Weekend Estimates: Annabelle - 37.2M | Gone Girl - 38M | Equalizer - 19M | Maze Runner - 12M | Left Behind - 6.8M

[La Binoche]

I'm curious about Gone Girl's Cinemascore. It's a long, cold movie with 

no one to really root for, as both Nick and Amy are unlikable.

Then again a poor Cinemascore didn't stop Lucy from becoming a global beast. 

[ky02121]

Rooting for Amazing Amy. Screw that doll 

[Blankments]

Film theory predicts

 

Annabelle - 30M

Gone Girl - 20M

The Good Lie - 12M

[maryksinger]

I'm curious about Gone Girl's Cinemascore. It's a long, cold movie with 

no one to really root for, as both Nick and Amy are unlikable.

Then again a poor Cinemascore didn't stop Lucy from becoming a global beast. 

the way the critics will , annabelle will get a f

[La Binoche]

Rooting for Amazing Amy. Screw that doll 

 

Amazing Amy, the 

Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction of this decade. Teaching mean that she won't be ignored!

[CJohn]

I hope Annabelle cracks the 30M because I want both of them over that mark.

[maryksinger]

Gone Girl 34M, Annabelle 25-30M (Pg 3)

 

 

oh no

[filmlover]

I actually think Gone Girl should have a relatively healthy increase tomorrow since it's an adult-targeted film with a long running time. Something like a jump from $12M to $15M (or 25%).

[filmlover]

I'm curious about Gone Girl's Cinemascore. It's a long, cold movie with 

no one to really root for, as both Nick and Amy are unlikable.

Then again a poor Cinemascore didn't stop Lucy from becoming a global beast. 

Prisoners got an A- from Cinemascore audiences last year and that was also a very long, pretty dark movie.

[maryksinger]

I'll love if annabelle opens with more than gone girl

[grim22]

Prisoners got an A- from Cinemascore audiences last year and that was also a very long, pretty dark movie.

 

Prisoners caused a major controversy with its Cinemascore. It had received a B+ Cinemascore, then the studio asked Cinemascore to relook at the ballots, and they came back with an A-

 

Cinemascore has ceased being any measure of a movies legs nowadays. I think we will find very little correlation between the two in the past year or so.

 

 

When the gritty drama Prisoners received a B+ CinemaScore on its opening night in September, the grade didn't make sense to Warner Bros. So the studio went back to the research firm, which for three decades has surveyed Friday moviegoers, and asked for a recount. By Sunday morning (and in time for media calls), Warner Bros. was reporting an A- CinemaScore.

 

The unprecedented redo irked rival studios and came at a critical juncture for CinemaScore, whose influential letter grades of moviegoer sentiment have been criticized for relying on outdated polling techniques and too limited a sample. Insiders say CinemaScore even apologized when box-office smashGravity received an A-, saying it should have polled only 3D showings instead of a 2D-3D mix (Gravity is playing like an A+ movie).

Edited October 3, 2014 by grim22

[CJohn]

Meanwhile Gone Girl doing big business is not even the most insane thing happening right now in the box office world as Dracula Untold will open bigger than 300 2, Godzilla, Captain America 2 and other big movies here. This thing is exploding OS. 

[Deep Wang]

I'm curious about Gone Girl's Cinemascore. It's a long, cold movie with 

no one to really root for, as both Nick and Amy are unlikable.

Then again a poor Cinemascore didn't stop Lucy from becoming a global beast. 

 

 

I dunno..

 

I thought the movie was pretty clearly on Ben's side.  Yes, he was an asshole, but the shit she did was waaaaaaay worse.    

[Heat Vision]

Meanwhile Gone Girl doing big business is not even the most insane thing happening right now in the box office world as Dracula Untold will open bigger than 300 2, Godzilla, Captain America 2 and other big movies here. This thing is exploding OS.

This man knows what he's talking about.

[babz06]

Meanwhile Gone Girl doing big business is not even the most insane thing happening right now in the box office world as Dracula Untold will open bigger than 300 2, Godzilla, Captain America 2 and other big movies here. This thing is exploding OS. 

I could see that coming from a mile away. it looks like a big action epic film not a horror. 

[Heat Vision]

I still see Gone Girl going higher than 34 million.

[CJohn]

I could see that coming from a mile away. it looks like a big action epic film not a horror. 

It was sold as an event action blockbuster movie. And it worked. I heard it doesn't have any horror either. So they are not lying in marketing. 

Edited October 3, 2014 by CJohn

[kitik]

Meanwhile Gone Girl doing big business is not even the most insane thing happening right now in the box office world as Dracula Untold will open bigger than 300 2, Godzilla, Captain America 2 and other big movies here. This thing is exploding OS. 

 

 

It's an awful looking movie that looks destined to flop domestically. No way in hell is it opening even remotely close to those movies.

[CJohn]

It's an awful looking movie that looks destined to flop domestically. No way in hell is it opening even remotely close to those movies.

I never said it would do it DOM  

 

But OS is looking at a big result. Enough for Universal most likely continue with this new idea of using it as the start of the shared Monsters Universe. 

[Empire]

Good start for Gone Girl and Anabelle.