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

[kayumanggi]

'American Sniper's $30.5 million is the biggest single day ever in January, ahead of 'Avatar's $25.8M on 1/2/2010: http://t.co/2E62GYKTzw

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo)

January 17, 2015

[CJohn]

American Sniper is gonna beat his own record today 

[MrPink]

American Sniper is gonna beat his own record today 

 

Very possible. I suspect there's gonna be a lot of spillover from yesterday and the theaters will be better prepared today

[Ozymandias]

250m+ won't surprise me at all point, I've never seen a sold out theater so silent us they got up to leave after it ended, and I don't live in a MURICA FUCK YA city at all.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Ozymandias

[Joel M]

I wonder how lopsided the domestic/OS ratio for AS will be.

 

It has done 15 mil. in Italy in 2 weeks and will finish over 20. Which is more than every movie from 2014. So it will definatelly be many times bigger than every other Iraq/Afghanistan movie. Maybe even close to 50/50 ratio.

 

I guess all it needed for those movies to stop bombing was enough time to pass from the actuals events. Every Iraq-war themed movie bombed for a decade and then ZDT and Lone Survivor became successes. And now American Sniper is the first huge hit of that genre in America and the first one that will do serious business in the rest of the world.

 

I wonder how many years took for Vietnam movies to find success. Was it Deerhunter in '78? It won a lot of oscars but I don't know how succesfull it was at the boxoffice.

[kayumanggi]

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES earned an estimated $1.19M on Friday. Domestic total stands at $240.9M. #TheHobbit

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

January 17, 2015

[#ED]

HUGE NFL games tomorrow. It looks like it hit the box office last year.

[MrPink]

HUGE NFL games tomorrow. It looks like it hit the box office last year.

 

Awwwwwwww Yeeeeeeeeeah

 

[druv10]

Awwwwwwww Yeeeeeeeeeah

 

 

Seahawks are gonna whoop the Packers.   

[MrPink]

Seahawks are gonna whoop the Packers.   

 

Probably, but it's ok, I got the gimpy excuse to fall back on. I'm just happy we made the NFC championship.

[FTF]

Holy shit at that AS # o_0

This is the most shocking od/ow I can remember.

[kayumanggi]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	American Sniper	WB	$30,500,000	+58,491%	+19,406%	3,555	$8,579	$33,925,000	23
2	-	The Wedding Ringer	SGem	$7,000,000	-	-	3,003	$2,331	$7,000,000	1
3	-	Paddington	W/Dim.	$4,657,000	-	-	3,303	$1,410	$4,657,000	1
4	1	Taken 3	Fox	$4,250,000	+144%	-71%	3,594	$1,183	$53,037,000	8
5	2	Selma	Par.	$2,360,000	+112%	-37%	2,235	$1,056	$20,024,000	23
6	3	The Imitation Game	Wein.	$1,879,000	+127%	-12%	1,611	$1,166	$45,485,000	50
7	6	Into the Woods	BV	$1,675,000	+169%	-32%	2,758	$607	$109,429,000	23
8	-	Blackhat	Uni.	$1,400,000	-	-	2,567	$545	$1,400,000	1
9	5	Unbroken	Uni.	$1,200,000	+87%	-53%	2,602	$461	$105,543,000	23
10	4	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	WB	$1,185,000	+68%	-52%	2,220	$534	$240,862,000	31
-	8	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Fox	$850,000	+183%	-48%	2,437	$349	$101,798,000	29
-	9	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$482,000	+113%	-55%	1,221	$395	$331,126,000	57
-	10	The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death	Rela.	$470,000	+120%	-69%	1,392	$338	$23,658,000	15
-	15	Birdman	FoxS	$404,000	+224%	+153%	471	$858	$27,130,000	92
-	7	Wild (2014)	FoxS	$400,000	+25%	-51%	764	$524	$31,955,000	45
-	12	Inherent Vice	WB	$320,000	+60%	-67%	653	$490	$5,636,000	36

 

[Jandrew]

Going to see Sniper at 4. Not because of Chris Kyle or fuck yeah Merica, but because Cooper has really grown on me. I havent seen a movie because of the actor in it since Equalizer with Denzel, if it wasn anybody else as Equalizer I probably wouldve skipped. Also Ive been deprived of s good action movie. I thought Taken 3 could satisfy but nope. Hopefully ill enjoy it, it does look heartfelt.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Jandrew

[RySenkari]

I think the second weekend drop is going to be very small. I fully expect a $40M+ second weekend.

[kdx125]

It has done 15 mil. in Italy in 2 weeks and will finish over 20. Which is more than every movie from 2014. So it will definatelly be many times bigger than every other Iraq/Afghanistan movie. Maybe even close to 50/50 ratio.

 

I guess all it needed for those movies to stop bombing was enough time to pass from the actuals events. Every Iraq-war themed movie bombed for a decade and then ZDT and Lone Survivor became successes. And now American Sniper is the first huge hit of that genre in America and the first one that will do serious business in the rest of the world.

 

I wonder how many years took for Vietnam movies to find success. Was it Deerhunter in '78? It won a lot of oscars but I don't know how succesfull it was at the boxoffice.

 

When Platoon came out (1986), I remember reading magazine articles about how groundbreaking it was that Hollywood was finally willing to make a Vietnam War movie again. Mojo has Platoon making 138.5M (all DOM) on a 6M budget.

 

Deer Hunter was listed 49.0M (also all DOM) on 15M, so it looks like it was a modest financial success.

[Fancyarcher]

It has done 15 mil. in Italy in 2 weeks and will finish over 20. Which is more than every movie from 2014. So it will definatelly be many times bigger than every other Iraq/Afghanistan movie. Maybe even close to 50/50 ratio.

 

I guess all it needed for those movies to stop bombing was enough time to pass from the actuals events. Every Iraq-war themed movie bombed for a decade and then ZDT and Lone Survivor became successes. And now American Sniper is the first huge hit of that genre in America and the first one that will do serious business in the rest of the world.

 

I wonder how many years took for Vietnam movies to find success. Was it Deerhunter in '78? It won a lot of oscars but I don't know how succesfull it was at the boxoffice.

 

The Deerhunter made 48m in 1978 / 1979, considering it's 15m budget made it a success.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Fancyarcher

[The Futurist]

Sienna Miller has top billing on the poster of American Sniper with letters the same size as Cooper.

[riczhang]

The Deerhunter made 48m in 1978 / 1979, considering it's 15m made it a success.

 

And it was in the top 10 of the year. 

[Durden]

@raysubers

$30.5 million in a single day for an R-rated war drama is shocking. With great word-of-mouth, SNIPER will hit $100 million by Monday (!!!)

[The Panda]

With glowing WoM and lots of Oscar nominations American Sniper (and a big emotional reaction to that), relevant topic, it should have very strong legs with this opening. I think Passion of the Christ should be a good comparison to it.