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.

[EmpireCity]

4 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

No, Days of Future Past had 7 PM screenings. Mine was.

 

I don't think you are remembering correctly or your theater jumped the gun.  DOFP were to be 10pm or later for Thursday showings.  

[mrqe93]

A lot of conflicting facts regarding DOFP theater count and preview showtime...lol

[stripe]

Some members are never happy.

 

It matched DOFP previews despite

1. less hype

2. lukewarm reviews

3. without Wolverine or old cast

4. despite being the 4th SH film (the other 3 being +300M grossers)

5. without IMAX

[superweirdo87]

3 minutes ago, a2knet said:

I don't see 90m+ 4-day. Had similar previews even though it started 3 hours early and had lot more shows. And is a sequel.

 

 

Do you think mid-80s for 4-day?

[mrqe93]

I'm more interested in Alice 2 numbers

[DAJK]

5 minutes ago, a2knet said:

I don't see 90m+ 4-day. Had similar previews even though it started 3 hours early and had lot more shows. And is a sequel.

 

Soooooooo a 20M drop then. Would sound about right.

[grey ghost]

Based on the luke warm reception and typical sequel frontloadedness any guesses what the DOM total will be with a 90 m 4-day?

[EmpireCity]

1 minute ago, stripe said:

Some members are never happy.

 

It matched DOFP previews despite

1. less hype

2. lukewarm reviews

3. without Wolverine or old cast

4. despite being the 4th SH film (the other 3 being +300M grossers)

5. without IMAX

 

It matched them because it had an entire extra prime round of show times and 600 more theaters.  The reality is if this opened last night at 10pm in less theaters like DOFP did, then it doesn't come close to matching it.  

[grim22]

Pretty good preview numbers in the end. 

 

If the sellout counts I did are accurate, Alice's previews will almost flat out suck.

[stripe]

So DOFP had the same previews but people predict Apocalypse to fall 20M short of DOFP opening?

 

 

7 minutes ago, a2knet said:

I don't see 90m+ 4-day. Had similar previews even though it started 3 hours early and had lot more shows. And is a sequel.

 

 

DOFP was also a sequel

[Arlborn]

8 minutes ago, a2knet said:

I don't see 90m+ 4-day. Had similar previews even though it started 3 hours early and had lot more shows. And is a sequel.

 

Haven't X-Men movies been a sequel since, I don't know, the second one almost 15 years ago? Is that really a big factor for this one?

Also, this one had no IMAX.

 

Anyway, good numbers, it's in line with the optimistic range of predictions I guess. I believe it deserved more though.

Edited May 27, 2016 by Arlborn

[grey ghost]

1 minute ago, mrqe93 said:

I'm more interested in Alice 2 numbers

 

Alice in Flopperland: Through the Flopping Glass

[EmpireCity]

2 minutes ago, stripe said:

So DOFP had the same previews but people predict Apocalypse to fall 20M short of DOFP opening?

 

 

 

DOFP was also a sequel

 

Yes, if not more.  

[POTUS 2020]

t's 1/3 of CA3. = 60m 3 day + 4m sun boost 64m if it's proportionate to cap plus Sundays holiday hold?
 

Edited May 27, 2016 by No Prisoners

[WrathOfHan]

I don't know why you guys are using "No IMAX" as an advantage, DOFP didn't have IMAX either.

[seduh]

It's a better number than what i was expecting. Alice2 will make lees than 3M

[mrqe93]

I don't know why you guys are using "No IMAX" as an advantage, DOFP didn't have IMAX either.

I thought I watched DOFP on IMAX...

[DAJK]

5 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

Based on the luke warm reception and typical sequel frontloadedness any guesses what the DOM total will be with a 90 m 4-day?

190-200M. X Men movies aren't exactly leggy, so a 2.1-2.2 multiplier is likely.

[stripe]

4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I don't know why you guys are using "No IMAX" as an advantage, DOFP didn't have IMAX either.

 

I thought it had IMAX

[DAJK]

1 minute ago, seduh said:

It's a better number than what i was expecting. Alice2 will make lees than 3M

I don't know why people were expecting a lot of Alice's previews. Even if it's say 2.5M, didn't Oz only do 2M, and Cinderella did like 2-3M?