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[grim22]

Top 2015 calendar year grossers so far

 

Movie / Release Date / 2015 Gross

1. American Sniper / December 25 (limited) / $344.2 million
2. Fifty Shades of Grey / February 13 / $165.1 million
3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / February 6 / $160.4 million
4. Cinderella / March 13 / $153.3 million
5. Kingsman: The Secret Service / February 13 / $120 million
6. The Divergent Series: Insurgent / March 20 / $89.7 million
7. Taken 3 / January 9 / $89 million
8. Paddington / January 16 / $74.8 million
9. The Imitation Game / November 28 / $70.6 million
10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies / December 17 / $65.6 million
11. The Wedding Ringer / January 16 / $64.4 million
12. Into the Woods / December 25 / $63.8 million
13. Home / March 27 / $60.3 million
14. Unbroken / December 25 / $53.1 million
15. Focus / February 27 / $52 million 

Edited April 1, 2015 by grim22

[ecstasy]

Marvel movies are becoming more presale and preview friendly actually. From Thor 2 onwards, previews have started becoming a bigger portion of the weekend take. 

 

Ah ok. Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't really been keeping track like that. If its not THG or Twilight then the presales don't really get my attention unless they are constantly throwing it out there like they did for 50 shades.

[ecstasy]

Top 2015 calendar year grossers so far

 

Movie / Release Date / 2015 Gross

1. American Sniper / December 25 (limited) / $344.2 million

2. Fifty Shades of Grey / February 13 / $165.1 million

3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / February 6 / $160.4 million

4. Cinderella / March 13 / $153.3 million

5. Kingsman: The Secret Service / February 13 / $120 million

6. The Divergent Series: Insurgent / March 20 / $89.7 million

7. Taken 3 / January 9 / $89 million

8. Paddington / January 16 / $74.8 million

9. The Imitation Game / November 28 / $70.6 million

10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies / December 17 / $65.6 million

11. The Wedding Ringer / January 16 / $64.4 million

12. Into the Woods / December 25 / $63.8 million

13. Home / March 27 / $60.3 million

14. Unbroken / December 25 / $53.1 million

15. Focus / February 27 / $52 million 

 

Cinderella coming for 50 Shades and SpongeBob.

 

We'll see if Fast 7 will top AS. It could I guess.

[sfran43]

So what number would you put for Kingsman's final domestic gross?

 

$12_ M?  (fill in the blank).

[#ED]

Top 2015 calendar year grossers so far

 

Movie / Release Date / 2015 Gross

1. American Sniper / December 25 (limited) / $344.2 million

2. Fifty Shades of Grey / February 13 / $165.1 million

3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / February 6 / $160.4 million

4. Cinderella / March 13 / $153.3 million

5. Kingsman: The Secret Service / February 13 / $120 million

6. The Divergent Series: Insurgent / March 20 / $89.7 million

7. Taken 3 / January 9 / $89 million

8. Paddington / January 16 / $74.8 million

9. The Imitation Game / November 28 / $70.6 million

10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies / December 17 / $65.6 million

11. The Wedding Ringer / January 16 / $64.4 million

12. Into the Woods / December 25 / $63.8 million

13. Home / March 27 / $60.3 million

14. Unbroken / December 25 / $53.1 million

15. Focus / February 27 / $52 million 

 

[ecstasy]

So what number would you put for Kingsman's final domestic gross?

 

$12_ M?  (fill in the blank).

 

Depends on theater loss. 124-125m is my guess if it loses a lot of theaters at once.

[ecstasy]

Not sure if this is complete but this is what bom has so far.

 

 

	View Index	Next Year > Next Week >>
Rank LW Title Distributor Theater Count Change % Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 1 - Furious 7 Universal 3,900+ - - 1 4 - Woman in Gold Weinstein Company 28 - - 1 5 - 5 to 7 IFC 2 - - 1 > DECLINING 2 5 The Gunman Open Road Films 1,027 -1,789 -63.5% 3 3 29 '71 Roadside Attractions 95 -26 -21.5% 6

 

[BadAtGender]

I have no idea except for what I just read in that article that Grim posted. Fast 5 had the April record before Cap took it and now Fast 7 is taking it from Cap. So obviously Fast movies do have a lot of presales. I guess. 

 

What do you think?

 

I think most movies that have ever been released in April don't generate a lot of presales compared to movies as a whole. So the films that are topping the list are the biggest openers of the month.

 

Really, all that this indicates is that F&F7 is going to be bigger than CA2. Which was pretty much a given already.

 

It'd be useful if we had better comparative data for presales, but that's not likely to happen. So we're left with the vague knowledge that some films are bigger than others, but not by how much, nor with any working knowledge of how much of the opening total that accounts for with a given film, or even how much presales are expanding over time.

 

Given how much of the presale data is incomplete and vague, there isn't a lot of useful insight to glean from it. What we are given smacks more of spin than anything else. It's not wrong, but it's also not especially helpful

[keysersoze123]

Real monster pre-sales movies are Twilight(I think New Moon topped both Fandango and MT all time tickets) and HP8. Previously most potter movies, Sith and Dark Knight were monster pre-sales movies.

 

Hunger Games Franchise had the potential but surprisingly it regressed with MJ1. I hope at least SW8 breaks all pre-sales records again. I doubt Avengers will break records but should comfortably increase from previous one.

[Maxmoser3]

Furious 7 will beat American Sniper's OW for 2015 until five weeks later with Avengers 2 which should definitely pass American Sniper

[ecstasy]

I think most movies that have ever been released in April don't generate a lot of presales compared to movies as a whole. So the films that are topping the list are the biggest openers of the month.

 

Really, all that this indicates is that F&F7 is going to be bigger than CA2. Which was pretty much a given already.

 

It'd be useful if we had better comparative data for presales, but that's not likely to happen. So we're left with the vague knowledge that some films are bigger than others, but not by how much, nor with any working knowledge of how much of the opening total that accounts for with a given film, or even how much presales are expanding over time.

 

Given how much of the presale data is incomplete and vague, there isn't a lot of useful insight to glean from it. What we are given smacks more of spin than anything else. It's not wrong, but it's also not especially helpful

Wow that's exactly how I feel when they announce presale stats. You just posted everything I was thinking about. You said it much better than I could have.

[sfran43]

 

Not sure if this is complete but this is what bom has so far.

 

 

<< Prev. Week < Last Year View Index Next Year > Next Week >> Rank LW Title Distributor Theater Count Change % Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 1 - Furious 7 Universal 3,900+ - - 1 4 - Woman in Gold Weinstein Company 28 - - 1 5 - 5 to 7 IFC 2 - - 1 > DECLINING 2 5 The Gunman Open Road Films 1,027 -1,789 -63.5% 3 3 29 '71 Roadside Attractions 95 -26 -21.5% 6

 

 

 

BOM updates theater counts every Thursday. 

[ecstasy]

BOM updates theater counts every Thursday. 

 

Thanks for the info! Normally someone posts them when they come out. I think Talisman and I know kiitik does. But I haven't seen him around lately.