Weekend Ests. (p19): SOC 13.2M|War Room 11|MI 8.3|No Escape 8.29|Sinister 4.65 |UNCLE 4.41|JW 3.12|AM 3.03|Minions 2.9|WAYF 1.8

[mahnamahna]

Really nice for MI5, wondering if it has a shot winning next weekend if it increases and SOC drops a bit and all the new openers tank.

No, because War Room will likely expand its theater count, since next weekend has nothing. If it does $11-12 million this weekend, it should do something similar next week due to the Labor Day holiday and some theater expansion (going up from 1,106 isn't exactly crazy, but 553 would double the theater count)

 

I think War Room or Compton will win. MI5 should sadly enough be good for 3rd with $6-6.5 million over the 3 day. 

[DAJK]

AMERICAN ULTRA is not connecting with the auds at all. Who has seen it?

I saw it. It isn't bad, but not good enough to warrant "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS" reaction from audiences.

[TalismanRing]

Deadline is so cold

 

At least Efron’s grandma and grandpa showed up:

 

 

Shout out to Grandma and grandpa. First ones in line, opening night. Love you pic.twitter.com/WUagzvtyA3

— Zac Efron (@ZacEfron)

August 29, 2015

 

 

[kayumanggi]

Warner Bros. had a very underwhelming summer. They went for the volume with almost a dozen movies and most of them didn't do all that well. 

 

Not only summer. It's the whole year. AMERICAN SNIPER has saved them.

[The Dark Alfred]

Deadline is so cold

At least Efron’s grandma and grandpa showed up:

What line? They probably had the screen on their own lol

[CJohn]

Not only summer. It's the whole year. AMERICAN SNIPER has saved them.

But that is 2014

 

San Andreas did good enough as well. 

[TalismanRing]

Not only summer. It's the whole year. AMERICAN SNIPER has saved them.

 

San Andeas was a nice sized hit, Get Hard did fine, Focus did OK and Mad Max did well enough to be a launching pad but everything else for them has been

 

 

January 1–August 23, 2015

#1–24

Rank	Movie Title (click to view)	Studio	Gross / Theaters		Total Gross / % of Total		Open
1	American Sniper	WB	$348,797,073	3,885	$350,126,372	99.6%	12/25/14
2	San Andreas	WB	$153,893,283	3,812	$153,995,125	99.9%	5/29/15
3	Mad Max: Fury Road	WB	$152,874,961	3,722	$152,925,227	100.0%	5/15/15
4	Get Hard	WB	$90,411,453	3,212	$90,411,453	100.0%	3/27/15
5	Magic Mike XXL	WB	$65,767,066	3,376	$65,835,842	99.9%	7/1/15
6	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	WB	$65,570,462	3,875	$255,119,788	25.7%	12/17/14
7	Focus (2015)	WB	$53,862,963	3,323	$53,862,963	100.0%	2/27/15
8	Vacation	WB (NL)	$52,191,661	3,430	$53,315,424	97.9%	7/29/15
9	Jupiter Ascending	WB	$47,387,723	3,181	$47,387,723	100.0%	2/6/15
10	Max (2015)	WB	$41,571,410	2,870	$41,654,867	99.8%	6/26/15
11	Hot Pursuit	WB	$34,580,201	3,037	$34,580,201	100.0%	5/8/15
12	Entourage	WB	$32,363,404	3,108	$32,363,404	100.0%	6/3/15
13	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	WB	$26,534,214	3,673	$29,711,626	89.3%	8/14/15
14	Run All Night	WB	$26,461,644	3,171	$26,461,644	100.0%	3/13/15
15	The Gallows	WB (NL)	$22,581,239	2,720	$22,583,898	100.0%	7/10/15
16	Inherent Vice	WB	$6,994,056	653	$8,110,975	86.2%	12/12/14
17	The Water Diviner	WB	$4,196,641	385	$4,196,641	100.0%	4/24/15
18	Horrible Bosses 2	WB	$2,699,932	1,002	$54,445,357	5.0%	11/26/14
19	Game of Thrones (IMAX)	WB	$1,896,092	205	$1,896,092	100.0%	1/30/15
20	Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX)	WB	$1,848,687	40	$10,304,129	17.9%	4/4/14
21	The Judge	WB	$116,147	76	$47,119,388	0.2%	10/10/14
22	Batkid Begins	WB	$74,709	14	$74,709	100.0%	6/26/15
23	Lost River	WB	$45,431	3	$45,431	100.0%	4/10/15
24	The Good Lie	WB	$19,958	20	$2,722,209	0.7%	10/3/14

[The Dark Alfred]

WB is having a solid year, not their best summer but they are not far off Disney who expected to dominate the year, but it turned out to be Universal destroying everyone. WB is the most consistent and successful studio the past decade. They will battle for the top spot next year.

[Avatree]

WB has had two 150M+ movies and a couple of minor hits (and minor misses). At least they haven't had a $200M bomb like Disney.

[GumbyandPokey]

Not bad at all for War Room.

[TalismanRing]

WB has had two 150M+ movies and a couple of minor hits (and minor misses). At least they haven't had a $200M bomb like Disney.

 

No just a $175m one in Jupiter Ascending and a whole bunch of other money losers  - UNCLE, Entourage, Hot Pursuit, Run All Night

[Avatree]

No just a $175m one in Jupiter Ascending and a whole bunch of other money losers  - UNCLE, Entourage, Hot Pursuit, Run All Night

Remind me when February became summer? Talking about the summer box office here...

[TalismanRing]

Remind me when February became summer? Talking about the summer box office here...

 

The discussion moved to the whole year when American Sniper was mentioned.

[CJohn]

WB has had a shit year so far. Lets not forget Mad Max is considering a flop by every THR or Variety of this world. Their only hit was San Andreas. I guess Focus did good enough. Get Hard OS was non-existent so the results ended up being nothing special. 

[TalismanRing]

NO ESCAPE earned an estimated $2.44M on Friday. 3-day domestic total is $4.5M. #NoEscape

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

August 29, 2015

[CJohn]

Stunning performance by No Escape. Between this and November Man I actually believe Pierce Brosnan is still some sort of draw in action movies. 

[Ethan Hunt]

Stunning performance by No Escape. Between this and November Man I actually believe Pierce Brosnan is still some sort of draw in action movies.

[TalismanRing]

AMERICAN ULTRA earned an estimated $0.81M on Friday. Domestic total is $8.5M. #AmericanUltra

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

August 29, 2015

[TalismanRing]

WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS earned an estimated $0.725M on opening day Friday. #WAYF #WeAreYourFriends

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

August 29, 2015

[WrathOfHan]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice  9m9 minutes ago

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON earned an estimated $3.83M on Friday. Domestic total is $124.7M. #StraightOuttaCompton

 

JURASSIC WORLD earned an estimated $0.787M on Friday. Domestic total is $640.75M. #JurassicWorld