Weekend Estimates | TF4 - 100M (Paramount sticking to 100M for the Wknd Est)| More Numbers on Page 1

[La Binoche]

Hmmm I WONDER if Malf is closer to 2.4 or 2.9 today 

 

[MrPink]

Just watched the first hour of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

 

 

Hail Branagh

 

You think this iz game, Jack?

[darkelf]

Just watched the first hour of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

 

 

Hail Branagh

 

First hour better than second.

 

/Branagh accent

[Dementeleus]

I'd actually pay good money to see present-day lunatic Nic Cage in a Michael Bay action extravaganza. Preferably a WW2 movie. Think Saving Private Ryan, but instead of saving them, they have to kill him, cause he's an alien, working for the Nazis, meant to infiltrate the US Government after his return to the US as a war hero.

 

Michael Bay directs WOLFENSTEIN. Cage plays BJ Blazkowicz. DONE.

[reddevil18]

Indeed. Then, like STID and TASM2 before it, we can have a Transformers movie that uses someone's magical blood as a plot device.

Didn't the MATRIX OF LEADERSHIP already pretty much play that role? Didn't it kinda revive Sam (or was I hallucinating? I may have been high each time I saw TF2 - possibly as a result of the first half of that movie)? If so, then maybe his blood became magical. Which would explain why they dropped him as the lead in this new trilogy. After Chicago, the government harvested his blood.

[4815162342]

 

He is right. Transformers the First is a solid B and Pain and Gain is wickedly funny and cunning. Bay needs to embrace his inner Coen Bros. a lot more often.

[Jay Beezy]

Eh, they're not the first to use it, just the first to overuse it.

 

Edge of Tomorrow utilized magical alien blood. I didn't mind that as much since it pretty much solved any time travel paradox.

[reddevil18]

Michael Bay directs WOLFENSTEIN. Cage plays BJ Blazkowicz. DONE.

Paramount...ball is in your court.

[paul75]

Maleficent will beat both Godzilla & TASM2 to 200M. Power of Jolie. 

 it can still have a sub 30% weekend?

[tommycruise]

 

[Dementeleus]

Edge of Tomorrow utilized magical alien blood. 

 

It was stupid there too.

[reddevil18]

He is right. Transformers the First is a solid B and Pain and Gain is wickedly funny and cunning. Bay needs to embrace his inner Coen Bros. a lot more often.

[reddevil18]

 it can still have a sub 30% weekend?

Fuck that shit.

[Empire]

He is right. Transformers the First is a solid B and Pain and Gain is wickedly funny and cunning. Bay needs to embrace his inner Coen Bros. a lot more often.

 

[reddevil18]

First hour better than second.

 

/Branagh accent

Light bulb trumps all!

[reddevil18]

[darkelf]

Light bulb trumps all!

 

I, how you say Mr Ryan, don't understand

[reddevil18]

I, how you say Mr Ryan, don't understand

Light bulb scene is in the second half.

[Robertron]

I think they stuck with the Friday release so they could have at least one 30m+ day.

[Gopher]

Box Office: ‘Snowpiercer’ On Good Path To Amazing $95M to $98M+ Opening

 

2nd UPDATE, Friday, 5:50 PM: With matinees coming in on the West Coast and evenings started on the East Coast, it looks like the 10 theaters playing Friday for Radius-TWC's Snowpiercer will rake in anywhere right now between $95M and as high as $98M to $100M+, depending on how the Bong Joon-Ho film performs tonight and what kind of Friday to Saturday bump it enjoys. That would indicate an amazing $9.5M to $10M+ per theater, which is a new PTA record. BUT, the night is young. More to come as the evening and late night crowd comes in and the grosses are more apparent.

 

Meanwhile, Paramount's Transformers: Age of Extinction is on track for $3-4M today from 11,283 theaters, which coupled with the $8.7M Thursday night figure should lead to a $20-22M opening for a solid $2k PTA this weekend.