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

[Ruthie]

Mess.

No gif?   FAIL!!!

[straggler]

I still think the bylaws have to be consulted on whether AS is 2014 or 2015. Maybe Chuck Norris could vote.

 

First compared it to Passion of Christ. But then recalled that Saving Private Ryan adjusted to $370 milion. Patton and Sargeant York adjust to well over $300 million ($325 and $356 million) and Platoon adjusts to about $290 million. 

[Walt Disney]

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

 

It's funny because everyone was looking at Disney possibly winning the year with GOTG and its surprise box office numbers. Some people wanted Lionsgate to win it with MockingJay Part 1 because they're not a true monster studio like Disney is. And it turns out that it's that other monster studio, Warner Bros., that comes out of nowhere to win the year with American Sniper.

[TServo2049]

There have been a couple years where the top two releases (not calendar grosses) ended with totals only a few million apart (Beverly Hills Cop/Ghostbusters in 1984, Top Gun/Crocodile Dundee in 1986, Harry Potter/Fellowship of the Ring in 2001), but this is going to be a rare year where the top THREE end up close to each other. (How close depends on how much more AS makes, of course.)

The only other years where anything comparable happened were 1995 (less than $8m between Toy Story and Batman Forever, less than $12m between Batman Forever and Apollo 13) and 2007 ($14m between Spidey 3 and Shrek 3, $3.5m between Shrek 3 and Transformers, less than $10m between TF1 and Pirates 3, $17m between Pirates 3 and Harry Potter 5).

And that's all before inflation. I think 2014 will be the closest the top 3 will have ever been to each other in terms of ticket sales. (And even if you were to discount AS from 2014, MJ1/GOTG as top two would still be the closest top two ever in terms of admissions.)

Edited March 8, 2015 by TServo2049

[DAJK]

Hugh Jackman was sold as lead OS and it hasn't helped either.

When are the OS #s going to be released? As long as it does double of what domestically did (say 60-70M total) then Sony probably won't lose too much money.

[Mango]

Kingsman is headed for $120-130 million. Good, it totally deserves it.

And American Sniper is the first R-rated and non franchise film to be #1 since Saving Private Ryan 16 years ago. It's coming pretty close to that one in admissions as well.

[grim22]

With American Sniper passing Mockingjay, the film about the provincial sharpshooter traumatized by fighting others' wars came out on top.

— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack)

March 8, 2015

[Maxmoser3]

In other news Jupiter Ascending had a decent start in China

[cookie]

When are the OS #s going to be released? As long as it does double of what domestically did (say 60-70M total) then Sony probably won't lose too much money.

 

BOM says Chappie made about the same amount OS as domestic.

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=chappie.htm

[solaris]

FLOPPIE

 

(sorry if it's been done already)

[grim22]

In other news Jupiter Ascending had a decent start in China

 

25M OW in China apparently, that is bigger than the domestic opening. Even if it collapses and ends with only 50M in China, that will be more than Domestic. The OS take will prevent JA from being an out and out bomb and downgrade it to just a flop from the looks of it.

[John Marston]

25M OW in China apparently, that is bigger than the domestic opening. Even if it collapses and ends with only 50M in China, that will be more than Domestic. The OS take will prevent JA from being an out and out bomb and downgrade it to just a flop from the looks of it.

Not really. Still won't reach the break even point of 350

[kayumanggi]

The top 3 of 2007 finished close to each other too.

[kayumanggi]

Around-the-World Roundup: 'Jupiter Ascending' opens to $23 million in China... http://t.co/j99uWl35Fr pic.twitter.com/AgcPp6mnkG

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo)

March 8, 2015

[kayumanggi]

FOCUS: $37M Overseas Total / $71.5M Global Total #Focus

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

March 8, 2015

[kayumanggi]

'BIG HERO 6' now the THIRD highest grossing Disney Animation movie EVER! pic.twitter.com/VuHplgK7zu

— Superhero Feed (@SuperheroFeed)

March 8, 2015

[kayumanggi]

JUPITER ASCENDING: $107M Overseas Total / $152M Global Total #JupiterAscending

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

March 8, 2015

[Mango]

China- making bad movies a hit since 2011. Edited March 8, 2015 by Mango

[kayumanggi]

Coinciding with its domestic debut, Chappie opened in 53 international markets and earned an estimated $13.7 million. It took in $2.1 million in Russia, $1.7 million in France, $1.5 million in the U.K. and less than $1 million in Germany; none of those numbers are particularly strong.

 

That's just terrible.

[Ozymandias]

The Chinese will flock to anything that has a lot of special effects, not surprising.