DEADPOOL WEEKEND THREAD | Deadpool 152.193 actual. Daily breakdown on page 159

[JohnnyGossamer]

12 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

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Looks great. Fantastic idea. Well done, folks.

[CJohn]

Morena Baccarin is a 9/10. The Gotham lead is a lucky dude.

[baumer]

17 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Bit different this ofvallound. If this does 33M previews w ould have accounted for nearly 40% of the OD. That wouln't bode well for Saturday.

 

Lol you have no idea what youre talking about. First of Its R rated secondly its valentines weekend and third it doesnt matter if its front loaded or not. This is a massive hit and no one called it doing 80-100 OW. So im not even sure what your point is.

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, CJohn said:

They should have moved it to next weekend or something.

Maybe but even then, I doubt it ever would've been a big hit even if Deadpool hadn't completely annihilated it. The ads were decidedly short on actual laughs (as much of a target as he's become in recent years, making "we kill Justin Bieber in this movie" a main selling point was dumb), 15 years was too long of a wait, Stiller is hardly in demand these days, and the poor reviews were the final nail in the coffin.

Edited February 12, 2016 by filmlover

[Gokai Red]

I'll admit I was one of the people thinking this would only be a modest hit (I predicted 60m for the 4 day) and quickly die out. While we have yet to see how this movie will hold, I'm definitely glad it's breaking out. And they said "superhero fatigue" is a thing. If anything, this just shows how powerful the superhero "genre" is.

[grey ghost]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

They should have moved it to next weekend or something.

 

I'm not sure Zoolander would've done much better on any other date.

 

It just didn't have the interest of Anchorman 2 or Dumb and Dumber 2.

 

Then on top of that the critics trashed it.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, Baumer said:

 

Lol you have no idea what youre talking about. First of Its R rated secondly its valentines weekend and third it doesnt matter if its front loaded or not. This is a massive hit and no one called it doing 80-100 OW. So im not even sure what your point is.

I knew someone would attack me. I'm not saying this isn't a success, all I'm saying is it could be pretty frontloaded if these early reports hold.

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Maybe but even then, I doubt it ever would've been a big hit even if Deadpool hadn't completely annihilated it. The ads were decidedly short on actual laughs (as much of a target as he's become in recent years, making "we kill Justin Bieber in this movie" a main selling point wasn't dumb), 15 years was too long of a wait, Stiller is hardly in demand these days, and the poor reviews were the final nail in the coffin.

I thought it was pretty pointless.

 

And yeah, there were 0 laughs in the trailers.

 

Still, the obvious decision was to move it to next weekend.

[AJG]

So superhero fatigue.... is that still a thing?

[CJohn]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

I knew someone would attack me. I'm not saying this isn't a success, all I'm saying is it could be pretty frontloaded if these early reports hold.

Yup, low 30M OD and it might not do 80M on the 3 days. 

1 minute ago, grey ghost said:

I'm not sure Zoolander would've done much better on any other date.

 

It just didn't have the interest of Anchorman 2 or Dumb and Dumber 2.

 

Then on top of that the critics trashed it.

I am not saying it would. But releasing it against Deadpool was obviously a bad idea since December or something. There was time to push it a week. 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, CJohn said:

I thought it was pretty pointless.

 

And yeah, there were 0 laughs in the trailers.

 

Still, the obvious decision was to move it to next weekend.

I actually meant to say "was" and changed it just now. Silly typo.

[DAJK]

2 minutes ago, AJG said:

So superhero fatigue.... is that still a thing?

It "will be" when BvS doesn't open to 200M or CW doesn't open to 150

[grey ghost]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Morena Baccarin is a 9/10. The Gotham lead is a lucky dude.

 

She's a dime.

 

She gets an extra point for being Brazillian and a sci fi star.

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, AJG said:

So superhero fatigue.... is that still a thing?

genres get especially self-reflexive when they're about to die. that's the best i got.

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

I actually meant to say "was" and changed it just now. Silly typo.

I saw that scene for the first time in that recent trailer they released and I was like... really? The scene isn't even funny. It is just... there.

[DAJK]

So, unless something drastically changes over the weekend, Deadpool will play more or less like DOFP. 90M 3-day, just over 100M 4-day, 215-230M total.

[babz06]

9 minutes ago, CJohn said:

They should have moved it to next weekend or something.

I doubt that would have helped. In fact it might have had a worse opening without the holiday weekend. 

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

 

She's a dime.

 

She gets an extra point for being Brazillian and a sci fi star.

Rate the Marvel love interests?  

[grey ghost]

1 minute ago, DAJK said:

It "will be" when BvS doesn't open to 200M or CW doesn't open to 150

 

Not sure if serious but 200 m is a mighty high bar for any movie not called Star Wars.

[filmlover]

A Zoolander 2 would've likely been big 10 years ago (when Stiller was still in the midst of the strong Dodgeball/Fockers/Night at the Museum run and Wilson was coming off of Wedding Crashers and Will Ferrell was developing a strong post-SNL career). Now? It was like, "who cares?"