Weekend Numbers: GOTG - 94M (PG 180) [25.5M Sunday (Spatula) Cancel the Godzilla legs!]

[The Futurist]

Disney had data that told them this would be a success, that s why they announced the sequel before the release of the movie.

[Maxmoser3]

Nevermind forget that 67 million opening weekend move over TF4 there's a new blockbuster in town

[eXtacy]

what were TASM 2 midnight numbers? 

 

 

 

[The Panda]

From the Deadline article comments section:

 

Joe C. says:

July 31, 2014 at 1:26 pm

Guardian’s of the Galaxy is not a staple of the Marvel Franchise. People watch the Marvel brand for what they know: Captian America, Thor, The Avengers. Guardians of the galaxy is being shoved down people’s throats with a colossal marketing push but will only yield tepid results. It will do 35.5 million tops.

 

Opening day and he might be correct.

[K1stpierre]

I really think $90M OW is the floor with the type of wom I am seeing...I mean many people who have watched it are are already projecting watching it again this weekend.

I agree. I think 90M is the floor.

[TalismanRing]

Hoping it can pull ahead or at least on par with TWS sometime. I can definitely understand the lower start, it seems like GOTG is on a bit less screens than they were, and less screens means less early shows.

 

It's in more theaters and reportedly had more screens last night in addition to the one hr earlier start.

[iceroll]

Now I'm extra mad fucking Disney didn't pair Maleficent with GOTG at the drive-ins. Does Cap really need more money?

It's not like Maleficent was suffering for $$ either. I'd rather it go to a better movie

 

[DMan7]

So my 105M OW prediction might actually come true.

[ban1o]

 

lol that multiplier would make a 117 million OW. Can't see something that high. I'm predicting 93-108. 

Edited August 1, 2014 by ban1o

[Ezen Baklattan]

Remember when 50 Shades of Grey was supposed to come out this weekend? We could have seen two $10m openers...

[The Panda]

Hate to point out the obvious but 100 m OW is anything but a lock. It's a lot easier to make $11 million from Thursday showings at the end of July than it is to make $10 million from Thursday showings in early freakin' April and Cap 2 still didn't make it to 100 m OW.

 

That said the number is incredible and I do think that a 80+ m OW is pretty much locked.

 

Cap 2 was also a sequel, Guardians is being treated like an original property with the Marvel name (similar to how Pixar's original movies were in their prime), I think Guardians number is equally as impressive, nobody predicted those previews until they actually happened.

 

Plus, Guardians will have a bigger saturday due to being a bigger family movie, and its sunday wont drop as much because I believe Cap 2 had competition on its sunday.

[miketheavenger]

I'm interested how many likes either Rth or Spatula are gonna get when they post the Friday estimate for Guardians.

[iceroll]

BTW please vote for your favorite animated movies, submit a list with at least 15 movies here:

 

http://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/15807-bofs-top-100-animated-films-of-all-time-taken-over-from-films-thread/

 

Should be pretty quick and easy, wouldn't it be interesting to find out what BOF's overall top 5 are?

[Eraserhead]

Anyone seriously thinking that 90 m OW is the floor is setting themselves up to be disappointed. Sorry.

 

Think of 75 m OW as the absolute floor and set yourselves up to hopefully be very pleasantly surprised.

[TalismanRing]

Disney had data that told them this would be a success, that s why they announced the sequel before the release of the movie.

 

Disney was saying $60-65 m opening this w/e.  Now they usually low ball by about $5-10m but not $20m-30m. 

 

They're probably also making a ton of money from Rocket stuff toys.

[TalismanRing]

Cap 2 was also a sequel, Guardians is being treated like an original property with the Marvel name (similar to how Pixar's original movies were in their prime), I think Guardians number is equally as impressive, nobody predicted those previews until they actually happened.

 

Plus, Guardians will have a bigger saturday due to being a bigger family movie, and its sunday wont drop as much because I believe Cap 2 had competition on its sunday.

 

Saturdays don't rise that high in summer especially for family/children movies - see Dragon 2 or Planes 2

[zackzack]

I am speechless, I am without speech

 

[zackzack]

Who are these punks?

No effing way...

 

 

Get Tony in here.

Edited August 1, 2014 by zackzack

[filmscholar]

Fantastic Number for "Guardians".  100 OW though?  I don't know about that.  August record is toast though.  

[The Panda]

So, I don't want to jump the gun to soon, but Disney might have found their new Iron Man?