Wed (Aug 26) #s - SOC $2.1m | NoEsc $1.18m | MI5: $1m

[Mojoguy]

Ridiculous weekend for openers and the next two weeks don't look much better. At least The Visit seems like something that will do 10M OW and Perfect Guy should do around 15M 

This just means better holds for MI5, and a better chance for 200m DOM.

[grim22]

This just means better holds for MI5, and a better chance for 200m DOM.

 

Weird thing so far this year, only one movie has finished its domestic run between 200M and 300M - Cinderella, which was basically pushed past the 200M mark, it sits at 201M. And when Minions completes its run, there will be no movie between 201M and 330M. The only movie with a chance of ending up in that range between now and November is probably The Martian, if everything goes right for it. Really weird year at the box office.

[CJohn]

Cinderella is a fake 200M movie. But fuck yeah Disney for doing it

[Mojoguy]

Weird thing so far this year, only one movie has finished its domestic run between 200M and 300M - Cinderella, which was basically pushed past the 200M mark, it sits at 201M. And when Minions completes its run, there will be no movie between 201M and 330M. The only movie with a chance of ending up in that range between now and November is probably The Martian, if everything goes right for it. Really weird year at the box office.

I prefer having a mega blockbuster or two like JW and AOU in a year, over having 10 boring 200m movies.

[terrestrial]

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Focus will now release RACE on February 19, 2016.

[Wrath]

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[TalismanRing]

August 26 – 28 Estimates
Updated Thursday afternoons
 

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Rank LW Title Distributor Theater Count Change % Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 1 5 No Escape Weinstein Company 3,355 - - 1 8 - We Are Your Friends Warner Bros. 2,333 - - 1 16 - War Room TriStar 1,135 - - 1 38 - Z for Zachariah Roadside Attractions 29 - - 1 40 - Memories of the Sword Well Go USA 25 - - 1 46 - Queen of Earth IFC 2 - - 1 > EXPANDING 2 3 Hitman: Agent 47 Fox 3,273 +12 +0.4% 2 3 4 Straight Outta Compton Universal 3,141 +116 +3.8% 3 5 7 Sinister 2 Focus Features 2,799 +33 +1.2% 2 15 19 Jurassic World Universal 1,227 +653 +113.8% 12 19 37 The Diary of a Teenage Girl Sony Classics 795 +726 +1,052.2% 4 29 47 Mistress America Fox Searchlight 149 +117 +365.6% 3 30 39 The Gallows Warner Bros. (New Line) 148 +102 +221.7% 8 31 33 Phoenix (2015) IFC 142 +34 +31.5% 6 41 72 Learning to Drive Broad Green Pictures 23 +19 +475.0% 2 43 71 Grandma (2015) Sony Classics 19 +15 +375.0% 2 44 70 Ex Machina A24 5 +1 +25.0% 21 > NO CHANGE 6 6 American Ultra Lionsgate 2,778 - - 2 36 43 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX) Warner Bros. 35 - - 74 47 87 Slow Learners IFC 1 - - 2 > DECLINING 4 2 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Paramount 3,095 -347 -10.1% 5 7 1 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Warner Bros. 2,706 -967 -26.3% 3 9 11 Minions Universal 1,967 -259 -11.6% 8 10 13 Ricki and the Flash TriStar 1,716 -297 -14.8% 4 11 12 Ant-Man Buena Vista 1,690 -326 -16.2% 7 12 8 Fantastic Four Fox 1,675 -906 -35.1% 4 13 10 Vacation Warner Bros. (New Line) 1,555 -747 -32.5% 5 14 14 Shaun the Sheep Movie Lionsgate 1,358 -320 -19.1% 4 17 15 Pixels Sony / Columbia 1,005 -344 -25.5% 6 18 16 Trainwreck Universal 954 -379 -28.4% 7 20 18 Inside Out Buena Vista 763 -58 -7.1% 11 21 17 Southpaw Weinstein Company 606 -452 -42.7% 6 22 20 Mr. Holmes Roadside Attractions 365 -68 -15.7% 7 23 23 Max (2015) Warner Bros. 282 -21 -6.9% 10 24 22 The End of the Tour A24 256 -99 -27.9% 5 25 21 Paper Towns Fox 254 -119 -31.9% 6 26 26 San Andreas Warner Bros. 218 -15 -6.4% 14 27 25 Terminator: Genisys Paramount 209 -27 -11.4% 9 28 24 Magic Mike XXL Warner Bros. 156 -89 -36.3% 9 32 30 Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros. 111 -17 -13.3% 16 33 28 Irrational Man Sony Classics 91 -94 -50.8% 7 34 34 Amy A24 79 -21 -21.0% 9 35 40 Love & Mercy Roadside Attractions 39 -2 -4.9% 13 37 42 I'll See You In My Dreams Bleecker Street 34 -1 -2.9% 16 39 44 Infinitely Polar Bear Sony Classics 25 -9 -26.5% 11 42 53 The Stanford Prison Experiment IFC 23 -2 -8.0% 7 45 61 The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet Weinstein Company 4 -7 -63.6% 5

 

[DAJK]

Hitman Agent 47 may in fact be the worst movie of 2015.

[Sal]

I'm surprised Fantastic Four is still holding onto that many theaters.

[miketheavenger]

I'm surprised Fantastic Four is still holding onto that many theaters.

Likely because of the weak openers.

[cookie]

Why is No Escape in so many theaters?

[Chaz]

Why is No Escape in so many theaters?

Harvey Weinstein's Illuminati connections.

[CJohn]

Hitman Agent 47 may in fact be the worst movie of 2015.

You kids nowadays have no idea how to have fun. Shit was stupid dumb crazy ridiculous. It had it all. The mid credits scene is stuff of legend.

[TalismanRing]

Why is No Escape in so many theaters?

 

40,000+ screens to fill and loads of movies playing that will make less than it this weekend and maybe even next w/e.

[WrathOfHan]

FANT4STIC didn't even drop 1K theaters? Damn.

[CJohn]

Hitman: Agent 47 is having a giant OW here. Theaters just switched it with MI5 which was in the biggest screens for the weekend yesterday. In some theaters it went from screens with 180 and 170 seats to screens with 470 and 360 seats. It is going to open above Fant4stic, Ant-Man, Terminator Genisys, Godzilla, San Andreas and many others. It is one of the biggest shocks ever. 

 

My friend that works at FOX has no idea what is happening but he is super happy. 

Edited August 28, 2015 by CJohn

[DAJK]

You kids nowadays have no idea how to have fun. Shit was stupid dumb crazy ridiculous. It had it all. The mid credits scene is stuff of legend.

There's a mid credits scene? Shoot, I'll have to check it out next time I'm working.

I could have had a lot of fun with it CJohn, if I knew what was going on

[CJohn]

There's a mid credits scene? Shoot, I'll have to check it out next time I'm working.

I could have had a lot of fun with it CJohn, if I knew what was going on

That is part of the fun you fool