Weekend Estimates (4-day): TL 41.7 M | PP II 38.5 M | MM: FR 32.1 M | A:AOU 27.8 M | POLTERGEIST 26.5 M

[tonytr87]

What's up with Age of Adaline lol

Edited May 25, 2015 by tonytr87

[tonytr87]

I'll admit the more positive elements of themes are given more focus, but I'm just saying, going off of Bird's opinions in interviews and Twitter, I know he's been against dystopian sci-fi in every sense a lot recently, and the themes are definitely in the film. Personally, the fact that it's in there with any focus pisses me off, so it's still really really bad.

It's not the worst movie ever, but the themes are really poorly done for something meant to be uplifting. IDK, take Tele Jr to see it and tell me what you think

EDIT: It also doesn't help that these poor themes are done with such prowess that it makes Nolan look like the king of subtlety.

Think you honed in on the wrong things, my friend. The bit about dystopian scifi movies was just an amusing side note. The movie was railing against society's acceptance of all of these terrible things happening in the world, and asking us to do something about it. It was about belief in a better future, not a future without post-apocalyptic stories.

That's a childish interpretation of the film's themes.

I'm honestly appalled that that's all you heard when watching the movie. Also, the themes don't need to be subtle in a fucking kids movie.

Edited May 25, 2015 by tonytr87

[sfran43]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Tomorrowland	BV	$32,972,000	-	3,972	-	$8,301	$32,972,000	$190	1
2	1	Pitch Perfect 2	Uni.	$30,830,000	-55.5%	3,560	+87	$8,660	$109,597,000	-	2
3	2	Mad Max: Fury Road	WB	$24,815,000	-45.4%	3,722	+20	$6,667	$88,255,000	$150	2
-	N	Poltergeist (2015)	Fox	$22,600,000	-	3,240	-	$6,975	$22,589,000	-	1
4	3	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$21,691,000	-44.2%	3,727	-549	$5,820	$404,861,000	$250	4
5	7	The Age of Adaline	LGF	$15,000,000	+365.9%	1,643	-980	$9,130	$39,900,000	-	5
6	4	Hot Pursuit	WB	$3,610,000	-36.9%	2,577	-460	$1,401	$29,055,000	$35	3
7	5	Furious 7	Uni.	$2,232,000	-38.8%	1,653	-585	$1,350	$347,125,000	$190	8
8	10	Far from the Madding Crowd	FoxS	$2,200,000	+75.7%	865	+576	$2,543	$5,448,000	-	4
9	6	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	Sony	$1,875,000	-47.1%	1,878	-754	$998	$65,698,000	$30	6
10	8	Home (2015)	Fox	$1,753,000	-31.4%	1,444	-562	$1,214	$168,068,000	$135	9
11	9	Ex Machina	A24	$1,423,000	-32.0%	896	-822	$1,588	$21,947,000	-	7
-	11	Woman in Gold	Wein.	$881,000	-26.3%	662	-214	$1,331	$30,386,000	$11	8
-	-	Cinderella (2015)	BV	$379,000	-40.0%	356	-285	$1,065	$197,821,000	$95	11
-	-	I'll See You In My Dreams	BST	$291,163	+459.0%	3	-	$97,054	$365,843	-	2
-	-	Get Hard	WB	$260,000	-56.8%	255	-250	$1,020	$89,278,000	$40	9
-	-	Where Hope Grows	RAtt.	$212,000	-53.6%	221	-55	$959	$840,739	-	2
-	-	Monkey Kingdom	BV	$185,000	-61.5%	290	-385	$638	$15,810,000	-	6
-	-	McFarland, USA	BV	$165,000	-23.9%	171	-27	$965	$43,870,000	-	14
-	-	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	Par.	$150,000	-8.8%	187	-8	$802	$162,899,000	$74	16
-	-	Unfriended	Uni.	$147,000	-71.5%	239	-418	$615	$32,401,000	$1	6
-	-	Little Boy	ORF	$125,702	-61.2%	181	-309	$694	$6,172,810	-	5
-	-	The Water Diviner	WB	$123,000	-51.7%	125	-163	$984	$3,948,000	$22.5	5
-	N	Chocolate City	Free	$98,829	-	15	-	$6,589	$98,829	-	1
-	-	Clouds of Sils Maria	IFC	$84,500	-24.8%	65	-66	$1,300	$1,554,000	-	7
-	-	In the Name of my Daughter	Cohen	$80,274	+461.6%	4	+1	$20,069	$106,534	-	2
-	-	Saint Laurent	SPC	$79,805	+110.0%	59	+43	$1,353	$186,903	-	3
-	-	Wild Tales	SPC	$54,560	-0.8%	32	-6	$1,705	$2,879,254	-	14
-	-	The Salt of the Earth	SPC	$47,116	-30.7%	46	-18	$1,024	$1,059,804	-	9
-	-	Felix and Meira	Osci.	$38,000	-26.1%	26	-18	$1,462	$344,000	-	6
-	-	Dior and I	Orch.	$35,697	-	41	-	$871	$880,167	-	7
-	N	When Marnie Was There	GK	$27,388	-	2	-	$13,694	$27,388	-	1
-	-	The Apu Trilogy	Jan.	$16,255	+9.9%	3	+2	$5,418	$70,038	-	3
-	N	The Farewell Party	Gold.	$7,616	-	2	-	$3,808	$7,616	-	1
-	-	Black Souls (Anime Nere)	Alc	$5,130	-13.8%	8	+1	$641	$93,814	-	7
-	-	Timbuktu	Cohen	$3,996	-	4	-	$999	$1,074,583	-	17
-	-	Brotherly Love	Free	$2,777	-72.8%	6	-13	$463	$476,290	-	5
-	N	Aloft	SPC	$2,116	-	2	-	$1,058	$2,116	-	1
-	-	Adult Beginners	RTWC	$1,635	-47.5%	10	-	$164	$102,946	-	5
-	-	Deli Man	Cohen	$948	-	2	-	$474	$501,924	-	13
TOTAL (40 MOVIES):				$164,506,507	-10.7%	32,194	-2,694	$5,110

[sfran43]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	1	Tomorrowland	BV	$8,764,000	-23%	-	3,972	$2,206	$41,736,000	4
2	2	Pitch Perfect 2	Uni.	$7,708,000	-23%	+48%	3,560	$2,165	$117,305,000	11
3	3	Mad Max: Fury Road	WB	$7,285,000	-20%	+37%	3,722	$1,957	$95,540,000	11
4	4	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$6,117,000	-24%	+78%	3,727	$1,641	$410,978,000	25
5	5	Poltergeist (2015)	Fox	$2,920,000	-50%	-	3,240	$901	$25,509,000	4
6	6	Hot Pursuit	WB	$975,000	-25%	+103%	2,577	$378	$30,030,000	18
7	10	Home (2015)	Fox	$695,000	+4%	+173%	1,444	$481	$168,763,000	60
8	9	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	Sony	$660,000	-11%	+164%	1,878	$351	$66,358,000	39
9	8	Far from the Madding Crowd	FoxS	$600,000	-23%	+307%	865	$694	$6,048,000	25
10	7	Furious 7	Uni.	$562,000	-31%	+80%	1,653	$340	$347,687,000	53
11	11	The Age of Adaline	LGF	$480,000	-10%	+45%	1,643	$292	$40,380,000	32
12	12	Ex Machina	A24	$390,000	-23%	+39%	896	$435	$22,412,000	46

[SchumacherFTW]

Max will be number one again tomorrow.

[sfran43]

^The above #'s are Monday's estimates from BOM.

[eddyxx]

  Dat Blake Lively starpower increase!

Edited May 25, 2015 by Eddy Targaryen

[The Panda]

There goes BOM self proclaimed hallmark of accuracy.

[filmscholar]

Disney seems to do this every year, they spend $200m on some "original" movie. it turns out to not be that good and bombs, then it costs them hundreds of millions of dollars/ 

 

I haven't seen the movie so I don't know how the Budget was used.  Looked like mostly effects from the trailers but when I saw "Fury Road", I saw 150 Million Dollars on the screen.  Did "Tomorrowland" really have to be as much as Marvel or Superhero movies?  "San Andres" clocked in at 100 Million and it's a disaster earthquake movie.   Imagine if "Tomorrowland" had that budget, then this weekend isn't as bad.  I just don't see the legs with the lukewarm WOM critically.   I give Disney props for taking risk on original stories and scif.  But Technically "Tomorrowland" is a named brand theme park so it's not like nobody heard of the name.  But I think they need to let the "Let's make a theme park into a movie theme" Go.  I know Pirates is a mega franchise but that's lighting in a bottle. 

[Travod]

Questions:

1. Mad Max Tues-Thurs over/under 7m?

2. Mad Max third weekend over/under 15m? (Godlike 35% drop)

Both are intentionally better (best?) case scenarios.

[sfran43]

Besides Poltergeist, I wonder which movie will drop hard on Tuesday?

[keysersoze123]

It'll be MAD MAX

 

AOU most probably. Mad Max showed last week that its strong over weekdays

[Blankments]

Think you honed in on the wrong things, my friend. The bit about dystopian scifi movies was just an amusing side note. The movie was railing against society's acceptance of all of these terrible things happening in the world, and asking us to do something about it. It was about belief in a better future, not a future without post-apocalyptic stories.

That's a childish interpretation of the film's themes.

I'm honestly appalled that that's all you heard when watching the movie. Also, the themes don't need to be subtle in a fucking kids movie.

Amusing? What was so amusing about blaming our decline on a subgenre of fiction? It's fearmonging in the worst sense, throwing tons of classic tales just to elevate your own story. By featuring the

 

And I'm honestly appalled you think "kids movies" don't need to be subtle. You're right, they don't need to be subtle, but they also don't need

George Clooney and Hugh Laurie literally monologue themes directly to the audience.

Kids deserve more respect than what Tomorrowland gives them; the preachiness of it is honestly much more condescending than the themes I have been taking issue with.

[DAJK]

Wait, San Andreas only cost 100M?

[CJohn]

Wait, San Andreas only cost 100M?

125M, 12M of which are Dwayne's paycheck. 

[Ethan Hunt]

Wait, San Andreas only cost 100M?

Dang nabbit... That's good

[Mojoguy]

Wait, San Andreas only cost 100M?

SA will make a profit with just the overseas numbers.

[Rthmessiah]

I am more and more convinced that the San Francisco Bay Area loves sci-fi and that these genre films that underperform nationwide do disproportionately well here.

I know I'm using a reference pool of one showing at one theater, but at Regal Hacienda Crossings (who has one of the real full-size IMAX and occasionally makes the top 20 weekend engagements), my opening night 7pm PLF showing of Pacific Rim basically sold out, my opening night IMAX of Interstellar sold out, and my 7pm of Tomorrowland (in the biggest non-IMAX/non-PLF auditorium) was definitely more full than I expected. And it got a little applause too. Of course, it's opening night, and I have no idea how the rest of the showings sold, either on that day or the rest of the weekend (I do know that I bailed out of a 6:30 of Tomorrowland full of kids, because I didn't realize it was in one of the smaller auditoriums).

Oddly enough, I heard the theater staff talking about how Poltergeist had nobody in it (and surmising that it would fill up with 13 year olds by the time the movie started).

Just interesting.

Yep, Hacienda in top 20 with TL, you also have Metreo with TL & SF Centre 9 with MMFR,

Metreon was huge with PR(#3 Owe)  IS (#1 Owe), Godilla (#2, Hacienda #20), STId (#2, Hacienda #11), Avatar

[CJohn]

You watching RAW CJohn??? They're setting up for the next PPV in like 1 week after just coming off one..  

I am. They fucked up with this EC bs. Anyway, go to the Wrestling thread. I am there as well.

[passerby]

Amusing? What was so amusing about blaming our decline on a subgenre of fiction? It's fearmonging in the worst sense, throwing tons of classic tales just to elevate your own story. By featuring the

 

And I'm honestly appalled you think "kids movies" don't need to be subtle. You're right, they don't need to be subtle, but they also don't need

George Clooney and Hugh Laurie literally monologue themes directly to the audience.

Kids deserve more respect than what Tomorrowland gives them; the preachiness of it is honestly much more condescending than the themes I have been taking issue with.

 

He isn't blaming them. He's imploring us to not accept them, to not let them become true.

 

For example, it has been widely accepted in a lot of literature that coral reefs will disappear in our lifetime. Following Tomorrowland's views, we shouldn't accept coral reefs will disappear because it hasn't happened yet. We need to take action and prevent it from happening.

But hey, I can agree to disagree, so to each their own.

 

The "preachiness" is some of the execution faults the film has. But it really isn't terribly bad.