Weekend Estimates (Page 92): Pets 103.2M (biggest OW ever for an original movie) | Tarzan 20.6M | Dory 20.3M | M&D 16.6M

[MovieMan89]

21 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

Illumination has nice advertising. Their films are strictly mediocre, though. They're basically making Blue Sky movies in terms of budget and blandness but doing old DWA numbers with them. Impressive, business-wise, but not really encouraging to watch.

Nah, Illumination is definitely kicking the crap out of DWA, minus the Shrek trilogy of course. Excluding the Shrek franchise, Lorax is the only Illumination film that doesn't adjust to more than every DWA effort. And even it beats all but 3 others. 

[filmlover]

FYI I don't know if this is happening at all theaters but at the one I went to yesterday they were selling stuffed animals of all the characters. Those things were selling like hot cakes.

[La Binoche]

The Lobster (which I like better as time passes) is holding nicely in terms of PTA: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=thelobster.htm

 

 

 

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, La Binoche said:

The Lobster (which I like better as time passes) is holding nicely in terms of PTA: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=thelobster.htm

 

 

 

It's been a great year for indies so far. I imagine Café Society will join the "winners" list even if it isn't unlikely to post anywhere close to Blue Jasmine numbers, let alone Midnight in Paris ones.

[baumer]

5 hours ago, DamienRoc said:

The history of original movie openings. I'll update it once SLoP has an actual.

 

Star Wars	8/7/1977	$7,195,573.00	-	-	350
Star Wars	7/23/1978	$10,166,336.00	$2,970,763.00	41.29%	154
Every Which Way But Loose	12/24/1978	$10,272,294.00	$105,958.00	1.04%	910
The Cannonball Run	6/21/1981	$11,765,654.00	$1,493,360.00	14.54%	721
ET: The Extraterrestrial	6/12/1983	$11,835,389.00	$69,735.00	0.59%	364
(Gremlins)	6/10/1984	$12,511,634.00	$676,245.00	5.71%	0
Ghostbusters	6/10/1984	$13,578,151.00	$1,066,517.00	8.52%	182
Beverly Hills Cop	12/9/1984	$15,214,805.00	$1,636,654.00	12.05%	1806
Harlem Nights	11/19/1989	$16,096,808.00	$882,003.00	5.80%	364
Home Alone	11/18/1990	$17,081,997.00	$985,189.00	6.12%	1316
The Lion King	6/26/1994	$40,888,194.00	$23,806,197.00	139.36%	686
Twister	5/12/1996	$41,059,405.00	$171,211.00	0.42%	56
Independence Day	7/7/1996	$50,228,264.00	$9,168,859.00	22.33%	1785
Pearl Harbor	5/27/2001	$59,078,912.00	$8,850,648.00	17.62%	161
Monsters, Inc.	11/4/2001	$62,577,067.00	$3,498,155.00	5.92%	567
Bruce Almighty	5/25/2003	$67,953,330.00	$5,376,263.00	8.59%	371
The Day After Tomorrow	5/30/2004	$68,743,584.00	$790,254.00	1.16%	161
The Incredibles	11/7/2004	$70,467,623.00	$1,724,039.00	2.51%	1869
Avatar	12/20/2009	$77,025,481.00	$6,557,858.00	9.31%	2009
Inside Out	6/21/2015	$90,440,272.00	$13,414,791.00	17.42%

 

 

The two most amusing points, to me, are first how absolutely dominant The Lion King was for an original movie. Shattered the record both in real dollar and percentage terms.

 

Second is the fact that Gremlins and Ghostbusters broke the record on the same weekend. 

 

I don't understand. Isn't Jurassic Park  an original film? Didn't it shatter the record?

[mrqe93]

Wtf. How did Tarzan hold up so well?

[robertman2]

2 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

I don't understand. Isn't Jurassic Park not an original film? Didn't it shatter the record?

It was an adaptation of a book

[baumer]

1 minute ago, mrqe93 said:

Wtf. How did Tarzan hold up so well?

 

People liked it?

[MrPink]

2 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

I don't understand. Isn't Jurassic Park  an original film? Didn't it shatter the record?

 

Jurassic Park was based off a book.

[Eric is Quiet]

2 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

I don't understand. Isn't Jurassic Park  an original film? Didn't it shatter the record?

Well Jurassic Park's based off of a book, so...

[mrqe93]

 

People liked it?

Didn't know people are generally liking this movie. Currently it has imdb rating of 6.9, and that is actually pretty good.

[mahnamahna]

1 hour ago, MovieMan89 said:

If it's any consolation Tele, Ice Age 5 could bomb spectacularly DOM. 

With how low its budget is, even $75 million DOM and $175-225 million OS would be a success 

 

I don't know how it would actually bomb if it does $300-500 million OS. 

[MovieMan89]

2 minutes ago, mahnamahna said:

With how low its budget is, even $75 million DOM and $175-225 million OS would be a success 

 

I don't know how it would actually bomb if it does $300-500 million OS. 

Well yeah, it's impossible for it to actually bomb WW but it can be a domestic flop. 

[BadAtGender]

12 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

I don't understand. Isn't Jurassic Park  an original film? Didn't it shatter the record?

 

Based on a book.

 

There were at least a few I thought would go on the list, before realizing they were adaptations. Indecent Proposal and Mrs. Doubtfire both feel into that bucket. And Staying Alive is a sequel I'd never heard of before.

[cannastop]

dammit, I was the third person to act pedantic to Baumer.

Edited July 10, 2016 by cannastop

[CJohn]

I don't understand how Tarzan is getting such a good WOM. 

[Chewy]

Just now, CJohn said:

I don't understand how Tarzan is getting such a good WOM. 

 

The power of Margot Robbie's accent

[Eastwood47]

Tarzan still has some big markets to open in overseas. I can definitely see a profit once the last of the big markets open. When does this get released in China? 

[mahnamahna]

7 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Well yeah, it's impossible for it to actually bomb WW but it can be a domestic flop. 

Sub-$75 million for IA5 and $75 million+ for Kubo would be a big win for quality animation. 

 

I've been thinking sub-$100 million for a while, but Pets breaking out is making me wonder about sub-$75 million

[K1stpierre]

Just saw Pets hours ago, posted my review in the RTM thread but overall it's enjoyable for what it is.