Weekend Estimates: The Purge 28.3M | Apes 36M | Sex Tape 15M | Planes 18M | Godzilla 470k +91% 198.9m!!! | More Numbers on Page 1

[wileECoyote]

And a massive disappointment and a big loss for the studio.

 

EoT should still be close to break even.  But yeah I wish it performed better. 

[grim22]

Foreign numbers coming in.

 

Edge of Tomorrow at $358 mil. Double its production budget globally! Bring on the sequel!

 

Every movie doesn't need a sequel. Edge of Tomorrow had a clearly defined and self contained story to tell, and it did very well at that, the plot was resolved and done with, no need for a sequel at all. Let the movie stand alone.

[Ajbg]

Every movie doesn't need a sequel. Edge of Tomorrow had a clearly defined and self contained story to tell, and it did very well at that, the plot was resolved and done with, no need for a sequel at all. Let the movie stand alone.

And it'll not have one. Warner lost some money with it.

[The Panda]

It's sad to see Planes 2 only making $18M. I thought for sure it could do $20M. I think I over-estimated the demographics. I thought children 2-7, who were regular movie-goers, would go see the film. It looks like children 8 years old are a little old for Plane 2. So only children ages 2-7 who are regular movie-goers went to see the film.

Sad? More like inspiring given the cars/planes franchise are some of the worst things to come from Disney/Pixar and that their market scheme to make a movie for the pure sake of selling more toys failed.

[Tau Ceti]

Every movie doesn't need a sequel. Edge of Tomorrow had a clearly defined and self contained story to tell, and it did very well at that, the plot was resolved and done with, no need for a sequel at all. Let the movie stand alone.

 

I was kidding. Agree it doesn't need a sequel. 

 

After home media take, I'm not entirely convinced Edge will lose money. Certainly it's a few tens of millions better off than the estimates floating around when it opened. Pacific Rim got a sequel greenlit with very similar numbers.

[KATCH-2D2]

Transformers continues to make plenty of money with no one really caring.

I do care, but it's OS numbers are way more exciting.

[The Panda]

I was kidding. Agree it doesn't need a sequel. After home media take, I'm not entirely convinced Edge will lose money. Certainly it's a few tens of millions better off than the estimates floating around when it opened. Pacific Rim got a sequel greenlit with very similar numbers.

But not everything needs a sequel...What is it with this day and age wanting to franchise anything that's a hit? Why not just make more original content and go off goodwill of your old content?Pixar did that for a while and it worked handsomely, then they sequalized and their movies were still successful just not close to the heights of their string of original content.

[Tau Ceti]

Panda, in my first two sentences I agreed this film doesn't need a sequel.

[Fancyarcher]

Terrific hold for Apes.  Not sure how it will perform from here on out. I really have no idea how Lucy and Hercules will do.

 

Apes should see another 50%, simply because those movies are targeting some of the same audience as Apes is.

[Fancyarcher]

Chef has an outside shot at 30M.

 

Great movie. Glad for its success.

[The Panda]

Apes should see another 50%, simply because those movies are targeting some of the same audience as Apes is.

I think it will be under 50, not in the 30s but maybe 43-46% range

[filmlover]

I do care, but it's OS numbers are way more exciting.

I was referring to how uneventful it's run has been.

[Fancyarcher]

I think it will be under 50, not in the 30s but maybe 43-46% range

 

Seems reasonable enough. I don't Lucy and especially Hercules will have much of an impact on it.

[The Panda]

Boyhood did 1.2m in 33 theaters, that's a great 209% increase, they should really widen their release and expansion schedule this is doing good numbers for a low budget.It could even help them finance a strong awards campaign.

[filmlover]

Lucy is rated R and Hercules is looking to be a total non-event. Another 40-45% drop for Apes doesn't seem impossible.

[Cochofles]

Titanic is the highest grossing film about the ship Titanic.

LOL

[Cochofles]

Tammy is the highest grossing movie about Melissa McCarthy being Melissa McCarthy as the only selling point to the thing.

 That´s unfair. You mean "the highest grossing movie in which the main selling point is Melissa McCarthy playing another variation of the big screen persona/archetype through which she first captured audiences' attention." She is not like that in real life (I know, duh!), just like Angelina is not a fairy sorceress in real life and Tom Cruise is not a secret agent in real life.

[Cochofles]

By the way...another great hold for Tammy!! Yay! Maybe it will get to 100 million! Even if it doesn't, it's profitable, and it keeps MacCarthy in Hollywood's box office A-list rolodex for the time being.

[Blackout]

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: $507.9M Overseas Total / $738.3M Global Total #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

July 20, 2014

[The Panda]

Lucy is rated R and Hercules is looking to be a total non-event. Another 40-45% drop for Apes doesn't seem impossible.

I think it's fairly likely, Apes will gain back some of the older teen - 20 audience it lost to the purge this week which will make up for losing some adult audience to Lucy.