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

[baumer]

As many have pointed out Friday was not a full holiday in the US.

[ZattMurdock]

I'm drunk. @Rth, where art thou?

[James]

3 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

MoS had a multi of 2,26. Let's say it opens to $165m: 165 x 2,26 = 373m

But why lol. MoS had WWZ and MU in the 2nd weekend, The Heat and WHD in it's third, Despicable Me and TLR in it's 4th. BvS HAS God's Not Dead 2 that will likely miss 10m in it's 2nd wknd and Hardcore Henry in it's 3rd that will likely miss 20m. And the DM+TLR combo in the 4th weekend will have less of an impact than TJB. 2.5x muli will easily happen.  

[fmpro]

8 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

BvS has an inflated friday.

 

No where near as inflated as MoS's sunday which increased over sat

[fmpro]

8 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

They should do the Riddler and throw in Catwoman or something. Always the Joker gets kinda boring after a while... 

 

Joker nevah gets boring 

[a2k]

7 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

 

It is a fantastic opening. Isn't it in line to be the biggest pre summer launch ever? 

 

Dark Knight Rises was the end of a trilogy with a lot of acclaim and coming off a gigantic sequel. It opened in the summer with $160m. This is a new Batman and follow up to Man of Steel which opened to $116m. 

 

Its fantastic.

 

A tragedy happened during the previews that time.

It had no 3D and had 2012 ticket prices.

 

"follow up to Man of Steel", thought technically true, is an under-statement.

 

Even if folks are satisfied with this OW, to call it "fantastic" is absurd. It may not be bad but it's not fantastic.

Edited March 26, 2016 by a2knet

[Elessar]

5 minutes ago, Baumer said:

As many have pointed out Friday was not a full holiday in the US.

 

Still, it was inflated.

[fmpro]

9 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

They should do the Riddler and throw in Catwoman or something. Always the Joker gets kinda boring after a while... 

 

I know Joker will have to appear eventually, he's the most popular bad guy and he's already starring in Suicide League.

 

Its Suicide Squad

[Dingdong123]

Everyone's using MoS as comparison to BvS, but that was a summer film.

 

why don't we use FF7? Both released easter weekend, both tentpole films. Both action-packed and highly anticipated

 

FF7 did 147M OW and ended its run doing 353 million. Basically 2.4 multiplier.

 

If BvS does 160 million OW, it might end up 384 million domestic using FF7 multiplier.

 

Keep in mind tho that FF7 was getting great reviews, See You Again helped the film's popularity also. BvS is getting lackluster reviews tho. Altho I'd say that its appeal is more four-quadrant than FF7.

[fmpro]

14 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

MoS had a multi of 2,26. Let's say it opens to $165m: 165 x 2,26 = 373m

 

My math on MoS's multiplier says 2,4. 

116 mill OW and 292 mill total 

[James]

Just now, Dingdong123 said:

Everyone's using MoS as comparison to BvS, but that was a summer film.

 

why don't we use FF7? Both released easter weekend, both tentpole films. Both action-packed and highly anticipated

 

FF7 did 147M OW and ended its run doing 353 million. Basically 2.4 multiplier.

 

If BvS does 160 million OW, it might end up 384 million domestic using FF7 multiplier.

 

Keep in mind tho that FF7 was getting great reviews, See You Again helped the film's popularity also. BvS is getting lackluster reviews tho. Altho I'd say that its appeal is more four-quadrant than FF7.

The Fast franchise is a notoriously frontloaded one. You can see that with the other movies in the series as well. Despite great WOM it still had bad drops.

[a2k]

Not that can of worms again

Let's say neither 2.26 nor 2.40. Split it clean in the middle - 2.32x.

DONE. OVER. FINAL.

[eXtacy]

Firedeep is predicting an absolute collapse in China, says 100m total is in doubt

[a2k]

Just now, eXtacy said:

Firedeep is predicting an absolute collapse in China, says 100m total is in doubt

 

[marveldcfox]

Pretty sad that two iconic superheroes in the same movie will end up grossing as much as Deadpool or slightly more at the domestic boxoffice. And that too with 3d.

It obviously isn't a flop, but i don't know how WB can be happy about it when you compare to other event movies that have done 500+ million domestically. But then again those movies got good reviews. A lot of money could have been made if this had gotten good (65% or more) reception. 

 

[Dingdong123]

2 minutes ago, James said:

The Fast franchise is a notoriously frontloaded one. You can see that with the other movies in the series as well. Despite great WOM it still had bad drops.

 

As if CBM arent front loaded. The maximum multiplier for CBM these days is 3 times its OW, and that only happens with GREAT WOM AND CRITICAL REVIEWS.

[eXtacy]

4 minutes ago, Dingdong123 said:

 

As if CBM arent front loaded. The maximum multiplier for CBM these days is 3 times its OW, and that only happens with GREAT WOM AND CRITICAL REVIEWS.

Guardians of the Galaxy had a 3.54x multi

[Juby]

+170 mln OW x2.35 multi = close to 400 mln DOM.

 

165-175 mln OW isn't a "fantastic" opening, but it's good. And it doesn't matter this isn't a summer movie, look what TFA did in December! With better reviews (+70% on RT) and better marketing, "Batman/Superman movie" could open with over $200 mln.

 

Edited March 26, 2016 by Juby

[fmpro]

13 minutes ago, fmpro said:

 

My math on MoS's multiplier says 2,4. 

116 mill OW and 292 mill total 

 

Ups. Its actully 2,5 multiplier after doing another calculation 

[Elessar]

16 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

 

It is a fantastic opening. Isn't it in line to be the biggest pre summer launch ever? 

 

Dark Knight Rises was the end of a trilogy with a lot of acclaim and coming off a gigantic sequel. It opened in the summer with $160m. This is a new Batman and follow up to Man of Steel which opened to $116m. 

 

Its fantastic.

 

Iron Man made "only" a bit over 300m, Thor and Captain America much less, yet Avengers did 620m.

 

TDKR was hampered somewhat by the shooting. Batman used to break records.

 

Not breaking $400m is not fantastic for DC's answer to Avengers. And before anyone says Jutice League, i doubt it will outgross BvS. It is BvS that brought the trifecta together, JL will just add minor B class heroes, the novelty of seeing Batman, Supes and WW together will have worn off by then.