Wknd Estimates: Nolan = 50M | BH6 = 56M+(pg 72) (who cares, our forum lives!)

[Fullbuster]

LINCOLN did 170 for Spielberg. 2012 for Emmerich.

 

Not bad

[Dementeleus]

Did you like Noah? I still haven't seen it.

NOAH's pretty good. I wouldn't call it great, but it's mostly fascinating and worthwhile.

[wildphantom]

Crazy expectations on here in the build up to Interstellar coming out.

If it finishes around $50 million with its near 3 hour running time and no 3D then that's a very good opening weekend. No question.

This is the sort of movie we can only judge a few weeks from now. The IMDb score is huge, the cinemascore decent. Even those that are mixed about it are surely going to tell friends they've still got to see it. I see legs.

Plus, sure it's a different audience - but having a fellow opener pull in over $50 million is bound to have played a factor in it potentially opening a little higher.

Terrific start for Big Hero 6. The mouse is well and truly back on top now. The trust in the Disney Animation brand has returned.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Somewhere in Brazil Ijack is laughing that the Amazing Spider Man 2 will out gross Interstellar. 

[forg]

I like Intersterllar but rooting for Big Hero 6 to win the weekend

[pepper83]

Go Big Hero 6!!! I hope it wins the Weekend

[Dementeleus]

IMO it will clear 200 mil even with this kind of opening

So you're saying it'll have the best legs of any movie this year (by far)? What makes you think it can do this?

[DAR]

Did you like Noah? I still haven't seen it.

I thought it was terrible

[Elessar]

I was thinking more Avatar/Inception than Gravity/Prometheus. 

 

Avatar/Inception? Why put those two together? One had twice the legs and over that the total.

[cookie]

LINCOLN did 182 for Spielberg.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

LINCOLN did 170 for Spielberg. 2012 for Emmerich.

In all fairness for Lincoln it is based of the most popular president. 

[baumer]

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I thought we already covered that Cameron is part of this discussion.  Cameron is Cameron.  

[Jandrew]

Hopefully we can quit the "Nolan is God", "Nolan is Jesus", "Nolan is the best thing since cinnamon bread and our forever overlord ruler." Almost feels like karma. The man is a great filmmaker and incredibly talent, but hes just a director. Obviously the GA sees him as a mere mortal, but Nolanites beg to differ.

[Dementeleus]

In all fairness for Lincoln it is based of the most popular president.

But IS stars our most popular Texan.

[baumer]

Inception opened in the summer and lets not forget that Interstellar is also longer than it 

 

IMO it will clear 200 mil even with this kind of opening 

 

I'm willing to bet it will have trouble getting past a 3X.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

But IS stars our most popular Texan.

I guess people in America do not give the shit about Texas.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Hopefully we can quit the "Nolan is God", "Nolan is Jesus", "Nolan is the best thing since cinnamon bread and our forever overlord ruler." Almost feels like karma. The man is a great filmmaker and incredibly talent, but hes just a director. Obviously the GA sees him as a mere mortal, but Nolanites beg to differ.

So the only box office gods seem to be Rth, Marvel and Cameron. 

[baumer]

So you're saying it'll have the best legs of any movie this year (by far)? What makes you think it can do this?

 

Let's be Cops had a 4.8X.

 

Just saying.  

[AniNate]

I thought we already covered that Cameron is part of this discussion.  Cameron is Cameron.  

 

Cameron hadn't been able to build off his own name before that film either. Titanic was a big hit via tremendous legs.

 

Whatever reasons there may have been to go soft on Interstellar, there were also plausible ones to go big on it, at least until one saw the actual film.

[TalismanRing]

The problem is IS will start losing theaters. Sure, it'll hang on to IMAX, but as we've seen, that's a limited benefit.

 

27% from IMAX though should soften the drops

 

Gravity ($55m) $11.2m from IMAX opening w/e ~ 20%

Skyfall ($90m) $12.75m from IMAX. ~14%

Edited November 8, 2014 by TalismanRing