Tuesday Actuals: APES 9.6, AOE 2.6 | All numbers in first post | The Jeremy Renner edition | NO DERAILMENTS!

[Mango]

On the bright side, it took 14 pages for a Maleficent post

 

Has anyone mentioned Man of Steel yet? 

 

Because, you know, no movie this year has topped it's gross yet. Or Monsters University for that matter. 

[Ezen Baklattan]

I think we should be allowed to discuss movies in the box office to a point where the mods will be able to control things should we veer off into uncharted discussions.

[Plain Old Tele]

Can we discuss movies? Or is it strictly box office? Sorry. Im confused.Serious question.

 

I was just joking. Obviously APES is relevant as it's a current release and at the top of the charts. But if you started talking about watching TRUE ROMANCE, that's a little off-topic.

[Sam]

Snowpiercer was so good. To make this post about numbers, I'll just say fuck you Harvey Weinstein. Snowpiercer is essentially a good Elysium, and with a proper marketing campaign like Elysium, it could've made 100M as counterprogramming in wide release on June 20, instead of the shit numbers it has right now.

Glad that you like it. Echoing Tele, I don't think it can do that well, but definitely would have gotten better numbers had it wasn't being screwed over.

[DeeCee]

I was just watching True Romance.  What a coincidence?

[Plain Old Tele]

Glad that you like it.Echoing Tele, I don't think it can do that well, but definitely would have gotten better numbers had it wasn't being screwed over.

 

Again, I don't really buy the "screwed over" argument. Was THE RAID 2 "screwed over"? Was UNDER THE SKIN "screwed over"? Was LOCKE "screwed over"? You could argue that each of those might've made a bit more with slightly adjusted release patterns, but not dramatically so. In any case, SNOWPIERCER is doing really well on VOD (where studios receive a significantly greater percentage of the gross) so it's hard to say that the Weinsteins were either idiots or wanted to spite Joon-Ho Bong.

[Sam]

Again, I don't really buy the "screwed over" argument. Was THE RAID 2 "screwed over"? Was UNDER THE SKIN "screwed over"? Was LOCKE "screwed over"? You could argue that each of those might've made a bit more with slightly adjusted release patterns, but not dramatically so. In any case, SNOWPIERCER is doing really well on VOD (where studios receive a significantly greater percentage of the gross) so it's hard to say that the Weinsteins were either idiots or wanted to spite Joon-Ho Bong.

Well, I go with idiots option. That sounds better and more fun.

[superduperm]

Hoping for $7.5M today. $8M would surprise me.

[grim22]

Initial theater counts, snowpiercer is shedding theaters

 

Rank	LW	Title	Distributor	Theater Count	Change	% Change	Week #
> NEW RELEASES
1	-	Planes: Fire & Rescue	Buena Vista	3,600	-	-	1
2	-	The Purge: Anarchy	Universal	3,303	-	-	1
3	-	Sex Tape	Sony / Columbia	3,060	-	-	1
4	-	Persecuted	Millennium Ent.	736	-	-	1
8	-	Wish I Was Here	Focus Features	60	-	-	1
13	-	I Origins	Fox Searchlight	4	-	-	1
14	-	There's No Place Like Utopia	Rocky Mountain Pictures	1	-	-	1
> EXPANDING
11	76	Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon	Radius-TWC	8	+2	+33.3%	7
12	80	Land Ho!	Sony Classics	7	+3	+75.0%	2
> DECLINING
5	15	Chef	Open Road Films	552	-149	-21.3%	11
6	17	Snowpiercer	Radius-TWC	211	-145	-40.7%	4
7	24	Third Person	Sony Classics	154	-73	-32.2%	5
9	41	Words and Pictures	Roadside Attractions	33	-7	-17.5%	9
10	45	Fed Up	Radius-TWC	12	-8	-40.0%	11

 

[darkelf]

Initial theater counts, snowpiercer is shedding theaters

 

Good, good

[Blankments]

Glad that you like it.Echoing Tele, I don't think it can do that well, but definitely would have gotten better numbers had it wasn't being screwed over.

With a wide release, I could see 60M in the cards yo

[Ezen Baklattan]

Again, I don't really buy the "screwed over" argument. Was THE RAID 2 "screwed over"? Was UNDER THE SKIN "screwed over"? Was LOCKE "screwed over"? You could argue that each of those might've made a bit more with slightly adjusted release patterns, but not dramatically so. In any case, SNOWPIERCER is doing really well on VOD (where studios receive a significantly greater percentage of the gross) so it's hard to say that the Weinsteins were either idiots or wanted to spite Joon-Ho Bong.

The only indie film in the past few years that would have really benefited from a better release pattern was THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, and even that got a wide release.

[baumer]

well that is good to know. The funny thing is I actually watched true romance 2 nights ago. Hell of a movie foryou to just pull out of your ass buddy. Lol.

[Plain Old Tele]

well that is good to know. The funny thing is I actually watched true romance 2 nights ago. Hell of a movie foryou to just pull out of your ass buddy. Lol.

 

That's crazy. Admittedly, I was talking about it with a friend a day or two ago so I guess it was stuck in my subconscious somewhere.

[darkelf]

And I just watched another Christian Slater movie. Granted, this one was much more riddled with homoerotic overtones

[grim22]

well that is good to know. The funny thing is I actually watched true romance 2 nights ago. Hell of a movie foryou to just pull out of your ass buddy. Lol.

 

 

That's crazy. Admittedly, I was talking about it with a friend a day or two ago so I guess it was stuck in my subconscious somewhere.

 

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/

 

Good numbers all around today.

Edited July 16, 2014 by grim22

[a2k]

Has anyone mentioned Man of Steel yet? 

 

Because, you know, no movie this year has topped it's gross yet. Or Monsters University for that matter. 

 

After MoS released, CF is the only non-animation that grossed more than it domestically.

[baumer]

True Romance is a fine movie....but I digress.

[baumer]

And I just watched another Christian Slater movie. Granted, this one was much more riddled with homoerotic overtones

In the Name of the Rose?

[darkelf]

In the Name of the Rose?

 

Interview with the Vampire.