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.

[DAJK]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

The next "Johnny Depp in a weird costume and makeup"  bomb

 

 

Nah. Some people will be stoked for it still. 200DOM, 600OS.

[John Marston]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Going from $330M to $100M is a pretty astounding, bordering on unprecedented, drop-off attendance-wise, though.

 

 

There red are other sequels that have done similar drops actually 

[cannastop]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Going from $330M to $100M is a pretty astounding, bordering on unprecedented, drop-off attendance-wise, though.

I read the tea leaves.

 

All of the factors that made the original a hit were gone by the time the sequel came up.

[James]

1 minute ago, DAJK said:

Nah. Some people will be stoked for it still. 200DOM, 600OS.

It is making 1b+. Mark my words.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, department store basement said:

 

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 holds the record. It made 1/5 of the first one's gross.

I was speaking strictly in $$$$.

[Ethan Hunt]

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

The next "Johnny Depp in a weird costume and makeup"  bomb

 

 

It'll still do a bit over 200M

 

The question is if it will be any good

[grim22]

For a second there, i thought Ivan Ooze was in TMNT2

 

 

[Jake Gittes]

22 minutes ago, moviesRus said:

I can't believe Last Stand did $122m on this weekend 10 years ago. Sad that that movie was the peak box office success for this franchise (domestically). 

 

Its 45m Friday was the second biggest opening day ever at the time. I actually remember thinking it was gonna take down Spider-Man's OW record, because what's a 2.5 IM over a holiday weekend? Then it went ahead and showed me what "frontloaded" means.

[Jake Gittes]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

It'll still do a bit over 200M

 

The question is if it will be any good

 

No

 

Almost definitely no

[La Binoche]

RIP Mia Wasikowski. Remember that she was here and that she was great. 

 

 

 

[filmlover]

The original Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my favorite blockbusters. The sequels sucked. I no longer have any interest in the series.

[grim22]

Just now, Jake Gittes said:

 

Its 45m Friday was the second biggest opening day ever at the time. I actually remember thinking it was gonna take down Spider-Man's OW record, because what's a 2.5 IM over a holiday weekend? Then it went ahead and showed me what "frontloaded" means.

 

Matrix Reloaded pretty much had the OW record in the bag had they released it on a Friday as well. Same with ROTS. I guess chasing the OW record was not a major priority with studios back in 2002-2006.

[ddddeeee]

1 minute ago, La Binoche said:

RIP Mia Wasikowski. Remember that she was here and that she was great. 

 

 

 

She's good in the movie.

[CoolioD1]

johnny needs to step away from the ridiculously expensive wacko bombs and come back to making smaller scale character movies again like mortdecai.

[Ethan Hunt]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

The original Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my favorite blockbusters. The sequels sucked. I no longer have any interest in the series.

 

I quite love Dead Man's Chest (I enjoy AWE but its admittedly a bit of a mess)

[RascarCapat]

looks like Alice 2 just fucked up to be one of the 2 movies I need for my Disney Top 5 WW 2016. I hope Dory and Rogue will deliver.

 

I'm also hyped for Moana and Pete's Dragon. Lets see how they turn out.

[ssjrem]

Does anyone know what the record is for the biggest drop off from one film to the next in a franchise? Alice Through the Looking Glass has to have a shot at that, right? Going from $334M to most likely under $100M is hilariously awful. I can't think of anything that has even come close to that. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

4 minutes ago, ssjrem said:

Does anyone know what the record is for the biggest drop off from one film to the next in a franchise? Alice Through the Looking Glass has to have a shot at that, right? Going from $334M to most likely under $100M is hilariously awful. I can't think of anything that has even come close to that. 

Episode 8 next year 

[Johnny Tran]

Depp has made some small scale films recently, they've just mostly sucked also. I didn't even love Black Mass. So disappointed in that one.

[That One Girl]

1 hour ago, MrPink said:

Power went out for my X Men Apocalypse showing about 20 minutes in due to storms 

 

the movie was becoming a reality and apocalypse unleashed storms to prevent people from seeing him as a bad guy