Weekend numbers: Ca2 41.4M, Oculus 12M, draft day 9.75M, Raid 2 1M

[#ED]

I give up. I think we posted 4 different numbers in the last 2 pages for RIO and Cap2.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

$11.9 for some reason, is a way more palatable number to me than $11mil. I don't know. My brain, I guess.

 

I can live with a -56% decrease. That's around the neighborhood of what I was hoping for.

Damn that first boxoffice.com projection. I know better than to get my hopes up so early, but still, it happens LOL!

[Ent]

Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya  · 1m #Rio2 edges CA2 on FRI for #1 spot w/ $12M. May reach about $43M wknd. +10% vs 1st #Rio.

[Ent]

Both of  them will finish between $41 -$43M, I think

[CJohn]

Rio 3, here we go.

[kayumanggi]

$3.6M opening day for #DraftDay heading to $10-11M wknd. Mild avg under $4k.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

April 12, 2014

[grim22]

11.9M is effectively the exact same Friday jump as IM3 had. (159.1% vs 159.4%). The saturday bump will be interesting to see since none of the Marvel movies so far have had direct family competition this early in their run.

[Krissykins]

Remember that Hobbit picture from Deadline with the accounting?

 

Seems that dividing the gross by roughly 1.8 is what the studios are taking home just now from domestic grosses.

 

A recent article in TIME magazine had the same ratio, a fiancier said a $50m film needs to make $90m.

[rainbowtrout]

The fact that Kevin Costner gets to keep starring in movies at his age, even after some of them flop, is similar to how the movie studios have given Liam Neeson a bunch of big roles in the last 5 years.  It is actually a lot of sexism, given how there aren't very many leading roles for females - yet there are plenty of extremely talented actresses out there who would like to be the leading role in a film.  But the studio executives are still stuck in the year 1970 where they would rather give Kevin Costner the lead in 3 flops, or Josh Brolin the lead in 3 flops instead of giving some talented females a chance at leading roles.  I feel bad for talented actresses in Hollywood in their 20s or 30s who can't get leading roles (other than romantic comedies or a superhero's sidekick/girlfriend) because older, White men keep getting them instead.

Sexism, lol.

 

Jennifer Lawrence is getting a ton of leading roles, and might be the most popular movie star at the moment.  Shailene Woodley is getting a ton of leading  roles.  Chloe Moretz is getting a ton of leading roles.  Scarlett Johansen has the leading role in Lucy, and she's never been proven to be a box office draw.  Sandra Bullock is one of the biggest stars in the world.

 

Who are the actresses that should be getting prime roles and aren't?

Edited April 12, 2014 by rainbowtrout

[grim22]

Boxoffice.com effectively apologizing for the meltdowns caused by the early numbers. Hopefully this finally stops weekend threads being created based on the BO.com numbers - don't think the early trends by BO.com (i.e. prior to 1pm Pacific) have ever been accurate.

 

Disney reports this morning that Captain America: The Winter Soldier grabbed $11.9 million on Friday, declining 68 percent from its opening day last week. Unfortunately, Friday night business dropped off from trends earlier in the day that indicated the film could ring up at least $1-2 million more yesterday. That said, BoxOffice projects a still-healthy $42 million sophomore frame for the hit Disney/Marvel sequel, which has now tallied $129.5 million domestically in 8 days. That's 9 percent ahead of the pace of Thor: The Dark World as the film continues to enjoy positive word of mouth.

Edited April 12, 2014 by grim22

[CJohn]

Noah is about the become the biggest OW of the year over here, topping 12 Years a Slave OW from January 2.

[a2k]

Don't know if it's been posted but Deadline upped it's numbers for CA2 from last night (11m => 11.7m)

 

1). Rio 2 (FOX), 3,948 theaters / $11.9M Fri. / 3-day cume: $43.9M to $44.3M / Wk 1

2). Captain America: The Winter Soldier (DIS), 3,938 theaters (0) / $11.7M Fri. / 3-day cume: $40.5M to $41.8M  (-56%) / Total cume: $158M to $159.5M / Wk 2

3). Oculus (REL), 2,648 theaters / $4.9M Fri. / 3-day cume: $12.2M to $12.8M / Wk 1

4). Draft Day (LGF), 2,781 theaters / $3.57M Fri. / 3-day cume: $10.5M to $10.9M / Wk 1

5). Divergent (LGF), 3,110 theaters (-521) / $2.3M Fri. / 3-day cume: $7.4M / Total cume: $124.7M / Wk 4

6). Noah (PAR), 3,282 theaters (-289) / $2M Fri./ 3-day cume: $7M / Total cume: $84.5M / Wk 3

7). God’s Not Dead (FREE), 1,860 theaters (+102) / $1.57M Fri. / 3-day cume: $5.47M / Total cume: $40.8M / Wk 4

8). The Grand Budapest Hotel (FSL), 1,467 theaters (+204) / $1.1M Fri. / 3-day cume: $3.M / Total cume: $39.3M / Wk 6

9). Muppets Most Wanted (DIS), 2,261 theaters (-791) / $565K Fri. / 3-day cume: $2.28M / Total Cume: $45.8M / Wk 4

10). Mr. Peabody And Sherman (FOX), 2,001 theaters (-930) / $445K Fri. /3-day cume: $1.7M / Total cume: $105.1M / Wk 6

 

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/box-office-rio-2-goes-wild-captain-america-shields-40m-to-41m-or-more-for-no-2-oculus-runs-over-draft-day/

Edited April 12, 2014 by a2knet

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Sexism, lol.

 

Jennifer Lawrence is getting a ton of leading roles, and might be the most popular movie star at the moment.  Shailene Woodley is getting a ton of leading  roles.  Chloe Moretz is getting a ton of leading roles.  Scarlett Johansen has the leading role in Lucy, and she's never been proven to be a box office draw.  Sandra Bullock is one of the biggest stars in the world.

 

Who are the actresses that should be getting prime roles and aren't?

 

To be fair, those actresses you listed are under a certain age, except for Sandra Bullock, but she's had an exceptional career especially as a post-40 year old actress. 

 

I do think there's an ageist/racist thing still in Hollywood among the gender divide. Sandra Bullock will be getting roles, but her box office record the older she's gotten is darn near flawless (save for that one movie with Bradley Cooper) but I doubt few would consider someone like Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett (though I have to give props to WB for casting her in GL… though that ended up going nowhere) for high profile movies like Bullock's or Julia Roberts…. 

 

It'll be very interesting to see where both JLaw and ScarJo go in terms of their careers. Ditto Zoe Saldana, who I believe may be the highest profile actress of color right now. 

Edited April 12, 2014 by WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

[baumer]

Bullock's record is not flawless.  Until she did The Proposal, she was not considered bankable at all.  Keep in mind, in between her big hits, she's had a few duds.  I'm not saying anyone would have made All About Steve or Extremely Loud any bigger than they were, but Bullock is not untouchable in terms of box office.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

I do think it's kind of weird to see Costner in two leading roles within months of each other, they certainly can't say it's based on him being a recent box office draw. It's not that no women ever get to lead a movie, but it's not close to an even split in terms of who gets to be the face of big budget properties, and the number of chances (this is also a race thing, Hollywood seems more willing to try to make white actors-male or female-happen compared to those who aren't). The disparity in opportunity even extends behind the camera, as I really don't see a woman or minority director getting $125 million to make a WTF version of the Noah's Ark story just because they had exactly one prior movie go over $100M, while the rest hadn't even made $30M.

Edited April 12, 2014 by BoxOfficeChica

[John Marston]

I wonder if Noah can get 100m..Divergent looks to be aiming for 140

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Bullock's record is not flawless.  Until she did The Proposal, she was not considered bankable at all.  Keep in mind, in between her big hits, she's had a few duds.  I'm not saying anyone would have made All About Steve or Extremely Loud any bigger than they were, but Bullock is not untouchable in terms of box office.

 

Oh yeah… but in terms of an older actress, she's incredibly bankable now. Which is probably what I should've said rather than the overused/inappropriate "flawless" - which is really shorthand internetspeak for "really awesome". 

But even All About Steve came out the same year Blind Side did, so still she rather lucked out in the "bomb" department. It's kind of great that she's getting good action/comedy roles and great dramatic stuff that doesn't involve children or being a grandmother or something along those lines.

[baumer]

Costner is getting a rebirth because of his work on his HBO show, the Hatfield and McCoy's.  Producers strike while they think the iron is hot.

[Ando918]

Sexism, lol.

 

Jennifer Lawrence is getting a ton of leading roles, and might be the most popular movie star at the moment.  Shailene Woodley is getting a ton of leading  roles.  Chloe Moretz is getting a ton of leading roles.  Scarlett Johansen has the leading role in Lucy, and she's never been proven to be a box office draw.  Sandra Bullock is one of the biggest stars in the world.

 

Who are the actresses that should be getting prime roles and aren't?

Right-winger Rainbow Trout should take a look at what percentage of the leading roles in movies in a given year go to females.  So far in 2014, we're at about 20%.  Same as the last several years.  Jennifer Lawrence had 2 starring roles last year.  Scarlett will have 1 or 2 leading roles this year.  Angelina will have 1 starring role this year.  Melissa McCarthy will get 1.  Cameron Diaz will get 1 or 2.  If you actually do the math, females get shafted when it comes to leading roles.  Hopefully J-Law is changing this, and hopefully Shailene Woodley will change this with her success to come.  But when you say "a ton" of leading roles, you should count up all of the mainstream movies in a given year and see just how few have females in the lead.  If you just look at Catching Fire, Frozen, and Gravity, you won't notice just how few movies in the top 100 had female leads.

 

http://www.thewrap.com/cate-blanchett-women-little-progress-landing-major-movie-roles-study

[Jessie]

nothing will accomplish TDK numbers just because what happened around it historically…no movie will act like TDK ever because of Heath and his death….and the Joker…its a singular movie. No movie will act like it

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