dashrendar44 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 That's funny coming from Dash. Because, you know, there's all kinds of original stories coming out of Hollywood now. What's funny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wileECoyote Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Me too. But GA think otherwise. FIOS is all they want and prefer. Apparently the GA didnt go much for both at least initially. They stuck mostly to there target audience. Now just hope that EoT can develop some legs relative to the other summer releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 (edited) After next weekend Summer goes into darkness. Wake me up when Interstellar arrives. I will wake you up in October to a creepy kid next to your bed. Edited June 8, 2014 by a2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I couldn't care less about TLAMT. The rest of the Summer is just epic boring. You are free to hibernate. So see you in November? Ha ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Freak Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I'll wake you up when Think Like a Man Too, Transformers, Apes, and GOTG come out. GOTG hasn't taken Jupiter's date yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD debuted in 3 territories (GER, AUS, SWZ) and scored $364k. US debuts July 11.— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) June 8, 2014<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Unfortunate placement of letters there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I don't think anyone is making a comment about its profitability, just about the seeming inability to actually get non book readers and people outside the target audience to buy tickets. A 50%+ drop from Friday to Saturday is extremely steep for any movie. The movie simultaneously shows us the advantage and major drawback of being a social media hit. 20M+ trailer views, very popular on social media and big in presales - all pointed toward it being frontloaded unless word of mouth took it beyond the target audience. Where is the draw-back of grossing 48 million dollars opening weekend? If it had grossed the more traditional 15 mill Friday, 18 mill Saturday and 14 mill Sunday, does that make it any better? Yes baumer, yes it does. A film that grosses 48m on its opening weekend, with over half of that on Friday, demonstrates two things compare to a film that makes the same weekend gross with less than a third of it from Friday: 1) Substantially more frontloading, which indicates a strong level of interest from a smaller pool of individuals, and significantly less interest up-front from pretty much everyone else 2) A lower max ceiling on gross because of the narrower demographic attraction and appeal. 99 times out of 100, the film with substantially less OW frontloading wins domestically. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quigley Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 MALEFISHIT didn't open to more than 90 M. Second weekends DOFP: $32.6M Godzilla: $30.9M TASM 2: $35.5M Maleficent: $33.8M (very impressive since it opened more than $20M below all 3 of them) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmscholar Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 "Faults" budget was like what 15 Million? It won already big time, frontloaded or not. There was a time when Tom would slaughter anyone who opened alongside him. I'm glad quailty wise the movie is getting some respect. X-Men is falling fast but it's have a solid run overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Yes baumer, yes it does. A film that grosses 48m on its opening weekend, with over half of that on Friday, demonstrates two things compare to a film that makes the same weekend gross with less than a third of it from Friday: 1) Substantially more frontloading, which indicates a strong level of interest from a smaller pool of individuals, and significantly less interest up-front from pretty much everyone else 2) A lower max ceiling on gross because of the narrower demographic attraction and appeal. 99 times out of 100, the film with substantially less OW frontloading wins domestically. Why do you like Stannis so much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 numbers really cornered the market on stannis gifs. I never even knew he had that many faces. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Why do you like Stannis so much? Because Stannis is awesome? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Second weekends DOFP: $32.6M Godzilla: $30.9M TASM 2: $35.5M Maleficent: $33.8M (very impressive since it opened more than $20M below all 3 of them) The higher you open, the harder you fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 A-Team, Star Trek, and Spider-Man all had sub-50% drops and were big productions like EOT and going after the same audience. Some weren't even as good. It can happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punishment Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 109 user(s) are reading this topic 34 members, 73 guests, 1 anonymous users 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj99 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Anyone watching the French Open?Pretty dull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Why do people simply wave their hands and ask why didn't WB make EDGE for 100m? You knock 40% of the budget away, you get a correspondingly smaller movie. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ando918 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I had a feeling that Maleficient would have a good 2nd weekend, regardless of critics/audience reviews. I am of the belief that reviews from critics or audience word of mouth don't mean much for kiddie fare or animated movies - they are often just babysitting time-killers for families and kids. I think Pixar movies would stil be huge hits if they had 60% ratings on RT instead of their typical 90%. Mal should finish around 210 or 220 million domestic simply because only it and Dragon 2 are playing to the babysitting crowd over the next month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 A-Team, Star Trek, and Spider-Man all had sub-50% drops and were big productions like EOT and going after the same audience. Some weren't even as good. It can happen. Star Trek was May 1st week and ASM opened on Tuesday. A-Team is a legit comparison though. Managed a multiplier of 3 after opening 25m odd in June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 MALEFICENT took in an estimated $33.52M this weekend. Domestic total now stands at $127.37M. #Maleficent — BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) June 8, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
