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

[CoolioD1]

What exactly is The Good Lie?

 

That isn't the movie with Witherspoon hiking in the wild, is it?

No, that's WILD.

[TalismanRing]

 BoxOffice @BoxOffice  ·  1m 1 minute ago

THE EQUALIZER: $39.6M Overseas Total / $104M Global Total

[Jonwo]

Gone Girl cost $61m so it'll make money from domestic alone even if OS doesn't do good business. I'm guessing Affleck and Fincher were the biggest cost as everyone else probably wasn't on high salaries. Still cost less than TGWTDT which has quite a high budget for an R rated thriller. Still doesn't beat the $125m for How Do You Know which effectively killed off James L Brook's directing career. 

[The Panda]

Just like a jedi never deals in absolutes neither does box office. Saying there is no way Judge can make 20 mill is very silly.

Yeah, Scarlett Johansson pulled Lucy to an over 40m opening. With a less exciting premise RDJ should be able to pull the Judge to 20m

[CoolioD1]

Gone Girl cost $61m so it'll make money from domestic alone even if OS doesn't do good business. I'm guessing Affleck and Fincher were the biggest cost as everyone else probably wasn't on high salaries. Still cost less than TGWTDT which has quite a high budget for an R rated thriller. Still doesn't beat the $125m for How Do You Know which effectively killed off James L Brook's directing career. 

Well hey, At least Brooks and the main cast got pretty hefty paydays from that dumb budget.

[La Binoche]

@BoxOffice  22m22 minutes ago

LUCY: $280.5M Overseas Total / $406.3M Global Total #Lucy

 

Outside of microbudget horror, when was the last time a movie did over 10 times its budget?

[CoolioD1]

 

@BoxOffice  22m22 minutes ago

LUCY: $280.5M Overseas Total / $406.3M Global Total #Lucy

 

Outside of microbudget horror, when was the last time a movie did over 10 times its budget?

 

the fault in our stars did it domestic alone.

[Jonwo]

Well hey, At least Brooks and the main cast got pretty hefty paydays from that dumb budget.

 

I do wonder who at Sony thought $125m for a romcom was a. a good idea and b. would make money? James L Brooks last film before that was Spanglish and that flopped as well.

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was expensive but that had the advantage of being based on a well known book.

Edited October 5, 2014 by Jonwo

[James]

 

@BoxOffice  22m22 minutes ago

LUCY: $280.5M Overseas Total / $406.3M Global Total #Lucy

 

Outside of microbudget horror, when was the last time a movie did over 10 times its budget?

 

TFiOS did about 29x it's budget. TMR is also locked to do it. 

Edited October 5, 2014 by James

[La Binoche]

the fault in our stars did it domestic alone.

 

Outside of microbudget horror and TFIS! Lol 

[Ethan Hunt]

the fault in our stars did it domestic alone.

Sadly it couldn't break 200 or even 150M

[Kvikk Lunsj]

All three of those are significantly different. Waltz was a campy ham. Monique was a monster "redeemed" by her big Lifetime-movie speech at the end. Ledger was more of a symbol for chaos -- and comfortably outside typical everyday experience by being in a CBM. Plus, he died.

Pike (and Affleck) were not only

reprehensible characters (for different reasons), they were unrepentant, unchanged, and in fact "escaped" any sort of "movie justice" (which also separates them from Waltz, Monique, and Ledger). Not only that, but they both stand-in for exactly the sort of upper-middle class Americana that most of the Academy lives in.

What about Daniel day Lewis for There Will Be Blood?

[TalismanRing]

 

@BoxOffice  22m22 minutes ago

LUCY: $280.5M Overseas Total / $406.3M Global Total #Lucy

 

Outside of microbudget horror, when was the last time a movie did over 10 times its budget?

 

 

Budget is higher than widely reported - some $/Euro screw up in initial reporting that just got repeated .  It's around $75m not $40m.  Still, a great return.

[James]

Outside of microbudget horror and TFIS! Lol 

Neighbors.

[grim22]

Apparently Nic Cage doesn't even go full on Nic Cage crazy in Left Behind. He just sleepwalks through the role. The one reason to maybe watch the movie is also gone. Can you imagine a scene with Cage trying to respond to the rapture happening, in his own Cage style? Man, the makers didn't even know how best to utilize Cage in the movie.

[DAR]

U guys arent high on The Judge?

It's got that watch it in 6 months on a Sunday afternoon while laying on the couch feel to me

[CoolioD1]

I do wonder who at Sony thought $125m for a romcom was a. a good idea and b. would make money? James L Brooks last film before that was Spanglish and that flopped as well.

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was expensive but that had the advantage of being based on a well known book.

I think it's sometimes the clout of the director that does it. Scorsese movies used to be famous for costing too much and making too little(it's gotten a little better with some of his recent hits like Wolf and Shutter Island, though Hugo was a huge flop) but people get blinded by the fact it's martin freakin' scorsese and keep giving him lots of money to play with.

[AJG]

What exactly is The Good Lie?

That isn't the movie with Witherspoon hiking in the wild, is it?

No it's one of those "rich white women save the poor black folk" movies.

[Empire]

Apparently Nic Cage doesn't even go full on Nic Cage crazy in Left Behind. He just sleepwalks through the role. The one reason to maybe watch the movie is also gone. Can you imagine a scene with Cage trying to respond to the rapture happening, in his own Cage style? Man, the makers didn't even know how best to utilize Cage in the movie.

Well, that sucks. They shouldn't have cast Cage if they weren't going to have him go full Cage.

[CoolioD1]

No it's one of those "rich white women save the poor black folk" movies.

According to the Double Toasted review it does well to avoid that trope. maybe it's just the marketing.