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

[Mojoguy]

All I know is after seeing The Last Witch Hunter trailer this weekend, I've got the 23rd circled on my physical copy calendar.

You are going to be staying out of theaters that day?

[RichWS]

All I know is after seeing The Last Witch Hunter trailer this weekend, I've got the 23rd circled on my physical copy calendar. You are going to be staying out of theaters that day?

Not with the equally thrilling-looking BURNT coming out the same day!

[babz06]

Hmm...since Martian didn't take the record....what other movie will be the next one to try and successfully beat the October OW-record in the future?

Probably a horror movie

[grim22]

Hmm...since Martian didn't take the record....what other movie will be the next one to try and successfully beat the October OW-record in the future?

 

Don't see anything doing it this year, nothing is coming in with any major buzz. It is only a matter of time before we have a major superhero tentpole in every month anyway, so something will take that record in the next 2-3 years.

[Ozymandias]

Don't see anything doing it this year, nothing is coming in with any major buzz. It is only a matter of time before we have a major superhero tentpole in every month anyway, so something will take that record in the next 2-3 years.

 

Woo! The death of cinema!

Edited October 5, 2015 by Ozymandias

[La Binoche]

I keep hearing CRIMSON PEAK is more Gothic romance than horror, more Merchant Ivory than scary (but that it's good). Anyone know how it's tracking? I guess audiences are not going to like being lied to in the marketing. 

[Mojoguy]

Don't see anything doing it this year, nothing is coming in with any major buzz. It is only a matter of time before we have a major superhero tentpole in every month anyway, so something will take that record in the next 2-3 years.

No. Not while superhero movies continue to have such high 150m budgets. They still have to try to make a profit which means nearly all of them will stay in the summer or winter months.

[Jonwo]

Unless it's $100m or less, we likely won't see a superhero film in September or January unless it's being put there as a write-off. 

Edited October 5, 2015 by Jonwo

[DAR]

Unless it's $100m or less, we likely won't see a superhero film in September or January unless it's being put there as a write-off. 

 

 

So future Fantastic Four films.

[MovieMan89]

So future Fantastic Four films.

Made on the budget of the 90's one. 

[Mojoguy]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	The Martian	Fox	$54,308,575	-	3,831	-	$14,176	$54,308,575	$108	1
2	1	Hotel Transylvania 2	Sony	$33,192,596	-31.5%	3,754	-	$8,842	$90,734,361	-	2
3	10	Sicario	LGF	$12,148,041	+607.4%	2,620	+2,561	$4,637	$15,149,336	$30	3
4	2	The Intern	WB	$11,685,064	-34.1%	3,320	+15	$3,520	$36,588,956	-	2
5	3	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Fox	$7,804,991	-45.3%	3,319	-473	$2,352	$63,396,115	$61	3
6	5	Black Mass	WB	$5,846,126	-47.0%	2,768	-420	$2,112	$52,462,156	$53	3
7	4	Everest (2015)	Uni.	$5,640,500	-57.4%	3,009	+3	$1,875	$33,311,810	$55	3
8	6	The Visit	Uni.	$3,972,020	-40.5%	2,296	-671	$1,730	$57,717,110	$5	4
9	8	War Room	TriS	$2,824,067	-33.4%	1,746	-174	$1,617	$60,568,680	$3	6
10	7	The Perfect Guy	SGem	$2,412,366	-49.5%	1,364	-525	$1,769	$52,627,556	$12	4
11	N	The Walk	TriS	$1,560,299	-	448	-	$3,483	$1,982,573	$35	1

 

[MovieMan89]

With The Martian doing Gravity type of business, it begs the question even further as to why Interstellar didn't open a solid 10m or so higher last year? For all intents and purposes it should've been more hyped and had more going for it than either. 

[CJohn]

With The Martian doing Gravity type of business, it begs the question even further as to why Interstellar didn't open a solid 10m or so higher last year? For all intents and purposes it should've been more hyped and had more going for it than either. 

It didn't had 3D. With a 45% 3D share it would have been enough to bump it over 50M. 

 

And the marketing campaign was crap. 

Edited October 5, 2015 by CJohn

[MovieMan89]

It didn't had 3D. With a 45% 3D share it would have been enough to bump it over 50M. 

 

And the marketing campaign was crap. 

Sure, but even then it seems a bit disappointing for it still compared to Gravity and The Martian. Again, it seems like it should have opened higher than those not lower. 

[Mojoguy]

With The Martian doing Gravity type of business, it begs the question even further as to why Interstellar didn't open a solid 10m or so higher last year? For all intents and purposes it should've been more hyped and had more going for it than either. 

Big Hero 6 stole Interstellar's thunder.

Yeah, an animated movie that has been pretty much forgotten by most people this year managed to do that.

[water]

to be fair interstellar had like proportionally worse reception/rt score to gravity and the martian