Kung Fu Panda 3 | 362m Overseas | 504m Worldwide

[efialtes76]

20 hours ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

 

I dunno......it depends on how Trolls will do this year.

Trolls will be a mega flop.

The movie looks like shit and the release date is the worst possible.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

17 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Trolls will be a mega flop.

The movie looks like shit and the release date is the worst possible.

 

Everyone said the same thing about Home....but look how that ended up. No guarantee that a movie will end up absolutely great or absolutely horrible. It just happens every year. A movie you expect to be great...ends up terrible....and a movie you expect to suck.....ends up being good.

 

But seriously....if Trolls fails.....will that be the end of DWA, entirely? I want that company to do well.....but the way they market their sequels, right now.......they need to step up and do better next time.

 

And while it might be mediocre.....it's not gonna be "Shark Tale"....

Edited March 26, 2016 by MrFanaticGuy34

[Omni]

DWA's standard movie is a mediocre-to-bad product aiming at people whose inner consideration of animation is the one of a kid. Not all of their movies are like that (Dragon Trainer, Croods, MvsA and Megamind are, in my opinion, the 'exceptions'), but most are.

When that's your normal film, you are forced to hope for some kind of particular connection with kids. If you're lucky, some talking animals and a few stupid gags are enough to get a 500+ grosser, otherwise it gets lost in the shuffle.

Let's start from the beginning of the 'crisis':

*Rise of the Guardians is boring, a tad messed up and lacks of appealing characters

*Turbo is a story of racing snails, released right after MU and DM2

*MrPeabody is kind of a niche product, either the movie is a blast or you can't get much from it

*Penguins of Madagascar is a spinoff trying to see to little children what they already got on TV (and what they don't care much about)

*Home was a modest success only thanks to its dom gross and mainly thanks to the substantial emptiness of the market

We can add Dragon Trainer 2 and Kung Fu Panda (2+)3: both the two movies' first entries just looked like one-time hits, the kind of films that are liked but that don't screm for sequels, as they don't rely on particularly liked characters or subjects and thus don't have "much to add" (this works indipendently from someone's opinion - I can find MvsA's story and characters memorable, but it's the general perception what really counts).

The fact they're producing Trolls is a clear sing they're in desperate need of some kind of character able to enter the children's mind. Unfortunately for them, it looks like only the Minions can give lots of money from a pile of sheet of a film relying on just its main characters.

[efialtes76]

2 hours ago, Omni said:

DWA's standard movie is a mediocre-to-bad product aiming at people whose inner consideration of animation is the one of a kid. Not all of their movies are like that (Dragon Trainer, Croods, MvsA and Megamind are, in my opinion, the 'exceptions'), but most are.

When that's your normal film, you are forced to hope for some kind of particular connection with kids. If you're lucky, some talking animals and a few stupid gags are enough to get a 500+ grosser, otherwise it gets lost in the shuffle.

Let's start from the beginning of the 'crisis':

*Rise of the Guardians is boring, a tad messed up and lacks of appealing characters

*Turbo is a story of racing snails, released right after MU and DM2

*MrPeabody is kind of a niche product, either the movie is a blast or you can't get much from it

*Penguins of Madagascar is a spinoff trying to see to little children what they already got on TV (and what they don't care much about)

*Home was a modest success only thanks to its dom gross and mainly thanks to the substantial emptiness of the market

We can add Dragon Trainer 2 and Kung Fu Panda (2+)3: both the two movies' first entries just looked like one-time hits, the kind of films that are liked but that don't screm for sequels, as they don't rely on particularly liked characters or subjects and thus don't have "much to add" (this works indipendently from someone's opinion - I can find MvsA's story and characters memorable, but it's the general perception what really counts).

The fact they're producing Trolls is a clear sing they're in desperate need of some kind of character able to enter the children's mind. Unfortunately for them, it looks like only the Minions can give lots of money from a pile of sheet of a film relying on just its main characters.

Prince of Egypt,AntZ,Over The Hedge,Shrek 1 and 2 are good/very good too.

[PanaMovie]

Kung Fu Panda 3 grossed $21.5 million from 64 markets this weekend, including a 4th place debut in Australia of $2.3 million from 320 locations. The animated film has now grossed $292.7 million overseas and $432.1 million globally with four new markets set to open next week, including France.

 

Source: BoxOffice.com

 

55M+ from holdovers and 15M+ new markets (including France)

 

362M+ OS and 141M DOM

 

wow only 500M WW is possible for KF3? 

[Olive]

Poor performance.

[Jonwo]

6 hours ago, PanaMovie said:

Kung Fu Panda 3 grossed $21.5 million from 64 markets this weekend, including a 4th place debut in Australia of $2.3 million from 320 locations. The animated film has now grossed $292.7 million overseas and $432.1 million globally with four new markets set to open next week, including France.

 

Source: BoxOffice.com

 

55M+ from holdovers and 15M+ new markets (including France)

 

362M+ OS and 141M DOM

 

wow only 500M WW is possible for KF3? 

 

Katzenberg will be disappointed, it'll be profitable but to do less than KFP and KFP2 isn't good. It must hurt that Zootopia beat it in China as well.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

KFP4 better do better than this one, next time.

 

No way it does lower than this. If they pick a better release slot with the fourth one....the big earnings may come back.

[MinaTakla]

So where is KFP3 heading?

Will it be 300m less than ZOO?

Assuming ZOO makes 930m WW, will KFP3 be less than 630m?

[WrathOfHan]

5 hours ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

KFP4 better do better than this one, next time.

 

No way it does lower than this. If they pick a better release slot with the fourth one....the big earnings may come back.

KFP4 won't happen.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

7 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

KFP4 won't happen.

 

DWA leading into bankruptcy, much?

 

I mean, come on......shall we always assume that no matter what sequel they'll release.....they have fail written on it?

 

No wonder why current DW-movies never do as well as expected.....cause we don't care much.

Edited March 28, 2016 by MrFanaticGuy34

[John Marston]

Whoa. This movie underperformed overseas nbig time 

[efialtes76]

Kung Fu Panda 3 was boosted by the biggest ever animated opening in India on its way to a $19.2m weekend from its 67 markets for $323.6m to date.

The threequel posted a $2m bow in India to grab the record and also achieved Fox’s fifth biggest ever opening in the market. Another highlight came from an excellent chart-topping $4.1m debut in France.

Leading the holdovers was the UK with $1.6m for $16.2m to date, followed by Australia ($1.4m for $4.9m) and Germany ($955k for $5.6m). It opens in its final major market of Holland on April 13.

[a2k]

KFP3 had a 19.2m weekend taking it to 323.6m OS. Add 142m Dom (140.3m currently), it has ~465m WW
 

So it needs 135m more OS to do 600m WW.

After a 19.2m weekend that looks impossible considering Holland is the only market left.

Even 550m WW is uncertain. 60m more will give it 525m.

 

KFP2 165 500 665

KFP3 142 383 525 (?)

Edited April 3, 2016 by a2knet

[seduh]

I'm happy with this movie not overperfoming. When it was anounced, people said it would destroy records in China but it didn't (it became the biggest animated movie but not with ease and for a few weeks it retain the record). I like when sequels get busted because studios will go and search new ideas (even if they are not great, new ideas refresh the market)

[Noctis]

Poor performance overseas. Actually...pretty terrible when you exclude China. 

[efialtes76]

15 minutes ago, Noctis said:

Poor performance overseas. Actually...pretty terrible when you exclude China. 

Sad but is true.

[Infernus]

Terrible terrible performance...

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Man.....what a lame & underwhelming OS-gross.

 

Stupid foreigners.  Really deserved much more than this.

Edited April 5, 2016 by MrFanaticGuy34

[Mockingjay Raphael]

I don't know what the hell DW is waiting to release the sequel of The Croods, they're taking so long that they will waste the potential of this movie, just like they did with KFP2 and HTTYD2