Weekend Thread | RTH pg 197...Mother's Day not kind to CW but very kind to JB and MD CW 42, JB 9,7, MDD 6.1,Hunts 1.48...puts CW at about 178M

[baumer]

H so Civil War is going to have about a fifty-million-dollar Friday or what the force awakens did in previews. 

[Biggestgeekever]

I'll be completely stunned if Friday business is under Iron Man 3.

[CoolioD1]

i feel like silence is gonna get underrated. folks just want goodfellas again and again with scorsese. his subtler/restrained stuff like last temptation, innocence (aka his best stuff) always end up underrated.

[FilmBuff]

74-77? What a shitty shitty number. Thought it was tracking a head of AOU? Furk

[johnboy3434]

How's this for edge? The Shining isn't remotely frightening and is actually kinda boring. Same goes for the first Alien, now that I think about it.

[Sam]

I love that once Rth updated, all the other numbers from other sites become irrelevant and not worth being in the title anymore. 

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, Biggestgeekever said:

I'll be completely stunned if Friday business is under Iron Man 3.

Well, no one is predicting that.

 

Unless you want to exclude Thursday previews.

[VGPOP]

$170 million to $175 million with those numbers.

 

Damn. Not even close to Ultron.

 

 

[marveldcfox]

I have to be honest, I am disappointed with the estimates. Really thought with excellent reviews and good will from Cap 2 as well as addition of Iron Man, Spiderman and Black Panther would take it to atleast 210 million on opening weekend.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2016 by marveldcfox

[FilmBuff]

Lol not even beating im3 adjusted total. 

[WrathOfHan]

Guys, he said those numbers were from a couple hours ago, still plenty of time for that to change.

[Biph Shmata]

1 minute ago, johnboy3434 said:

How's this for edge? The Shining isn't remotely frightening and is actually kinda boring. Same goes for the first Alien, now that I think about it.

It's tough for a director to keep the fright level high while also hinting to the audience that he actually faked the moon landing on a set outside of Tucson. 

[Biggestgeekever]

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

Well, no one is predicting that.

 

Unless you want to exclude Thursday previews.

Normally that's what is meant by Friday business... Or at least what I mean by that.

[The Futurist]

Slightly above BvS, almost there, come'on America, empty those parking lots.

[pensivepenguin]

FWIW, the studio prediction itself was 175M. I think the box office sites like BO.com understandably reasoned that fantastic reviews + pseudo-Avengers film but in name = higher OW. In the end, should it land in the 180-190M range, that's great. It's making twice TWS' opening -- that is fantastic.

 

Expectations once again got carried away but that's not new.

[pensivepenguin]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

Guys, he said those numbers were from a couple hours ago, still plenty of time for that to change.

 

Could be lower :/

[MyMovieCanBeatUpYourMovie]

I think Disney made an interesting choice to leave money on the table by not titling this Avengers: Civil War, which they clearly would have been justified in doing.  I think there's no question the brand alone would have increased the opening weekend.  By how much, I'm not sure.  But it also allows three years between "real" Avengers movies, which I guess also has some value.

 

Maybe they should have split the difference: Captain America: Avengers at War.  

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, Biggestgeekever said:

Normally that's what is meant by Friday business... Or at least what I mean by that.

Well, right now the consensus is that they're going to be about equal in terms of Friday excluding Thursday previews. Are you going to be shocked then?

[The Panda]

I find it funny that people are acting like these are terrible numbers or something

[Empire]

16 minutes ago, Rth said:

Tied up atm quick stop by couple hrs ago had it in 74-77 range which similar to others, if presales aren't that huge there could be upside ,want it to be preforming a the very least like AOU,  ie not like BvS (the # would come down). Fantastic number no matter where it winds up.

74-77 is great #. Hopefully it goes up later, but if it doesn't it is still a great start for the OW!