Weekend Official Estimates: SA 53.2m, PP 14.4m, TL 13.8m, MMFR 13.6m, AOU 10.9m, Aloha 10m

[SchumacherFTW]

Haha excellent increase for San Andreas.

[FilmBuff]

How's OS looking for San Andreas?

[picores]

How's OS looking for San Andreas?

 

Good

[grim22]

Now see, you'd think it'd be the east coast that would enjoy watching the west coast get utterly destroyed.

 

I know a lot of my colleagues whom I showed the trailer to had the first reaction of "I am watching that on the big screen for sure. Can't wait to see my neighborhood/locations/landmarks I know get destroyed". It is kind of weird, but even I was sold on the movie the moment I saw my office as well as my client office being destroyed in the first trailer.

[MovieMan89]

The sequel to San Andreas though, anyone ???

Ramapo?

[picores]

I never understood people calling 30m OW for San Andreas. Given the calendar, the genre of the movie, The Rock....this was gonna open with +40m no matter what. 50-55m OW is just sweet.

 

Btw, that's a fantastic incrase, even something more family friendly like Maleficent only increased 5% this day. Awesome.

[MovieMan89]

If not for JW I would be predicting 3x+ multi for SA.

[RthDeadWov]

The WC is loving it

SA

On Friday state CA took more then #2-6 combined (TX FL NY IL GA), GLA took about 2.5 time NYC normally not big diff between them & SFO took almost as much as NYC (normally huge diff)

Edited May 31, 2015 by RthWillSeeYouNow

[DeeCee]

I already called the sequel.

Longmenshan

It's the only way to be sure.

[MovieMan89]

Do we know budget for SA? The special effects were pretty phenomenal I thought, so I can't imagine it was cheap.

[picores]

Do we know budget for SA? The special effects were pretty phenomenal I thought, so I can't imagine it was cheap.

 

110m. Other sources say 125m. Compare with the 200m budget of 2012. This will end being very profitable.

Edited May 31, 2015 by picores

[Fancyarcher]

@ that San Andreas Saturday increase - HOLY SHIT!!

[grim22]

Do we know budget for SA? The special effects were pretty phenomenal I thought, so I can't imagine it was cheap.

 

110M apparently. Will make money for WB for sure and will play endlessly on TV for the next decade.

[John Marston]

110M apparently. Will make money for WB for sure and will play endlessly on TV for the next decade.

For Tv rights do they just purchase it for a few or do they have to pay the studio whenever the film airs?

[DeeCee]

The budget was about $100-110. It was pretty much all shot in Australia.

[Dementeleus]

For Tv rights do they just purchase it for a few or do they have to pay the studio whenever the film airs?

 

I believe they just pay a general licensing fee, though residuals are paid each time it's shown. Occasionally people claim that the studio sells the rights to their own network on the cheap (thus screwing a bunch of people out of profit participation).

[FilmBuff]

If only The Rock was in Jurassic World fighting raptors and t-rexes.

[DAJK]

Wow, that really is an awesome increase for San Andreas! I thought it would stay flat at best! 55M could happen now, great for a movie that I thought was a risky bet, but bet high on (even though I was unsure of how it would do).

Also, watched Poseidon tonight, not a bad film and the effects were really good, but my problem with it was I didn't like many of the characters, and watching it didn't make me feel good. Even though people are dying all the time in disaster movies, I have fun watching them. This one the deaths were just too "real"' if that makes sense.

[MovieMan89]

110m. Other sources say 125m. Compare with the 200m budget of 2012. This will end being very profitable.

Woah. If either number is true I'm amazed at what they were able to do with the VFX off of a relatively moderate budget in today's blockbuster world. Really puts some of these 200m+ ones to shame.

[RthDeadWov]

For Tv rights do they just purchase it for a few or do they have to pay the studio whenever the film airs?

Usually pay TV purchase for a given period say 2 years and during that time can play it X times, FTA usually by each airing, rates usually based on BO