Weekend Numbers Jan 23-25 pg 46(AS 64 mill, Mom's cookies 15)

[Warhorse]

It's widely considered a well-made movie, at the very least. Dishonest? Maybe. It's straightforward and unpretentious (if a bit basic and un-flashy). It's going to beat the fucking shit out of Mockingjay (probably both), though. Thank God.

Yeah, I don't care what anybody says, AS is a well made movie. A mediocre movie would never leave the audience stunned and silenced at the end the way this superb movie did.

[Warhorse]

Fun fact - AS opened a shade under Godzilla, and will outgross its total in 11 days of wide release.

Wow dem Godzilla legs be so shitty.

Because it was a shitty movie that had a pretty trailer.

[MrPink]

 

[The Futurist]

The third is having some awful legs. It won't even be able to reach 100M from a 40M OW. The direction is atrocious. It made my head hurt during the first 2 action scenes. There is no justification for not hiring a decent director and keeping that hack for this one again after the terrible job he did with Taken 2.

 

Check out Taken 1's director next film, could be great, Gunman with Sean Penn.

[eddyxx]

With all due respect, we have several award shows where the public votes. The two biggest ones are People's Choice Awards  and the MTV movie awards, and they can be about as extreme as the oscars. 

Yeah how many times did Twilight win?

 

People are stupid.

[Michael Gary Scott]

All these Daniel Bryan gifs are reminding me that he won't win the Royal Rumble tonight and will get screwed by the WWE again...

I don't think I can deal with a Cena - Reigns WM main event so that better not happen

[CJohn]

I don't think I can deal with a Cena - Reigns WM main event so that better not happen

The RR PPV is gonna be very predictable, I can feel it...

[Walt Disney]

Anyone think of a good reason movies drop 40%+ on this Sunday?

Pro Bowl?

Royal Rumble?

 

Preparing for the 30 inches of snow that will hit NYC in the next few days.

[forg]

 

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	American Sniper	WB	$64,365,000	-27.9%	3,705	+150	$17,372	$200,137,000	$58.8	5
2	N	The Boy Next Door	Uni.	$15,001,000	-	2,602	-	$5,765	$15,001,000	$4	1
3	3	Paddington	W/Dim.	$12,391,000	-34.7%	3,355	+52	$3,693	$40,062,000	-	2
4	2	The Wedding Ringer	SGem	$11,600,000	-43.8%	3,003	-	$3,863	$39,677,000	$23	2
5	4	Taken 3	Fox	$7,600,000	-48.4%	2,909	-685	$2,613	$76,051,000	$48	3
6	6	The Imitation Game	Wein.	$7,136,000	+4.9%	2,025	+414	$3,524	$60,642,000	-	9
7	N	Strange Magic	BV	$5,534,000	-	3,020	-	$1,832	$5,534,000	-	1
8	5	Selma	Par.	$5,500,000	-37.4%	2,046	-189	$2,688	$39,220,000	$20	5
9	N	Mortdecai	LGF	$4,125,000	-	2,648	-	$1,558	$4,125,000	$60	1
10	7	Into the Woods	BV	$3,886,000	-42.6%	2,270	-488	$1,712	$121,494,000	$50	5
11	8	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	WB	$2,805,000	-42.8%	1,444	-776	$1,943	$249,576,000	-	6
12	9	Unbroken	Uni.	$2,056,000	-51.1%	1,606	-996	$1,280	$112,421,000	$65	5
13	15	Birdman	FoxS	$1,915,000	+24.1%	833	+362	$2,299	$30,913,000	$18	15
14	11	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Fox	$1,800,000	-53.1%	1,370	-1,067	$1,314	$108,612,000	$127	6
15	10	Blackhat	Uni.	$1,644,000	-57.9%	2,568	+1	$640	$7,073,000	$70	2
16	21	The Theory of Everything	Focus	$1,300,000	+33.8%	858	+349	$1,515	$29,093,000	$15	12
17	13	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$1,045,000	-44.2%	676	-545	$1,546	$334,330,000	$125	10
18	N	Cake	CLF	$1,003,000	-	482	-	$2,081	$1,003,000	-	1
-	16	Wild (2014)	FoxS	$946,000	-34.7%	505	-259	$1,873	$34,709,000	-	8
-	17	Spare Parts	LGF	$900,000	-32.6%	424	-16	$2,123	$2,707,000	-	2
-	26	Whiplash	SPC	$787,000	+114.4%	567	+378	$1,388	$7,600,000	$3.3	16
-	12	Annie (2014)	Sony	$775,000	-61.1%	756	-829	$1,025	$84,254,000	$65	6
-	19	Big Hero 6	BV	$676,000	-37.1%	451	-288	$1,499	$217,448,000	$165	12
-	20	Foxcatcher	SPC	$581,000	-40.7%	516	-243	$1,126	$10,985,000	-	11
-	14	The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death	Rela.	$512,000	-69.5%	510	-882	$1,004	$25,889,000	-	4
-	28	A Most Violent Year	A24	$456,000	+61.4%	68	+29	$6,706	$1,354,000	-	4
-	32	Still Alice	SPC	$411,000	+108.6%	38	+26	$10,816	$715,000	-	2
-	18	Inherent Vice	WB	$400,000	-64.6%	244	-409	$1,639	$7,419,000	-	7
-	25	Penguins of Madagascar	Fox	$385,000	-25.8%	321	-96	$1,199	$81,259,000	$132	9
-	23	Interstellar	Par.	$340,000	-37.7%	214	-114	$1,589	$186,355,000	$165	12
-	24	Big Eyes	Wein.	$228,000	-57.4%	303	-284	$752	$14,006,000	-	5
-	29	Boyhood	IFC	$197,000	-18.9%	197	+61	$1,000	$24,919,000	$4	29
-	33	Mr. Turner	SPC	$162,000	-10.0%	43	+6	$3,767	$1,851,000	-	6
-	39	Two Days, One Night	IFC	$114,000	-2.6%	32	+17	$3,563	$424,000	-	5
-	38	Dumb and Dumber To	Uni.	$104,000	-23.3%	152	-24	$684	$86,009,000	$40	11
-	48	Nightcrawler	ORF	$78,900	+74.3%	125	+20	$631	$32,280,600	$8.5	13
-	49	Leviathan (2014)	SPC	$72,400	+90.5%	11	+5	$6,582	$272,100	-	5

 

 

Nice drop for Paddington! Steep drop for Annie. Might finish under 2011 The Muppets

[Warhorse]

In my opinion, the Oscars have no credibility. Not saying anything bad about films that do well at the Oscars, but the system is biased towards... Well Oscar type movies.

And Harvey Weinstein!

[forg]

The third is having some awful legs. It won't even be able to reach 100M from a 40M OW. The direction is atrocious. It made my head hurt during the first 2 action scenes. There is no justification for not hiring a decent director and keeping that hack for this one again after the terrible job he did with Taken 2.

 

FOX wanted to make a third one as cheap as possible because they're already shelling out 20M for Neeson. Taken 3 really has that direct to video feel for me. Not surprised with the poor legs

[MrPink]

FOX wanted to make a third one as cheap as possible because they're already shelling out 20M for Neeson. Taken 3 really has that direct to video feel for me. Not surprised with the poor legs

 

You know it's bad when you can't even afford Xander Berkeley and have to go straight to Dougray Scott

[Warhorse]

Yeah how many times did Twilight win?

 

People are stupid.

Yeah, MTV really did go downhill. When they first came out, they did what I thought they would do, reward the movies that were good that didn't get rewarded at the oscars (like the year when we had Terminator 2 vs Silence of the Lambs, both outstanding movies, but T2 was a bigger draw with the younger crowd)

[forg]

 

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 A quiet but satisfying box office run for Big Hero 6. 

[forg]

Well MTV's target demo now is 12-34 now so there's that

[druv10]

 A quiet but satisfying box office run for Big Hero 6. 

 

 

It still has quite a few big markets left. 450M OS is definitely possible. 

[Jim Shorts]

How much do you think Cooper and Eastwood will make off this movie?

[CoolioD1]

Gonna hazard a guess that it'll be more than I make in a year.

[4815162342]

Gonna hazard a guess that it'll be more than I make in a year.

 

More than about 50 of us combined make in a year easily

[#ED]

So Grim found me at the Rumble.