4-Day Wknd Est: AS - 105.3M, Pad - 25.2M, TWR - 24.5M,Taken 3 - 17.44M (pg 109)

[Filmovie]

Incredible!

[ChD]

That is incredible for American Sniper. Who would've guessed Cooper would get 4 Oscar Nominations in 3 years and would be a major draw for audience a few years ago when most people first saw him in the Hangover (I actually doubt there are many people out there say "Oh, it's that guy from the Wedding Crashers")

[kayumanggi]

Wowowowow!

 

[Clef Ment]

That is incredible for American Sniper. Who would've guessed Cooper would get 4 Oscar Nominations in 3 years and would be a major draw for audience a few years ago when most people first saw him in the Hangover (I actually doubt there are many people out there say "Oh, it's that guy from the Wedding Crashers")

 

I always believed in him. 

[Olive]

250M locked

[Olive]

1). American Sniper (WB), 3,555 theaters (+3,551)/ $29.1M Fri. (+18,537%) /3-Day:$66.8M (+11,427%)/4-Day:$75.4M /Total cume: $78.8M/ Wk 3

2). The Wedding Ringer (Sony), 3,003 theaters/ $6.9M Fri./ 3-Day: $20.5M/ 4-Day: $23.8M /Wk 1

3). Paddington (TWC), 3,303 theaters / $4.8M Fri./ 3-Day: $19.3M / 4-Day: $24.1M /Wk 1

4). Taken 3 (Fox), 3,594 theaters (0)/$4.3M Fri(-71%). / 3-Day: $14.5M (-63%)/4-Day: $17.3M /Total cume: $66M/ Wk 2

5). Selma (Par), 2,235 theaters (+56) / $2.49M Fri. (-34%)/ 3-Day: $9.1M (-19%)/4-Day: $11.2M /Total cume: $28.8M / Wk 4

6). Into The Woods (DIS), 2,758 theaters (-75) / $1.7M Fri. (-31%)/ 3-Day: $6.8M (-29%)/4-Day: $8.9M /Total cume:$116.7M / Wk 4

7). The Imitation Game (TWC), 1,611 theaters (+45) / $1.8M Fri. (-14%) / 3-Day: $6.4M (-11%)/4-Day: $7.7M /Total cume: $51.3M / Wk 8

8). The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (WB), 2,220 theaters (-1182)/$1.3M (-47%)Fri./ 3-Day: $5.2M (-44%) /4-Day: $6.7M /Total cume: $245.9M/ Wk 5

9). Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (FOX), 2,437 theaters (-934) / $975K Fri. (-40%) / 3-Day: $4.3M(-35%)/4-Day: $5.7M /Total cume: $106.7M / Wk 5

10). Unbroken (UNI), 2,602 theaters (-699) / $1.2M Fri. (-51%)/ 3-Day: $4.1M (-49%)/4-Day: $4.8M/Total cume: $109.1M / Wk 4

11). Blackhat (UNI), 2,567 theaters / $1.4M Fri./ 3-Day: $4M/4-Day: $4.8M / Wk 1

Notables:
Birdman (FSL) 471 theaters (+243)/$383K Fri. (+139%)/3-day: $1.4M (+141%)/4-day: $1.7M/Total cume: $28.4M/Wk 14

Wild (FSL), 764 theaters (-522)/ $382K Fri. (-53%)/ 3-Day: $1.2M (-53%)/4-day: $1.5M/Total cume: $33.1M / Wk 7

The Theory of Everything (FOC), 509 theaters (+101)/ $255K Fri. (+40%)/ 3-Day: $949K (+41%)/4-day: $1.1M/Total cume: $27.5M / Wk 11

Foxcatcher (SPC), 759 theaters (+522)/ $249K Fri. /3-Day: $926K (+92%)/4-day: $1M/Total cume: $10M / Wk 10

Spare Parts (LGF) / 440 theaters/ $250K Fri ./ 3-day: $828K /4-day cume: $1.027M/Wk 1

Whiplash (SPC) 189 theaters (+120)/$94K Fri. /3-day cume: $351K (+145%)/4-day cume: 423K/Total cume:$6.7M/Wk 15

Two Days, One Night (IFC) 15 theaters (+10) / $14K Fri. / 3-Day: $52K (+27%)/4-day cume: $64K/ Total cume: $248K / Wk 4

[kayumanggi]

Those are lower numbers than what rth has given.

[baumer]

So this is going to be the highest grossing Best Picture nominated film of 2014.

 

Yea, probably by Saturday lol.

[Krissykins]

First bomb of 2015 with Blackhat!

Fantastic for American Sniper!

[The Stingray]

250M locked

 

Too early, no?

 

Either way, +200m would make it one of the most impressive box office feats in recent years.

Edited January 17, 2015 by The Stingray

[kayumanggi]

What's the highest grossing January film? GRAN TORINO?

 

Edit: I just realized, AS is not a January film. lol

Edited January 17, 2015 by kayumanggi

[forg]

Fantastic for AS! It opens here next week (Jan. 21) and marketing has been really good. WB is really good with marketing

 

Wedding Ringer  also started good as well! Solid for Paddington too!

[baumer]

I don't get the forums sometimes.  A film comes out, blows expectations out of the water and some of you want to bitch and complain about its agenda or why another movie isn't doing well.  jandrew made a great post a few pages back about why light "black" films do well.  I just watched Madea 's Christmas last night and laughed my ass off.  I find Kevin Hart a bit annoying in some of his films but in others he cracks me up.  Sometimes we just want to laugh and sometimes people might just be tired of seeing films about slavery and civil rights.  As jandrew said, the 50/60's were a bad time for black people in America but that doesn't mean that every film about black rights/plights/fights and so on is going to do well.  You can't force people to see something just because it's about MLK.  

 

As for Sniper, again, some of you are strange.  

 

On to the box office. With Snipe doing 5 mill in business on Thursday and going by RTH's low of 30, I'm not even sure what film to compare it to.  But let's use Ride Along.  Can't use Green Hornet or Cloverfield or Paul Blart, so I'll go with another film that blew people's expectations out of the water.  I don't remember what kind of Thursday it had but let's say it did about 2 mill.  So if AS follows it, it will have about a 8-10% increase today or at minimum stay flat.  But let's go conservative and say 5% bump.

 

Friday:  30

Sat:  31.5

Sun:   20

 

That's 80 for the three day and about 93 for the 4 day.

 

That's one of the most surprising, shocking WTF openings in film history. At this point 200 looks locked and with the WOM being as strong as it is (three of my friends have seen it and have raved about it) it really could have a 3 multiplier.  

 

Great start of the year for the box office.

 

Taken 3 has a huge fall and might miss 100 mill but is obviously still going to do well over all.

[BoxOfficeZ]

I would love to see sniper do over 100m 4 day, imagine the reactions. Makes last summer look like a joke. 

[MonstersandRoy]

Bloody hell Sniper. And I was thinking my $55m prediction was at the high end, going to smash that to pieces.

 

Wonder if Paddington WOM will give it long legs in US, like it has in Germany/UK.

 

Hobbit's massive theater drop has hurt it. Would be ahead of Into the Woods and well ahead of Unbroken if it wern't for the steep 1,100 drop. Will probably limp past DoS, just about. Very surprised Into the Woods only dropped 75 theaters seeing as it's averages have been pretty poor.

Edited January 17, 2015 by MonstersandRoy

[eXtacy]

Yep thats an easy 80m+ for the four day debut, simply stunned. The only question is how frontloaded it will be? Its guaranteed to break the January box office record of 171m by A Beautiful Mind.

[baumer]

Yep thats an easy 80m+ for the four day debut, simply stunned. The only question is how frontloaded it will be? Its guaranteed to break the January box office record of 171m by A Beautiful Mind.

 

I doubt its going to be frontloaded.  Terrific WOM and oscar noms.  Those Oscar noms will be the main part of the marketing push now.

[baumer]

I'm not usually one to pile on Guru, but this weekend prediction is probably one of his worst, then again, doubt too many thought it would do this well, but his 43 mill 4 day for Sniper is going to be surpassed sometime around 5 pm on Saturday.

 

The R-rated entry will appeal to older folks as most war films and Clint pics do, but it has ample appeal to the under-40 set thanks to star Bradley Cooper. Add in good reviews and six Oscar nominations and the buzz is hot enough for it to take the number one spot. Expanding from four to over 3,200 locations, American Sniper might collect about $43M over the long four-day holiday frame.

[miketheavenger]

Insane numbers for AS. I agree with Baumer btw. Most of the forum complainted about 2014's weak boxoffice and now when one movie destroys literally every single expectation for it, you are complaining about how undeserving it is because of its topic. It's just a movie for God's sake. Get over it.

[baumer]

And another thing I find unbelievably weird is how pro military Americans are.  When you get war heroes at professional sporting events, they are given a standing ovation, they are at center ice or center field or whatever and the Star Bangled Banner plays in their honour.  After 9/11, the US became even more patriotic, at least that's how it looked to me.  And here's a story about a war hero, someone doing what Uncle Sam has asked of him and he did it better than anyone, and now some people here are angry at the movie?  Take your pick guys.  You can't have it both ways.