Weekend Thread | Weekend Estimates: PP2 - $70.3M, MM:FR - $45.5M, TA2 - $38.84M

[kayumanggi]

lol MAD MAX underperforming?

[Ethan Hunt]

Meh result for MMFR considering the budget and the incredible reviews. It just doesn't have a huge audience. I'm sure it will do really well in rentals and streaming though.

lmao

[keysersoze123]

#MadMaxFuryRoad opens strong to $16.8M FRI going to low 40s wknd. Critics went gaga, but auds gave good not great B+.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

May 16, 2015

[kayumanggi]

These people saying MAD MAX is underperforming probably expected AOU type of numbers. lol

[kayumanggi]

Yay!

[Lordmandeep]

207.5 billion or bust

[FTF]

Wow that's pretty crazy for PP2...and it's a good # for Mad Max. Even with the amazing reviews it's a hard sell so a $40m weekend (hopefully) is a nice opening.

Seeing Max again today this afternoon so curious how early shows are crowd wise.

[kayumanggi]

Remember when some said AOU will win in its third weekend? Well it can't even do that with MAD MAX underperforming. lmao

[JohnnyGossamer]

Well, $16.8M is much better than $16M. I assume, given Fury Road made $4M from previews, that it is likely to see a slight Friday to Saturday decline to $13M to $15M then another drop to just over/under $10M Sunday.

[kayumanggi]

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD earned an estimated $16.77M on opening day Friday. #MadMaxFuryRoad

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

May 16, 2015

[Maxmoser3]

So Mad Max gets about 43.6 for the weekend and ends with 130 million domestic and earns 280 overseas it would be a fine success. While for Pitch Perfect(this is the shocking one) if it opens north of 65 or more then it should come close to 22 Jump Street's domestic total.

[Lordmandeep]

I think if this was 2012 the weekend would be Pp2 winning but mm in low 30s.

[kayumanggi]

Maybe a 41 M weekend for MAD MAX.

[Ethan Hunt]

I think if this was 2012 the weekend would be Pp2 winning but mm in low 30s.

If this was 2012 it would be really strange that we're getting Pitch Perfect 2 considering the first one hadn't come out yet

[Jake Gittes]

Max is doing better than could have been realistically expected even two weeks ago, but it has ended up on a lower end of expectations created by the midnight number and RTH's projection. For a moment there, it looked like it had a chance at a really good run, now it looks like it's probably just gonna have a bland, boring 45/120 run. Neither a flop nor a smash hit, just a slightly bigger Pacific Rim. It's not disappointing in the grand scheme of things, but I can see how it would be to people who love the movie and are rooting for it. 

[Chewy]

Reading through this thread, I'm always amazed by the nonsense people come up with to explain certain runs

 

Carry on

[JohnnyGossamer]

More and more, I see Fury Road having a near identical run to Kingsman. Should get a nice boost from Memorial Day but the competition's stiffer this time of year to balance that out. Thinking $125M to $135M DOM.

[Lordmandeep]

I was wondering theoretically with TA rather AOU this would been a rather wacky weekend.

[stuart360]

More and more, I see Fury Road having a near identical run to Kingsman. Should get a nice boost from Memorial Day but the competition's stiffer this time of year to balance that out. Thinking $125M to $135M DOM.

 

Which would be great for a R rated Mad Max reboot.

[Chewy]

More and more, I see Fury Road having a near identical run to Kingsman. Should get a nice boost from Memorial Day but the competition's stiffer this time of year to balance that out. Thinking $125M to $135M DOM.

 

That's a good comparison, makes a lot of sense