Weekend #s on Pg 34. Divergent 56M. Muppets 16.5M. Peabody 11.7M, 302 8.6M, Gods not dead 8.5M

[The Futurist]

There s only one YA Queen and she ain't from Chicago :

 

[Cmasterclay]

Eh. Prob won't do much over 50, with that. I have no idea where the 70+ predictions ever came from. This is much closer to the Host than Hunger Games

[CaptainJackSparrow]

So, I can see a 50 OW / 125 DOM

[fmpro]

Plus they've already made back half of the budget through selling the international rights for the film

Link?42,5 mill....That sounds awfull cheap for a potential big franchise.

[Dementeleus]

Link?42,5 mill....That sounds awfull cheap for a potential big franchise.

 

Presumably they just wanted to cover their bases on the first movie. If it's a hit they can negotiate new deals for the sequels and still make bank.

[ban1o]

haha guess I overestimated this . Still a 45 million opening is decent and definitely not a bomb. 

[seegs]

Link?42,5 mill....That sounds awfull cheap for a potential big franchise.

 

This was the only thing I could find about it.

 

http://www.thewrap.com/divergent-tracking-50-million-box-office-opening/

 

"It has an $85 million production budget and marketing will likely run another $40 million, but pre-sales of foreign rights have already brought in roughly $65 million."

[grey ghost]

Satisfied enough to officially greenlight the sequel, apparently. The budget's only $85m, that's not too bad.

 

 

Percy Jackson got a sequel with a bigger budget (95 m).

 

We'll see if Divergent can match Percy's 226 m worldwide gross.

[tracygee]

Not great, but certainly not awful.

 

The first Twilight isn't a good comparison, because I'm pretty sure they didn't have 8pm or even 10pm screenings for that one.  In comparison, this really much lower. 

Edited March 21, 2014 by tracygee

[CJohn]

Those 5M are far from huge. I was expecting 7-8M. 50M is the target now.

[kells]

Not great, but certainly not awful.

 

The first Twilight isn't a good comparison, because I'm pretty sure they didn't have 8pm or even 10pm screenings for that one.  In comparison, this really much lower. 

 

I think it's sort of been proven though that the earlier "midnight" showings really haven't resulted in higher box office midnights. People just go earlier, but the same number of people seem to go, whether midnights start at 8 or 12:00.

 

But, midnights in general weren't as big back in 2008, so Divergent coming in under Twilight isn't the greatest sign.

 

Should still go over $50 million, but I was expecting higher.

[Noctis]

Katniss Everdeen and Hermione Granger still rule among YA heroines. Yay. 

[Gopher]

High 20s for Muppets would thrill me but I don't trust that 'tracking'.I was going to say that my total negligence of Divergent's existence might mean that I'm growing older and I no longer follow kids movies.. but I still care about The Muppets. So.

[Dementeleus]

This was the only thing I could find about it.

 

http://www.thewrap.com/divergent-tracking-50-million-box-office-opening/

 

"It has an $85 million production budget and marketing will likely run another $40 million, but pre-sales of foreign rights have already brought in roughly $65 million."

 

85 + 40 = 135m, so basically they're 70m in the hole as the movie gets released. Anything over 150m WW should mean comfortable profits.

[Captain Craig]

Plus they've already made back half of the budget through selling the international rights for the film 

Oh, hadn't heard that. Changes the equation substantially. Lowers the threshold of where success is marked thus increasing more installments. Lionsgate....well played. 

[grim22]

Looked up the box office results for "The Muppets". Despite being 96% on RT, and opening over Thanksgiving for 41M 5 day, it ended with 88M domestic. Did none of the audience like the movie or something? Barely doubling the 5 day Thanksgiving start is just weird for such a well reviewed movie which appealed to the family audience.

[Dementeleus]

I have a confession to make. It's so shocking I had to hide it in spoiler tags and color it white. Highlight if you must.

 

 

I've never seen a Muppets movie.

[Chewy]

Looked up the box office results for "The Muppets". Despite being 96% on RT, and opening over Thanksgiving for 41M 5 day, it ended with 88M domestic. Did none of the audience like the movie or something? Barely doubling the 5 day Thanksgiving start is just weird for such a well reviewed movie which appealed to the family audience.

 

Seemed like it appealed more to nostalgic adults than kids.

[Chewy]

I have a confession to make. It's so shocking I had to hide it in spoiler tags and color it white. Highlight if you must.

 

 

I've never seen a Muppets movie.

 

I know you've seen

Empire Strikes Back 

 

[Aplandg]

Not too impressed with 4.9 million. $60 million was on my low side of predictions and now it's on the high end. We'll see what happens I guess, and reviews aside, maybe it would be too front loaded.