Weekend #s: Straight Outta Compton - 26.8M; Mission Impossible - 11.7M; Sinister 2 - 10.6M; Hitman - 8.2M; American Ultra - 5.5M

[TalismanRing]

It's not flopping really. The budget is like $7 million I think.

 

$12m.  It was a $7m pick up by Lionsgate.  But they probably sent at least $15m on marketing. (est TV ads are around $10m as of this week)

[baumer]

Black Mass will do like 7-9M OW. Maze Runner will do solid 40+. Everest will be around 15-20M.

Id be willing to bet that black mass does at least double what you are predicting there. My guess is closer to 20 million

[Frozen]

$12m.  It was a $7m pick up by Lionsgate.  But they probably sent at least $15m on marketing. (est TV ads are around $10m as of this week)

I have not seen a single TV ad for it. Just interviews from the cast at various TV shows.

[terrestrial]

Is there any marketing at all for it? I can't see anyone talking about it on social media. Trailers don't have many views on YT. Johnny Depp has a very poor box office history. 

He isn't the reason that movie is on my 'to-watch' list.

 

Some other actors are in that I like. Haven't seen anything by that director (the one formerly attatched - Barry Levinson - to it had 5x Oscar nom. and 1x Oscar win), but the story how e.g. the US witness protection programm started is an interesting one to me.

 

budget of Black Mass acc. Wiki... $63m

Edited August 22, 2015 by terrestrial

[Heat Vision]

Pretty shit month overall

[Filmovie]

I was sarcastic.

I simply didn't think the other user's "40-50 Ow" prediction without star power against TmR2 and BM was something rational.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

SINISTER 2 earned an estimated $4.7M on opening day Friday. #Sinister2

Just bring TC2 already

[Warhorse]

Do I spy Hayden Christensen's name?

Actually, he wasn't too bad in the movie, but the best scene was the chase down with Chris Brown. 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

I'm going to watch PP2 for the fifth time today, best movie of year

[terrestrial]

early estimates BO.com

Straight Outta Compton    $27,800,000    -54%    3,025    268    $9,190    $112,523,470    2    
Sinister 2    $10,500,000    --    2,766    --    $3,796    $10,500,000    1    
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.    $7,600,000    -43%    3,673    35    $2,069    $26,816,840    2
Hitman: Agent 47    $7,500,000    --    3,261    --    $2,300    $7,500,000    1    
American Ultra    $5,700,000    --    2,778    --    $2,052    $5,700,000    1    
Minions    $3,900,000    -24%    2,226    -414    $1,752    $320,155,325    7
Vacation (2015)    $3,000,000    -42%    2,302    -786    $1,303    $52,173,256    4   
Trainwreck    $2,500,000    -35%    1,333    -665    $1,875    $102,434,110    6   
Shaun the Sheep Movie    $1,500,000    -48%    1,678    -682    $894    $14,505,452    3
Southpaw    $1,200,000    -50%    1,058    -669    $1,134    $48,087,274    5    
Jurassic World    $975,000    -21%    574    -164    $1,699    $639,595,980    11

 

It has e.g. Minions deeper than deadline that guesses $4.1m

[Ethan Hunt]

Just bring TC2 already

TC is gonna have a huge decrease from the first one

[terrestrial]

hmm, but they are thinking the same about

Ant-Man    $4,200,000    -24%    2,016    -290    $2,083    $164,636,370    6  

 

Inside Out (2015)    $1,700,000    -17%    821    -198    $2,071    $342,458,715    10  

[Mockingjay Raphael]

TC is gonna have a huge decrease from the first one

After this crap year, I'm starting to believe this too

[baumer]

This is as good a place as any to bring this up. Terminator is going to make more than Mad Max worldwide. Yet for some reason people are praising Mad Max as being a box office hit and they are claming Terminator to be a complete failure. Both have the same kind of budget yet Terminator will probably end up making about 50 million dollars more worldwide. Strange isn't it lol

[Warhorse]

Plus, the WOM is FANTASTIC!!

Just last week, we had people saying that Compton would be lucky to get 24 million OW, it got that opening night. Then come this week, they were all saying it would drop like a rock, and it looks to drop a pretty good 50%. I love it! I know people were writing this off simply because it's about a genre they don't care about.

[Ali]

This is as good a place as any to bring this up. Terminator is going to make more than Mad Max worldwide. Yet for some reason people are praising Mad Max as being a box office hit and they are claming Terminator to be a complete failure. Both have the same kind of budget yet Terminator will probably end up making about 50 million dollars more worldwide. Strange isn't it lol

Was Mad Max released in China?

[terrestrial]

Fantastic Four (2015)    $3,600,000    -56%    2,581    -1423    $1,395    $49,575,362    3
Paper Towns    $330,000    -44%    373    -226    $885    $31,093,884    5    
Spy (2015)    $175,000    -19%    209    -17    $837    $110,143,676    12
Mistress America    $220,000    136%    32    28    $6,875    $361,048    2

[AniNate]

This is as good a place as any to bring this up. Terminator is going to make more than Mad Max worldwide. Yet for some reason people are praising Mad Max as being a box office hit and they are claming Terminator to be a complete failure. Both have the same kind of budget yet Terminator will probably end up making about 50 million dollars more worldwide. Strange isn't it lol

I don't know if Mad Max can really be considered a hit but the goodwill toward this last movie makes it more likely they'll continue the franchise. Terminator's kind of in the same boat as Spider Man right now. It's still making money but creatively it's in utter disarray

[Warhorse]

So based on the box office chart for this weekend, it pretty well looks like the F4 is officially finished if it wasn't already in it's OW.. This Bitch has all but disappeared off the radar..

 

That's because something like Fantastic Four is sold on it's sex appeal. The first one had freaking Jessica Alba and Chris Evans in it (who had some shirtless scenes nonetheless) and when you take out why people saw the movie, you don't get the money. Simple as that.

[Ezen Baklattan]

This is as good a place as any to bring this up. Terminator is going to make more than Mad Max worldwide. Yet for some reason people are praising Mad Max as being a box office hit and they are claming Terminator to be a complete failure. Both have the same kind of budget yet Terminator will probably end up making about 50 million dollars more worldwide. Strange isn't it lol

Most of the time, these successes are measured by domestic and not international grosses. Honestly, mid-budget and up sci-fi and fantasy films save a LOOOOOOOTTTTT of face overseas.

 

Seventh Son, Jupiter Ascending, Terminator: Genisys, TF4, Chappie, RoboCop, Transcendence, and so many others made at least 70% of their worldwide gross overseas. Foreign auds love these genres more than we do, it seems. Hell, most of the big flop-labled films here fit into this category.

 

Also, Mad Max had a huge handicap overseas by not being shown by friend to all big budget adventures, China. That certainly gave Terminator another advantage. 

 

Then it's just the idea that Mad Max was expected to do a lot less than Terminator.

Edited August 22, 2015 by Spaghetti