WEEKEND ESTIMATES: 47.5 M HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA II | 18.2 M THE INTERN | 14.0 M TMR: THE SCORCH TRIALS | 13.1 M EVEREST

[Mojoguy]

Hotel Transylvania 3 would CRUSH the animated Scooby-Doo movie no one asked for.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

Pretty much. Being a box-office draw doesn't mean someone's a miracle worker. It just helps the first weekend but if people don't like what they see, word will get out and the overall total won't be so great. Black Mass opened similarly to The Town, but it's not going to have those legs: 

 

2010

Date (click to view chart)	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Sep 17–19	1	$23,808,032	-	2,861	-	$8,322	$23,808,032	1
Sep 24–26	3	$15,605,171	-34.5%	2,885	+24	$5,409	$48,692,072	2
Oct 1–3	4	$9,749,332	-37.5%	2,935	+50	$3,322	$64,056,752	3
Oct 8–10	6	$6,411,008	-34.2%	2,720	-215	$2,357	$73,847,527	4
Oct 15–17	7	$3,977,006	-38.0%	2,368	-352	$1,679	$80,510,629	5
Oct 22–24	9	$2,749,090	-30.9%	1,918	-450	$1,433	$84,681,614	6
Oct 29–31	9	$1,975,260	-28.1%	1,608	-310	$1,228	$87,626,867	7
Nov 5–7	13	$1,164,382	-41.1%	801	-807	$1,454	$89,748,239	8
Nov 12–14	20	$438,397	-62.3%	375	-426	$1,169	$90,626,556	9
Nov 19–21	23	$209,488	-52.2%	165	-210	$1,270	$90,982,269	10
Nov 26–28	21	$314,720	+50.2%	318	+153	$990	$91,429,625	11
Dec 3–5	24	$202,909	-35.5%	318	-	$638	$91,735,513	12
Dec 10–12	28	$130,103	-35.9%	255	-63	$510	$91,947,016	13
Dec 17–19	36	$57,591	-55.7%	144	-111	$400	$92,074,857	14
Dec 24–26	49	$15,910	-72.4%	62	-82	$257	$92,123,695	15
Dec 31–Jan 2	49	$23,830	+49.8%	62	-	$384	$92,173,235	16

 

Edited September 26, 2015 by BoxOfficeChica

[Blankments]

Sony looking at Hotel Transylvania 2's numbers:

 

 

Universal looking at Everest's numbers:

 

[MrPink]

Sicario was very good. Benicio was fantastic

[CJohn]

Unless it's Pixar or Despicable Me it's super easy to over/underestimate family movies. Its audience is the least conditioned to tracking or online poll numbers. Cloudy 2 did less than its predecessor and that had a pretty solid marketing campaign, certainly reasonable to expect this one to go under the last. 

Didn't Cloudy 2 opened above the first one? The legs were shit, tho.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Didn't Cloudy 2 opened above the first one? The legs were shit, tho.

Cloudy 2 actually had really good legs, just not as great as the firsts.

[ACSlater]

Sicario was very good. Benicio was fantastic

Those who get the reference...high five...

[Mojoguy]

Didn't Cloudy 2 opened above the first one? The legs were shit, tho.

Cloudy 2 had a 3.52 OW multiplier, so its legs were fine. It also cost 22m less than the first Cloudy to make

[75Live]

Those who get the reference...high five...

 

bless your heart

[Mojoguy]

I'm surprised they have done a Cloudy 3 yet.

[tonytr87]

I'd rather think he's the main reason it's made this much in the first place. The movie itself wasn't an easy sell to start with.

 

Crime movies aren't the easiest sell, but they're far from difficult. The Town and The Departed are good examples. 

[tonytr87]

But it's hard for the studio to foresee the negative feedback since the depressing ending didn't hurt AS. I didn't think the WOM wasn't gonna be good when I saw it since people who went with me all loved it. But hey I thought San Andreas was gonna have bad WOM because it's shit but I was wrong then too.

 

Audiences are fickle. Most people knew the end to the sniper's story. Plus, people go to war movies expecting that kinda thing. 

[Maxmoser3]

Really this weekend isn't too bad, Everest seemed to be a film that was smashed against films and September isn't the greatest month for it to be released for it either. Hotel Transylvania 2 going to do over 45 million man history is repeating itself again I wonder if it's that families are starving for a family movie or what. But if it holds up today like the first or even SpongeBob 2 this could be the first film in September to debut with 50 million. Overall September despite Everest flopped(there's overseas folks so it's not doomed), Maze Runner 2 was too heavily marketed and over performed so it should have at least overseas markets to help it, and Black Mass should just do over 60 million domestic which isn't too bad for a Johnny Depp film in recent years. War Room has made a decent holdover it should outgross God's Not Dead's domestic total. As for the other two releases The Perfect Guy had a decent debut but dropped fast although it's doing decent and should come close to 55 million, while The Visit should do fine and should earn the same amount as M. Night's last film After Earth.

Edited September 26, 2015 by Maxmoser3

[The Futurist]

I have a "I Told you so " post ready for Sicario next week end.

[grim22]

Hotel Transylvania 2 will be Sony's first 100M grossing movie since The Equalizer which was released exactly one year ago. That is one long drought.

[DeeCee]

Crime movies aren't the easiest sell, but they're far from difficult. The Town and The Departed are good examples.

And all 3 films are set in the same city.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Damn, Sicario is slaying. I really want to see it this weekend, but I don't think I'll have time.

[Ezen Baklattan]

CJohn looking at non Jurassic World numbers be like 

 

[KATCH-2D2]

Crime movies aren't the easiest sell, but they're far from difficult. The Town and The Departed are good examples.

When movies in a certain genre need to be great critically with great WOM to break out I consider that genre 'not easy' to sell. I'd day the same for spy movies. That and the fact that I personally don't like this kind of movies so they're a hard sell from my perspective. I thought the town was good only for a single watch and couldn't even finish The Departed for example...

[CJohn]

CJohn looking at non Jurassic World numbers be like

True. All these bad numbers are killing me.