WEEKEND ACTUALS [4-day] | 10.91 M AWITW | 10.85 M SOC | summer 2015 with 2nd fewest tickets sold in over 20 years

[TServo2049]

Is this really true? It's based off an estimated summer ticket price of about $8.60, only about a cent off from NATO's Q2 average of $8.61. Are we not sure the actual average ticket price for this summer wasn't lower, due to July-August not being as loaded with huge 3D tentpole successes? The Q3 average is usually lower, but we don't learn that until October.

Do the press keep assuming the Q2 average price was the average price for all of summer? Even with Guardians and TMNT, the average price for Q3 2014 dropped 25 cents from Q2. Can't we assume a similar drop, perhaps more because of the craptastic August, and the far-and-away biggest movie of July-August (Minions) not having IMAX and mostly selling child-priced tickets?

Edited September 8, 2015 by TServo2049

[kayumanggi]

I'm also surprised. But that's already two sources claiming that it's indeed the second lowest.

[terrestrial]

Monday
Inside Out (2015)    $1,216,623    -8%    2,967    2204    $410    $349,526,793    12
Ant-Man    $903,395    -19%    1,527    -163    $592    $174,071,653    8

Weekend
Inside Out (2015)    $3,236,890    140%    2,967    2204    $1,091    $348,310,170    12
Ant-Man    $2,865,558    -7%    1,527    -163    $1,877    $173,168,258    8
 

[TServo2049]

I'm also surprised. But that's already two sources claiming that it's indeed the second lowest.

For it to be second lowest, 1994-97's summer ticket sales would have to have been more than BOM claims when you adjust there. All four of those adjust to less than this year using their current $8.39 estimate. (Though admittedly, I do not remember 1994 or 1996 being "bad" summers - also, the combined population of the U.S.+Canada was ~55-60 million less than it is now. Maybe in terms of ticket sales relative to population, this was the second worst, that I could believe.)

Also, one site claimed ticket sales for the entire summer were worse than 2014, comparing an $8.60 average for 2015 (basically the Q2 average released by NATO) and an $8.21 average for 2014 (actually an average of the Q2/Q3 numbers, since about half of summer is in Q2 and about half is in Q3). That I absolutely do not believe.

Edited September 8, 2015 by TServo2049

[terrestrial]

THR Movies ‏@THRmovies 48 secs48 seconds ago

Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation' Revs to Record Opening Day in China http://thr.cm/REBrE8 

 

w/e
Shaun the Sheep Movie    $903,756    -17%    1,134    -224    $797    $17,694,087    5
American Ultra    $1,255,918    -56%    1,729    -1049    $726    $13,085,169    3

Monday
Shaun the Sheep Movie    $393,987    5%    1,134    -224    $347    $18,088,074    5    
American Ultra    $349,287    -29%    1,729    -1049    $202    $13,434,456    3

[terrestrial]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 2 mins2 minutes ago

WAR ROOM took in $13.39M over the 4-day weekend. Domestic total stands at $28.70M. #WarRoom

[WrathOfHan]

It's going to be interesting to see how War Room holds against 90 Minutes in Heaven 

[terrestrial]

w/e
War Room    $9,480,535    -16%    1,526    391    $6,213    $24,793,993    2
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.         $3,478,711     -21%     2,102     $1,655       $39,408,964     
Pixels    $1,856,256    21%    1,420    415    $1,307    $73,305,570    7
Vacation          $1,209,553     -26%     1,045     $1,157       $56,716,879     
Ricki and the Flash    $1,001,310    -41%    1,274    -442    $786    $25,288,835    5    
We Are Your Friends         $632,682     -64%     2,333     $271       $3,152,112     
San Andreas          $243,965     -1%     205     $1,190       $154,555,728     
Max          $204,946     -6%     240     $854       $42,131,142     
Mad Max: Fury Road          $61,900     -29%     87     $711       $153,106,233     
The Gallows     Warner Bros.     $46,482     -24%     103     $451       $22,714,206     
Magic Mike XXL     Warner Bros.     $41,908     -26%     88     $476       $65,960,314     
Listen to Me Marlon     $32,231     -22%     23     $1,401       $360,232     
Home          $29,723     -11%     66     $450       $177,382,602     
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar         $15,770     +6%     35     $451       $10,351,875     
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl     $6,982     -49%     11     $635       $6,755,593     


Monday
War Room    $3,908,023    1%    1,526    391    $2,561    $28,702,016    2
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.     $1,038,517     -22%     2,102     $494       $40,447,481     
Pixels    $684,627    -8%    1,420    415    $482    $73,990,197    7
Ricki and the Flash    $305,748    -17%    1,274    -442    $240    $25,594,583    5
Vacation          $275,517     -43%     1,045     $264       $56,992,396     
Mistress America         $163,843     -19%     512     $320       $1,821,626     
We Are Your Friends          $161,357     -30%     2,333     $69       $3,313,469     

Avengers: Age of Ultron    $106,880    --    220    --    $486    $458,325,298    19

San Andreas          $75,967     -25%     205     $371       $154,631,695     
Max          $72,168     -10%     240     $301       $42,203,310

Tomorrowland    $29,489    --    103    --    $286    $93,357,473    16
Mad Max: Fury Road          $15,396     -40%     87     $177       $153,121,629     
The Gallows          $10,076     -47%     103     $98       $22,724,282     
Magic Mike XXL          $7,098     -56%     88     $81       $65,967,412     
 

[terrestrial]

Shawn Robbins retweeted

Phil Gee ‏@MovieMoan Sep 7

Who Won? It's Movie Moan's Summer 2015 Box Office Results Show with @EDouglasWW, @ShawnRobbinsWho, & @filmnerdjamie -http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-moan-podcast/2015/9/7/movie-moans-summer-2015-box-office-results-show.html …

[terrestrial]

??? Breaking news???

 

TheWrap ‏@TheWrap 5 secs5 seconds ago

BREAKING: @IFCMidnight buys CABIN FEVER reboot that was co-written & executive produced by original director @EliR... http://goo.gl/HxAZLB

[CJohn]

IFC is an irrelevant distributor...

[terrestrial]

I know, small release movies.. = why breaking news?

[terrestrial]

What studios spend this summer for TV ads... a lot

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/summer-movie-ad-buys-mission-821043

 

Among Hollywod studios, Warner Bros. paid the most this summer to advertise its films — or 27.1 percent of all dollars shelled out.

An eclectic trio of films — Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and Entourage — topped the list of the 2015 summer movies getting the biggest television advertising spend in the U.S.

All in, Warners spent $43.7 million on ads for Fury Road, George Miller's critically acclaimed prequel, while Paramount spent $42 million to plug Rogue Nation on the airwaves, according to iSpot.tv, which monitors TV advertising. Entourage, the adaptation of the hit HBO series, also got a big spend — or $40.7 million.

....

 

Interesting read

[John Marston]

1	2	War Room	TriS	$13,388,558	+17.9%	1,526	+391	$8,774	$28,702,016	$3	2
2	N	A Walk in the Woods	BG	$10,908,832	-	1,960	-	$5,566	$12,806,684	-	1
3	1	Straight Outta Compton	Uni.	$10,845,930	-17.4%	3,094	-48	$3,505	$149,781,635	$28	4
4	3	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	Par.	$9,425,519	+15.6%	2,849	-246	$3,308	$182,662,211	$150	6
5	N	The Transporter Refueled	EC	$9,005,474	-	3,434	-	$2,622	$9,005,474	-	1
6	4	No Escape	Wein.	$7,009,342	-13.6%	3,415	+60	$2,053	$20,010,421	-	2
7	6	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	WB	$4,517,228	+1.9%	2,102	-604	$2,149	$40,447,481	$75	4
8	-	Inside Out	BV	$4,453,513	+229.9%	2,967	+2,204	$1,501	$349,526,793	$175	12
9	N	Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos	PNT	$4,357,004	-	395	-	$11,030	$4,357,004	-	1
10	5	Sinister 2	Focus	$4,193,644	-10.1%	2,651	-148	$1,582	$24,528,447	$10	3
11	11	Minions	Uni.	$3,903,090	+35.8%	1,927	-49	$2,025	$328,774,550	$74	9
12	8	Ant-Man	BV	$3,768,953	+22.6%	1,527	-163	$2,468	$174,071,653	$130	8
-	10	The Gift (2015)	STX	$3,371,675	+12.2%	1,591	-343	$2,119	$40,389,687	$5	5
-	9	Jurassic World	Uni.	$3,330,520	+10.6%	1,571	+332	$2,120	$647,374,160	$150	13
-	7	Hitman: Agent 47	Fox	$2,800,957	-33.7%	2,191	-1,082	$1,278	$19,948,464	$35	3
-	-	Pixels	Sony	$2,540,883	+65.3%	1,420	+415	$1,789	$73,990,197	$88	7
-	-	Trainwreck	Uni.	$1,826,740	+9.4%	808	-149	$2,261	$107,506,990	$35	8
-	12	American Ultra	LGF	$1,605,205	-43.7%	1,729	-1,049	$928	$13,434,456	$28	3
-	-	Vacation	WB (NL)	$1,485,158	-8.8%	1,045	-510	$1,421	$56,992,482	$31	6
-	-	Fantastic Four	Fox	$1,452,914	-18.5%	1,135	-540	$1,280	$54,773,682	-	5
-	-	Ricki and the Flash	TriS	$1,307,058	-23.2%	1,274	-442	$1,026	$25,594,583	$18	5
-	-	Shaun the Sheep Movie	LGF	$1,297,743	+18.8%	1,134	-224	$1,144	$18,088,074	-	5
-	-	Southpaw	Wein.	$1,270,921	+44.8%	1,444	+838	$880	$51,289,443	$30	7
-	N	Welcome Back	Eros	$891,435	-	135	-	$6,603	$891,419	-	1
-	-	We Are Your Friends	WB	$794,039	-55.1%	2,333	-	$340	$3,313,469	-	2
-	-	Mistress America	FoxS	$746,900	+76.5%	512	+362	$1,459	$1,821,626	-	4
-	-	Grandma (2015)	SPC	$626,361	+115.0%	52	+33	$12,045	$1,198,375	$0.6	3
-	-	Phoenix (2015)	IFC	$600,076	+68.9%	185	+46	$3,244	$2,159,797	-	7
-	-	Mr. Holmes	RAtt.	$522,136	+13.6%	348	-21	$1,500	$16,836,631	-	8
-	-	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$509,601	+137.3%	220	-17	$2,316	$458,325,298	$250	19
-	-	Dope	ORF	$500,002	+3,209.1%	1,023	+1,012	$489	$17,279,187	$0.7	12
-	-	Learning to Drive	BG	$471,543	+281.2%	70	+55	$6,736	$739,492	-	3
-	-	Meru	MBox	$432,680	+60.7%	124	+46	$3,489	$1,236,681	-	4
-	-	San Andreas	WB	$319,932	+29.6%	205	-13	$1,561	$154,631,695	$110	15
-	-	Max (2015)	WB	$277,114	+27.5%	240	-42	$1,155	$42,203,310	$20	11
-	-	Paper Towns	Fox	$217,427	+15.7%	218	-36	$997	$31,698,746	$12	7
-	-	The Diary of a Teenage Girl	SPC	$196,353	-50.1%	255	-540	$770	$1,279,610	-	5
-	N	Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine	Magn.	$182,664	-	70	-	$2,609	$182,664	-	1
-	-	Terminator: Genisys	Par.	$181,822	-3.8%	168	-41	$1,082	$89,626,525	$155	10
-	-	Spy	Fox	$156,266	+15.2%	148	-21	$1,056	$110,553,761	$65	14
-	-	Tomorrowland	BV	$109,600	+41.2%	103	-17	$1,064	$93,357,473	$190	16
-	-	Phantom (2015)	UTV	$104,480	-60.8%	83	-10	$1,259	$463,257	-	2
-	-	Mad Max: Fury Road	WB	$77,296	-10.8%	87	-24	$888	$153,121,629	$150	17
-	-	Best of Enemies	Magn.	$72,505	-16.5%	51	-18	$1,422	$781,244	-	6
-	-	Irrational Man	SPC	$68,805	-31.6%	54	-37	$1,274	$3,825,133	-	8
-	-	The Second Mother	Osci.	$63,355	+163.0%	15	+12	$4,224	$100,026	-	2
-	-	The Gallows	WB (NL)	$56,558	-7.4%	103	-45	$549	$22,724,282	$0.1	9
-	-	Magic Mike XXL	WB	$49,006	-13.3%	88	-68	$557	$65,967,412	$14.8	10
-	N	Dragon Blade	LGP	$41,173	-	14	-	$2,941	$41,173	-	1
-	-	Home (2015)	Fox	$41,057	+23.4%	66	-13	$622	$177,393,936	$135	24
-	-	Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet	GK	$35,348	-14.2%	31	-6	$1,140	$268,003	-	5
-	-	Listen to Me Marlon	SHO	$32,231	-22.4%	23	-15	$1,401	$359,933	-	6
-	-	Jimmy's Hall	SPC	$31,073	+106.0%	30	+18	$1,036	$459,538	-	10
-	-	Z for Zachariah	RAtt.	$28,369	-50.1%	27	-2	$1,051	$106,550	-	2
-	-	Love & Mercy	RAtt.	$27,627	+3.0%	31	-8	$891	$12,501,160	-	14
-	N	Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution	PBS	$27,245	-	1	-	$27,245	$35,800	-	1
-	-	Queen of Earth	IFC	$25,410	+123.7%	8	+6	$3,176	$58,125	-	2
-	N	Before We Go	RTWC	$24,251	-	21	-	$1,155	$24,251	-	1
-	N	Rififi (2015 re-release)	Rialto	$22,928	-	2	-	$11,464	$26,388	-	1
-	-	Cinderella (2015)	BV	$20,005	+21.5%	30	-4	$667	$201,136,215	$95	26
-	-	Bajrangi Bhaijaan	Eros	$19,135	-31.0%	257	-	$74	$8,176,067	-	8
-	-	Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX)	WB	$18,434	+23.7%	35	-	$527	$10,354,549	-	75
-	-	Tangerine	Magn.	$17,303	+35.3%	15	-5	$1,154	$661,319	-	9
-	-	I'll See You In My Dreams	BST	$12,075	-30.0%	21	-13	$575	$7,447,041	-	17
-	-	The Stanford Prison Experiment	IFC	$12,063	-16.7%	12	-8	$1,005	$623,065	-	8
-	-	She's Funny That Way	LGP	$9,126	-56.2%	10	-10	$913	$106,377	-	3
-	-	A Borrowed Identity	Strand	$8,773	+75.8%	5	+1	$1,755	$270,968	-	11
-	-	Testament of Youth	SPC	$8,578	-32.8%	11	-4	$780	$1,787,917	-	14
-	-	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	FoxS	$8,354	-38.9%	11	-10	$759	$6,756,965	$8	13
-	-	Infinitely Polar Bear	SPC	$7,081	-56.4%	13	-12	$545	$1,398,332	-	12
-	-	The Quay Brothers in 35mm	Zeit.	$6,711	-	1	-	$6,711	$28,628	-	3
-	-	Slow Learners	IFC	$5,964	+95.2%	3	+2	$1,988	$13,544	-	3
-	-	The Wolfpack	Magn.	$3,210	-21.2%	7	-1	$459	$1,287,776	-	13
-	-	The Tribe	Drft.	$2,633	+68.1%	4	-3	$658	$147,675	-	12
-	-	The Look of Silence	Drft.	$1,670	-4.2%	9	+3	$186	$98,840	-	8
-	-	A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	Magn.	$1,358	+50.2%	5	+1	$272	$212,514	-	14
-	-	The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	MBox	$1,033	-74.6%	2	-1	$517	$942,250	-	19
-	-	She's Beautiful When She's Angry	ICir	$1,019	+94.5%	2	+1	$510	$412,444	-	40

 

[John Marston]

Age of Ultron got no expansion. Odd because Avengers 1 and IM3 received Labor Day expansions

[TServo2049]

IM3 didn't get an expansion.

[terrestrial]

Age of Ultron got no expansion. Odd because Avengers 1 and IM3 received Labor Day expansions

aybe bcs so many other strange expansions (see e.g. Dope) took away free locations?

 

Also Inside Out got a realativly big one.

 

What I was wondering about was, that Ant-Man got a reduction instead of a stabile number.

[terrestrial]

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice 31 secs31 seconds ago

Worldwide Top 5 Summer: #1 JURASSIC WORLD ($1.65B) #2 AVENGERS 2 ($1.4B) #3 MINIONS ($1.04B) #4 INSIDE OUT ($735M) #5 M:I5 ($511M)

 

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice 3 mins3 minutes ago

Domestic Top 5 Summer: #1 JURASSIC WORLD ($647M) #2 AVENGERS 2 ($458M) #3 INSIDE OUT ($349M) #4 MINIONS ($328M) #5 M:I5 ($182M*)

 

 

Box Office Mojo ‏@boxofficemojo 5 mins5 minutes ago

Labor Day Weekend #BoxOffice Actuals: 'War Room' $13.3m; 'Walk' $10.9m; 'Compton' $10.8m http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2015&wknd=36a&p= …

[terrestrial]

• Worldwide Box Office
• Domestic Box Office
• DVD & Blu-ray Sales
• DVD & Blu-ray Rentals
• VOD Movies
• Digital Movies
• TV Engagement

Worldwide Box Office (Estimates) Weekend ending Sep 6

Title	Weekend BO Estimate			Weekend Cume Release			Distributor*
	Worldwide	International	Domestic	Worldwide	International	Domestic	International	# of Territories	Domestic
Straight Outta Compt...	$16,748,840	$7,900,000	$8,848,840	$168,300,000	$18,100,000	$150,200,000	UNI	14	UNI
Mission: Impossible ...	$16,550,000	$9,400,000	$7,150,000	$509,086,692	$328,700,000	$180,386,692	PAR	65	PAR
Minions	$13,617,070	$10,900,000	$2,717,070	$1,043,800,000	$714,200,000	$329,600,000	UNI	58	UNI
Hitman: Agent 47	$13,575,000	$11,400,000	$2,175,000	$62,923,787	$43,200,000	$19,723,787	FOX	72	FOX
Ant-Man	$12,887,000	$10,000,000	$2,887,000	$383,690,000	$210,500,000	$173,190,000	DIS	36	DIS
Terminator Genisys	$11,635,000	$11,500,000	$135,000	$435,879,703	$346,300,000	$89,579,703	PAR	8	PAR
Transporter Refueled...	$11,130,000	$4,000,000	$7,130,000	$11,630,000	$4,500,000	$7,130,000	MUL	19	EUR
Inside Out	$10,246,000	$7,100,000	$3,146,000	$734,419,280	$386,200,000	$348,219,280	DIS	37	DIS
Dead End, The	$9,900,000	$9,900,000		$41,000,000	$41,000,000		BON	1	N/A
Man From U.N.C.L.E.	$9,645,000	$6,200,000	$3,445,000	$85,379,148	$46,000,000	$39,379,148	WB	65	WB
War Room	$9,625,000	$275,000	$9,350,000	$25,513,458	$850,000	$24,663,458	MUL	11	SNY
Walk In The Woods, A	$8,750,000	$500,000	$8,250,000	$10,750,000	$500,000	$10,250,000	MUL	4	BGP
No Escape	$8,145,000	$2,700,000	$5,445,000	$21,946,079	$3,500,000	$18,446,079	MUL	12	TWC
Sinister 2	$6,577,000	$3,200,000	$3,377,000	$36,716,893	$13,000,000	$23,716,893	MUL	32	FOC
Vacation	$5,445,000	$4,300,000	$1,145,000	$90,752,064	$34,100,000	$56,652,064	WB	56	WB
Jurassic World	$5,300,005	$2,700,000	$2,600,005	$1,650,500,000	$1,003,000,000	$647,500,000	UNI	30	UNI
Pixels	$5,100,000	$3,200,000	$1,900,000	$194,049,314	$120,700,000	$73,349,314	SNY	76	SNY
Ted 2	$4,700,000	$4,700,000		$201,284,830	$120,000,000	$81,284,830	UNI	45	UNI
Veteran	$4,700,000	$4,700,000		$79,000,000	$79,000,000		CJE	1	CJE
Fantastic Four	$4,625,000	$3,500,000	$1,125,000	$155,645,511	$101,200,000	$54,445,511	FOX	50	FOX
Ricki And The Flash	$4,250,000	$3,200,000	$1,050,000	$30,737,525	$5,400,000	$25,337,525	SNY	40	SNY

 

[TServo2049]

And actually, Avengers 1 is the only Marvel movie to have gotten a Labor Day expansion. Meanwhile, every Pixar movie since 2010 has gotten a Labor Day expansion.

And it's not like it's one-or-the-other. Both TA1 and Brave were expanded in 2012. I think TA1 was less of a sign of some Marvel trend, and more of "This was THE big movie of the summer, so we'll give it one last hurrah at the end of the season." In that respect, Jurassic World got the TA1 treatment this year.