BATMAN V SUPERMAN WEEKEND THREAD | 166.01M OW, New March OW Record. 420.4M WW OW.

[Biggestgeekever]

Source tells me #BatmanvSuperman heading to near $80M opening day FRI incl THU pre-shows. Wknd would soar to eye-popping $160-170M range.

— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya)

March 26, 2016

[baumer]

So if BvS does 82 mill OD and follows F7, it will do 175 OW.

[Fancyarcher]

23 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

@redfirebird2008, @ddddeeee: Right now, I'm taking advantage of the weekend theme to introduce Tele Jr. to the delights of Shirley Walker and MASK OF THE PHANTASM.

 

Good, good.

 

 

[MrPink]

10 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

This is also appropriately obnoxious. Underrated imo.

 

 

 

This was boner material to a 5 year old MrPink going to see his first movie in theaters.

 

THE CREDITS FLEW IN YOUR GOD DAMN FACE

[BoxOfficeZ]

6 minutes ago, Baumer said:

I realize all of this is just my opinion, but the absolute vitriolic hate being spouted by some of the members here and others on line is just ridiculous.  You can dislike the direction they took but some of you are acting like this movie stole your girlfriend, beat up your grandmother and punched your little sister in the face.  It's astounding really.  

 

Plus, this is a box office forum. I like to think everyone would love to see huge numbers by a comic book film, regardless of their personal feelings on it. 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Orestes said:

 

Ultron's first Friday wasn't a holiday, so it didn't have inflated Thursday previews or matinees.

Ultron was coming off of Avengers, the biggest opening weekend of all time.  People were going to rush out and see it no matter what.  Work day next day means nothing.

[baumer]

2 hours ago, Telemachos said:

btw, @BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA, I think you'll like BVS. You won't love it, I'm sure it'll jar with your fave interpretations of the characters, but you'll definitely dig parts of it.

 

HAHAHA....there's no way he;ll like it.  BKB would never admit that he likes it anyway.  He bleeds Marvel blood.....

[CJohn]

4 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

Shit, I am afraid of the next Rth update.

[Biggestgeekever]

1 minute ago, Baumer said:

So if BvS does 82 mill OD and follows F7, it will do 175 OW.

Furious 7 made only $15.7M in previews. If BvS made $82M today, that would mean its Friday business was only about $2.5M higher than Furious 7. If it actually followed the daily declines on Sat and Sun, it'd do 27.7 - 54.3 - 49 - 35 for FSS, and an OW of $166M.

[baumer]

2 hours ago, MARTHA!!!!!!!!! said:

Uh, no, Tele. They are completely opposite to each other and have NOTHING in common. Batman v Superman is an original, independently produced short-form documentary, Fast and Furious is a huge blockbuster franchise... get it right...

 

[Dementeleus]

3 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

HAHAHA....there's no way he;ll like it.  BKB would never admit that he likes it anyway.  He bleeds Marvel blood.....

 

You and I (and maybe secretly him) know he'll dig the shit out of Batfleck.

[GiantCALBears]

4 minutes ago, BoxOfficeZ said:

 

Plus, this is a box office forum. I like to think everyone would love to see huge numbers by a comic book film, regardless of their personal feelings on it. 

 

Why can't you have a negative opinion? All of us rooting for huge numbers sounds very silly.

[ZattMurdock]

2 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

Furious 7 made only $15.7M in previews. If BvS made $82M today, that would mean its Friday business was only about $2.5M higher than Furious 7. If it actually followed the daily declines on Sat and Sun, it'd do 27.7 - 54.3 - 49 - 35 for FSS, and an OW of $166M.

And if Gitesh is right and goes sub $80m Fri, it could be signaling even more frontloadness.

[Lordmandeep]

So gitesh says now around 80 million

 

 

RTH said about 4 hours ago 81 to 85

[Goffe]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

It's the Brazil connection.

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Edited March 26, 2016 by Goffe

[#ED]

2 minutes ago, iJackSparrow said:

And if Gitesh is right and goes sub $80m Fri, it could be signaling even more frontloadness.

 

[TalismanRing]

6 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

 

 

FF7: $15.8 / 51.6 /$46.6 (-10%)/ $33.1 (-28.9%)=   147.2

 

$80m and if it follows FF7's pattern

 

BvS: $27.7/ $52.3/  47.07 / $33.41 = $160.49

 

 

 

 

[75Live]

17 minutes ago, Baumer said:

Here's my two cents on a lot of what has happened and what has been predicted and so on.

 

For this film to open with 27.7 mill for previews, that is pretty awesome.  I think (this is going to be a common theme in this rant) we have been spoiled by a lot of the massive numbers from some films in the last 5 years.  Without looking it up, I'm going to say that this is a top five opening for previews.  Star Wars and Potter and some of the Twilight films did more for sure but other than I can't think of anything else that did.  There probably is something but I can't remember at this time.  So the preview number is fantastic.

 

We live in a world now where the 200 mill opening weekend has been broken three times.  So now this is some kind of stigma attached to any "big" film that doesn't break 200 mill as being a failure or a disappointment.  That is ludicrous.  Guys like Excel and Kal only perpetuate the problem by posting ridiculous predictions and berating anyone who dare say otherwise.  I'm far far far from the best predictor here but I looked at this film and predicted it to do between 160-180 OW.  That's a massive number.  Just because there are other films that did more, doesn't take away from that number.  

 

Marvel had a different strategy and it worked brilliantly for them.  They released something like 5 Avenger films before they all got together.  That was a terrific strategy and it worked for them.  BvS is a gamble of sorts for DC and WB.  Yes, Batman is a massive property and combining the two most popular DC characters should be an easy sell, but this is a different director and a different star playing Batman.  You're asking people to accept this new vision when they were used to Nolan's brilliant take on it.  IMO, Snyder's vision is not a bad one, it's just darker.  But WB had to do this and they had to do it soon.  They needed to launch their answer to Marvel.  

 

Now if you look at the Batman films, the highest it ever opened to was 160 mill.  Now you have people here saying that BvS should open to 30% higher than that.  I guess with 3D and more IMAX screens you can make a case for it but the way I see it this is obviously a huge film and it has a massive loonie following but I never saw it as a 200 mill opener simply because it's so new in so many  ways.  I think if Nolan had directed it and Bale and the rest of the TDK cast had been involved, regardless of reviews, it would broke 200 million OW.  But when you have an entirely new cast for Batman, you are starting fresh in a way.

 

I think WB will be more than happy with 400 domestic and a billion WW.  This is a start.  They need a good showing and they ARE going to get it.  I don't think the expectation from them was to do Avengers type numbers, but to establish this world and make some good money doing it.  Yes, WOM is mixed among paying customers and critics are shredding it, but this will more than likely open to 180 million and make 425-450 mill, which would be about a 2.5X.  Then, if they feel they need to lighten it up a bit, they can fix that in the next film.  But they have something like 9 movies coming out in the next five years, so they are confident this will do well enough to justify it and they have plenty of time to make adjustments if need be.  

 

For me personally, I love what they did with it.  I realize the wom is split for sure but I think there will enough people who do like it that it will have a good multiplier.  It's obviously not going to hve a 3X but it should be able to do a 2.5X.  And it's doing incredibly well in international markets so it's off to a good start.

 

I realize all of this is just my opinion, but the absolute vitriolic hate being spouted by some of the members here and others on line is just ridiculous.  You can dislike the direction they took but some of you are acting like this movie stole your girlfriend, beat up your grandmother and punched your little sister in the face.  It's astounding really.  

 

And to say that this was lazy or that they didn't put any effort into it is also ridiculous.  Film making is a long and tedious process that involves 100's if not 1000's of people.  I doubt they didn't care about the outcome.  

 

I just think some of you have your expectations way out of whack and once all the dust clears, this will be viewed as a very successful launch for the DC universe.  

 

Just my two cents.

 

 

[Blankments]

Kinda disappointed it's doing so well in the idea that I don't like movies, but kinda happy because of my derby predict and bet in the thread pool.

 

(I'm thoroughly in the camp where I disliked the movie to a point that talking about it just makes me kinda sad. It feels like my personal TPM, since I wasn't around when that disappointed the world. If you like it though, good on you. I'm actually jealous )

[Goffe]

BvS had the biggest OD here for a superhero film and the biggest of the year (beating a huge local bliblical epic).