Weekend Thread | Official estimate: The Martian 55M. Rth Sunday Est Pg43: 13.4M. Gravity will remain October OW record holder.

[La Binoche]

I didn't know Maze Runner 2 was doing so poorly. No more franchises about "sexy" dystopian teens! 

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

The question is whether he's been asking for big budgets and getting denied, or whether he's just using sensible budgets for his projects. He's a really savvy filmmaker and knows exactly how to maximize his VFX and shoot efficiently, so it's not like he's been really cramped with his last two movies.

On that note, Ridley is the same way. The Martian could have cost a lot more than 108m. Veteran filmmakers seem to be much better with budgets (which makes sense).

[Jonwo]

Yeah, but aside from Beowulf, I don't think any of his mo-cap films were substantial money losers. It wouldn't surprise me at all if people in Hollywood think he directed Mars Attack, when he really didn't, he was just spearheading it.

 

I mean, Scott's made plenty of bombs, even a few in a row, yet Hollywood has no problem giving him money. Jeez! Maybe Zemeckis was able to make the film for a smaller budget, I dunna. I'm assuming it was the second of those.

 

I suspect it's the latter, The Martian needed a big budget whereas The Walk aside from the walk itself is small scale so didn't require a huge budget. I imagine if there is a big budget project that Zemeckis is interested in doing, I'm sure he'd do it but does seem to concentrating on mid budget films at the moment. 

[Jonwo]

On that note, Ridley is the same way. The Martian could have cost a lot more than 108m. Veteran filmmakers seem to be much better with budgets (which makes sense).

 

I'm surprised The Martian only cost $108m even with big salaries for Damon, Scott and a decent salary for Chastain. I guess filming in Hungary and Jordan saved a ton of money plus I imagine they got tax breaks.  

[CJohn]

RIP box office.

[Dementeleus]

I suspect it's the latter, The Martian needed a big budget whereas The Walk aside from the walk itself is small scale so didn't require a huge budget. I imagine if there is a big budget project that Zemeckis is interested in doing, I'm sure he'd do it but does seem to concentrating on mid budget films at the moment.

Zemeckis put his mo-cap knowledge to work as well. He shot a mo-cap session with the real Phillipe and used that data for digital stunt shots.

[Fancyarcher]

I suspect it's the latter, The Martian needed a big budget whereas The Walk aside from the walk itself is small scale so didn't require a huge budget. I imagine if there is a big budget project that Zemeckis is interested in doing, I'm sure he'd do it but does seem to concentrating on mid budget films at the moment. 

 

Probably a good thing, although I imagine that upcoming Pitt World War 2 romance, will probably have a 80m+ budget or something.

[sfran43]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	The Martian	Fox	$55,000,000	-	3,831	-	$14,357	$55,000,000	$108	1
2	1	Hotel Transylvania 2	Sony	$33,000,000	-31.9%	3,754	-	$8,791	$90,541,765	-	2
3	10	Sicario	LGF	$12,075,000	+603.1%	2,620	+2,561	$4,609	$15,076,295	$30	3
4	2	The Intern	WB	$11,620,000	-34.5%	3,320	+15	$3,500	$36,523,892	-	2
5	3	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Fox	$7,650,000	-46.4%	3,319	-473	$2,305	$63,241,124	$61	3
6	5	Black Mass	WB	$5,905,000	-46.5%	2,768	-420	$2,133	$52,521,030	$53	3
7	4	Everest (2015)	Uni.	$5,510,000	-58.4%	3,009	+3	$1,831	$33,181,310	$55	3
8	6	The Visit	Uni.	$3,950,000	-40.8%	2,296	-671	$1,720	$56,921,090	$5	4
9	8	War Room	TriS	$2,800,000	-34.0%	1,746	-174	$1,604	$60,544,613	$3	6
10	7	The Perfect Guy	SGem	$2,400,000	-49.7%	1,364	-525	$1,760	$52,615,190	$12	4
11	N	The Walk	TriS	$1,550,000	-	448	-	$3,460	$1,972,274	$35	1
12	9	The Green Inferno	HTR	$1,275,000	-63.8%	1,543	+3	$826	$5,917,423	$5	2
13	14	Pixels	Sony	$475,000	-39.4%	331	-172	$1,435	$77,815,894	$88	11
14	11	A Walk in the Woods	BG	$440,199	-60.2%	546	-824	$806	$28,416,792	-	5
15	15	Grandma (2015)	SPC	$402,846	-47.9%	315	-489	$1,279	$5,894,938	$0.6	7
16	13	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	Par.	$377,000	-58.2%	377	-463	$1,000	$194,153,369	$150	10
17	19	Minions	Uni.	$310,000	-28.9%	265	-242	$1,170	$333,910,540	$74	13
18	20	Jurassic World	Uni.	$281,000	-28.0%	254	-93	$1,106	$650,820,751	$150	17
19	21	Inside Out	BV	$240,000	-34.3%	249	-219	$964	$353,853,000	$175	16
20	36	Sleeping with Other People	IFC	$212,856	+80.4%	392	+290	$543	$638,124	-	4
21	28	Meet the Patels	Alc	$162,976	-19.2%	78	+15	$2,089	$718,335	-	4
22	N	Talvar	Rel.	$153,894	-	50	-	$3,078	$153,894	-	1
23	22	Ant-Man	BV	$132,000	-62.6%	195	-282	$677	$178,485,000	$130	12
24	30	Learning to Drive	BG	$110,640	-40.5%	115	-105	$962	$3,172,665	-	7
25	38	Goodnight Mommy	RTWC	$110,567	+1.6%	43	+15	$2,571	$456,887	-	4
26	56	99 Homes	BG	$105,432	+226.9%	19	+17	$5,549	$147,441	-	2
27	42	Shaun the Sheep Movie	LGF	$92,000	+14.3%	189	-7	$487	$19,242,526	-	9
28	54	Southpaw	Wein.	$78,600	+110.5%	303	+221	$259	$52,266,892	$30	11
29	23	Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos	LGF	$75,000	-75.5%	112	-252	$670	$8,971,251	$5.3	5
30	26	No Escape	Wein.	$66,800	-67.7%	104	-336	$642	$27,002,940	-	6
31	41	Phoenix (2015)	IFC	$64,260	-25.3%	63	-28	$1,020	$2,925,260	-	11
32	57	Coming Home (2015)	SPC	$60,644	+94.6%	55	+41	$1,103	$203,797	-	4
33	18	Captive (2015)	Par.	$60,000	-88.2%	132	-675	$455	$2,554,307	-	3
34	N	He Named Me Malala	FoxS	$56,000	-	4	-	$14,000	$56,000	-	1
35	49	Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution	PBS	$51,045	+8.5%	12	+2	$4,254	$301,281	-	5
36	N	Freeheld	LGF	$40,000	-	5	-	$8,000	$40,000	-	1
37	58	Rosenwald	CIE	$27,775	-8.3%	21	+6	$1,323	$359,187	-	8
38	N	Shanghai	Wein.	$26,400	-	103	-	$256	$26,400	-	1
39	47	Mr. Holmes	RAtt.	$24,800	-48.6%	49	-56	$506	$17,674,076	-	12
40	N	Labyrinth of Lies	SPC	$21,357	-	3	-	$7,119	$27,238	-	1
42	66	Time Out of Mind	IFC	$18,700	+23.9%	17	+3	$1,100	$107,700	-	4
41	37	Stonewall (2015)	RAtt.	$18,700	-83.4%	46	-83	$407	$173,294	-	2
43	51	The Second Mother	Osci.	$18,000	-58.2%	22	-13	$818	$315,029	-	6
44	77	Finders Keepers (2015)	Orch.	$17,023	+196.6%	32	+27	$532	$25,589	-	2
45	53	The New Girlfriend	Cohen	$16,170	-56.9%	16	-29	$1,011	$130,909	-	3
46	48	American Ultra	LGF	$14,000	-70.8%	49	-79	$286	$14,470,118	$28	7
47	N	This Changes Everything	Abr.	$12,700	-	1	-	$12,700	$12,700	-	1
48	78	Peace Officer	SD	$5,433	-3.4%	6	+4	$906	$17,800	-	3
49	-	Olvidados (Forgotten)	Libre	$3,500	-	1	-	$3,500	$6,755	-	3
50	75	Listen to Me Marlon	SHO	$1,600	-75.8%	4	-5	$400	$423,176	-	10
51	97	Cartel Land	Orch.	$964	+65.6%	3	-2	$321	$697,787	-	14
TOTAL (51 MOVIES):				$147,120,881	+6.8%	34,599	-4,005	$4,252

[La Binoche]

Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya  3m3 minutes ago

#Sandler reaching career highs w/ #HotelTransylvania2. #Shyamalan has 2015's #1 scary movie w/ #TheVisit. Razzie rulers resurrected!

 

 

[RichWS]

Since I hadn't seen anything since Phoenix and Mistress America on Labor Day weekend, I went crazy this weekend and saw FOUR flicks. Sicario and The Walk in IMAX 3D on Friday, The Martian and 99 Homes yesterday. I'm riding a nice movie high since I really liked all four. Wouldn't label any as a classic, but I'd recommend all of them. On the box office, I was wrong about Martian seriously challenging Gravity. I don't think Martian is anywhere near the movie Gravity is but it deserves its success. Feel bad for The Walk. As others have pointed out, it's certainly not perfect, but I wish it made more.

[grim22]

The Martian had a 42% 3D share. Saturday estimate is now 22.27M and Fox have given it a pretty realistic 34% Sunday drop.

The lack of IMAX may end up being the difference between getting the October OW record or not.

[sfran43]

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[WrathOfHan]

The Martian had a 42% 3D share. Saturday estimate is now 22.27M and Fox have given it a pretty realistic 34% Sunday drop.

The lack of IMAX may end up being the difference between getting the October OW record or not.

I don't care how much Gravity made, this alone will make it the more impressive run.

[grim22]

I don't care how much Gravity made, this alone will make it the more impressive run.

Unless The Martian makes 44M second weekend with a 12% drop, Gravity will still have the more impressive run.

Scary Movie 3 sold more OW tickets in October than either Martian or Gravity if that is what you are implying toward.

Edited October 4, 2015 by grim22

[WrathOfHan]

Unless The Martian makes 44M second weekend with a 12% drop, Gravity will still have the more impressive run.

Scary Movie 3 sold more OW tickets in October than either Martian or Gravity if that is what you are implying toward.

It's more of less the 3D share. Chances are The Martian ends up in the 200M range so the gap could be only about 30-50M.

[Goffe]

I didn't know Maze Runner 2 was doing so poorly. No more franchises about "sexy" dystopian teens! 

praise jesus

Edited October 4, 2015 by Goffe

[grim22]

I didn't know Maze Runner 2 was doing so poorly. No more franchises about "sexy" dystopian teens!

Just wait for Allegiant. I think a big drop from Insurgent is coming.

[babz06]

HT2 has pretty much no similar competition unless Goosebumps breaks out. OS it has a much easier time as it's only Pan and in limited markets Goosebumps it had to face, the first film faced two animated films OS with Madagascar 3 and Frankenweenie, it will see a big increase OS. It might end up being SPA's highest grossing film in the US, it'll be tough to beat The Smurfs OS total

Goosebumps is probably gonna make 50-55m, Pan around the same as well.I dont see either breaking out, or hurting HT2.

[Ethan Hunt]

Just wait for Allegiant. I think a big drop from Insurgent is coming.

Massive drop

[BadAtGender]

Zemeckis put his mo-cap knowledge to work as well. He shot a mo-cap session with the real Phillipe and used that data for digital stunt shots.

 

Even if the mo-cap films weren't financial power-houses, they did allow Zemeckis to assemble a technical toolkit unlike anyone else in Hollywood.

 

Just waiting for him to team up with Andy Serkis on something.