MEH-MORIAL DAY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE | Abandon all hope, the box office is dead. 3 day weekend #s X-Men 65M, Alice 28.1M, Angry Birds 18.7M, Civil War 15.1M, Neighbors 9.1M. Bad openings, horrible holdovers.

[Ryan Reynolds]

7 minutes ago, Mango said:

Civil War is doing pretty damn good

they stuffed every superhero possible in it, so it better do good

[AaronL]

12 minutes ago, straggler said:

Rth said about $30 million for X-Men on Friday so I'm going with that.  Will make $700 million on a $170 million budget. That's fine. 

Ain't making 700M unless it somehow has incredible WOM/reception in China.  

[superweirdo87]

13 minutes ago, straggler said:

Rth said about $30 million for X-Men on Friday so I'm going with that.  Will make $700 million on a $170 million budget. That's fine. 

 

Deadline's figures are updated.

[Dementeleus]

Still no real interest in CIVIL WAR. Probably because I'm not invested in "the Marvel TV show", as Gopher puts it. 

[superweirdo87]

23 minutes ago, bapi said:

Alice bombing and X-Men under 70m. That's very, very dissapointing. Don't understand why they didn't make X4 instead.

 

The prequel crew was under contract. Also, that is where the creative vision of Singer and Kinberg was. X4 would fare better, but it remains an open question how much better, especially if they relied on a generic plot and got bad reviews. 

[baumer]

Apocalypse was good but soooooo long.  And I will probably never see it again.

[MarvelandDC]

The CW writers said that Marvel was done recapping old movies in the new ones. And that they were okay with loosing potential new viewers. 

 

“We had to make a decision early that we were OK losing virgin audience members,” Stephen McFeely, co-writer of “Civil War,” told TheWrap during a wide-ranging interview with writing partner Christopher Markus.

“If you don’t know some of these movies before you walk in you might be lost, but hopefully you’ll still be entertained,” McFreely said. “We can’t do a ‘previously in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,’ because it will take 25 minutes.”

http://www.thewrap.com/captain-america-civil-war-writers-marvel-newbies-catch-up-backstory/

[Daxtreme]

1 minute ago, MarvelandDC said:

 

The CW writers said that Marvel was done recapping old movies in the new ones.

 

 

When have they ever done that anyway? I can't seem to recall any occurrences...

[Blackout]

to make X4 it would prob be alot more expensive. I wonder if that is an option to them though

Edited May 28, 2016 by Blackout

[La Binoche]

Strong expansion for Kate Beckinsale's Love & Friendship. Go Amazon! 

 

 

[Mojoguy]

Jackman is done with Wolverine after Wolverine 3.

[Ryan Reynolds]

1 minute ago, Mojoguy said:

Jackman is done with Wolverine after Wolverine 3.

a Wolverine / Deadpool team up film would hit 1 billion , too bad

[Mango]

I'll believe Jackman is done when I see it.

[filmlover]

Love & Friendship is the winner of the weekend. Great expansion. Collective meh for everything else.

[DAJK]

We didn't have Thursday previews so Apocalypse's Friday numbers will be very small compared to Saturday. Still not great. Did 13.4M here. Alice did $8.4M.

 

Shining spot was angry birds which only dropped lik 6% or so from last Friday and did $11.1M. Neighbors 2 also dropped lightly for a $4.8M Friday. Not a bad day, just not what it could have been.

[superweirdo87]

33 minutes ago, a2knet said:

DOFP did 2.57x of the 3-Day ow of 90.8m

If APOC does 2.4x of the 3-Day (68m), it will get 163m.

 

2.4x seems daunting with the reviews. Cinema Score is similar to the Last Stand. WOM might be subpar.

[Elessar]

9 hours ago, DeeCee said:

About to land. 

 

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

 

The Falcon 9 sticks the landing again.  Three times in a row now. 

 

All hail Mr. Musk! 

 

[department store basement]

9 minutes ago, Mango said:

I'll believe Jackman is done when I see it.

 

I'd certainly be tired of playing a character I've already led 7 movies with in 17 years.

 

(Makes me wonder why RDJ loves coming back to play Tony.)

[Johnny Tran]

I don't view the MCU as a TV-show in movie form. Civil War is about as close as it gets but most of the movies have loose ties at best. There's a lot of stuff that is just tacked on. There's not really a lot of mystery to unfold or foreshadowing or depth to the characters that will later pay off in some way.

 

I should note that's not a knock on the movies. For the most part they are enjoyable, I just view them for what they are. A fun ride. I don't see them as Game of Thrones on the big screen. Everything is more surface level and that's all they need to be. Same goes for most.

Edited May 28, 2016 by Johnny Tran

[Blackout]

26 minutes ago, superweirdo87 said:

 

2.4x seems daunting with the reviews. Cinema Score is similar to the Last Stand. WOM might be subpar.

 

Cinemascore doesn't matter and WOM doesn't seem to affect the X-franchise much. DOFP got stellar WOM and yet only did as much as it did.

Edited May 28, 2016 by Blackout