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

[forg]

Sucks for Book of Life and Boxtrolls will just gross in the $50M range

[boogiezen]

LOTR Return of the King had some good moments but over all it was too dragging at the end. Am I the only one? I saw the Hobbit BOTFA yesterday, it didn't have the emotional impact of LOTR but much better in terms of phasing.

 

By the way, LOTR over all > Harry Potter. However, Harry Potter's last movie > LOTR Return of the King.

[Dementeleus]

ROTK: Theatrical Edition is the best of the LOTRs (FOTR:EE is close behind).

[Lordmandeep]

ROTK Extended feels like an old school epic with its length, epic battles and grand story and setting. 

[4815162342]

What's funny about the ROTK extended edition is that it's 4 hours and 20 minutes long and still no Beregond or Imrahil in Gondor.

[kitik]

It looks like Big Eyes is getting a wide release on Christmas.

 

With The Interview gone, this is what we're left with:

 

Into the Woods
Unbroken

The Gambler

Big Eyes

The Imitation Game (expansion should be big enough to be called wide)

 

[grim22]

It looks like Big Eyes is getting a wide release on Christmas.

 

With The Interview gone, this is what we're left with:

 

Into the Woods

Unbroken

The Gambler

Big Eyes

The Imitation Game (expansion should be big enough to be called wide)

 

 

The obvious demo not being targeted by any of those movies is the Male 12-34 demo which Interview, and Hot Tub Time Machine 2 before that, were targeting. Good news for Hobbit in terms of being the consensus pick for that demo, drops may be smaller for it. Either Interview or HTTM2 would have, at max, made 25-30M over the 4 day (with the press it got, Interview could have easily exceeded that had it released), that money will now go to Hobbit mainly.

[boogiezen]

And when Lord Voldemort and his men attacked Hogwarts plus an amazing score in the background it was absolutely epic!

 

 

[Ozymandias]

Although the extended editions are nice, I do prefer the theatrical versions of the LOTR movies in general, but my 'personal' cuts of each would definitely include some of the extended scenes.

Edited December 23, 2014 by Ozymandias

[AJG]

I've never seen the extended cuts.

I got my LOTR trilogy BluRay for £10 at a supermarket. The extendeds cost £10 EACH, I could never justify the purchase.

[Lordmandeep]

I remember I watched the Extended cuts in one day.

 

 

Was a very long day but it was an epic Journey. 

[Ozymandias]

I remember I watched the Extended cuts in one day.

 

 

Was a very long day but it was an epic Journey. 

 

Could you still feel your ass afterwards?

[ecstasy]

Is there a thread for actuals?

[Dementeleus]

Is there a thread for actuals?

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/index.php?/topic/17186-weekend-actuals/

But it's not much of a thread.

[grim22]

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/index.php?/topic/17186-weekend-actuals/

But it's not much of a thread.

 

The final middle earth movie (for now) opened, and we could not even get this thread past 30 pages. The box office is truly dead right now. Wonder if Star Wars 7 will have 300 pages this time next year.

[ecstasy]

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/index.php?/topic/17186-weekend-actuals/

But it's not much of a thread.

 

Thanks Tele. It must have dropped off the first page. I didn't see I so I just went to BOM.

[AniNate]

The final middle earth movie (for now) opened, and we could not even get this thread past 30 pages. The box office is truly dead right now. Wonder if Star Wars 7 will have 300 pages this time next year.

 

People just don't care anymore. Once the mixed reviews came out for the first the buzz for the whole project just faded away. I saw them mostly out of a feeling of obligation.

 

This forum's probably going to be pretty dead for the next month or so unless any of the Oscar bait breaks out. February's when it gets kinda interesting again.

[grim22]

People just don't care anymore. Once the mixed reviews came out for the first the buzz for the whole project just faded away. I saw them mostly out of a feeling of obligation.

 

This forum's probably going to be pretty dead for the next month or so unless any of the Oscar bait breaks out. February's when it gets kinda interesting again.

 

Let's get ready

 

[AniNate]

I am seriously kinda curious about how people will react to that, both critics and audiences.

[grim22]

I am seriously kinda curious about how people will react to that, both critics and audiences.

 

Huge opening day, weekend multiplier less than 2 probably. I am thinking it will be highly frontloaded on opening weekend.