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

[DeeCee]

If anyone has a case for unauthorised use of box office data it would be Rentrak against BOM.

[DeeCee]

Most film fri/sat prob go up with Actuals

 

sunday lookng

TL 11.3,PP2 9.9,MMFR 9,AOU 8,Polt 5.8

 

MMFR

 

THU - $3.9m

FRI - $8.2m

SAT - $9.8m

SUN - $8.8m

MON - $6.4m

 

$26.8m for 3 days

$33.2m for 4 days

 

cume of $96.8m

 

Hopefully Friday and Saturday increase to my predictions.

[baumer]

It's not out of the realm of possibility that Tomorrowland has a good multiplier.  

[VictorHugogui]

So everything is up excepted Poltergeist

[DeeCee]

It's not out of the realm of possibility that Tomorrowland has a good multiplier.  

It will be easier from such a low base.

 

We have Tomorrowland vs San Andreas this weekend in Australia.

[Charism]

The themes are legitimately the worst I've seen in a big budget movie... in maybe forever? IDK, I haven't been keeping track of movies for awhile, but nothing I can remember has frustrated me more than Tomorrowland's "ideas for fixing the world"

Which are...? I dunno anything 'bout this movie besides names behind it.

[passerby]

The themes are legitimately the worst I've seen in a big budget movie... in maybe forever? IDK, I haven't been keeping track of movies for awhile, but nothing I can remember has frustrated me more than Tomorrowland's "ideas for fixing the world"

 

I like the wide-eye raw optimism themes. To me, this movie fails on implementation, not on the themes. I wish this movie didn't have such a crappy 3rd act because these themes need to be heard. I'm not saying that we should go back to believing the the future will be some utopian because that's a flaw idea. But we need to see the future as bright and take action. Frankly, I'm sick of all the dystopian nonsense spewed by general audience movies. 

[Darth Homer]

I thought AOU would get a boost this weekend from drive-in double features (TA dropped less than 20% the week Brave opened). Or is TL doing so badly Disney is stealing money from AOU to give to it? 

Edited July 7, 2015 by Darth Homer

[Kalderic]

I thought AOU would get a boost this weekend from drive-in double features (TA dropped less than 20% the week Brave opened). Or is TL doing so badly Disney is stealing money from AOU to give to it? 

 

I wouldnt doubt this is a possibility given they already tried this when it opened to boost Cinderella.

[Jack Nevada]

Wow, still no BOM update? Crazy

[baumer]

Interesting bit about this weekend, from Guru:

 

Oddly enough, this was not the first time the Top 10 has included both Poltergeist and Mad Max films. In June of 1982 when the original supernatural thriller opened, it was joined a few notches below the holdover film The Road Warrior which was the sequel to the first Max.

[baumer]

1	N	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Par.	$14,347,221	-	1,621	-	$8,850	$14,347,221	$11.2	1
2	1	Rocky III	UA	$10,028,555	-19.3%	939	-	$10,680	$30,860,483	-	2
3	N	Poltergeist	MGM	$6,896,612	-	890	-	$7,749	$6,896,612	-	1
4	N	Hanky Panky	Col.	$3,597,244	-	1,238	-	$2,905	$3,597,244	-	1
5	-	Conan the Barbarian	Uni.	$2,685,948	-	1,149	-	$2,337	$32,874,759	-	4
6	-	Visiting Hours	Fox	$2,581,076	-	1,122	-	$2,300	$9,590,941	-	2
7	-	Porky's	Fox	$2,499,511	-	1,296	-	$1,928	$89,033,360	-	12
8	-	The Sword and the Sorcerer	Gr1	$1,912,880	-	428	-	$4,469	$19,512,644	-	7
9	-	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	Uni.	$1,311,848	-	570	-	$2,301	$14,080,644	-	3
10	-	The Road Warrior	WB	$1,017,967	-	478	-	$2,129	$7,499,801	-	3

 

[baumer]

Rocky III

[4815162342]

Rocky III

 

Wrath of Khan 

[4815162342]

Wrath of Khan 

 

Also Conan the Barbarian 

[stripe]

Porky's 

[#ED]

Porky's 

 

[baumer]

Porky's is one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

[Darth Homer]

1982 was insane. We will never see that many classic sci-fi/fantasy/horror movies released in the same year ever again.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Darth Homer

[TServo2049]

What's doubly interesting is that a good few of the genre classics of 1982 underperformed in theaters. TRON didn't do very well, ditto for Blade Runner, and The Thing bombed. And counting it as fantasy (not as animation, which I agree is not a genre in itself), The Secret of NIMH also didn't go over well. So 1982 is also a case study in how theatrical duds were now going on to gain a second life on video and/or cable.

(And if 1982 was the beginning of this era, I would I would consider its end to be 1999 - the year that gave us Fight Club, Dogma, Office Space, The Iron Giant and Mystery Men. Theatrical failures going on to a second life in non-theatrical hasn't happened to anywhere near as significant a degree in the 21st century; even with the DVD market boom in the first half of the oughts, I can't think of many post-1999 films that flopped theatrically and built their audiences afterward to such a degree as TRON/BR/Thing/NIMH on one end, and Office Space/Fight Club/Iron Giant on the other.)

Edited May 25, 2015 by TServo2049