Weekend #s STB 59.6M, Pets 29.3M, GB and LO 21.6M, IA5 21M

[baumer]

Starting it a bit early.  Previews are on tonight.

 

Quick update from my theater tonight.

 

Ice Age sold 10% of the 5 pm show

Star Trek sold 30% of the 7pm IMAX show 

Lights Out sold about half the seats to the 7 pm show....probably about 80 people.

 

Please remember the rules everyone.  Keep it to the film and the numbers.  Keep the politics out of it.  

 

Thanks

[Newbie]

Did your theatre only have Trek in IMAX?

[filmlover]

I've spotted a handful of Star Trek sell-outs around me.

[WrathOfHan]

Predictions for previews:

 

Trek: 6M-ish

Lights Out: 1.1M
Ice Age: 1M

Edited July 22, 2016 by WrathOfHan

[GiantCALBears]

ST has to hold well over the weekend or it's going down fast IMO. I guess that's the case in general for most films but I don't see decent critical reception saving the legs here. 

[4815162342]

1 minute ago, GiantCALBears said:

decent critical reception 

 

I'd call 89% RT and a 70 on Metacritic a bit better than "decent"

[GiantCALBears]

Just now, 4815162342 said:

 

I'd call 89% RT and a 70 on Metacritic a bit better than "decent"

 

STID was 87/72 just so we're clear about where that matches up. How did that go?

[UrosepsisFace]

I just want to see Star Trek beat SLOP and Lights Out beat Ice Age. The talking-animals need to be challenged!

[HesAPooka]

Tracking says around 60m for this? Anyone else think that sounds very low. Can't imagine this making less than 70m.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, HesAPooka said:

Tracking says around 60m for this? Anyone else think that sounds very low. Can't imagine this making less than 70m.

60M sounds about right. 70 is too high, 50 is too low

[4815162342]

2 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said:

 

STID was 87/72 just so we're clear about where that matches up. How did that go?

 

I'll take that as you acknowledging that it's better than just "decent," since you avoided the topic.

[filmlover]

Star Trek will likely be the movie the first movie this year that crosses $160M but doesn't reach $300M+. That gaps need to shorten itself a bit.

[GiantCALBears]

Just now, 4815162342 said:

 

I'll take that as you acknowledging that it's better than just "decent," since you avoided the topic.

 

Numbers, my point was clearly that STID has shown we are likely not seeing much (if any) expansion with this entry despite the good, decent, nice etc reception.

[MrPink]

24 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said:

 

STID was 87/72 just so we're clear about where that matches up. How did that go?

 

For STID's legs? Pretty well all things considered.

 

There was never going to be an expansion from STID's gross, at least domestically. The target is probably around 180-200 million.

Edited July 22, 2016 by MrPink

[GiantCALBears]

Just now, MrPink said:

 

For STID's legs? Pretty well all things considered.

 

They aren't horrible but they aren't great either considering the performance of the reboot. I think 3x+ would be a huge win clearly.

[narniadis]

I don't know anyone who was expecting Trek to expand. I think flat was the best we could hope for domestically although that wasn't realistic to begin with.

[MrPink]

Pets over Ice Age or Ice Age over Pets?

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

Pets over Ice Age or Ice Age over Pets?

Hopefully the former.

[MrPink]

Just now, filmlover said:

Hopefully the former.

 

Need more than hopes...trying to figure out some predictions. 

[baumer]

20 minutes ago, narniadis said:

I don't know anyone who was expecting Trek to expand. I think flat was the best we could hope for domestically although that wasn't realistic to begin with.

 

But if they are not expecting/hoping for a bigger gross why are they still making these films for close to 200 million dollars?  Surely grossing 400 million on a 190 million budget isn't hat they are hoping for.