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

[keysersoze123]

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD took in an estimated $32.1M over the 4-day weekend. Domestic total stands at $95.53M. #MadMax #MadMaxFuryRoad

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

May 25, 2015

[keysersoze123]

After a mediocre friday increase Mad Max has recovered brilliantly. Still looking good for 150m as its weekdays will continue to be STRONG.

[CJohn]

WB is expecting a 9M Monday? How?

[Krissykins]

I think it's Sunday was underestimated according to RTH.

That's a great hold very happy for a deserving film.

[Maxmoser3]

that's so far a really good domestic total just after an opening weekend and holding power isn't bad at all it should get it's way to 135 million domestic by no problem and get 350 WW

[TalismanRing]

So in 1982's MM w/e top 10 we have three sequels and three movies that would spawn sequels - (well four with Sword & The Sorcerer  if one counts a sequel almost 30 years later) and some of those sequels are here in own 2015 top ten.  The more things change...

[Kalo]

What's up with BOM? they don't even have the 3 day weekend up at their site, and they posted an article about the four day weekends on sunday... 

[lab276]

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.)

I was hoping Cloud Atlas would be that kind of film. Still might be.

[CoolioD1]

the media overload of the modern era makes it pretty unlikely to happen for current films imo.

[Ezen Baklattan]

It did happen to a small extent for Wes Anderson's films, most notably Fantastic Mr. Fox.

 

A case could be made for Drive as well.

[Travod]

Finally some good news this weekend! Go Max!

[Krissykins]

Poltergeist did $26.5m 4 day according to THR.

Tomorrowland $41.7m. 4 day.

Edited May 25, 2015 by Krissykins

[Krissykins]

I only just realised that after San Andreas/Aloha this weekend, the following weekend Poltergeist has to deal with Insidious Chapter 3. They'll eat each other.

I don't think Insidious 3 will come close to the last films opening anyway.

[TalismanRing]

I only just realised that after San Andreas/Aloha this weekend, the following weekend Poltergeist has to deal with Insidious Chapter 3. They'll eat each other.

I don't think Insidious 3 will come close to the last films opening anyway.

 

In two weeks there won't be much of Poltergeist to eat.  Off a holiday w/e it could drop 70%+ next weekend

[Godzilla]

 

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[John Marston]

just for some nostalgia here is Memorial Day weekend ten years ago

 

 

 

1	1	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Fox	$70,047,055	-35.4%	3,663	+2	$19,122	$270,489,794	$113	2
2	N	Madagascar	DW	$61,012,130	-	4,131	-	$14,769	$61,012,130	-	1
3	N	The Longest Yard	Par.	$58,613,245	-	3,634	-	$16,129	$58,613,245	$82	1
4	2	Monster-in-Law	NL	$12,789,837	-10.9%	3,230	-194	$3,959	$62,445,081	$43	3
5	3	Kicking and Screaming	Uni.	$6,510,385	-39.3%	2,966	-504	$2,195	$44,123,965	$45	3
6	4	Crash	Lions	$6,059,909	+9.3%	1,680	-225	$3,607	$36,197,686	$6.5	4
7	8	The Interpreter	Uni.	$2,605,475	-10.5%	1,171	-993	$2,225	$69,198,735	$80	6
8	5	Unleashed	Rog.	$2,491,913	-39.6%	1,419	-543	$1,756	$22,103,027	$45	3
9	6	Kingdom of Heaven	Fox	$2,204,520	-37.7%	1,328	-1,480	$1,660	$45,028,751	$130	4
10	7	House of Wax	WB	$1,628,319	-50.5%	1,635	-1,131	$995	$29,861,321	$40	4
11	9	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	BV	$957,992	-53.4%	801	-1,410	$1,195	$48,776,566	$50	5
12	17	Ladies in Lavender	IDP	$550,225	+152.4%	88	+30	$6,252	$1,594,093	-	5
13	12	Sahara	Par.	$537,069	-33.2%	387	-687	$1,387	$66,465,178	$130	8
14	22	Mad Hot Ballroom	ParC	$449,351	+201.6%	57	+42	$7,883	$723,644	-	3
15	20	The Pacifier	BV	$448,317	+136.8%	401	+103	$1,117	$110,789,946	$56	13
16	N	Bunty Aur Babli	Yash	$435,767	-	51	-	$8,544	$435,767	-	1
17	26	Layer Cake	SPC	$424,361	+231.9%	91	+63	$4,663	$729,488	-	3
18	16	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Magn.	$422,004	+27.5%	146	-5	$2,890	$2,650,410	-	6
19	14	Robots	Fox	$417,023	+3.8%	450	-66	$926	$126,705,348	$75	12
20	28	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous	WB	$274,547	+123.9%	323	+148	$849	$47,615,258	-	10
21	10	Mindhunters	Dim.	$230,298	-77.1%	263	-777	$875	$4,294,573	-	3
22	15	Fever Pitch	Fox	$230,278	-34.4%	274	-217	$840	$41,425,981	$30	8
23	11	XXX: State of the Union	SonR	$210,720	-74.6%	341	-960	$617	$26,082,914	-	5
24	21	Millions	FoxS	$186,594	+12.4%	127	-43	$1,469	$6,123,275	-	12
25	18	Kung Fu Hustle	SPC	$162,744	-20.1%	202	-39	$805	$16,434,833	$20	8
26	32	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Shad.	$135,714	+58.0%	66	+3	$2,056	$1,990,265	-	16
27	29	Look at Me	SPC	$132,838	+26.5%	72	-3	$1,844	$1,456,179	-	9
28	31	Walk on Water	IDP	$123,613	+35.8%	45	+3	$2,746	$1,945,271	-	13
29	24	Sin City	Dim.	$112,559	-17.5%	108	-80	$1,042	$73,443,226	$40	9
30	N	Saving Face	SPC	$99,079	-	6	-	$16,513	$99,079	-	1

 

[filmscholar]

Well It seemed like everything just cannibalized each other.  Everyone had there movie to go to this memorial day.  Woman, Men, Families and it was just spread out.   But that's just not a great number for "Tomorrowland".  Yes it's an original movie but when you approach 200 Million production Budget you are expecting well above 65 OW.  30 Million just doesn't really cut it.  Will it even make 100 Million with all the competition coming out?  Love Clooney and Brad is very talented but it's not looking good.   "Mad Max" is doing great all things considered.  "Poltergeist" is lucky to have gotten what it did.  I have nothing to say about "Perfect Pitch 2", Ladies you've made this franchise a mega hit.  Expect a third film by 2017.    Love Brumer's BOM Chart from 1982 showing Mad Max  and Poltergeist being on the same chart 32 years later.   Amazing.  

[TServo2049]

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.

Edited May 25, 2015 by TServo2049

[Joel M]

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.)

 

Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Donnie Darko (2001) only commited moviebuffs knew about them in the 2-3 years after their release. Now especially requiem is as famous as every big release form early 00s even amongst casual moviegoers. And I'm sure they will be others too you just need time for the audience to grow. It's kind of unfair to put movies from 2006 or 2010 against movies that had 15+ years to find their audience. Maybe in 10 years movies that already have gained a cu;lt following like Hot Fuzz or Sunshine will be considered mainstream.

Edited May 25, 2015 by Joel M