Official Weekend Estimates: Straigth Outta Compton - 56.1M; The Man From UNCLE - 13.5M; MI5 - 17.3M; Fantastic Four - 8M

[sfran43]

BoxOffice

@BoxOffice

2m

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. opened with an estimated $13.54M this weekend. #

[JennaJ]

 

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Armie Hammer is a draw! 

 

[CJohn]

Armie Hammer career is over.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Phew, thank goodness my sleep schedule kept me out of that JW shitstorm.

Boy, that's a terrible thing to say as a mod.

[grey ghost]

Yes it did, by being exactly what most of the crowd wanted to watch this summer.

 

Nobody said it's a cinematic masterpiece, but I get the sense that a lot of this hate comes from some notion that it didn't "deserve" the success it got.

IMHO "deserve" has nothing to do with it. A movie makes what it makes, whether I liked it or not. Box office is a popularity contest. Whether I think a movie "deserves" its popularity is irrelevant - popularity and quality are two entirely different things - one is objective and quantifiable, the other is entirely subjective.

Whenever a movie breaks records people will question whether it deserved so much success.

It comes with the territory and actually factors into predicting the box office for sequels.

[MinaTakla]

VACATION took in an estimated $5.33M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $46.85M. #Vacation

[kayumanggi]

VACATION took in an estimated $5.33M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $46.85M. #Vacation

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

August 16, 2015

[MrFanaticGuy34]

1. SOC:

2. MI5:

3. M.F.U:

4. FF:

[terrestrial]

studio w/e estimates

 

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.    $13,535,000    --    3,638    --    $3,720    $13,535,000    1

Vacation (2015)    $5,330,000    -40%    3,088    -342    $1,726    $46,852,065    3

Rosenwald    $6,000    --    1    --    $6,000    $6,000    1  

[kayumanggi]

Exaggerations everywhere.

[JennaJ]

Whenever a movie breaks records people will question whether it deserved so much success.

It comes with the territory and actually factors into predicting the box office for sequels.

 

I would think predicting box office for sequels will have to do with reception. As much as some here would like to pretend otherwise, JW wasn't some toxic-WOM phenomenon which everyone watched on OW and shunned once they got a whiff of the stench. It had a great multiplier from its record breaking OW.

 

So whether or not some people online like to poo-poo it (which again, is not even a consensus on this board), I fail to see how that's some substantial data to consider for how much a sequel could make.

There are cases where WOM did not justify a sequel despite high profit (TASM2, for one). JW isn't one of them.

 

Will a sequel drop? Sure it would, because JW was a perfect storm, but that doesn't indicate negative WOM any more than AOU indicates The Avengers negative WOM.

Edited August 16, 2015 by JennaJ

[AJG]

BoxOffice

@BoxOffice

2m

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. opened with an estimated $13.54M this weekend. #

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[terrestrial]

w/e studio...

 

Ricki and the Flash    $4,570,000    -31%    2,064    461    $2,214    $14,655,717    2

[WrathOfHan]

Guy Ritchie's going to have a lot on his shoulders with King Arthur, if that bombs it's back to Sherlock or smaller movies.

[TalismanRing]

Guy Ritchie's going to have a lot on his shoulders with King Arthur, if that bombs it's back to Sherlock or smaller movies.

 

He should have got RDJ to play Merlin.

[terrestrial]

 

In second place, Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” continued to get a lift from strong word-of-mouth, picking up roughly $17.4 million in its third weekend. That brings its North American haul to approximately $140 million.

More to come…

http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/straight-outta-compton-box-office-2-1201571204/

[Wrath]

I think I'm retiring from defending JW.

It rocks

It rules.

Seen it 6 times

Will buy it on BR.

It pleased most who saw it.

You don't like it, your loss.

What more is there to say?

But dont you understand? * Their* arbitrarily defined evaluation criteria are better than *your* arbitrarily defined evaluation criteria!

[Heat Vision]

Come on show me F4's drop

[FilmBuff]

American Ultra

Man from Uncle

Agent 47

 

What is up with all these generic spy movies coming out? Spy was hilarious, and Kingsman and MI5 were both outstanding too. But, these last three is definite over saturation.

[FilmBuff]

F4 domestic total under SOC opening weekend. LMAO.