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

[Chewy]

The thing that sticks out to me on that list is that both Potters held the record for less than a year

[superduperm]

3 OW's records in 1989. Good lord.

Within a single month, nonetheless.

Really a historic time for the box office. Like right now.

[Dementeleus]

2.38 multi is great? Inflated opening Friday or not, that is not my idea of great legs. If you open around 150 and have great WOM you should hit 400+, not come up 50 mill short.

The Furious franchise has always had stubby legs, so F7 managing a 2.38 even after burning off so much initial demand is worth some credit.

[Biggestgeekever]

I think I like the idea of JW squeaking by the record rather than outright killing it with $210+M... reflects the history of the franchise better.   

[baumer]

3 OW's records in 1989. Good lord.

 

In a matter of a month.

[Jandrew]

I've explained this about three times now.  Spy will level out next weekend.  The Proposal did the exact same thing.  It dropped 46% in its second weekend when TRF2 opened.  It then leveled out the weeks after dropping in the 20's and 30's.  Spy will do the same,  How could you expect it not to drop what it did this week in the face of a record opener?

 

I said this in the Spy thread like an hour ago. I don't know why people here think the 2nd weekend is definative. I thought we'd know by now 3rd and beyond is where you really judge things.

 

Looks like this won't hit $100m.

Quite annoyed. It fully deserves to.

 

Come on, you know you have to wait for weekend 3 to see where its heading. With or without JW, this weekend was never going to be a good indicator. If it drops another 45% next weekend, then youre right, but for all we know it could stabilize and drop 25%.

 

Weekdays have been good, lets not calling it off just yet. There's no major female competition again anyway until Magic Mike and no R-rated comedy till Ted.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I think I like the idea of JW squeaking by the record rather than outright killing it with $210+M... reflects the history of the franchise better.   

 

Screw that. $60m Sunday would be jawdropping. Let's go for it.

[Wrath]

So I'd like an example of a film that is not generic.

August County?

Birdman?

Give me some examples of non generic films.

Eraserhead. The Wall.

[AASixteen16]

It is fucking incredible. My friend told me that JP is a special film for her family. Its a bonding experience and holds a special plane in their family. This is EXACTLY why it is doing this huge. Me and her are 22 years old and for us, JP is a classic. It brings back childhood and memories. Just hearing the iconic soundtrack brings me that feeling. And it is something that we haven't been given since well JP3, nearly 15 years ago. We have been longing for this film for more than half our lives. I love this. 

 

It is hitting all quadrants and age demos. Kids like me who grew up on it, older kids and teens that saw it back '93 and experienced it in theaters firsthand, and everyone else that took their kids or went to check it out 22 years ago. All of them, plus a whole new set of kids. Its crazy. 

[ExcelFTW]

In a matter of a month.

 

[PDC1987]

Based on the average tweet, shows that aren't sold out for the rest of the day, even on the WC, are now selling out over an hour in advance.

Edited June 14, 2015 by PDC1987

[Kvikk Lunsj]

18 minutes left and no one sitting next to me on the plane.

[BadAtGender]

5/28/89Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadePar.$29,355,021

5/24/87Beverly Hills Cop IIPar.$26,348,555

 

Shortest OW Record (BHC 2, 4 Days)

 

That's two years and four days.

 

The shortest records are for Every Which Way But Loose and Ghostbusters II, both of which held the record for 7 days. Logically, that's the minimum. I suppose Every Which Way held the OW record for longer, though, since it lost the weekend record to Superman's 3rd weekend.

 

So, Ghostbusters II. Shortest OW record holder in history, and the film which broke the record by the lowest margin.

[filmscholar]

3 OW's records in 1989. Good lord.

 

Summer of 1989 was Legendary bro, very vivid memories that summer.  It was Bat mania.  Indy was riding off in the sunset and Ghostbuster had a sequel.  "Honey I shrunk the kids".  Freddy and Jason both had sequels.  Lethal Weapon 2 also dropped that summer.   It was just Big that summer. 

Edited June 14, 2015 by filmscholar

[PDC1987]

18 minutes left and no one sitting next to me on the plane.

They canceled their flights and went to go see JW instead.

[superduperm]

This is the first time I can remember a forum being this active on a Sunday afternoon. Most of the time, even on big weekends, people come in Sunday morning for estimates and that's it.

It's like Universal purposely made the estimate a bit under the record so that we could still have some buzz this late in the weekend XD

[Kvikk Lunsj]

They canceled their flights and went to go see JW instead.

Hopefully.

[redfirebird2008]

Summer of 1989 was Legendary bro. 

 

That's really when the opening weekend became a big deal. So many headlines about the three movies that did it and then after that it became a big target for every big movie property.

[baumer]

The Sunday number is going to be closer to 60.  I can feel it.

[baumer]

That's really when the opening weekend became a big deal. So many headlines about the three movies that did it and then after that it became a big target for every big movie property.

 

It was the first summer I followed the box office closely.  I was made when Batman beat Indy.  I also saw Indy at the theater 13X that summer.