Weekend Estimates (Page 25): Zootopia 73.7M | London Has Fallen 21.71M | Deadpool 16.4M | WTF 7.6M

[a2k]

Top 10 animated previews

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• Minions - $6.2 M ($115.72 M opening weekend)
• Despicable Me 2 - $4.7 M ($83.52 M opening weekend)
• Toy Story 3 - $4 M ($110.31 M opening weekend)
• Inside Out - $3.7 M ($90.44 M opening weekend)
• Monsters University - $2.6 M ($82.43 M opening weekend)
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 - $2 M ($49.45 M opening weekend)
• Big Hero 6 - $1.4 M ($56.22 M opening weekend)
• The Good Dinosaur - $1.3 M ($39.16 M opening weekend)
• Home (2015) - $.65 M ($52.11 M opening weekend)
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - $.56 M ($55.37 M opening weekend)

source: BOM weekend preview

[a2k]

The previews for Zootopia started very early at 7pm. Home would have been a great comp as it was an original animation in March. But I don't think it started this early.

Edited March 4, 2016 by a2knet

[WrathOfHan]

11:30 and Paramount still hasn't released WTF's numbers  

[a2k]

6 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

11:30 and Paramount still hasn't released WTF's numbers  

 

WTF Paramount!

[DAJK]

9 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

11:30 and Paramount still hasn't released WTF's numbers  

Paramount must have said wtf when they saw that Thursday numbers for their movie are $0

[RichWS]

22 minutes ago, a2knet said:

The previews for Zootopia started very early at 7pm. Home would have been a great comp as it was an original animation in March. But I don't think it started this early.

 

DreamWorks Animation’s Home released by 20th Century Fox also was in good shape, grossing $650K from Thursday shows starting at 7 PM.

[Fancyarcher]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

If I recall, when BH6 previews came out, some people were speculating that it would be more front loaded for previews compared to other original animations due to it be a marvel property. 

 

That's kinda amusing, considering MCU are rarely frontloaded.

[filmlover]

57 minutes ago, DAJK said:

That really isn't good for LHF is it? 20M would be a bit of a stretch unless it somehow develops strong legs over the weekend. WOM shouldn't be nearly as bad as Gods of Egyot but I think 1M would have been needed to make 20M+ a real possibility.

It's expected. It's an unnecessary sequel no one really wanted in the first place, a drop-off was always a guarantee.

[Jay Beezy]

4 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

That's kinda amusing, considering MCU are rarely frontloaded.

 

Only 4 MCU films have had multipliers over 3: Iron Man, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man.

[Jay Beezy]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

It's expected. It's an unnecessary sequel no one really wanted in the first place, a drop-off was always a guarantee.

 

On top of that, it involves a topic that is pretty sensitive in the real world right now.

[Fancyarcher]

1 minute ago, Jay Beezy said:

 

Only 4 MCU films have had multipliers over 3: Iron Man, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man.

 

Most action movies these days are lucky to have 3X multipliers though. I was more specifically referring to midnight numbers to weekend numbers, not specifically multipliers, but yeah, i get that.

[Alpha]

30 minutes ago, RichWS said:

 

DreamWorks Animation’s Home released by 20th Century Fox also was in good shape, grossing $650K from Thursday shows starting at 7 PM.

 

So if you put in Home's legs (another original animated March movie), you get...$136.3 million.

 

I definitely wouldn't expect that, but $100M could be in play if the movie holds well over the weekend.

[WrathOfHan]

There really isn't a lot to speculate on until early estimates in 3-4 hours. Hopefully RTH stops by later.

[RichWS]

Don't know if I'm rolling out for Knight of Cups tonight or tomorrow. Big decision of the week. 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

London: 850k. Barely ahead of Gods lmao

 

 

poor Butler, they should have replaced him with Tommy Hardy in this new movie

[Omni]

Comparison with

BH6: 70M OW

Inside Out: 80M OW

Home: 75/80M OW

Dragon Trainer: 85M OW

 

I'd give a 2x inflation to summer midnights. Home was much more childish but also opened during spring break.

 

An 80M OW really looks likely. 

[Jonwo]

Zootopia is off to a strong start, March has always been a good month for them in terms of the live action fairy tales but animation not so much. They have Gigantic scheduled for March 9th 2018 and then Pixar have their first Spring release in March 2020. 

[mahnamahna]

$1.7 million 

$24.3 million 

$35 million 

$25 million

 

$86 million OW

 

It'd be nice to see this size of an OW! 

[GiantCALBears]

Zootopia has to open to $65m-$70m+ for $300m to be realistic. I know reviews are very positive but getting substantially above a 4x multiplier is not an easy task.

[Maxmoser3]

Impressive for Zootopia!