par with DoS OW. And it still has to add Sunday numbers. 20% better than DoS is a lock

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Screendaily: "The New Line-MGM fantasy finale scored the biggest Warner Bros launch of all time in Argentina on $2.1m (Ps 17.8m) from 300 screens to rank top and claim 54% of total market share."

That's 60% better than DoS OW