Weekend Thread: Weekend Actuals: IO 29.77, JW 29.24, TG 27.02, | IO Wins Weekend!

[Dementeleus]

Huge numbers for that WWC match. It absolutely crushed the NBA finals, for example.

[redfirebird2008]

Huge numbers for that WWC match. It absolutely crushed the NBA finals, for example.

 

July 4th and big World Cup ratings in back to back days. Pretty strong 1-2 punch against the box office this weekend. Hopefully we see some positive correction behavior over the next few days.

[BenedictL11]

Monsters University made $83m from the time Despicable Me 2 dropped, and it cratered against the latter (with not even 2 full weeks to itself). WOM wasn't anywhere near as good for MU, so if that could still get another $83m, IO will do fine.

I am curious how big the usual Pixar Labor Day expansion will be - since 2007, every Pixar film except Up got some kind of expansion back into over 1,000 locations. Though since Up was the highest grosser of them, maybe Disney didn't feel a need to do it that year, and they may forgo it this time too?

I doubt they will forgo it. Even Toy Story 3 got an expansion, which did not need one since it already got to $400M before its LD Weekend. With Shaun the Sheep and Underdogs DOA, the only options for kids until September is IO and Minions.

Edited July 6, 2015 by BEEJAYGRAD11

[e1828]

Rank         Title                 Studio           Days to       Gross-to-Date       Date          Total Gross              Release Date

                                                            $550m

1           Jurassic World         Uni.           24           $556,542,980   7/6/15           $556,542,980       6/12/15

2           The Avengers          BV             31           $552,950,398        6/3/12       $623,357,910              5/4/12

3           Avatar                     Fox            38           $551,741,499       1/24/10       $749,766,139           12/18/09

4           Titanic                     Par.           121         $552,306,658        4/18/98       $600,788,188           12/19/97

 

Above movies times to $600 million:

 

JW:  should beat Avatar's record by at least 10 days

Avatar:  47

Marvel's The Avengers: 54

Titanic:  252

Edited July 6, 2015 by e1828

[abra]

BoxOffice.com
 

JURASSIC WORLD took in $29.24M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $556.54M. ‪#‎JurassicWorld‬

[JohnnyGossamer]

BoxOffice.com

 

JURASSIC WORLD took in $29.24M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $556.54M. ‪#‎JurassicWorld‬

Gonna be close... Gopher's last projections had Inside Out at $29.3M. Gotta see if that stands.

[K1stpierre]

Gonna be close... Gopher's last projections had Inside Out at $29.3M. Gotta see if that stands.

Or goes up...

[Dementeleus]

IO better go down.

[TServo2049]

When's the last time we had such a nail biter as to what would take #1, all the way down to actuals? And when is the last time #1 and #2 switched with actuals?

[grim22]

When's the last time we had such a nail biter as to what would take #1, all the way down to actuals? And when is the last time #1 and #2 switched with actuals?

 

I remember Minority Report and Lilo and Stitch had switched with actuals. This was back when BOM gave a damn

 

Tom Cruise learned that the system isn't perfect not just as part of the plotline for Minority Report but in the real world as well. The Pre-Cogs had predicted that the Steven Spielberg-helmed sci-fi thriller would make a box office killing, handily topping the chart this weekend.

But when estimates were issued Sunday, a certain mischievous alien mutant named Stitch had shown the Pre-Cogs were wrong—at least in terms of by how much Minority would win—prompting 20th Century Fox's head of distribution Bruce Snyder to label the weekend "too close to call" until actual numbers came in on Monday.

The actual numbers have since been tabulated, and though Lilo & Stitch was ahead on Friday, Minority Reportdid eke out a victory for the weekend, but only by a mere $416,913.

Though everybody didn't run to Minority Report, the critically-raved picture pulled in $35,677,125 at 3,001 theaters—about $1.2 million less than what Fox estimated. That would exceed the openings of Spielberg and Cruise's last pictures—A.I. Artificial Intelligence ($29,352,630) and Vanilla Sky ($25,015,518) respectively. In fact, Minority marks Cruise's biggest opening for a picture not based on well known source material like theMission: Impossible and Interview with the Vampire movies were, and it's his ninth consecutive No. 1 bow in a leading role in 10 years.

The Minority Report marketing campaign emphasized Cruise's running man aspect of his persona, as his biggest hits often include obligatory shots of him mid-sprint, even for movies one wouldn't expect it such as Jerry Maguire. The production budget came in at $102 million, however as much as $25 million of it was offset by product placements from 15 different companies including Lexus, Nokia and USA Today. To further keep costs down, Spielberg and Cruise waived their usual fees, each opting instead to take a 15% cut of all revenue.

Breaking the weekend down, Minority grabbed $11,663,742 on Friday, jumped 14% to $13,295,050 on Saturday and then dipped 19% to $10,718,333 for Sunday. Demographically, the audience skewed only slightly male at 52% but played mostly to those over the age of 25 (64%), according to Snyder. Snyder also noted that moviegoer response in the studio's exit polling was excellent.

Lilo & Stitch gobbled up $12,335,579 on Friday at 3,191 venues to top the chart then, but lagged behind Minorityon Saturday and Sunday with $12,806,637 and $10,117,996 respectively. That brought its weekend tally to $35,260,212, or about $500,000 less than what Disney estimated.

Still, it ranks as the second biggest opening ever for a hand-drawn picture behind The Lion King's $40,888,194.

Illustrating just how close these two pictures were, Sunday estimates from other studios had the movies flip-flopped. One even had Lilo & Stitch at $34.8 million and Minority Report at $34.2 million.

 

Edited July 6, 2015 by grim22

[K1stpierre]

When's the last time we had such a nail biter as to what would take #1, all the way down to actuals? And when is the last time #1 and #2 switched with actuals?

Been awhile since I can remember

[abra]

BoxOffice.com
 

TERMINATOR GENISYS took in $27.02M this weekend. 5-Day domestic total stands at $42.47M. ‪#‎TerminatorGenisys‬

[K1stpierre]

27.02 for Terminator

[JohnnyGossamer]

While waiting for numbers... http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/07/06/quick-takes-hulk-smash-jurassic-world

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

Last year Nightcrawler and Ouija switched from estimates to actuals. The estimates had a 9K difference, it was really more like 300-400K with the final numbers.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Or goes up...

I hope so. I've my fingers crossed that Inside Out's actuals come in at just over/under $30M.

Edited July 6, 2015 by JohnnyGossamer

[samsha22]

Gonna be close... Gopher's last projections had Inside Out at $29.3M. Gotta see if that stands.

Gopher has overpredicted IO all the time (and underpredicted JW).

[TServo2049]

Oh, I should have checked, it was Ouija leapfrogging Nightcrawler on Halloween weekend last year. (Wasn't the last time anything similar happened in summer Smurfs vs. Cowboys and Aliens, where studio estimates were a tie?)

Edited July 6, 2015 by TServo2049

[e1828]

27.02 for Terminator

 

Drop of 6% for T5 and $1.7 million from estimates for weekend, almost the same as for JW ($-1.8 million).

[redfirebird2008]

I am pretty sure Inside Out will finish on top. Deadline reported this at 7 AM Pacific:

 

4TH UPDATE, MONDAY 7:06 AM: Disney has yet to make it official, but according to early Monday morning numbers, it looks like the Pixar girl finally did it. After two back-to-back dead-heat weekends, Inside Out took victory from the jaws of Jurassic World and hit the No. 1 spot at the the July 4th box office with an estimated $29.76M. That’s not that far from the Dinos, who grossed an estimated $29.4M.