Weekend Estimates | 21.0 M KFP III | 11.44 M HAIL, CAESAR! | 7.10 M THE REVENANT | 6.89 M SW: TFA | 6.09 M THE CHOICE | 5.20 M PAPAZ | 4.7 M THE FINEST HOURS

[baumer]

7 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

Yep, that's exactly right, @No Prisoners. One of my favorite classic movies. 

 

Did you watch it in 1944 with your grand kids?

[RichWS]

My audience really seemed to enjoy Caesar, but we brilliant New Yorkers are probably predisposed to liking anything the Coens do.

[RichWS]

Baumer, do you have an aversion to older films? Some of 'em are quite good.

I watched Ninotchka for the first time this week and it was great.

[grey ghost]

14 minutes ago, RichWS said:

Bond Films Adjusted Since 1995:

Skyfall - $321.3 million

Die Another Day - $233.5 million

Tomorrow Never Dies - $230.1 million

Casino Royale - $215.5 million

The World is Not Enough - $210.7 million

GoldenEye - $206.3 million

Spectre - $199.5 million

Quantum - $197.7 million

 

Pretty consistent. 

 

Except for Skyfall which was a monster.

[TalismanRing]

6 minutes ago, RichWS said:

 

Baumer, do you have an aversion to older films? Some of 'em are quite good.

I watched Ninotchka for the first time this week and it was great.

 

Alas,

 

 

It is great and how anyone wouldn't be entertained by Cary Grant thrilled he's the son of a sea cook is beyond me.

 

[RichWS]

I tried to find a gif of Garbo drinking champagne but one doesn't seem to exist

[grey ghost]

9 minutes ago, RichWS said:

My audience really seemed to enjoy Caesar, but we brilliant New Yorkers are probably predisposed to liking anything the Coens do.

 

You think it will be a little like The Big Lebowski where it grows on the public over time?

[Stringer Bell Theory]

16 minutes ago, narniadis said:

well my derby is completely screwed now... *sigh*  Blasted numbers. And that Cinemascore for Caesar, surely by now the audiences know what they are getting with a Coen Brothers flick.

That would be assuming that A. audiences know who the Coen Bros. are and B. are aware they are watching one of their films.

[Webslinger]

Weak starts for each of the openers, but that's to be expected over Super Bowl weekend.

[grey ghost]

17 minutes ago, DAJK said:

To tell you the truth, I wish I hadn't woken up already forgetting most of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Alas, I have.

 

But honestly, potential sub 5M weekend? That's... awful

 

After this and that boy scout zombie movie flopping, Hollywood might take a break from zombie movies not called WWZ.

[RichWS]

9 minutes ago, RichWS said:

My audience really seemed to enjoy Caesar, but we brilliant New Yorkers are probably predisposed to liking anything the Coens do.

 

You think it will be a little like The Big Lebowski where it grows on the public over time?

I don't think so. It'll have its little passionate fanbase (like almost every Coen comedy), but it's no Lebowski. Doesn't have nearly the same level of quotable dialogue or memorable characters.

[MinaTakla]

1 hour ago, tribefan695 said:

 

So now Pixar and Dreamworks are competing for the biggest BO disappointment

Exactly. Add Blue Sky with Peanuts also.

[baumer]

11 minutes ago, RichWS said:

 

Baumer, do you have an aversion to older films? Some of 'em are quite good.

I watched Ninotchka for the first time this week and it was great.

 

Now that I am a bit older, I am going to try to watch some more of the classics.  But my aversion to them has been everything about them.  There are some good ones no doubt.  I do like GWTW, Casablanca, Maltese Falcon and 12 Angry Men, just to name a few but there are so many so called classics that get under my skin.  I don't like the acting, I don't like the writing and I find some of them to just feel like they are films from a different world.  One of the reasons I hate Kane so much is the acting from every female character.  They are all hysterical over actors and it takes me right out of the movie. 

[Fancyarcher]

8 hours ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

I....I wouldn't say KFP3 would have done too much better in the summer......cause it still would have had more competition....and less room to build legs.  It always happens, guys. It happened with the second one.

 

Ehh....you know what....this box office performance proved to me....unfortunately & sadly.....that people.....people, nowadays are just being too apathetic about DW-animated films's potentials. That either....(no matter how good or how better a DW-movie can be).....they're still avoiding DW-films, constantly.

 

I was always the defender of DW-films.(And i still am) i mean, some of us thought that January was a very good slot to release it in....with no other big blockbuster going against it. I thought....(Look, last year, the war-flick "American Sniper" did great in January....that did $350M DOM. KFP3 won't do anywhere close to those numbers..but at least it will do enough to be considered a DOM-hit around $165-200M....what could go wrong?)

 

When your DOM audience doesn't give a shit about why DWA really needed a bigger success with KFP3...EVERYTHING CAN GO WRONG.

 

I dread to think that whatever happens to DWA if they shutdown forever. Who's to blame? The people at DWA doing a lame job, or the audience not caring about seeing their new upcoming movies?

 

I like Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 a lot, but 3 is going to make less then Home DOM, which doesn't suggest to me, that it's because of Dreamworks. The first film just never cut onto the cultural mind, like say Toy Story (although that had actual toys to help it, keep being in the public mind), so the sequels made less and less (though the second one actually had a specific reason for underperforming).

Edited February 6, 2016 by Daniel Dylan Davis

[filmlover]

Kung Fu Panda 3's drop seems to be in line with being a sequel and this weekend being the Super Bowl. It has a 4-day holiday next weekend to make up for any lost traction from this weekend.

[RichWS]

Over the last 18 months, I've been slowly using They Shoot Pictures's 1,000 greatest films list. I employ a random number generator and watch whatever ranked film, be it #1 or #768. It's been a terrific way to catch old films I've never seen.

[grey ghost]

12 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Alas,

 

 

It is great and how anyone wouldn't be entertained by Cary Grant thrilled he's the son of a sea cook is beyond me.

 

 

I now must know the conext of that gif.

 

What type is she referring to?

[MinaTakla]

Interesting: MINIONS OW will be almost equal to the entire DOM gross of each of TGD, Peanuts and KFP3. 

And IO's OW will be equal to almost 80% of their entire DOM grosses. 

 

[grey ghost]

7 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

I like Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 a lot, but it's going to make less then Home, which doesn't suggest to me, that it's because of Dreamworks. The first film just never cut onto the cultural mind, like say Toy Story, so the sequels made less and less (though the second one actually had a specific reason for underperforming).

 

What reason is that?

[BK007]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Kung Fu Panda 3's drop seems to be in line with being a sequel and this weekend being the Super Bowl. It has a 4-day holiday next weekend to make up for any lost traction from this weekend.

 

 

That's an awful drop for Panda. It has the benefit of being a well received CGI animated family flick, which almost always get good legs (3x min.) and it has held worse than Grandpa, the Boy and the Fifth Wave. SB Sunday will hit it hard too. 

 

Home did well, astoundingly, but Dreamworks look to be a dying giant. I hope they get to Dragon 3 (and end that series) and then they can fuck off.