Official Weekend Estimates: Maleficent - 70M, X-Men - 32.6M, A Million Ways - 17.1M, Godzilla - 12.2M

[Orestes]

This is 4 years after Alice though... Does half the Friday matinee number really mean half the OW? There can be other factors at play.

 

Other factors to consider, too. For example, wasn't Alice in the middle of the school year? Whereas now, some schools are out for summer. Of course, Alice didn't have 7pm previews I dont think.

Edited May 30, 2014 by Orestes

[efialtes76]

90m+  predicitions are ridiculous!

[redfirebird2008]

Thank you, now we have a basis.

 

Alice in Wonderland made 40.8m, this is roughly half of that. So its not actually trending that strong

 

Considering the time of year the two were released, it looks even worse in comparison. During March when Alice came out, all students including college kids are still in school. In late May, college kids are out of school and a lot of younger kids are out too. My local school district finished school yesterday, so the kids could easily go to the movies today.

[ecstasy]

Thanks for the numbers Spat.

 

[#ED]

[Moviedweeb]

Difficult to know how things are going to go. Still too early but AMWTDITW figures don't look encouraging.

 

21 Jump Street made less during midnight but grossed over $36m during its OW. The preview numbers for Million Ways don't really tell us much. 

[CJohn]

This is a good day. So, hmmm, we have 2 Gods now? 

 

[spazz91]

LOL Spatula is about to create a firestorm.

 

about to?

 

I'd say the fire is already hot

[MrPink]

Spatula, can you confirm where Fast 6 was roughly compared to X-Men during 2nd Friday matinees?

[4815162342]

This is a good day. So, hmmm, we have 2 Gods now? 

 

 

[spazz91]

This is a good day. So, hmmm, we have 2 Gods now? 

 

 

[MrPink]

RTH and Spatula in an epic showdown:

 

[Heretic]

Hail Spatula!
 

[water]

can't wait for that 35m opening day

[Fancyarcher]

It is trending for a 60M OW. Not bad.

 

For a film that Disney spent over 200m on apparently, if it opened with that much, it really wouldn't be that good, technically.

 

In comparison AMTDITW is not looking to do so well at the box office, but at least it only has a modest budget of 40m, so Universal won't lose much money on it likely.

 

Maleficent will have to make some big bucks overseas if it wants to considered profitable, and that's more than likely going to happen.

 

Of course this is only matinee numbers for one person and it is May, so things may be different.

Edited May 30, 2014 by Fancyarcher

[spazz91]

reading this thread is hilarious. we really have no idea what to do with these matinee numbers.

[eXtacy]

Holy crap, Spatula has some otherworldly sources.

 

 

[grim22]

Wait... Matinee numbers? Woooooow. This is the brave new world we were promised.Not that we can glean much yet, but it will be good to see the trends.

Edited May 30, 2014 by grim22

[Heretic]

Sounds like a great number for Maleficent. $65m should happen, at the minimum. 

[The Stingray]

RTH and Spatula in an epic showdown:

 

 

I miss John Woo.