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.

[filmlover]

Just now, ThatOneGuy said:

Next weekend should be a nice little cool down thread, unless TMNT2 either massive over or underperforms.

The next two weekends after this look so barren. I expect the June 10 weekend will be a bunch of arguing over audiences not wanting to see crappy movies based on video games or unnecessary sequels.

[That One Girl]

Just now, filmlover said:

It was in danger even with $100M over the 4-day. These movies are always notoriously frontloaded.

 

the first X men had sexy legs

[That One Girl]

Just now, filmlover said:

The next two weekends after this look so barren. I expect the June 10 weekend will be a bunch of arguing over audiences not wanting to see crappy movies based on video games or unnecessary sequels.

 

Yeah, June 3 is probably gonna be one of the only cool down threads between now and August.  

[Arlborn]

12 minutes ago, Kalo said:

 

That's a tall Order Civil War is my favorite comic book movie right now. DOFP is second though, and I'll be happy if it's nearly as good as that.

I really enjoyed Civil War, loads, you can look around for my comments on that film. It was an awesome ride. I just felt Apocalypse was more emotional for me though.

 

I guess I can compare the climax battles to illustrate my point:

 

The airport fight was extremely fun but it felt slightly fake to me. That "we're still friends, right?" line bothered the crap out of me I guess.

 

Without going into any spoilers at all, I can say the climax battle of Apocalypse felt heavily emotional to me and that's probably because I was heavily invested in the characters. Some critics complained about too much CGI and stuff like that(bullshit by the way), but those X-men movies have always been about the X-Men themselves and their inner-relationships and I thought they really showed it right during the climax.

 

2 very awesome and very different superhero movies in the end I suppose. XMA edges it though.

Edited May 26, 2016 by Arlborn

[Frozen]

2 hours ago, ThatOneGuy said:

Speaking of Tomorrowland, am I the only one out there who absolutely loved it?

 

It was ok until the last act. The creepy pedo relationship between a Clooney and the robot girl was off putting. 

[NCsoft]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

The next two weekends after this look so barren. I expect the June 10 weekend will be a bunch of arguing over audiences not wanting to see crappy movies based on video games or unnecessary sequels.

I'm sure WarCraft's godly Chinese performance will gather some interests on June 10 weekend. 

[MrPink]

2 hours ago, Telemachos said:

I see CJohn shamelessly went all fanboy at the end there.

 

1 hour ago, Telemachos said:

 

Plus, y'know, it would've been good.

 

Fuck you, two faced mod. 

Edited May 26, 2016 by MrPink

[La Binoche]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

Every weekend until Finding Dory comes out = yawn

 

Strangely I'm not excited for Dory. Which is weird b/c I love the original. I'm just no longer interested in the movies put out by today's studio system. 

[POTUS 2020]

2 hours ago, Blackout said:

 

The box office wallah strikes again.

Come on Gitesh. 

[DAJK]

5 hours ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Brad Bird was my man. Then Tomorrowland showed me the light.

 

Nolan is the only real god

Ohmygod, I can't believe I'm hearing you say that

[MCKillswitch123]

Tomorrowland isn't THAT bad.

 

But anyway, I'm feeling hopeful that X-Men won't shit me up, cause I need it to be succesful for me to win at the BO Casino. Warcraft killing it OS will be the most interesting thing about this weekend to me 

Edited May 26, 2016 by MCKillswitch123

[That One Girl]

Alice Through the Flopping Glass (ft. pie crumbs)

Flop-Men: Flopocalypse

[Ethan Hunt]

3 hours ago, DAJK said:

Ohmygod, I can't believe I'm hearing you say that

 

3 hours ago, DAJK said:

Ohmygod, I can't believe I'm hearing you say that

#HailNolan

 

Brad is obviously still great, but Tomorrowland is a bit of a misstep

 

[stripe]

Tomorrowland was not a gem, but I really liked it. I would love to see more original concepts like that.

[xequalsy]

Will be interesting to see how Alice does. It's the one film that I really have no clue how it's going to be received. Even if X-men "flops" for example, I can't see it doing much worse than First Class, probably going to end up with more disappointing numbers than anything else. Alice on the other hand? I can see almost anything happening from total flop to middling success.

 

 

[SteveJaros]

3 day:

 

X - Men ..... $90m

 

Alice ......... $50m

Edited May 26, 2016 by SteveJaros

[POTUS 2020]

11 hours ago, ThiagoMaia said:

I don't live in America so can anyone tell me which day is the holiday? Is it always on Monday?

Last Monday of may is memorial

Labor day is the first Monday of September. 

an unofficial start and end of summer. Beach house weekend trips commence and lifeguards are on duty.

Be careful skinny dipping at night

The first summer "blockbuster"

Back when summer movie season started in June.

 

Star wars opened this weekend on the 27th

Just art house distro though. 40 theaters.

Went wide in june. those art films and their slow roll outs....

Edited May 26, 2016 by No Prisoners

[keysersoze123]

Alice gonna bomb huge. I doubt it will even hit 150m. I am thinking 50/120 run for now.

[Lizzy]

Is the memorial weekend a big time in the US for visiting the cinema like Christmas seems to be? 

[a2k]

Going by UK/Aus OWs, and considering that Aus could have fallen harder cause their guy was not in the movie + looking at weaker exchange rates, ~20% drop is still in order. That would give an 88.5m 4-day (72.65m 3-day). DOFP  did 2.57x off the 3-day. APOCALYPSE could do 2.35-2.40x of 72.65m for 170-175m.

Edited May 26, 2016 by a2knet