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

[BadAtGender]

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. 

[Elessar]

25 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Or they could make better movies that aren't CBM and animations.  There's a thought...

 

 

 

As if quality has anything to do with it...

 

Most of the movies are nothing to write home about.

[cannastop]

I wonder how much Pets is going to do overseas. Brexit doesn't help at all in that reguard, of course. Can it reach $1b?

[Arlborn]

14 hours ago, Arlborn said:

Gonna run out of likes at this rate. What a thread.

 

You are only allowed to give 150 likes per day. You cannot give any more likes today.

 

BAH, THANK YOU GUYS!

[Ethan Hunt]

Well that Tarzan hold is damn good

[MinaTakla]

I, as a fan of Illumination’s films, am very happy for them. They are a wonderful success story and as someone who is an entrepreneur in real life, I really look up to them as an incredible success story. They inspire me and I root for them because I can relate to their beginnings.

I know many here on this forum hate their films and unfortunately wants them to fail, and some others just want them to produce better quality films while others just think they will never be good but regardless of the hate or the dislike of their films on a quality level, they are a great story of brilliant marketing and unique comedy style. I honestly feel like even if Illumination had delivered a masterpiece it would have been disregarded just because of the anti-brand bias among some folks. Even though I think it’s not fair, this anti-brand bias also exists for other studios so it’s not an Illumination issue per se.

It’s important to remember that Illumination started at a Paris underground garage and they were a nobody company. A French company who no one cares about it. Years later, they are making successful films that are performing exceptionally well at the box office.

So well done for everyone at Illumination.

Edited July 10, 2016 by MinaTakla

[Johnny Tran]

SLOP's number is so awesome. So happy. Tarzan and its WOM proving critics have lost their mind.  Very good weekend.

Edited July 10, 2016 by Johnny Tran

[CoolioD1]

i can't say i'm mad or happy at secret life of pets run. movie is ok. generally i don't pay that much attention to how animated movies perform. in fact i just looked over at finding dory and was all "it's made hoooooooow much?!?" so w/e.

[filmlover]

The Secret Life of Pets was really cute. The ending made me smile.

[Johnny Tran]

I love that people are still acting like Frozen and the like are groundbreaking while Illumination's projects are a generic wasteland. Get over it Disney stans! Disney has the name. Other than that, there ain't much difference.

Edited July 10, 2016 by Johnny Tran

[Ethan Hunt]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

I love that people are still acting like Frozen and the like are groundbreaking while Illumination's projects are a generic wasteland. Get over it Disney stans!

Frozen's isn't groundbreaking but its a damn good movie. Secret Life of Pets isn't a had movie itself but not particularly memorable

[LexJoker]

36 minutes 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. 

 

Bruce Almighty....Wow.....maybe Carrey and Aniston during their peak popularity if I had to guess.

[cannastop]

11 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

I love that people are still acting like Frozen and the like are groundbreaking while Illumination's projects are a generic wasteland. Get over it Disney stans! Disney has the name. Other than that, there ain't much difference.

Apparently, movie critics are Disney stans.

[PhilipJ2001]

Why are BOM reporting it as a "record opening for an original animated property". what non-animated original films have opened bigger?

[DAJK]

Have had so many people (many of them older) the past few weeks leaving Tarzan claiming that "the critics have lost their minds!"

 

I told my dad to go see it and he went last night. Hated it (oh well) and he also texted me right after said "Steven Tyler just walked past with his bodyguard" I was like "wait lol was he seeing Tarzan?"

 

"no. He didn't look THAT bored."

[Johnny Tran]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Apparently, movie critics are Disney stans.

 

Those 200-285 critics don't even register in my household. If they have others held hostage, that's on them.  There's very few I will read.  the others are bloggers with no real knowledge of film.

[Blankments]

Fantastic for Illumination and Pets. Well earned too, the marketing was everywhere with kids thinking it looked funny and parents and teens thinking it looked cute. Big win on par with The Jungle Book shock earlier this year.

 

Fuck those stupid pets though.

[cannastop]

4 minutes ago, PhilipJ2001 said:

Why are BOM reporting it as a "record opening for an original animated property". what non-animated original films have opened bigger?

None.

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, Johnny Tran said:

 

Those 200-285 critics don't even register in my household. If they have others held hostage, that's on them.  There's very few I will read.  the others are bloggers with no real knowledge of film.

Right, because people with real knowledge of film make no distinction between two movies in the same genre.

[grey ghost]

Disney is probably kicking themselves.

 

Sure, they made 5 billion at box office in record time but the fact that some people don't find their current line up ground breaking or experimental enough must be killing them inside.