Weekend estimates: 15.90 M THE MARTIAN | 15.50 M GOOSEBUMPS | 11.37 M BOS | 10.83 M TLWH | 9.00 M HT II | 8.20 M PA: TGD | 7.27 M STEVE JOBS

[Water Bottle]

I wonder if Sony would ever cast a black actor or a gay actor or a non-British actor to play Bond? Or will they just keep playing it safe? If so I bet Cumberbatch is the next Bond.

If they cast a black or gay Bond the blowback would be 10 times worse than the Star Wars "boycott".

Idris Elba ftw.

Edit - If that happened, it'd be the first Bond movie Mrs Wrath ever actually wanted to watch.

I wonder if Sony would ever cast a black actor or a gay actor or a non-British actor to play Bond? Or will they just keep playing it safe? If so I bet Cumberbatch is the next Bond.

What the hell? Just because you cast a gay actor doesn't mean squat. Gay actors can play straight characters and straight actors can play gay characters.

[Tau Ceti]

Deadline reporting The Martian could sneak back to Number 1: http://deadline.com/2015/10/the-last-witch-hunter-paranormal-activity-ghost-dimension-jem-and-the-hologram-box-office-1201592008/

[Ezen Baklattan]

Deadline reporting The Martian could sneak back to Number 1: http://deadline.com/2015/10/the-last-witch-hunter-paranormal-activity-ghost-dimension-jem-and-the-hologram-box-office-1201592008/

Love train. 

[CJohn]

The Martian returns to first and the bombs are bombing. And Paramount lost a lot of money with this stupid release strategy for Paranormal Activity 5. 

[Ethan Hunt]

I'll take The Martian at top again

[WrathOfHan]

Right when I was about to reply "Just gimme that Oogielove!" the site goes down for maintenance  Thoughts:

Obligatory: Ridley Scott. His Power.

Expected for Witch Hunter, Jem, and Kasbah , Paranormal is doing slightly better than I expected. 

Holy shit @ Steve Jobs. What the hell went wrong?

Edited October 23, 2015 by WrathOfHan

[CJohn]

Steve Jobs flopped. But it should recover OS. 

[bapi]

Freaking hell. Just 9m for Jobs? Honestly Josh Hartnett would open that movie better than Fassbender. And the same could be said about the Witch Hunter. LOL

 

[babz06]

I dont know what happened with Jobs. Everything else is performing at their already low expectations. 

[tonytr87]

Friday's barely half-way over, why are numbers ever released this early? 

[Tau Ceti]

I'm beginning to think there's a real disconnect between the fascination industry types have with Jobs' career versus actual knowledge of him on Main Street America.

Absolutely pumped if The Martian wins again.

[grim22]

Freaking hell. Just 9m for Jobs? Honestly Josh Hartnett would open that movie better than Fassbender. And the same could be said about the Witch Hunter. LOL

 

I dont know what happened with Jobs. Everything else is performing at their already low expectations. 

Steve Jobs performing exactly like Sicario. Great PTA in limited release and not that great when it expanded. Still good numbers for both.

[tonytr87]

It's still early. But if Jobs does only 9 mil, I'd blame it on the choice to go limited. A Steve Jobs movie can make money, but you gotta treat it like a mainstream flick as far as marketing goes. The cult of Apple would show up if they knew about it. 

This is the difference between Fincher and Boyle. Fincher gets big marketing campaigns. 

Not once did I see the trailer anywhere but at the Angelika (specialty) theater. 

Edited October 23, 2015 by tonytr87

[WrathOfHan]

 

Steve Jobs performing exactly like Sicario. Great PTA in limited release and not that great when it expanded. Still good numbers for both.

The budget for Jobs is 30M and they spent a lot on marketing, this will probably be a loss for Uni unless it has insane weekend holds (and this is assuming the 9M forecast stays).

[CJohn]

Jem and Rock the Kasbah need to bomb harder. Like, under 2M for both. 

[CJohn]

The budget for Jobs is 30M and they spent a lot on marketing, this will probably be a loss for Uni unless it has insane weekend holds (and this is assuming the 9M forecast stays).

You are forgetting OS. His run only starts on November 12 internationally. 

[tonytr87]

Steve Jobs is the best movie of the year, so I just wanna see it make some money so it doesn't become forgotten come Oscar nom time. 

[WrathOfHan]

You are forgetting OS. His run only starts on November 12 internationally. 

Still, it's probably going to need 80-90M to break even. At least it should pick up some awards.

[bapi]

Just a reminder but Ashton Kutcher's Jobs:

 

production budget: 13m

opening weekend: 6.7m

domestic: 16.1m

worldwide: 35.9M

[bapi]

You are forgetting OS. His run only starts on November 12 internationally. 

What was Sony's internal prediction for Jobs? 80m? It was in one of those leaked e-mails...