Tuesday #s (Gopher) MI5 7.3M, Minions 2.4M, DBZ 2.3M, Ant-Man 2.3M

[MinaTakla]

INSIDE OUT took in $0.945M on Tuesday. Domestic total stands at $331.33M. #InsideOut

[e1828]

Largest DOMESTIC Totals – After Day 54

1) Avatar - $633,621,035 (Tue - $2,025,264) 

2) Jurassic World – $632,834,270 (Tue - $640,520)

3) Marvel’s The Avengers - $600,377,080 (Tue - $989,546)

4) The Dark Knight - $512,829,031 (Tue - $454,109) 
5) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $450,162,782 (Tue - $390,085)

6) The Dark Knight Rises - $438,351,214 (Tue - $317,302)

7) Shrek 2 -

$418,517,158 (Sun - $1,323,760)

8) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - $414,423,452 (Tue - $353,654)

9) Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $408,392,316 (Tue - $422,596)

10) Iron Man 3 - $403,603,089 (Tue - $236,862)

11) Toy Story 3 - $397,518,546 (Tue - $593,930)

12) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $396,758,605 (Sun - $379,365)

13) Spiderman - $391,538,987 (Tue - $603,413) 

14) The Hunger Games - $387,870,286 (Tue - $464,758)

15) Star Wars 1: TPM - $385,184,373 (Sun - $2,246,096)

16) Harry Potter 7b:  Deathly Hallows Part 2 - $375,755,398 (Tue - $203,305)

17) Star Wars 3: ROTS - $371,154,119 (Mon - $334,230)

18) Spiderman 2 - $365,173,462 (Sun - $669,070) 

19) The Passion Of The Christ - $360,761,619 (Sun - $1,231,121)

20) Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $351,133,343 (Sun - $1,370,995) 

21) Despicable Me 2 - $350,701,135 (Sun - $785,120)

22) Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $348,540,006 (Sun - $179,405)

23) Furious 7 - $347,930,725 (Tue - $207,405)

24) Titanic - $340,217,288 (Tue - $1,506,524)

25) American Sniper - $337,852,209 (Tue - $409,581)(1)

26) Spiderman 3 -

$332,832,534 (Tue - $175,588)

27) Frozen - $332,403,215 (Sun - $3,974,379)(2)

28) The Hunger Games:  Mockingjay Part 1 - $330,136,517 (Tue - $343,342)

29) Alice in Wonderland - $327,899,227 (Tue - $187,772)

30) Lord Of The Rings: TT - $320,857,049 (Sun - $1,092,336)

31) Shrek The Third - $317,180,922 (Tue - $221,725)

32) Guardians of the Galaxy - $314,543,546 (Tue - $448,190)

33) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $310,760,256 (Mon - $272,642) 

34) Transformers - $308,259,664 (Sat - $492,850)

35) Iron Man 2 - $307,318,350 (Tue - $180,240)

36) Finding Nemo - $306,282,514 (Tue - $1,296,119)

37) Iron Man - $305,881,416 (Tue - $512,328)

38) Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End - $304,852,581 (Tue - $211,021)

39) Harry Potter 1: SS - $301,082,434 (Tue - $343,000)

 

1)     Includes $3.4 million before wide release

2)     Includes $342K before wide release.

 

·         We have a new top dog, Avatar overtakes the top spot held onto for so long by Jurassic World’s amazing initial run!

·         Marvel’s The Avengers crosses $600 million in the third fastest time.

·         Avengers: Age of Ultron crosses $450 million.

·         Crossing $350 million:  Lord of the Rings: ROTK and Despicable Me 2.

·         Frozen, Finding Nemo and The Lord of the Rings: ROTK all gain another spot on Day 54.

[MinaTakla]

SOUTHPAW took in $1.30M on Tuesday. Domestic total stands at $34.11M. #Southpaw

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

ANT-MAN took in $2.24M on Tuesday. Domestic total stands at $136.46M. #AntMan

 

 

For comparison's sake, Captain America: The First Avenger made 1.99M on its 19th day. Fantastic Four made 1.7M. Ant-Man is about 10m ahead of FF and around 10m behind Cap. 165-170 is where it will land.

[grim22]

I told you all tracking numbers were switched between F4 and MI5. People laugh. Now I am the one laughing.

 

Tracking wasn't switched, the numbers were both right as of July 15th or whenever that came out. Paramount just did a lot of damage control once tracking came in to mount one of the best final weeks of marketing leading up to release. Fox didn't.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/08/03/box-office-how-tom-cruise-mission-impossible-rogue-nation-beat-the-tracking/

 

The first word about box office potential for Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation came when early tracking figures were released via Variety on July 16th, and the news was grim. The film was projected, two weeks out, to earn just $40 million on its opening weekend, which would be soft for a $150m action sequel and the lowest Fri-Sun debut for a Mission: Impossible movie. Yet two weeks later, we’re looking at a $56m debut weekend, so was the tracking just off yet again?  Well, yes and no. The tracking was probably accurate as it was on July 16th. As I (and others) have said from time to time, tracking is not a hard-and-fast opening weekend prediction, nor for that matter is it even supposed to be a publically disclosed piece of information. In the proverbial olden days, pre-release tracking was (and is) a tool for studios to adjust their marketing focus in one direction or another based on the information allocated from the tracking services. 

It is only in the last several years that we’ve started to see early tracking being both released as news and taken as gospel in terms of a film’s ultimate box office fate. Because if a film is tracking soft, even a month out, that’s a great way to fashion a clickbait article proclaiming that “insert movie star here” is about to having a big flop or a certain studio is about to take a bath on a big release. The problem is that the narrative can stick and play in the media and create something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as we saw last year with Edge of Tomorrow, where the media took the soft tracking nearly a month out and fashioned a narrative about both Tom Cruise having a big flop on his hands and the deeply sexist “Tom’s gonna get whupped by a girl!” narrative on top of that thanks to the media-friendly The Fault In Our Stars opening on the same day (for the record, both films ended up on my ten-best list of 2014).

 

This time out the media (myself included) spent the post-July 16th period discussing whether or not Marvel’s Ant-Man was a disappointment thanks to its mere $58m opening weekend, then how awful Adam Sandler’s Pixels turned out to be, and then finally, as the review embargo broke on July 24th, how bloody terrific Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation had turned out to be. And this all worked to Paramount’s advantage, as they were waiting until the last minute anyway. That Rogue Nation wasn’t tracking for blockbuster numbers two weeks out was not a surprise as most of the marketing was intended to take place in the last two weeks. The reason for this was pretty simple. The movie famously moved its release date up five months, from December 23rd to July 31st, to get away from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and to get two weeks of prime IMAX real estate. So as a result, the marketing campaign was a little more “last minute” than usual.

Edited August 5, 2015 by grim22

[Planodisney]

IO having a great leggy run. Only Avatar JW and Avengers had a better 47th day, Tuesday, than IO.

I think this movie still has a shot at 360. It looks like it will get the extended run that Frozen and BH6 didn't. DM2 had good late legs and it made another 20 million from this point in its run which would put IO at just over 351. The kicker is that IO is almost doubling DM2's daily tracking numbers at this point which would put it over 360 by the end of its run. We will have to see if it's momentum can continue.

[BenedictL11]

INSIDE OUT took in $0.945M on Tuesday. Domestic total stands at $331.33M. #InsideOut

Only down 32.5% from last Tuesday! Yay!!!!

[BK007]

Typically, AOU suffers by comparison to the supposedly "groundbreaking" first film.

The reaction on here to AOU is just like the reaction to IM2. Had either been the first films, the reactions would have been pretty similar to the first films' receptions, but since the sequels didn't really bring anything truly new and exciting to the table, the reactions are "meh" to "f-ing horrible". Both AOU and IM2 are good films. Even the whiny nerds on IMDb can't bring them below a 7/10 score because most people like the films despite what the nerds on here or there think.

Here's what this whiny arachnerd thinks: Both Avengers and Iron Man are overrated and AOU and IM2 are underrated. Did the sequels drop in quality from the first films that are so widely loved? Sure. But not nearly as much as the knee jerk reactions on here would have you believe. Just my opinion of course.

*Runs*

You claiming all reactions are knee jerk and the movies are unquestionably good is predictable and over stepping.

The Internet and IMDB is still Marvel fanboy dominated such as yourself showing up to fulfill the defense.

Someone always will.

Nobody's going to remember these films a decade from now and finally the real opinion of these decidedly mediocre movies will be met. I think it's a bloody good joke that some are thrown under the bus to give the impression of fairness when there is not much different...except the studio releasing them.

[redfirebird2008]

And that opinion is fine, but that doesn't change the fact that it is fresh on RT and is still 7.1/10 in IMDb after 5 years. It may be the consensus on here, but obviously it's not "lousy" in most people's opinions. It had a lousy villain(Rourke), I think most will say that.

 

 

EDIT: But, in my opinion, Iron Monger was not the greatest or most memorable villain.

 

"I've never really had a taste for this kind of thing, but I must admit I'm deeply enjoying the suit!

 How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever! And now, I'm going to kill you with it!"

 

Pretty generic stuff there.

 

Iron Monger is lousy, but the origin story is great. What sucks about IM2 is all the Avengers stuff that is forced into it and in general the plot is pretty lame overall.

[Captain Craig]

Iron Monger is lousy, but the origin story is great. What sucks about IM2 is all the Avengers stuff that is forced into it and in general the plot is pretty lame overall.

I just never agree that the Avengers material feels forced. I think people just want to see that. It's world building. It's thematically linked to Nick Fury showing up in that stinger at the end of the 1st movie. 

 

I don't argue that the approach with Rourke's Whiplash could've been handled better. 

[Frozen]

There was another theatre shooting today. This time it was a showing of Mad Max at the Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater complex in Antioch, Tennessee. Shooter is dead. I just saw this on twitter.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/05/us/tennessee-theater-shooting/index.html

[Captain Craig]

There was another theatre shooting today. This time it was a showing of Mad Max at the Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater complex in Antioch, Tennessee. Shooter is dead. I just saw this on twitter.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/05/us/tennessee-theater-shooting/index.html

I've posted this in the Mad Max thread and already have a discussion going in The Real World forum.

[baumer]

It was mediocre for sure. But you do go extreme for sure. I doubt you will like F4 either.

 

I didn't like anything about AOU.  I don't know why that makes me have an extreme opinion.  

[Gopher]

it's not "lousy" in most people's opinions.

 

I don't think it's anything in most people's opinions. I doubt any casual Marvel fan can recall a single scene from that movie. Gonna be the same for TA2 within a year or two though. 

[BenedictL11]

Fantastic Four not on MT yet, though tracking suggests it's going to skew way younger than MI5 (which popped on it by now). Wouldn't be surprised with a 40/100 run at this rate. 

FF still not on MT means that sub-$50M OW is 99.99% locked. MI5 showed up an hour ago last week at the same pace. 

 

Anyways, My predictions for Shaun the Sheep's Wednesday: $1.22M. What do you think, Gopher?

[terrestrial]

Tuesday, August 4, 2015
 

	>Yr >Mo >Wk >>Next Day
TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Par. $7,232,284 +7% - 3,956 $1,828 $69,542,460 5 2 2 Minions Uni. $2,377,375 +19% -41% 3,575 $665 $291,957,870 26 3 3 Ant-Man BV $2,237,124 +19% -48% 3,322 $673 $136,456,498 19 4 4 Vacation WB (NL) $2,181,324 +18% - 3,411 $639 $25,026,916 7 5 5 Pixels Sony $2,103,250 +28% -43% 3,723 $565 $49,460,622 12 6 - Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection No. 'F' FUN $1,967,626 - - 895 $2,198 $1,967,626 1 7 6 Trainwreck Uni. $1,525,220 +15% -39% 2,960 $515 $82,470,930 19 8 7 Southpaw Wein. $1,295,066 +14% -42% 2,772 $467 $34,105,568 12 9 8 Paper Towns Fox $1,101,135 +17% -45% 3,031 $363 $25,900,075 12 10 9 Inside Out BV $944,971 +18% -33% 1,904 $496 $331,333,285 47 - 10 Jurassic World Uni. $640,520 +8% -41% 1,912 $335 $632,834,270 54 - - Mr. Holmes RAtt. $350,000 +13% -18% 898 $390 $10,985,772 19 - - Terminator: Genisys Par. $145,116 +7% -59% 736 $197 $87,973,912 35 - - Bajrangi Bhaijaan Eros $125,000 +18% -45% 257 $486 $7,192,850 19 - - Magic Mike XXL WB $115,760 +18% -63% 565 $205 $64,975,269 35 - - Spy Fox $68,549 +2% -38% 375 $183 $109,008,393 61 - - Ted 2 Uni. $65,650 +24% -46% 505 $130 $80,657,145 40 - - The Vatican Tapes LGF $53,033 +9% -53% 427 $124 $1,629,693 12 - - The Gallows WB (NL) $51,535 +4% -66% 363 $142 $22,303,676 26 - - Max (2015) WB $49,917 +13% -63% 348 $143 $40,594,796 40 - - Mad Max: Fury Road WB $42,136 -8% -38% 302 $140 $152,257,562 82