Weekend Actuals (Page 96): Dory 73M | IDR 41M | CI 18.2M | Shallows 16.8M | Conjuring 7.7M | Jones 7.6M

[baumer]

8 minutes ago, cannastop said:

No.

 

Yes

[Nova]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I imagine that meeting went like this:

 

"Will Smith won't do it, so who's next? Dwayne Johnson is too busy, so is Chris Pratt, so is Channing Tatum. Even Scott Eastwood (Hollywood's New Favorite Hot Guy Who Can't Really Act) isn't available! How about we go with the guy with Chris Hemsworth's younger brother who may or not have been in the Hunger Games movies, I can't remember."

The studio actually thought they were getting Chris Hemsworth only to realize that they'd by accidentally had his younger brother sign onto the contract. Not that Chris would have been any better 

Edited June 24, 2016 by Nova

[cannastop]

3 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

Yes

Dwayne Johnson>(90s nostalgia-Will Smith)

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Yeah, I'm on the Dory $500m train now. It's performing spectacularly. Crazy to think it will be at least #7 all-time DOM.

[JohnnyGossamer]

4 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

Yeah, I'm on the Dory $500m train now. It's performing spectacularly. Crazy to think it will be at least #7 all-time DOM.

Hmm. I'm not there... Yet. I still think just over $475M DOM.

[filmlover]

FWIW Dawn of the Planet of the Apes did $4.1M in early showings and ID4 2 will presumably have an older-than-usual audience for a tentpole title. So who knows, $60M might not need to be ruled out yet.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

2 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Hmm. I'm not there... Yet. I still think just over $475M DOM.

Still would be #7 all-time 

[Blaze Heatnix]

Not good for Independence Day, but not a disaster though.

 

It's about perspective. They took 20 damn years to come with a sequel. People already moved on and many already forgot the first movie. It's facing heavy competition ( Finding Dory ).  

 

Emmerich is good with small scale movies. Universal Soldier and The Patriot were grounded and had a fine budget. The first Independence Day had a 75 million budget ( how the hell is that possible? ). Why does every Emmerich movie have a 200 million budget now? Even White House Down had a 150 million budget. That's insane.

 

Add in the "destruction porn" and "disaster movie" issues, and obviously things won't be big for the movie. Overseas grosses will probably be considered.

[WrathOfHan]

BOT's favorite movies of the year so far based on the grades (with a reasonable amount of votes):

 

1. Zootopia: A-/93 (43 votes)

2. Kung Fu Panda 3: A-/92 (9 votes)

3. Popstar: A-/88 (8 votes)

4. Deadpool: A-/87 (46 votes)

5. The Conjuring 2: B+/86 (14 votes)

    The Nice Guys: B+/86 (23 votes)

7. Captain America Civil War: B+/84 (86 votes)

    The Jungle Book: B+/84 (43 votes)

9. X-Men Apocalypse: B/74 (58 votes)

10. 10 Cloverfield Lane: B/72 (26 votes)

      The Witch: B/72 (12 votes)

[WrathOfHan]

4 minutes ago, filmlover said:

FWIW Dawn of the Planet of the Apes did $4.1M in early showings and ID4 2 will presumably have an older-than-usual audience for a tentpole title. So who knows, $60M might not need to be ruled out yet.

Apes didn't start until 10 PM though

[filmlover]

Heck, a good portion of this site's members weren't even born yet when the original Independence Day came out!

[cannastop]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

BOT's favorite movies of the year so far based on the grades (with a reasonable amount of votes):

 

1. Zootopia: A-/93 (43 votes)

2. Kung Fu Panda 3: A-/92 (9 votes)

3. Popstar: A-/88 (8 votes)

4. Deadpool: A-/87 (46 votes)

5. The Conjuring 2: B+/86 (14 votes)

    The Nice Guys: B+/86 (23 votes)

7. Captain America Civil War: B+/84 (86 votes)

    The Jungle Book: B+/84 (43 votes)

9. X-Men Apocalypse: B/74 (58 votes)

10. 10 Cloverfield Lane: B/72 (26 votes)

      The Witch: B/72 (12 votes)

So you haven't updated it with new vote totals?

[DAJK]

1 hour ago, Ethan Hunt said:

I had a dream last night that The Shallows had a 20M OD 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has box office dreams

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, cannastop said:

So you haven't updated it with new vote totals?

No but I can when I'm bored. A lot of movies don't get more votes after the first two weeks.

[kswiston]

28 minutes ago, nilephelan said:

Independence Day's number is going to be a bit muted given that the studio didn't allow public shows until 8pm and they weren't doing buyouts.  

 

7pm vs 8pm isnt going to make much of a difference. That's still two evening shows in the large majority of venues. 

[Ethan Hunt]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

No but I can when I'm bored. A lot of movies don't get more votes after the first two weeks.

I just added an A to NYSM2

[GiantCALBears]

1 hour ago, Baumer said:

How is that good for IDR lol. That's fucking horrible. It's good if you're thinking a 40 million dollar weekend is good. 

 

Best post of the thread already, gg everyone else.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

I just added an A to NYSM2

You just bumped it from a C+ to a B-  

[DAJK]

The only number that stands out to me at all is Shallows going over 1M. Never knew what to expect for ID4 or Jones, but both those numbers seem a bit boring.

[RyneOh1040]

1 hour ago, pieman said:

It's funny how everyone was predicting IDR's failure e.g. not crossing 100M but now, that it's doing much better than expected, people are calling it a disappoint.

i've literally never seen a predict under 100.  i called 150 and quite a few posters said that it would easily do 200+.  so no, its just a disappointment domestically and people are calling it what it is.