Dementeleus Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 The title confuses me. Did both NY and LA take a big hit tonight? Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jse Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Sounds like the fight did have quite an impact Yeah i was on the fence about the fight having an impact (though leaning on it having somewhat of an impact) on AoU back when the fight was announced. But someone pointed out that Dela Hoya v Mayweather barely impacted SM3, and the reasoning made sense. It probably really hit me that AoU's Sat late afternoon / evening is in trouble when the owner of the gym I go to came up to me as i was leaving the gym just a bit after noon today and asks me where i'm watching the fight because he couldn't find a place to watch it because every possible bar / sports restaurant -type place he's called are all sold out, and has been 4 days prior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I think the 63-67 was at 6:30pm Pacific which was literally as the Spurs-Clippers game was in Q2 and the fight was yet to begin. Based on that estimation, we can somewhat glean the hit the movie took. Yawn his predictions were just as good (bad) as anyone else's on the most important BO weekend since TA1, seems the Rth lovers should be quiet. Guy provides a nice guide usually but far from perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Yep. I missed that post. Now I have to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Wang Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Fight had no impact guys like those few posters in the afternoon crowed about LOOOOL You don't even know what you're talking about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 I missed that post. Now I have to go back. Sorry, E. It was rude of me not to have a quote or link. for right now LA is taking the biggest hit between the 2 biggest markets NY/LA theres more than 20% difference in the drop from fri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Having said all of this about the Derby, NBA, and boxing...the movie still should have beaten TA1's opening. It had 7 PM Thursday previews, which is very helpful when you have a huge kid/family audience supporting you. It had a much bigger screen and show count than TA1. And it had TA1's phenomenal word of mouth creating automatic good will for the sequel. Regardless of anything else going on, it should have been able to hit $210-215m this weekend. Still $190m is a great number in the grand scheme of things and now it will be very interesting to see how the legs play out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimisawesome Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The whispers of truth say the budget was waaaay higher than 250. Its Disney so not surprised at all. Why should Marvel be great on budgets anymore now they have the mouse and its policy of there is no budget large enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 BACK FROM WATCHING IT FIRST let me praise my queen scarlet witch. i wish she had gotten a bigger role but she was great. absolutely stole the show honestly she should have been the one to save the day in the end. it should have been her taking all the rage and sadness from her brother's death and channeling it into holding up the whole city with her powers stopping it from crashing. i think it could have been epic and an amazing end to her character arc and the overall storyline, but of course they had to give tony and thor something to do, i get it. i really think if it had been her though it would have been a better ending and probably like 85% on rotten tomatoes instead of 75. it's funny how the main characters themselves get in the way of the story so much. also you all hyped up Dr. Helen Cho too much. she did some stuff but nothing that cool. anyway as for the rest. i liked it. like the first one it was fun but had the same issues-- they just went from one meaningless setpiece to another. i mean they tried with the quieter character moments brutasha was ok, and ooomg the scarlet witch-induced visions were some really cool character moments i liked that, but overall cap2 was a muchhh stronger movie so it's good if they're going in that direction from now on. honestly just thinking about cap2 *dreamy sigh* so good.. it reeeally did feel like a commercial for infinity war though. it was just all over the place sometimes in a good way sometimes in a bad way. also ultron was so underwhelming. like this whole movie was so random, they tried to do soo many things and none of them got the attention they needed. it should have been closer to 3 hours. i do think avengers 1 was much more cohesive and straightforward. neither of them are complex or risky but this one was muddled and like rt says "overstuffed." ALSO FYI after we left we looked into like this big sports bar and there were like, hockey games and soccer and every sport on the face of the earth on the tv screens EXCEPT THE DAMN FIGHT SOOOOOOOO... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 You don't even know what you're talking about. No I think you don't know lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) Having said all of this about the Derby, NBA, and boxing...the movie still should have beaten TA1's opening. It had 7 PM Thursday previews, which is very helpful when you have a huge kid/family audience supporting you. It had a much bigger screen and show count than TA1. And it had TA1's phenomenal word of mouth creating automatic good will for the sequel. Regardless of anything else going on, it should have been able to hit $210-215m this weekend. Still $190m is a great number in the grand scheme of things and now it will be very interesting to see how the legs play out. I was slightly disappointed it didn't get the OD record to be honest. Everything seemed to be in its favor for that, no competition, the holdovers are pathetically weak, a super wide release with a large number of showtimes, goodwill from the first and #FiveExtraHours. The 85M yesterday was slightly shocking considering the West Coast was supposed to push it over the OD record mark. Edited May 3, 2015 by grim22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Sorry, E. It was rude of me not to have a quote or link. Ah thanks Tele. I read that differently. LOL I thought he meant that There was a 20% difference between the two markets' drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spizzer Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Sorry, E. It was rude of me not to have a quote or link. I think he meant that there was a 20% difference in the drop comparing LA to NY. Not that they both fell 20%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The title confuses me. Did both NY and LA take a big hit tonight? NYC a bit LA massive 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Well at least the Derby and NBA game lived up to expectations today. The fight and the box office were about as pleasant as a loud fart in church. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 I think he meant that there was a 20% difference in the drop comparing LA to NY. Not that they both fell 20%. Him, I read it as both of them combined were off about 30%. Regardless, it's not worth having in the main title if there's this much confusion. I'll remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I think he meant that there was a 20% difference in the drop comparing LA to NY. Not that they both fell 20%. NYC a bit LA massive Ah ok. Thanks that's what I thought. Tele got a little too eager with the thread title. Him, I read it as both of them combined were off about 30%. Regardless, it's not worth having in the main title if there's this much confusion. I'll remove it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuffinMan Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 What this means for Avengers: Age of Ultron is a lower than expected Saturday of $59M per industry estimates, a 30% decline from yesterday’s $84.46M. The first Avengers saw a Saturday dip of 14% back on May 5, 2012. Ultron‘s Sunday, per industry calculations, is looking at $47M, down 20% from Saturday (Avengers’ first Sunday took in $57.1M, down 18% from Saturday). Ultron is now tracking for a three-day opening in the neighborhood of $189M-$191M. http://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-thursday-box-office-1201419080/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Reynolds Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 http://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-thursday-box-office-1201419080/ Many across the U.S. are watching the boxing match at parties. What this means for Avengers: Age of Ultron is a lower than expected Saturday of $59M per industry estimates, a 30% decline from yesterday’s $84.46M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I think the 63-67 was at 6:30pm Pacific which was literally as the Spurs-Clippers game was in Q2 and the fight was yet to begin. Based on that estimation, we can somewhat glean the hit the movie took In a nutshell based on quick look i did around 330-4p Pacific 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
