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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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x-men's 8.2 is not bad going by the expectations. wolvie makes a big difference always.

on the flip side, wolvie or no wolvie, this has a similar/slightly higher budget and so needed to make bigger numbers if it had to be as profitable as dofp.

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3 minutes ago, a2knet said:

x-men's 8.2 is not bad going by the expectations. wolvie makes a big difference always.

on the flip side, wolvie or no wolvie, this has a similar/slightly higher budget and so needed to make bigger numbers if it had to be as profitable as dofp.

 

Well, on the bright side...they're saving a good bit of money not having Hugh Jackman in the movie.  So...that's something.

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2 minutes ago, a2knet said:

x-men's 8.2 is not bad going by the expectations. wolvie makes a big difference always.

on the flip side, wolvie or no wolvie, this has a similar/slightly higher budget and so needed to make bigger numbers if it had to be as profitable as dofp.

 

The same source that says Alice has a 170M budget says XA has a 178M budget.  I'm sure that budget isn't a fact but it may in fact be less than DOFP really was, since they got Jen at pre Hunger Games prices for a three picture deal, and the older, more expensive actors are mostly not in it. 

 

Anyhow, I will be seeing it soon.

 

Meanwhile, 90Mil has always been my target for the 4 day weekend, anything more would be gravy. 

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9 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

It opened 3 hours earlier in 600+  more theaters

And also more front loading in general especially for middling to bad superhero movies.

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7 minutes ago, a2knet said:

x-men's 8.2 is not bad going by the expectations. wolvie makes a big difference always.

on the flip side, wolvie or no wolvie, this has a similar/slightly higher budget and so needed to make bigger numbers if it had to be as profitable as dofp.

Well, the new reported budget is 178M, which seems rather low, but that 234M reported earlier seems way to high.  Without Jackman and the old actors in this taking up the salary, I definitely think it's cheaper than DOFP.  The FC actors signed 3 picture deals, so its not like they are paying JLaw 10+ million.  Oscar shouldn't be making that much either.   The so-called destruction porn isn't even that much, so I don't know where the budget went if it was 220M+.  They filmed in Canada, so should be cheaper as well.

 

If CW had a 250M budget with RDJ getting 40M, Scarlett getting probably 10M+ and Evans at least 5M, 15M+ for the remaining actors, I think its possible it was this cheap.

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2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

So weird that Disney gave The Jungle Book an April release while Alice 2, The BFG, and Pete's Dragon all received prime summer spots.

Pete's Dragon date is not that good.

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4 hours ago, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:

 

No, the real problem is superhero oversaturation along with the 2 WOLVERINE Solo movies which weren't all that good and probably didn't do this movie any favors.. X-MEN owned the 2000 Era along with 2002 with X2, but in 2016, it belongs to the AVENGERS and for that matter, CAPTAIN AMERICA.. 10 Years from now, something else will come along and knock MARVEL down a notch and so on...

We technically just had the biggest X-Men movie of all time earlier this year. And Spider-Man ruled the 2000s with X-Men having a niche. X-Men can probably keep up with that niche as long it keeps on putting out films that do more than 150M DOM/500M WW. No danger of losing that for a while

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Just now, CJohn said:

Pete's Dragon date is not that good.

It's not a tentpole title (being a modestly-budgeted, in all likelihood, non-musical remake of a 70s musical). Second weekend of August, right before kids go back to school, is a fine release date.

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Just now, filmlover said:

It's not a tentpole title (being a modestly-budgeted, in all likelihood, non-musical remake of a 70s musical). Second weekend of August, right before kids go back to school, is a fine release date.

 

Also the same weekend that TMNT opened.  

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1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

Would anyone be surprised though? BFG, Alice and Petes Dragon are the movies even Disney seems to have forgotten about this year. They aren't putting any major marketing pushes behind those 3 movies.

TBF, Pete's Dragon is still pretty far from release to give up on. A good trailer with Dory is all it needs to do decently.

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