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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.

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Porthos Global Phenomenon

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1 hour ago, vc2002 said:

Wait, is Alice2 going to finish under Wrath of the Titans 83m DOM? I mean, I thought Alice2 will drop harder than Clash->Wrath of Titans percentagew-wise, but this hard? Wrath opened to 33m 3-day, and it looks like Alice2 is having terrible WOM.

 

I'm actually debating about heading over to the Casino and seeing if anyone will take a Alice 2 under Pixels bet. :ph34r:

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Porthos Global Phenomenon

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14 minutes ago, HeyItsMoses said:

What the fuck happened this weekend?!

 

Serious Question?  I was thinking about this and I have a perhaps radical answer.  With blockbusters now coming out in Jan, Feb, March, April, and December, summer isn't "all that" anymore.  Sure, it's still very good and movies will seek it out.  But there are simply so many more months now where a three/four quadrant tentpole can release that fighting over May/June isn't AS important anymore.   Not when one can get cartoon bags of money in other times of the year.  Therefore a highly anticipated film that might have released in Late May/Early June heads to April instead.  Or March.  Or December.  Or, well, just about any month not named September/October.  

 

It's one theory at least. :)

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tonytr87 Blockbuster

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1 hour ago, Porthos said:

 

Serious Question?  I was thinking about this and I have a perhaps radical answer.  With blockbusters now coming out in Jan, Feb, March, April, and December, summer isn't "all that" anymore.  Sure, it's still very good and movies will seek it out.  But there are simply so many more months now where a three/four quadrant tentpole can release that fighting over May/June isn't AS important anymore.   Not when one can get cartoon bags of money in other times of the year.  Therefore a highly anticipated film that might have released in Late May/Early June heads to April instead.  Or March.  Or December.  Or, well, just about any month not named September/October.  

 

It's one theory at least. :)

 

This is a sound theory. People forget that outside of summer and holidays the box office used to be low-key, often times pretty dead. People only go to see so many movies. If you're getting them to come out to more movies during those other seasons, chances are you're going to see more flops and disappointments during the so-called "prime" months out of the year. 

 

I'd say that maybe we're beginning to see the end of moviegoing in theaters as we know it, but every time people have said that in the past the box office has exploded soon after. 

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filmlover Cinematic Universe

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13 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

 

This is a sound theory. People forget that outside of summer and holidays the box office used to be low-key, often times pretty dead. People only go to see so many movies. If you're getting them to come out to more movies during those other seasons, chances are you're going to see more flops and disappointments during the so-called "prime" months out of the year. 

 

I'd say that maybe we're beginning to see the end of moviegoing in theaters as we know it, but every time people have said that in the past the box office has exploded soon after. 

Or maybe it should serve as a sign to studios to start delivering better movies instead of just expecting audiences to lap up whatever they throw in front of them. It's probably telling that Batman v Superman is the only $100M+ grosser so far this year to not get good reviews (though X-Men and most likely Angry Birds are going to join it).

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tonytr87 Blockbuster

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9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Or maybe it should serve as a sign to studios to start delivering better movies instead of just expecting audiences to lap up whatever they throw in front of them. It's probably telling that Batman v Superman is the only $100M+ grosser so far this year to not get good reviews (though X-Men and most likely Angry Birds are going to join it).

 

I'm not saying the subpar quality has nothing to do with it, but we're talking opening weekends here. Batman v Superman had a pretty big opening with even worse reviews/reception, so I don't think quality is a huge factor when discussing why X-men and Alice disappointed/failed this weekend. 

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Johnny Tran Box Office Gold

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Regarding "the critics" discussion, I think some folks need to just look at RT a little closer is all. X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest example.

 

1. Yes, they consider a movie FRESH if it reaches 60% but does that mean a film with 50% is "hated by the critics."  All it means is that half of the critics liked it and half of the critics did not like it.  This used to be called "Mixed reviews". 

 

2. Even the reviews themselves are a little sketchy in terms of how they come to be Fresh or Rotten.  I've seen films scored with a "C+" as a Rotten and films scored with a "2.5" a Fresh.  I don't know how they go about it but obviously if a friend told me "I'd give it a C+" that might mean different things to different people.  A C+ might be "Okay, he said it was a C+ and he normally hates these so maybe it'll be a B+ for me"

 

 

 

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a2k Global Phenomenon

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BO is so unpredictable.

  • APOC dom will be behind DP by 200m+.
  • ALICE dom will be less than 1/4th of ZOOTP (75-80 v 340)
  • On the low-end, APOC & ALICE dom combined could be 150 behind TJB (145+75=220 vs 370)

Imagine those statements when the year started.

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