Weeknd Official Est: Apes 2 - 73M | Friday Numbers and Saturday Numbers on Page 1

[kayumanggi]

AMERICA took in an estimated $0.723M on Friday from 1,105 screens. Domestic total now stands at $6.54M. #America

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

July 12, 2014

[CJohn]

I call Transformers money well spent.  I know I'm going to be entertained.  That's why I go to the movies.

And TF4 was exactly what I needed in the day after I did an exam that didn't go so well and I knew I was going to fail. It was entertaining. Me and my friends had fun with it. 

[filmlover]

This is the summer of the non multiplier.  With a 70 mill opening, it would need north of a 3.5X for it to hit 250.  Not likely imo.

I don't know. The next two weekends look to be almost complete nonevents, which will be help this. This is probably the only "blockbuster" this summer that actually has room to develop legs.

[CJohn]

For purely selfish reasons, I hope APES comes in at 69.9 with actuals.

Shame on you Tele, shame on you!

 

But I actually think I hope that as well, I don't remember what I answered 

[baumer]

For purely selfish reasons, I hope APES comes in at 69.9 with actuals.

 

 

I love how the Summer Game has made greedy, selfish bastards out of so many members here.

[#ED]

For purely selfish reasons, I hope APES comes in at 69.9 with actuals.

 

No.

[baumer]

I don't know. The next two weekends look to be almost complete nonevents, which will be help this. This is probably the only "blockbuster" this summer that actually has room to develop legs.

 

There's always competition.  Just because there isn't a movie directly competing against it, doesn't mean there won't be other options.  And furthermore, this summer is just strange.

[kayumanggi]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Fox	$27,700,000	-	-	3,967	$6,983	$27,700,000	1
2	1	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Par.	$4,832,000	+40%	-55%	3,913	$1,235	$197,363,000	15
3	2	Tammy	WB	$4,040,000	+65%	-37%	3,465	$1,166	$48,484,000	10
4	4	22 Jump Street	Sony	$2,050,000	+55%	-19%	2,811	$729	$167,311,000	29
5	5	Earth to Echo	Rela.	$1,760,000	+40%	-34%	3,230	$545	$20,858,000	10
6	3	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Fox	$1,750,000	+32%	-37%	2,885	$607	$147,953,000	29
7	6	Deliver Us From Evil	SGem	$1,570,000	+56%	-38%	3,049	$515	$21,872,000	10
8	7	Maleficent	BV	$1,242,000	+38%	-32%	2,077	$598	$219,067,000	43
9	15	Begin Again	Wein.	$824,000	+513%	+94%	939	$878	$3,175,000	15
10	10	Think Like a Man Too	SGem	$760,000	+63%	-43%	1,231	$617	$60,166,000	22
11	11	America (2014)	LGF	$723,000	+55%	-28%	1,105	$654	$6,541,000	15
12	8	Jersey Boys	WB	$710,000	+24%	-61%	1,968	$361	$39,905,000	22
13	12	Edge of Tomorrow	WB	$540,000	+40%	-47%	1,103	$490	$93,225,000	36
14	9	The Fault in our Stars	Fox	$485,000	-2%	-24%	1,002	$484	$118,608,000	36
15	14	Chef	ORF	$335,000	+84%	-38%	701	$478	$23,151,000	64
16	13	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Fox	$305,000	+39%	-43%	655	$466	$228,442,000	50

 

[CJohn]

The next two weekends are going down in history as the two most legendary Summer weekends ever. Planes 2, Purge 2, Sex Tape, Hercules and Lucy. I honestly think Planes 2 will do very, very well, but the rest...  Sex Tape may turn into another Bad Teacher, tho.

Edited July 12, 2014 by CJohn

[Ethan Hunt]

For purely selfish reasons, I hope APES comes in at 69.9 with actuals.

 Come on, that would be crule.

[Omni]

Burton's Planet of the Apes made more money than Rise and probably Dawn adjusted for inflation.Does that mean Hollywood shouldn't attempt skillful and layered storytelling?

Thanks for not understanding my point.

Sometimes quality has to be pretty high, some other times it has to be low. It just depends on what kind of audience you try to attract. If you want to make a billion out of Transformers, go for the safe bet and let Bay create his usual 2hr-long tv-spot. You can't be sure of how audience will respond to a more structured work. Films like Star Trek rely more on a standard around or above the average. A sequel to the Burton film you mentioned wouldn't have been successful, and therefore the best idea was to reboot the subject after a lifting. There are different cases.

 

Not necessarily.

Note the word 'could' in my post.

 

Well, quality is subjective. I haven't seen Apes yet, but I can almost certainly say I will like it more than TF2, but that doesn't mean that everybody has to.

Only if you let the limits of your perspective judge for you. "I liked it" and "It's a good films" are not the same thing (everyone who can't understand this on his/her own is 'refuted')...and more than that, haven't you ever said "It was a piece of trash, but I liked it" or the opposite?

 

Besides, the subject does not exist, and so nothing is 'subjective'. But that's another story.

[#ED]

[kayumanggi]

22 JUMP STREET's 19% drop from last week. Wow.

[filmlover]

There's always competition.  Just because there isn't a movie directly competing against it, doesn't mean there won't be other options.  And furthermore, this summer is just strange.

You're probably right. I still think this one has an advantage the others don't, but at this point, I kind of give it all a shrug.

[TalismanRing]

I don't know. The next two weekends look to be almost complete nonevents, which will be help this. This is probably the only "blockbuster" this summer that actually has room to develop legs.

 

There was room for most of the films this summer to develop far better legs than they did.  Other movies have with far greater competition in previous summers.  That's why B.O. is so greatly down.

[Mojoguy]

The next two weekends are going down in history as the two most legendary Summer weekends ever. Planes 2, Purge 2, Sex Tape, Hercules and Lucy. I honestly think Planes 2 will do very, very well, but the rest...  Sex Tape may turn into another Bad Teacher, tho.

Obviously families have been waiting for Planes 2 this summer. Dragon who?

[filmlover]

The next two weekends are going down in history as the two most legendary Summer weekends ever. Planes 2, Purge 2, Sex Tape, Hercules and Lucy. I honestly think Planes 2 will do very, very well, but the rest...  Sex Tape may turn into another Bad Teacher, tho.

I actually think Sex Tape will do very well. The market is kind of starving for an (appealing) comedy right now, and Diaz showed with The Other Woman that she is still capable of pulling in audiences with the right role.

[Alpha]

Yeyz for DOTPOTA. Should have at least a mid-60s OW.

[filmlover]

There was room for most of the films this summer to develop far better legs than they did.  Other movies have with far greater competition in previous summers.  That's why B.O. is so greatly down.

 

Not in the first seven weeks there weren't. Once again, just awful, awful scheduling all around.

[CJohn]

Obviously families have been waiting for Planes 2 this summer. Dragon who?

Planes 2 has an very good marketing campaign. I have seen some very good trailers and TV spots. I loved Dragon 2 but I do have to agree that the marketing was weak. We should have seen the disappointing number coming.