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

[Cochofles]

Watch out, Avatar. Veronica Mars is coming to snatch your box office wig!!! :-)

Edited March 23, 2014 by cochofles

[grim22]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Divergent	LG/S	$56,000,000	-	3,936	-	$14,228	$56,000,000	$85	1
2	N	Muppets Most Wanted	BV	$16,514,000	-	3,194	-	$5,170	$16,514,000	$50	1
3	1	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Fox	$11,700,000	-46.4%	3,607	-344	$3,244	$81,002,000	$145	3
4	2	300: Rise of An Empire	WB	$8,665,000	-54.9%	3,085	-405	$2,809	$93,753,000	$110	3
5	N	God's Not Dead	Free	$8,564,000	-	780	-	$10,979	$8,564,000	-	1
6	3	Need for Speed	BV	$7,781,000	-56.4%	3,115	-	$2,498	$30,404,000	$66	2
7	8	The Grand Budapest Hotel	FoxS	$6,750,000	+85.5%	304	+238	$22,204	$12,961,000	-	3
8	4	Non-Stop	Uni.	$6,346,000	-40.2%	2,945	-238	$2,155	$78,621,000	$50	4
9	6	The LEGO Movie	WB	$4,115,000	-46.6%	2,501	-539	$1,645	$243,352,000	$60	7
10	5	Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club	LGF	$3,100,000	-61.6%	1,896	-	$1,635	$12,910,000	-	2
11	7	Son of God	Fox	$2,650,000	-52.1%	2,139	-851	$1,239	$55,600,000	-	4
12	10	The Monuments Men	Sony	$975,000	-52.7%	938	-656	$1,039	$75,709,000	$70	7
13	9	Frozen	BV	$734,000	-65.8%	1,069	-397	$687	$397,743,000	$150	18
14	13	Ride Along	Uni.	$608,000	-55.9%	650	-374	$935	$133,101,000	$25	10
15	12	3 Days to Kill	Rela.	$587,000	-66.1%	752	-814	$781	$29,733,000	$28	5
16	34	Bad Words	Focus	$500,000	+341.3%	87	+81	$5,747	$656,000	-	2
17	11	Veronica Mars	WB	$490,000	-75.4%	347	+56	$1,412	$2,855,000	$6	2
-	14	12 Years a Slave	FoxS	$445,000	-63.6%	522	-403	$852	$56,036,000	$20	23
-	20	The Nut Job	ORF	$338,000	-29.9%	335	-70	$1,009	$62,602,000	$42	10
-	17	American Hustle	Sony	$240,000	-60.6%	281	-222	$854	$149,814,000	$40	15
-	15	RoboCop (2014)	Sony	$230,000	-73.1%	328	-637	$701	$57,084,000	$100	6
-	22	Philomena	Wein.	$211,000	-49.9%	297	-205	$710	$37,093,000	$12	18

 

Edited March 23, 2014 by grim22

[babz06]

Disney spent all that money on marketing for Muppets Most Wanted and in the end, it wasnt worth it. The first one didnt even make 100m DOM. Peabody and Lego killed this one.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Anybody want to guess how much Divergent will drop in percentage next weekend?

[Mojoguy]

Disney spent all that money on marketing for Muppets Most Wanted and in the end, it wasnt worth it. The first one didnt even make 100m DOM. Peabody and Lego killed this one.

Don't worry the budget for Muppets 2 was really low, so Disney will still end up making a profit in time.

[John Marston]

Don't worry the budget for Muppets 2 was really low, so Disney will still end up making a profit in time.

Considering how much marketing there was, it might not be that profitable after all

[CJohn]

Disney gave it a pretty big push over the Super Bowl.

[Plain Old Tele]

Even if its a loss-leader, it helps keep the brand in the public eye.

[The Panda]

Shameless plug for the Box Office Forums Film Festivalhttp://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/14158-the-box-office-forums-film-festival/?p=1290765#entry1290765I need some interest competitor participants, but anybody can participate at any time in the festival.

[Jonwo]

Even if its a loss-leader, it helps keep the brand in the public eye.

Exactly, even though this film will make less than the last film. Disney won't let The Muppets fade into obscurity, the OS market in places like the UK is where the Muppets do well.I do think they should either more specials or a TV series for The Muppets rather than another film.

[mcclaine]

Anybody want to guess how much Divergent will drop in percentage next weekend?

 

At least until we see tomorrows drop, i guess i'm clueless.

[DAR]

Actually before Jim Henson died he tried to sell the Muppets to Disney back in 1990. Then the family ended selling it to a European investor for 680 million. Then later on the family received the rights back for about 80 million. 2004 is when they sold the rights to Disney for an disclosed sum but it was believed to be under 200 million. Considering the last movie made money, this one should end up close and any other ancillary revenue this has been more than a wise investment for Disney

[zarrra24]

why did muppets suffer at the box office despite the good reviews and stellar marketing campaign?

[DAR]

Audiences just weren't interested

[CaptainJackSparrow]

why did muppets suffer at the box office despite the good reviews and stellar marketing campaign?

There have been a tone of family films lately. (Frozen, Walking With Dinos, Nut Job, Lego Movie, Peabody and Sherman)Plus, Muppet movies have never done very well at the box office, people like the shows more.

[MovieGuyKyle17]

Those Muppets numbers are very disappointing 

[AJG]

why did muppets suffer at the box office despite the good reviews and stellar marketing campaign?

The majority of Nostalgic adults had their fill.And judging by what my kids tell me (aged 6-9), kids don't know the Muppets as well as any of the cameos, and in their own words "puppets are for little kids" (I think they mean toddlers, but it was still odd)EDIT: WillECoyotes post on the Muppet topic pretty sums up my thoughts on the situation

Yeah unfortunately not a very good performance BO wise. Still loved the movie. Watching The Muppets always brings back great memories. And I think that is its major problem. Not many people in the theater and the majority were adult. Not many children. And it seemed like the adults enjoyed it more than the kids . Regardless, it was a great movie. Solid musical numbers. And the guest stars were fun to watch as well.

Edited March 24, 2014 by AJG

[The Panda]

I got dragged to the God's Not Dead movie (my friend told me she bought tickets and we were going, so I went), and as a propanda piece it was actually fairly well-made, but it had an incredibly faulty, inconsistent, convoluted, biased (obviously) script (the biggest fault of the movie), but I should have expected that knowing the genre.The best part was the actor who played the professor (the majority of the actors did fairly well for how one dimensional the characters were) and he gave a great performance for how weirdly the author wrote him. Literally the writer wrote him at first with good arguments tha continually destroyed whatever the freshman tried to say, but then at a point the writer was like, "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be writing propaganda, not a realistic debate." And the professor goes from a one dimensional dickwad professor who's intelligent and well versed on the subject debated in, to a one dimensional dickwad who doesn't know how to hold a debate.That's the thing I didn't like about the movie, if the character wasn't Christian then they were heartless, unlikable people to a point where it was ridiculous. Such as when the professor invites his colleagues over with his Christian girlfriend (something that made no sense, and the relationship was creepy) and him and all the professors are like, "Ho Ho Ho, you believe in God? Unintelligent imbecile, go make us another sandwich you inferior specimen." It really portrayed academia in a false and stereotyped light that it was insulting.But then again it was a propaganda piece that literally ended the movie by asking you to advertise their movie for them by texting everybody in your contact list, God's Not Dead, as everyone lives happily ever after including

The dead professor who got hit by a car and the preacher dude just so happens to be able to convert him in his last 3 minutes of life. Then everyone is laughing and happy, despite the fact that there is a dead man on the street.

The movie was technically well made, but not was that script terrible. It served its purpose though, everybody in the packed theater ate it up (I even got some God's not dead texts) and applauded multiple times.

Edited March 24, 2014 by The Panda

[Electric]

why did muppets suffer at the box office despite the good reviews and stellar marketing campaign?

 

Live action "kids movies" never are that big to begin with. Though I know there can be exceptions.

[Peeta Tong Karanasios]

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

Well now i can't wait to read Queen of the Tearling!

It comes out in just 3 months and something!

The plot is very interesting and already a movie is in development with WB,David heyman as producer and EMMA WATSON as the star of the film!

 

Early reviews are positive and they compare it with Game of thrones.