WKND Est. - Hobbit 56M, NATM 17M, Annie 16M, Exodus 8M, Mockingjay 7M, John Wick 115K, Interview 0M

[Elessar]

Yeah, well, Hobbit is not LOTR and nobody is saying that. The story doesn't offer that many emotional beats but they still managed to give it more depth than the book.

[AniNate]

Yeah, well, Hobbit is not LOTR and nobody is saying that. The story doesn't offer that many emotional beats but they still managed to give it more depth than the book.

 

The final battle really did not need to be its own movie

[Noctis]

Especially this one

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrNFjgCVeBo

 

Barely got anything like that in the Hobbit movies.

 

Is the passionate make out scene between Frodo and Sam in the extended edition?

[Elessar]

 

The final battle really did not need to be its own movie

 

I'm glad it was. They would have had to cut so much otherwise.

Edited December 22, 2014 by Elessar

[Ozymandias]

Each arrow represents one of the Hobbit movies.

 

 

I think I might be starting to hate them more than I should.

[MonstersandRoy]

Yeah the Hobbit also has a few moments of real emotion. Bilbo sparing Gollums life being one, very short but quite powerful.

 

In fact most the emotive scenes from The Hobbit come from Bilbo. Freeman suited the role perfectly, sometimes you just wish there was more of him in the films.

Edited December 22, 2014 by MonstersandRoy

[The Panda]

Yeah, that's why girls and kids were crying at my showing of TBOTFA. So...

... it doesn't mean we all have.

Oh are we talking about tears? I definitely shed tears while watching smaug and five armies, but they probably weren't for the intended reasons.

[dashrendar44]

Sometimes I poop and it's so big that I'm proud of my achievement and it hurts when we have to say goodbye.

 

So big that you have to flush it not one time, not two times but three times in a row just as much as the endless ROTK corny false endings. So emotional to say so many weeping goodbyes...

[straggler]

So the Hobbit came in at 54 million. NATM came in at 17M. Annie came in below 16M. Exodus at 8M. Mockingjay had a decent hold at 7.8M. . 

Edited December 22, 2014 by straggler

[John Marston]

Hobbit still had strong Saturday and Friday increases but Sunday drop was harsher than projected

[eXtacy]

While domestic went down overseas it had a 4m bump, so a 110m OS weekend

[TalismanRing]

Actuals from BOM

 

View Index: By Year | By Weekend

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 N The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies WB $54,724,334 - 3,875 - $14,122 $89,131,544 - 1 2 N Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Fox $17,100,520 - 3,785 - $4,518 $17,100,520 $127 1 3 N Annie (2014) Sony $15,861,939 - 3,116 - $5,090 $15,861,939 $65 1 4 1 Exodus: Gods and Kings Fox $8,105,681 -66.4% 3,503 - $2,314 $38,942,192 $140 2 5 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 LGF $7,879,421 -37.9% 3,174 -557 $2,482 $289,356,110 $125 5 6 10 Wild (2014) FoxS $4,113,752 +168.7% 1,061 +945 $3,877 $7,174,489 - 3 7 5 Big Hero 6 BV $3,642,326 -39.9% 2,407 -536 $1,513 $190,520,749 $165 7 8 4 Top Five Par. $3,590,013 -47.9% 1,307 +328 $2,747 $12,477,306 - 2 9 N P.K. UTV $3,565,258 - 272 - $13,108 $3,565,258 - 1 10 3 Penguins of Madagascar Fox $3,476,141 -51.8% 2,717 -950 $1,279 $64,123,602 $132 4 11 6 Interstellar Par. $2,702,289 -50.4% 1,550 -1,142 $1,743 $171,535,531 $165 7 12 7 Horrible Bosses 2 WB $2,203,429 -52.2% 1,902 -1,300 $1,158 $47,778,121 $42 4 13 9 The Theory of Everything Focus $1,611,333 -34.7% 1,011 -209 $1,594 $19,843,906 $15 7 14 18 Foxcatcher SPC $954,000 +137.3% 307 +228 $3,107 $4,438,000 - 6 15 11 Birdman FoxS $865,337 -33.9% 452 -154 $1,914 $22,204,384 $18 10 16 13 The Imitation Game Wein. $858,615 +1.0% 34 +9 $25,253 $3,155,576 - 4 17 8 Dumb and Dumber To Uni. $768,605 -72.4% 986 -1,856 $780 $83,677,765 $40 6 18 12 Gone Girl Fox $376,364 -63.5% 352 -611 $1,069 $165,203,822 $61 12 19 14 St. Vincent Wein. $225,458 -67.5% 404 -608 $558 $42,389,144 - 11 - 22 Whiplash SPC $197,000 -25.4% 111 -43 $1,775 $5,087,000 $3.3 11 - 31 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day BV $189,485 +32.8% 261 +27 $726 $64,820,855 $28 11 - 19 The Homesman Saban $173,000 -54.6% 166 -56 $1,042 $1,997,000 - 6 - 15 Fury (2014) Sony $170,436 -71.6% 238 -488 $716 $84,705,660 $68 10 - 16 Nightcrawler ORF $149,360 -75.0% 153 -645 $976 $31,517,052 $8.5 8 - 20 Inherent Vice WB $145,277 -55.7% 5 - $29,055 $597,982 - 2 - 28 John Wick LG/S $122,323 -27.1% 180 -80 $680 $42,599,681 $20 9 - 26 The Maze Runner Fox $121,335 -35.7% 181 -60 $670 $101,813,353 $34 14 - 29 The Book of Life (2014) Fox $113,966 -32.0% 173 -55 $659 $48,914,148 $50 10 - N Mr. Turner SPC $109,000 - 5 - $21,800 $109,000 - 1 - 27 Guardians of the Galaxy BV $104,971 -42.0% 206 -39 $510 $332,657,316 $170 21 - 24 Back in Time (Congcong Nanian) CL $93,300 -54.8% 19 -1 $4,911 $427,321 - 2 - 33 The Babadook IFC $89,900 -33.1% 79 -1 $1,138 $466,700 - 4 - 25 The Equalizer Sony $73,370 -62.3% 111 -151 $661 $100,915,604 $55 13 - 30 The Judge WB $61,436 -62.0% 135 -168 $455 $46,884,037 $50 11 - 34 Citizenfour RTWC $58,100 -46.3% 52 -53 $1,117 $2,041,000 - 9 - 17 The Pyramid Fox $57,243 -90.2% 122 -563 $469 $2,637,829 - 3 - 35 The Boxtrolls Focus $51,862 -48.8% 176 -47 $295 $50,312,233 $60 13 - 37 Force Majeure Magn. $42,013 -34.9% 48 -18 $875 $1,018,460 - 9 - 54 Awake: The Life of Yogananda CF&SR $26,815 +114.6% 13 +6 $2,063 $929,017 - 11 - 47 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX) WB $22,993 +1.4% 40 - $575 $8,349,326 - 38 - N Song of the Sea GK $21,910 - 2 - $10,955 $21,910 - 1 - 43 Boyhood IFC $21,500 -26.6% 25 -1 $860 $24,132,400 $4 24 - 36 Rosewater ORF $20,366 -68.7% 27 -88 $754 $3,093,491 - 6 - 40 Antarctica: A Year on Ice MBox $20,112 -46.2% 20 - $1,006 $170,171 - 4 - 46 Dear White People RAtt. $11,800 -48.8% 13 -16 $908 $4,342,900 - 10 - 50 The Tale of The Princess Kaguya GK $9,617 -51.6% 11 -8 $874 $552,080 - 10 - 42 The Good Lie WB $9,519 -67.9% 18 -17 $529 $2,676,697 - 12 - 38 Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas Gold. $6,788 -86.3% 30 -150 $226 $2,778,297 - 6 - 52 Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me A23 $6,050 -62.5% 6 -7 $1,008 $356,626 - 9 - 49 Zero Motivation Zeit. $5,980 -68.6% 4 -3 $1,495 $51,953 - 3 - 57 My Old Lady Cohen $5,262 -39.7% 10 -8 $526 $3,979,443 - 15 - 58 Diplomacy Zeit. $3,893 -54.3% 4 -2 $973 $212,196 - 10 - 76 Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation FRun $3,143 +270.6% 3 +2 $1,048 $23,423 - 15 - 63 The Two Faces of January Magn. $2,783 -27.5% 4 -1 $696 $506,067 - 13 - 59 She's Beautiful When She's Angry ICir $2,020 -75.1% 1 -1 $2,020 $35,955 - 3 - - Why Don't You Play in Hell Drft. $1,909 - 3 - $636 $17,950 - 7 - 60 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles Cohen $1,664 -76.7% 1 -1 $1,664 $15,528 - 2 - 80 The Overnighters Drft. $1,049 +110.6% 2 +1 $525 $96,860 - 11 - 86 20,000 Days on Earth Drft. $804 +339.3% 2 +1 $402 $276,181 - 14 - 81 Life Partners Magn. $722 +68.3% 1 -2 $722 $5,327 - 3 - 71 Pioneer Magn. $442 -68.7% 1 -2 $442 $5,697 - 3 - 65 Viva La Liberta Distrib. $136 -95.4% 2 -5 $68 $31,818 - 7

 

 

[Ando918]

Glad to see that Kirk Cameron's movie is over and done with and lost money doing so.  It had a production budget of 6 million and will finish at only 2.8 million.

[Elessar]

Everything seems to have dropped harsher on Sunday than the same weekend 11 years ago.

[Mango]

Dat Interstellar Sunday hold

[grim22]

The next 14 days will see pretty good holds at the box office (apart from on the 24th). 

[ladyevenstar22]

I'm done with all my xmas shopping finally give it a big push today!

Crazy traffic today school's out everybody is out doing the same thing converging to same shopping area

[Jessie]

Yeah, that's why girls and kids were crying at my showing of TBOTFA. So...

 

 

... it doesn't mean we all have.

Hey I only cried once

[vc2002]

Glad to see that Kirk Cameron's movie is over and done with and lost money doing so.  It had a production budget of 6 million and will finish at only 2.8 million.

 

I hope he doesn't blame Charles Darwin for this.

[Harpospoke]

I hate when people use this argument. It holds no water. If it wasn't a movie people liked watching they wouldn't go see it! There's plenty of other avenues for people to be entertained these days and they'd choose something different if they didn't like MJ.

How many movies have had no competition this year and still had hard drops? MJ is liked by most which shows by it's sexy legs so far.

Shouldn't it have "sexy legs" since it opened much lower than the previous HG movies?