Weekend estimates | Veronica mars- 2M (down 39% on Sat), 300 2-19.1M,LEGO (7.71M), non-stop (10.6M)

[mcclaine]

What are Sony execs are going to do with their Gran Turismo project now? 

[LexJoker]

NFS Sat estimate in China is ~8M.

[Chewy]

Only boring movies (BO-wise and otherwise) coming out. Cap needs to get here quick.

 

Divergent should do well at the BO, if nothing else

[The Panda]

Pretty much. Whoever wrote the tweet can suck it. Christ, such outdated and untrue stereotypes.

It's because the media only shows the extremes (because they are what are interesting) for anything and because of that uninformed people will stereotype a mass amount of people into something they're not, and it's not at all exclusive to gamers.The Islamist religion only ever got major coverage after major terrorist attacks, because of that many Americans actually believe all Muslims are violent people of a barbaric religion wanting to slaughter anyone who doesn't think like them. While I'm sure there are some that do think like that, I'm friends with Muslims and know for a fact it's a minority that thinks that way.Then with say WoW, there were reports of a couple of specific cases of fat, greasy men living in their mothers basement naked playing WoW day and night. While there were a few cases of that, it in no way got close to defining the average WoW player, yet the masses believed for some time that if you played WoW you were a no life, creepy man (also see man, because I actually raided with a good number of girls in our guild, they were left out of the stereotype)I could keep listing examples but the point is proven, stereotypes are some of the worst things humans can do and they are one of the sole causes in violence, hatred, disdain, and contempt towards other humans.

[Fancyarcher]

What are Sony execs are going to do with their Gran Turismo project now? 

 

Well believe it or not, not every single video game movie has bombed, in fact their have been a good number of hits. Sony would have to make a reasonable budget and do reasonable marketing for the film to succeed. 

[The Panda]

Well believe it or not, not every single video game movie has bombed, in fact their have been a good number of hits. Sony would have to make a reasonable budget and do reasonable marketing for the film to succeed.

Also, make it good.I don't think it's a coincidence that video game movies tend (I shouldn't even say tend there hasn't been one I thought was even decent yet) to have terrible quality and do bad at the box office.

[mcclaine]

Of course they don't always flopped, Resident Evil for instance made tons of money WW. But these two (NFS and GT) are very similar projects, so they should be taking notes from this. 

[Fancyarcher]

Of course they don't always flopped, Resident Evil for instance made tons of money WW. But these two (NFS and GT) are very similar projects, so they should be taking notes from this. 

 

I guess. 

[raniE]

Also, make it good.I don't think it's a coincidence that video game movies tend (I shouldn't even say tend there hasn't been one I thought was even decent yet) to have terrible quality and do bad at the box office.

Not even Wreck-it Ralph?

[seduh]

Frozen will be 10 for the weekend! Last weekend on top 10

[Gopher]

Grand Budapest in 66 theaters had a better PTA than Moonrise Kingdom in 16. Both are second Fridays. This is a good thing.

[DAR]

Not even Wreck-it Ralph?

That wasn't really based on a video game

[lilmac]

Do you really think it will do well overseas?

 

 

I had the same question.  This doesn't look like F&F when it comes to international appeal. 

[Jack Nevada]

It's an action movie based on a licensed property, of course it's going to do well overseas. 

[lilmac]

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/box-office-need-for-speed-in-dogfight-with-mr-peabody-1201133766/

 

 

$66 million production budget.  Give to take $50 million for prints and advertising (advert campaign was robust but they're not spending SM3 money on adds).  Let's round up to $120 million in overall costs.  About $240 million gets it even.  Unless Aaron Paul has a larger int'l following than any of us guessed, I don't see it making that in WW boxoffice alone.

[mcclaine]

$66 million production budget.  Give to take $50 million for prints and advertising (advert campaign was robust but they're not spending SM3 money on adds).  Let's round up to $120 million in overall costs.  About $240 million gets it even.  Unless Aaron Paul has a larger int'l following than any of us guessed, I don't see it making that in WW boxoffice alone.

 

Me neither. Also because international returns are lower than the ones in the US. and studios generally get between 30 to 35% only.

[lilmac]

Yep, that's why I averaged the studio's take at 50%, to make up for the less than 50% they get from overseas boxoffice receipts.  The percentage of every domestic boxoffice dollar the studio receives really starts to come down after the 2nd weekend.  

[mcclaine]

Question: how much do you think is the average P&A cost, in relation to the budget? 50% or more?

[TLK]

Question: how much do you think is the average P&A cost, in relation to the budget? 50% or more?

 

For a wide release minimum is usually $20-25 million. For big blockbusters it can obviously be a lot more.

[mcclaine]

I'm wondering if there's a relation regarding the budget, how much is it, and what is the minimum for very low budget pics.