Jurassic World Weekend Thread | Official Est. 204.6M | 208.8M - Actuals

[CJohn]

I am not believing in the OW record yet. A 70M Saturday is gonna crash this place. It won't happen. 65M would be good.

[CJohn]

Jurassic World is gonna do 3x his production budget WW this weekend. Universal executives must be losing their shit.

[Chewy]

I responded to people saying it will have a massive effect, not an effect at all.

 

Well, you also said Jurassic World had "captured the zeitgeist in a way that an individual non-final deciding basketball game could never" which is decidedly not true. They're two big cultural events going on at the same time

[PDC1987]

Better make that two.

studios don't keep 100% of the gross.

[solaris]

I like ID4 very much, but it does not hold a candle to the original Jurassic Park. Not even close to the same level of nostalgia. Plus it seems like the very concept of ID4 would require a one-off event. Naming your movie Independence Day and then making a sequel to that just seems FUBAR.

 

Oh I don't for a minute think ID2 will do these kind of numbers... but if they get 90s kids (like me) excited at seeing ID back on the big screen then we could be in for a bigger hit than expected.

Edited June 13, 2015 by solaaaaaaaris

[Cedarpoint1111]

Jurassic World is gonna do 3x his production budget WW this weekend. Universal executives must be losing their shit.

Do we have any OS numbers yet?

[FTF]

So, is this locked for a new OW record?

 

Locked? Of course not…possible, for sure.

 

I am not believing in the OW record yet. A 70M Saturday is gonna crash this place. It won't happen. 65M would be good.

 

$70m could def happen…sell outs everywhere this afternoon so far.

[DAJK]

Well... that all happened

[Chewy]

I am not believing in the OW record yet. A 70M Saturday is gonna crash this place. It won't happen. 65M would be good.

 

65M would be much more than good, lol. Let's not let the insane Friday  get to our heads 

[DAJK]

Do we have any OS numbers yet?

As far as I know it's 130M as of today. 212 worldwide.

[Mattrek]

Nobody expected the first Hunger Games to blow up like it did in March 2012.

Hey, it s probably the reason Warner is releasing one of the most important movie of the studio s history in that timeframe.

Me and aDIM did. It was us against the world.

[Jandrew]

Well, you also said Jurassic World had "captured the zeitgeist in a way that an individual non-final deciding basketball game could never" which is decidedly not true. They're two big cultural events going on at the same time

Chewy is a Cavs fan.

[GiantCALBears]

This movie will take two days to beat every 3-day OW prediction from every single user on the forum.

Everyone was wrong, imagine that.

[DAJK]

I am not believing in the OW record yet. A 70M Saturday is gonna crash this place. It won't happen. 65M would be good.

What would it take for people to start calling FLOP?

[DAJK]

Everyone was wrong, imagine that.

I can't believe I only predicted something like 240-260 in the summer game, and an opening weekend of 108...

[Cedarpoint1111]

As far as I know it's 130M as of today. 212 worldwide.

[PDC1987]

Well, you also said Jurassic World had "captured the zeitgeist in a way that an individual non-final deciding basketball game could never" which is decidedly not true. They're two big cultural events going on at the same time

Eh, the number of people that end up seeing JW in theaters will obliterate the number of people who watch the game. My point was the game isn't enough to actually hurt the movie.

[babz06]

The Independence Day sequel is now looking like a much bigger potential hit.... never underestimate the power of 90s nostalgia. 

I Don't think it has the same cultural impact. More about the cast of characters rather than the aliens. Will Smith was the main draw, he's been replaced by Liams Hemsworth, nuff said. They will have to depend heavily on the aliens this go round, which is actually a smart decision. The alien nation remained mysterious for the most part in the original film. 

Edited June 13, 2015 by babz06

[Mattrek]

lol No. No one expected this to touch even 150M.

Fixed

[CJohn]

What would it take for people to start calling FLOP?

An OW under Avengers 2.