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

[Lordmandeep]

AMERICAN SNIPER is a 2014 movie.

 

 

Doesn't matter  it went wide in 2015.

[ChD]

 

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=binladen.htm

 

Check.

[Lordmandeep]

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=binladen.htm

 

Check.

 

 

America has been down on its knees as of late, but we saw when Osama Bin Laden was killed, how super patriotic American can become. 

Edited January 18, 2015 by Lordmandeep

[Asyulus]

I feel imagined that Sniper is going to end in 530mln WW

[Elessar]

I feel imagined that Sniper is going to end in 530mln WW

 

If Italy is anything to go by, it might make more than than WW.

[kayumanggi]

Doesn't matter  it went wide in 2015.

 

The amazing wom started in 2014. It's all over Twitter and Facebook, hence that 30.5 M opening day.

[BoxOfficeZ]

Its not just patriotism that sells. The family values in the marketing/movie paid off handsomely as well. Everyone's idea of an quintessential US soldier. 

 

 

I thought the movie was a bit uneven, all over the place, and lots of whitewashing, but I can see why it sells. Cooper was fantastic though. 

Edited January 18, 2015 by BoxOfficeZ

[Lordmandeep]

Its not just patriotism that sells. The family values in the marketing/movie paid off handsomely as well. Everyone's idea of an quintessential US soldier. 

 

 

I thought the movie was a bit uneven, all over the place, and lots of whitewashing, but I can see why it sells. Cooper was fantastic though. 

 

 

As I said before AS did well as it looked at the Iraq war from a more casual point of view. A man doing his duty and having a family.

Then compared to other films that take a more advanced or nuanced point of view about war. 

[DAR]

So I think the best comparison for this would be Black Hawk Down. It opened in late December in NY/LA to great numbers Was nominated for Oscars(might have received a Best Picture nomination had the field been more than 5). Then expanded to MLK for 28 million three day and a final total of 108.

Let's just say the three day for this is 88 million. If you take BHD's multiplier of 3.8 you get about 335 million.

[CoolioD1]

I could imagine a scenario where you guys are setting yourselves up for a disappointment. No matter how huge the movie is that always seems to be the case (I can even recall people bemoaning the fact that avatar couldn't get to 750 million without a rerelease)

[Lordmandeep]

I think the overwhelming success of this film means that all the other Oscar films will not get much attention to the casual audiences this year. 

[BoxOfficeZ]

I could imagine a scenario where you guys are setting yourselves up for a disappointment. No matter how huge the movie is that always seems to be the case (I can even recall people bemoaning the fact that avatar couldn't get to 750 million without a rerelease)

 

"Its not beating Titanic? What a failure. American Flopper." 

[Jessie]

Frozen unadjusted, Lion King adjusted. This may shatter both.

What about toy story 2?

[CJohn]

Blackhat numbers are a disgrace. Universal should have delayed the movie in the minute WB announced AS was going wide on this weekend. 

[James]

Hmmm... I'm really thinking this is doing more than 500M WW. A place in Top 10 for the year might be in the cards.

[Jessie]

I think Bradley Cooper s very popular amongst young adults, especially after the hangover movies and AS is based on a true story which happened not long ago at all, it's still fresh in people's minds. Add the fact that it advertised itself as Americans deadliest ever sniper and oscar nominations and this opening still doesn't make any fucking sense.

[kayumanggi]

The number we all have been waiting for.

STILL ALICE opened with an estimated $212,432 over the 3-day weekend from 12 locations. Domestic total stands at $0.28M. #StillAlice

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

January 18, 2015

[K1stpierre]

The number we all have been waiting for.

STILL ALICE opened with an estimated $212,432 over the 3-day weekend from 12 locations. Domestic total stands at $0.28M. #StillAlice— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) January 18, 2015

[Lordmandeep]

I think AS did not perform anywhere as strongly in Canada. 

[Ethan Hunt]

I can't imagine many kids and teens even want to see it anyways. It's gotta be a very older skewing film. Which makes its performance even more impressive.

I'm fairly certain this has a decent amount of teen interest.