Weekend Chappie - 13.35M | Focus - 10.01M | 2nd Best Exotic Marigold - 8.54M | Unfinished Business - 4.77M

[DAR]

Well Zootopia should open better

[TServo2049]

A New Hope was not a franchise

A New Hope did not even exist in 1977. It was just Star Wars. Title, then "It is a period of civil war" yada yada yada. It was treated as a singular film by the GA.

[Ozymandias]

Sniper passes MJ this weekend.  Moral of the story: Guns > Bows

[Jandrew]

I wonder why they waited until the 2nd weekend of March to open Cinderella instead of this weekend. Oh well, we have some big openers coming this month, im not worried.

[kayumanggi]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	Chappie	Sony	$4,500,000	-	-	3,201	$1,406	$4,500,000	1
2	1	Focus (2015)	WB	$2,880,000	+139%	-55%	3,323	$867	$27,433,000	8
3	-	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	FoxS	$2,700,000	-	-	1,573	$1,716	$2,700,000	1
4	2	Kingsman: The Secret Service	Fox	$2,225,000	+147%	-29%	3,101	$718	$91,953,000	22
5	-	Unfinished Business	Fox	$1,800,000	-	-	2,777	$648	$1,800,000	1
6	3	Fifty Shades of Grey	Uni.	$1,700,000	+114%	-52%	2,788	$610	$152,544,000	22
7	6	The Lazarus Effect	Rela.	$1,550,000	+233%	-59%	2,666	$581	$13,850,000	8
8	8	The DUFF	LGF	$1,526,000	+302%	-29%	2,559	$596	$22,792,000	15
9	4	McFarland, USA	BV	$1,466,000	+171%	-26%	2,792	$525	$25,574,000	15
10	5	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	Par.	$1,379,000	+183%	-35%	3,097	$445	$143,372,000	29
-	7	American Sniper	WB	$1,145,000	+150%	-40%	2,545	$450	$333,844,000	72
-	11	Jupiter Ascending	WB	$300,000	+77%	-44%	943	$318	$44,199,000	29

 

[Jessie]

I think Blomkamp should just make that Halo movie he always wanted to make. It would have likely been brilliant given he fact it was his passion project.

[kayumanggi]

Isn't Blomkamp's next project ALIEN (V)?

[kayumanggi]

1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$336,796,655	4,151	$121,897,634	4,151	11/21	-
2	American Sniper	WB	$333,844,000	3,885	$633,456	4	12/25	-
3	Guardians of the Galaxy	BV	$333,176,600	4,088	$94,320,883	4,080	8/1	1/22

 

[4815162342]

I think Blomkamp should just make that Halo movie he always wanted to make. It would have likely been brilliant given he fact it was his passion project.

It's up to Microsoft. The distributors bailed last time, no guarantee they'll play ball this time around.

[The Futurist]

I think Blomkamp should just make that Halo movie he always wanted to make. It would have likely been brilliant given he fact it was his passion project.

District 9 was Halo. But the studio said no, despite Jackson backing Blomkamp at the time.

[baumer]

So basically, this year will remind people that only tested brands can do big bucks.

Its already like that for the most part.

[Ezen Baklattan]

 

[Jandrew]

I had no idea SBEMH was even clming out today. How the hell is it making money? I saw ZERO advertising. Literally. No trailer, no tv spots, no internet ads, no fast food tie-ins, nothing. Were all te spots on TV Land and Fox News or something? Because I still have yet to see one, ad its blowing my mind.

UB was advterised good on tv and social media, I saw and heard spots at an annoying rate. Crazy they did all that and Marigold is about to shit on it.

[kayumanggi]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Maxmoser3]

Damn this sucks

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

I had no idea SBEMH was even clming out today. How the hell is it making money? I saw ZERO advertising. Literally. No trailer, no tv spots, no internet ads, no fast food tie-ins, nothing. Were all te spots on TV Land and Fox News or something? Because I still have yet to see one, ad its blowing my mind.

UB was advterised good on tv and social media, I saw and heard spots at an annoying rate. Crazy they did all that and Marigold is about to shit on it.

Interesting, because I feel I've seen a lot of advertising for TSBEMH and very little for UB, though I did hear Vince Vaughn on Fox Sports Radio yesterday. Offhand, I can the bit where all the women start drooling over Richard Gere and Dev Patel telling his mom that he was only pimping her out a little. And Maggie Smith was crabby at some point. I guess it just depends on what you watch, and where do you go on the web. TSBEMH probably didn't spend a ton to run ads during, IDK, Empire, while there might have been a lot of UB promo on ESPN.

[Warhorse]

Sniper passes MJ this weekend.  Moral of the story: Guns > Bows

Or, maybe Bradley Cooper sandwiches J-Law?

[AniNate]

I had no idea SBEMH was even clming out today. How the hell is it making money? I saw ZERO advertising. Literally. No trailer, no tv spots, no internet ads, no fast food tie-ins, nothing. Were all te spots on TV Land and Fox News or something? Because I still have yet to see one, ad its blowing my mind.

 

 

The trailer was attached to pretty much every single Oscar bait film I saw

[CJohn]

Chappie will probably do 4M today if that, isn't Focus probably doing the same as well or a bit more? Smith getting dat 1st place 2 weeks in a row is still possible. Chappie is gonna end the weekend with 11M. This stunning race to the top isn't over yet.

[RobinHood26]

Ouch