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

[CJohn]

The hilarious top 20 of 2015 so far in Portugal (17 movies belong to one single distributor, that also happens to be the leading theater chain in the country):

 

Position - Movie - Distributor - Number of Tickets Sold (Some of these are still in theaters)

1 - Minions - NOS Audiovisuais - 915.322
2 - Furious 7 - NOS Audiovisuais - 832.076
3 - Pátio das Cantigas (Portuguese movie) - NOS Audiovisuais - 576.874
4 - Fifty Shades of Grey - NOS Audiovisuais - 501.231
5 - Inside Out - NOS Audiovisuais - 439.752
6 - Jurassic World - NOS Audiovisuais - 328.524
7 - Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - NOS Audiovisuais - 312.528
8 - Avengers: Age of Ultron - NOS Audiovisuais - 260.331
9 - Ted 2 - NOS Audiovisuais - 228.748
10 - Home - Big Picture - 218.549
11 - Cinderella - NOS Audiovisuais - 209.264
12 - American Sniper - NOS Audiovisuais - 187.953
13 - Paddington - NOS Audiovisuais - 178.573
14 - Insurgent - Pris Audiovisuais - 170.496
15 - The Theory of Everything - NOS Audiovisuais - 159.459
16 - SpongeBob - NOS Audiovisuais - 145.095
17 - Mad Max: Fury Road - NOS Audiovisuais - 140.080
18 - The Imitation Game - NOS Audiovisuais - 128.959
19 - Taken 3 - Big Picture - 128.207
20 - San Andreas - NOS Audiovisuais - 127.261

 

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, which opened here last week, will most likely enter this top 20 at some point during October. It might go as high as position 15, but I am betting on either position 18 or 17. Mission Impossible might go up a place as well but I doubt it (either way it has already beaten Ghost Protocol, so it is a huge result). Furious 7 has double the result of Fast & Furious 6 and Minions has done 3 times more than Despicable Me 2 (and it is still in theaters). Minions also became the 2nd biggest movie ever (Furious 7 is 4th, Mamma Mia is 3rd, do I really need to say what is first ? )

 

Last year the number 1 movie (Penguins of Madagascar) sold just 360.000 tickets (movies number 2 (Hobbit) and 3 (The Hunger Games) sold around 355.000 tickets each), so as you can see, 2015 has been a beast compared to 2014 over here.

 

I am just posting this here for the American people to realize OS works very different from country to country. 

Edited September 28, 2015 by CJohn

[bcf26]

^^ That Fifty Shades admission number.

 

Fifty Shades Darker will be huge in Portugal.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Flop of Ultron behind MI5

I love Portugal

[John Marston]

 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' domestic performance is piss-poor and kinda makes Insurgent looks better in retrospect.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' domestic performance is piss-poor and kinda makes Insurgent looks better in retrospect.

Nah, both are equally disappointments

[DAJK]

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' domestic performance is piss-poor and kinda makes Insurgent looks better in retrospect.

Maze Runner is much smaller scale, and is financially a bigger hit for the studio. Still, quite disappointing in retrospect. However, if the first hasn't been such a leggy hit last year, people wouldn't have expected too much this time around.

[RichWS]

Too bad The Martian will steal away adult males next week. 

Movies can co-exist.

[Avatree]

 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' domestic performance is piss-poor and kinda makes Insurgent looks better in retrospect.

Insurgent had double the budget, to be fair. Plus OS is much stronger, so overall it won't be as bad as it seems. At the end of the day, Fox will make more money from MR2 than Lions makes from Insurgent.