kayumanggi Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' has now earned over $611 million worldwide: http://t.co/7QLTb0Ijif pic.twitter.com/cbFFXRifMw — Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) August 31, 2014 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moviefanatic Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Woah...nice for Apes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Nice to see Chef revitalizing a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat Vision Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Apes for 700 million? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Guardians will probably get around 4.8 on Monday, so that's 21m+ 4-day. It should get at least 2.5x multiplier from the extended weekend, so it should finish with 310m+. OS is also looking to do well above 400m, so we have another 700m+ WW grosser this year. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TServo2049 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) I mean, Guardians is definitely a big hit. It is doing great and will finish between 305-325 domestic.Things were better back then when legs mattered more and good word of mouth mattered more. 3-day opening weekend marketing mattered less. Even if TF4 was did not crush up China's box office, it still would have been a hit pretty much based on the 3-day opening weekend in the U.S. alone.But the U.S. population was smaller, overall theatrical attendance was greater, and per-capita ticket consumption was definitely greater. Release windows were much longer, comparatively fewer people had home video and/or non-over-the-air TV, and the Internet as we know it didn't exist - even if tickets weren't actually less "expensive" relative to average income/consumer budgets (after all, people were talking about tickets getting more expensive even back them), there was still less stuff competing for those dollars. So while inflation is a good way to illustrate how much bigger older stuff was, it also downplays the success of something like Frozen or GOTG in a theatrical market that doesn't encompass as big of a slice of the population.It's a double-edged sword - it shows how huge older films would be if they were dropped into this market, but it also assumes all other factors are equal, and they're not. Inflation really shows how much smaller the theatrical market has gotten - those kinds of ticket sales are mostly impossible today. Look at something like Tim Burton's Batman - in the last decade, only FIVE movies have pulled in that kind of ticket sales. Edited August 31, 2014 by TServo2049 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Apes for 700 million? Should get there. China alone will add another 60m. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat Vision Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Should get there. China alone will add another 60m.It still has Japan as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 http://deadline.com/2014/08/guardians-of-the-galaxy-matinees-box-office-november-man-826814/ Truly out of this world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 If GOTG leads next weekend (which it probably will), then it'll be the first film to take the top spot in it's sixth weekend since Avatar. Frozen did it if you don't count its first week in limited release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Why does everyone want Sin City to fail so badly? Have you guys seen it? Is it some horrible movie or something? I have no idea. Maybe because this Summer didn't have a true box office disaster yet, we're getting bored of waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 If GOTG leads next weekend (which it probably will), then it'll be the first film to take the top spot in it's sixth weekend since Avatar. Dolphin Tale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 TMNT was hardly inventive/original. Some of the jokes and themes were rehashed from the 90s movie.I know, but baumer thinks otherwise 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepsa Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 But the U.S. population was smaller, overall theatrical attendance was greater, and per-capita ticket consumption was definitely greater. Release windows were much longer, comparatively fewer people had home video and/or non-over-the-air TV, and the Internet as we know it didn't exist - even if tickets weren't actually less "expensive" relative to average income/consumer budgets (after all, people were talking about tickets getting more expensive even back them), there was still less stuff competing for those dollars. So while inflation is a good way to illustrate how much bigger older stuff was, it also downplays the success of something like Frozen or GOTG in a theatrical market that doesn't encompass as big of a slice of the population.It's a double-edged sword - it shows how huge older films would be if they were dropped into this market, but it also assumes all other factors are equal, and they're not. Inflation really shows how much smaller the theatrical market has gotten - those kinds of ticket sales are mostly impossible today. Look at something like Tim Burton's Batman - in the last decade, only FIVE movies have pulled in that kind of ticket sales. Now we got illegal downloads, watching more movies on tv, online stream. We don't go to the cinema as much as 20 years ago 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 If GOTG leads next weekend (which it probably will), then it'll be the first film to take the top spot in it's sixth weekend since Avatar.Frozen did it in the 7th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Dolphin Tale 2 DT2 doesn't open next week. It opens in 2 weeks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJackSparrow Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 So X Men Days of Future Past will gross 1 million less than X Men Last Stand...c'mon Fox!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 'Guardians' opened to $7M in Germany this weekend. That's up 74% on 'Captain America 2' but down 17% from 'Thor 2': http://t.co/Ug1C1oglds — Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) August 31, 2014 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ent Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Box Office Mojo @boxofficemojo 20m 'Sin City' in one day: $11.8 million. 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' in 10 days: $10.8 million. http://bit.ly/1qSrvG8 Expand Edited August 31, 2014 by Ent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 So X Men Days of Future Past will gross 1 million less than X Men Last Stand...c'mon Fox!!!Yeah that's just not right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
