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

[ACSlater]

 She is a hot Columbian girl  who is smart as fuck and has big boobs. So I will have to take one for the team. 

 

Hot girls come by every other day...GOTG opening day only happens once...

[Blackout]

Black Widow film first please.

[AdamKendall]

 

 

#GuardiansOfTheGalaxy on fire today heading to about $40M, on track for scorching opening wknd of $90-100M. Franchise born.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya) August 1, 2014

... come on West Coast, make that 40 ... 42 or 43.

Edited August 1, 2014 by Adam

[Kvikk Lunsj]

This.

To bad Apes did not do better.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

... come on West Coast, make that 40 ... 42 or 43.

West cost usually does well with Marvel movies. Should be 43.

[#ED]

Let's say 42M31M (flat)23M (-25%)96M?

[CJohn]

Let's say42M31M (flat)23M (-25%)96M?

Possible. I still don't see how it reaches 100M without being Paramounted into the mark. 

[CJohn]

To bad Apes did not do better.

Apes kinda got killed by the Lucy/Hercules combo and now Guardians. 

[ACSlater]

Let's say42M31M (flat)23M (-25%)96M?

 

I prefer the following:

 

43M

+ 33M

+ 25M

 

= 101M

[tonytr87]

Apes kinda got killed by the Lucy/Hercules combo and now Guardians. 

 

The thing is, that right there tells you how bad the market is. In a normal summer Apes, Lucy, and Hercules would be able to co-exist and do well on a single weekend. 

[Jessie]

The fact people argue about which character was best just shows how good this movie is.

[CJohn]

The thing is, that right there tells you how bad the market is. In a normal summer Apes, Lucy, and Hercules would be able to co-exist and do well on a single weekend. 

Lol no. 

[Orestes]

Lol no. 

 

Yeah, lot of audience overlap.

[AdamKendall]

Also, damn ... could Hercules be looking at a 70% slide ... 2-3 for today ... say it's 2.5 ... what that would be about 9 mil, coming off what just under 30 million opening.

[Walt Disney]

Apes kinda got killed by the Lucy/Hercules combo and now Guardians. 

 

Both Lucy and Hercules together are not movies that should have been able to kill Apes. Apes just isn't doing great numbers.

[Crusader]

That's quite an opening for an august release but lets be clear on something

 

Every july always had at least one MAJOR movie opening and Apes kinda doesn't really count so there was a demand for one last big movie of the summer which Guardians fulfilled

 

looking forward to seeing it as I really have no idea what its about haven't seen any trailer for it nor spots ... I only saw the poster which makes it out to be an animated movie but still reviews pushed me to see it

[CJohn]

Also, damn ... could Hercules be looking at a 70% slide ... 2-3 for today ... say it's 2.5 ... what that would be about 9 mil, coming off what just under 30 million opening.

The movie kinda sucks. I am not surprised. 

[CJohn]

Both Lucy and Hercules together are not movies that should have been able to kill Apes. Apes just isn't doing great numbers.

Combined they did almost 75M. That is a lot. And both appeal to the same audience as Apes. 

[The Panda]

Let's say42M31M (flat)23M (-25%)96M?

 

Or we could say

 

46m

38m (small increase)

30m (-20%)

114m 

[Walt Disney]

Combined they did almost 75M. That is a lot. And both appeal to the same audience as Apes. 

 

I understand what they made. However, they aren't movies that should have been able to put up numbers like that against Apes. I saw Lucy and it's not a good movie IMO. I can't imagine Hercules is much better. Apes should be able to beat movies like that.