Weekend Estimates (Page 28): Kung Fu Panda 3 - 41M, The Finest Hours 0- 10.3M, The Revenant - 12.4M...Sunday holds better than expected.....SW over 11 mill and KFP3 over 41 pg 34

[Mockingjay Raphael]

2 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

Ah, the famous This Means War fan battles of 2012. will they ever end?

 

I wouldn't exactly call it a 'battle', it means that both sides has equal chances to win  

[Cochofles]

Wait, this whole "Tom Hardy is a box office draw" thing is not sarcasm?

[Mockingjay Raphael]

1 minute ago, Cochofles said:

Wait, this whole "Tom Hardy is a box office draw" thing is not sarcasm?

 

Ask to his 3 Box Office hits released last year 

[department store basement]

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

"Actually promoting" a movie means nothing when said movie doesn't look appealing.

 

Remember 5th Wave just last weekend? It was doomed to fail but it still made over 10m for the weekend because Sony promoted it well.

[WrathOfHan]

Fifty Shades: 275K

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

 

Ask to his 3 Box Office hits released last year 

He only had two hits and neither had anything to do with his "drawing power." Child 44 was a dumped dud and Legend stalled in limited release.

 

That said, he's certainly building a nice profile for himself, so while he might never achieve "superstar" status, he could become a decent draw on his own if he can finally land the right project in which the spotlight will completely be on him.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

5 minutes ago, department store basement said:

 

Remember 5th Wave just last weekend? It was doomed to fail but it still made over 10m for the weekend because Sony promoted it well.

 

Wait, is $10m considered good for 5W now? 

[CJohn]

5 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Fifty Shades: 275K

DOA

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, department store basement said:

 

Remember 5th Wave just last weekend? It was doomed to fail but it still made over 10m for the weekend because Sony promoted it well.

LOL a $10M opening for a film that was intended to start a franchise is nothing to boast about. That's still tanking. Promoting an unappealing-looking movie more won't make people want to see it more.

[grim22]

Deadline is comparing Finest Hours to Million Dollar Arm and Macfarland, USA instead of In the heart of the sea from last month - Another survival movie at sea released in IMAX.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

He only had two hits and neither had anything to do with his "drawing power." Child 44 was a dumped dud and Legend stalled in limited release.

 

That said, he's certainly building a nice profile for himself, so while he might never achieve "superstar" status, he could become a decent draw on his own if he can finally land the right project in which the spotlight will completely be on him.

 

*3

 

Legend was huge in the only country where it had obligation to do well, and yeah, that's what I'm saying, he may not be a big draw for now, but he def has some appeal with the GP, and this appeal must increase even more once that he win his Oscar 

[filmlover]

The Finest Hours always seemed like an odd fit for Disney. The movie looks to violent for families but at the same time the Disney label is likely to leave adults to assume it's another saccharine/feel-good effort from them. Probably one of those instances where their brand hurt a particular movie more than it helped (not that it was ever gonna be a big hit either way).

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

 

*3

 

Legend was huge in the only country where it had obligation to do well, and yeah, that's what I'm saying, he may not be a big draw for now, but he def has some appeal with the GP, and this appeal must increase even more once that he win his Oscar 

Hardy has no shot at winning. It's Stallone's to lose.

Edited January 29, 2016 by filmlover

[WrathOfHan]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

The Finest Hours always seemed like an odd fit for Disney. The movie looks to violent for families but at the same time the Disney label is likely to leave adults to assume it's another saccharine/feel-good effort from them. Probably one of those instances where their brand hurt a particular movie more than it helped (not that it was ever gonna be a big hit either way).

Putting it under Touchstone still wouldn't have helped.

[a2k]

31 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

 

Ask to his 3 Box Office hits released last year 

 

Even though Tom's characters in TDKR, Mad Max and Rev are leading antagonist(TDKR, Rev) or leading protagonist(Mad Max) and did a good/great job with all of them (haven't seen Rev but am going by user reviews on the forums), having a positive effect on the film's quality and bo, he was not the primary draw in either of the films.

 

Talking about the ow (not the legs/final bo),

TDKR - Wouldn't have opened any less if someone else was playing Bane

Mad Max - Established property with a fan-base, directed by George Miller. Tom mattered in the ow but not by much IMO.

Rev - Leo, 'from the director of Birdman'

Inception - Leo, Nolan

Edited January 29, 2016 by a2knet

[POTUS 2020]

So if FH may only open to 8m with that preview number. What will FSOB wind up with, 6m? Thought it might bomb considering its low theater count. A lot of derby scores gonna get hit.

 

I though FH would do better when I saw 60% on RT

Edited January 29, 2016 by No Prisoners

[Mockingjay Raphael]

14 minutes ago, a2knet said:

 

Even though Tom's characters in TDKR, Mad Max and Rev are leading antagonist(TDKR, Rev) or leading protagonist(Mad Max) and did a good/great job with all of them (haven't seen Rev but am going by user reviews on the forums), having a positive effect on the film's quality and bo, he was not the primary draw in either of the films.

 

Talking about the ow (not the legs/final bo),

TDKR - Wouldn't have opened any less if someone else was playing Bane

Mad Max - Established property with a fan-base, directed by George Miller. Tom mattered in the ow but not by much IMO.

Rev - Leo, 'from the director of Birdman'

Inception - Leo, Nolan

 

well, it's Hard(y) to say that a star is a real draw these days, since there's always a lot of 'excuses', if a movie do well, most of ppl take everything in consideration, except the actor/actress, let's take JLaw as an example: When SLP and AH did well, everybody said that it was because they're "assembly movies" and because of the Oscar nominations, then, THG was because of the brand, even Joy's success ppl wanted to say that it was because of DOR's name, when the movie was sold on her name alone, so, when we can say that a person is a draw if there's always something behind her to take the 'credits'? I know that he's not the main draw of any of these movies, but he def helped a bit movies like MM or TR, I'm not even gonna talk about Legend, because it was UK only 

[Rolling Thunder]

If The Finest Hours fails to crack $10m, it will be Disney's first January PG-13 opener to do so in a decade - and those films didn't open nearly as wide.

[babz06]

Disney dumped The Finest Hours, plain and simple. Late January release, little to no marketing  It had no awards prospects which is basically the final nail in the coffin. 

 

Edited January 29, 2016 by babz06

[filmlover]

6 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

 

well, it's Hard(y) to say that a star is a real draw these days, since there's always a lot of 'excuses', if a movie do well, most of ppl take everything in consideration, except the actor/actress, let's take JLaw as an example: When SLP and AH did well, everybody said that it was because they're "assembly movies" and because of the Oscar nominations, then, THG was because of the brand, even Joy's success ppl wanted to say that it was because of DOR's name, when the movie was sold on her name alone, so, when we can say that a person is a draw if there's always something behind her to take the 'credits'? I know that he's not the main draw of any of these movies, but he def helped a bit movies like MM or TR, I'm not even gonna talk about Legend, because it was UK only 

But it's not like Joy was some big hit either. It's not even gonna make half of either Silver Linings Playbook or American Hustle, nor will it reach its budget.