Weekend Thread | Bourne 60M, Trek 24M, Bad Moms 23.4M, Pets 18.2M

[John Marston]

Ghostbusters is fresh and it looks to have worse legs than Tarzan and Central Intelligence 

[Ethan Hunt]

Why do you guys even bother with Rotten Tomatoes?

Edited July 31, 2016 by Ethan Hunt

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Why do you guys even bother with Rotten Tomatoes?

 

I have finally stopped giving a fuck.

 

I do hope Suicide Squad gets an under 20% rating in there (hopefully somehow under 15 or 10% too) just because the GA seems to be influenced by it a lot these days and Bourne needs all the help it can get for next weekend. Also, fuck superhero movies. 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, CJohn said:

 

I have finally stopped giving a fuck.

 

I do hope Suicide Squad gets an under 20% rating in there (hopefully somehow under 15 or 10% too) just because the GA seems to be influenced by it a lot these days and Trek needs all the help it can get for next weekend.

I agree, it needs to hit a 3x so it doesn't sit with Nemesis.

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

I agree, it needs to hit a 3x so it doesn't sit with Nemesis.

Man that ship has sailed  

[MikeQ]

Just now, Ethan Hunt said:

Why do you guys even bother with Rotten Tomatoes?

 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been enjoying tracking the summer films' critical reception for fun. I get to see where films fall overall; how the critical reception of certain films doesn't align with their performance & how the general public has enjoyed them; how "good" some films are relative to how poorly the summer has been in terms of critical reception - even if reviews don't really matter for our enjoyment of film. I've been enjoying it in the same way that we enjoy tracking films' box office grosses. Someone could easily also ask us all: "why do you guys even bother with box office?" Because we're nerds and like doing so.

 

Peace,

Mike

 

[Fancyarcher]

3 minutes ago, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:

 

And yet, he's still going to be your next President, so there's that...

 

Er, Clinton's gaining on him in most polls, so will see.

[filmlover]

I think we could chalk up the election as to why box office is so sluggish this year. Why spend $12 when you can get comedy, horror, action, and drama all for free just by turning on CNN.

[James]

14 minutes ago, CJohn said:

 

I have finally stopped giving a fuck.

 

I do hope Suicide Squad gets an under 20% rating in there (hopefully somehow under 15 or 10% too) just because the GA seems to be influenced by it a lot these days and Bourne needs all the help it can get for next weekend. Also, fuck superhero movies. 

[grim22]

33 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Ghostbusters is fresh and it looks to have worse legs than Tarzan and Central Intelligence 

 

Looks like a 275M WW finish at best for Ghostbusters currently.

[TalismanRing]

		WW Wknd	Intl Wknd	Dom Wknd	Cume  WW	Intl Cume	Dom Cume	Intl	Terrs	Dom
1	Jason Bourne	$110,142,540	$50,100,000	$60,042,540	$110,142,540	$50,100,000	$60,042,540	UNI	47	UNI
2	Secret Life Of Pets, The	$47,712,325	$29,500,000	$18,212,325	$395,180,070	$99,000,000	$296,180,070	UNI	22	UNI
3	Star Trek Beyond	$37,000,000	$13,000,000	$24,000,000	$160,520,378	$54,800,000	$105,720,378	PAR	41	PAR
4	Ice Age: Collision Course	$30,000,000	$19,500,000	$10,500,000	$253,709,623	$211,600,000	$42,109,623	FOX	62	FOX
5	League Of Gods	$30,000,000	$30,000,000		$30,500,000	$30,500,000		MUL	7	SNY
6	Finding Dory	$27,820,000	$23,600,000	$4,220,000	$830,512,930	$361,500,000	$469,012,930	DIS	47	DIS
7	Legend Of Tarzan, The	$24,755,000	$22,350,000	$2,405,000	$309,056,210	$187,200,000	$121,856,210	WB	65	WB
8	Bad Moms	$23,400,000		$23,400,000	$23,400,000		$23,400,000	MUL	1	STX
9	Skiptrace	$20,500,000	$20,500,000		$107,200,000	$107,200,000		MUL	4
10	Ghostbusters	$20,500,000	$10,700,000	$9,800,000	$158,271,471	$52,100,000	$106,171,471	SNY	84	SNY
11	Lights Out	$18,910,000	$8,100,000	$10,810,000	$63,677,032	$20,800,000	$42,877,032	WB	39
12	Operation Chromite	$14,700,000	$14,700,000		$14,750,000	$14,750,000		CJE	1
13	Train To Busan	$12,828,800	$12,600,000	$228,800	$56,416,768	$55,700,000	$716,768	NEXENT	2	WGUI
14	Now You See Me 2	10,715,000	10,600,000	115,000	303,357,015	238,800,000	64,557,015	MUL	84
15	BFG, The	9,716,000	9,300,000	416,000	105,204,285	53,100,000	52,104,285	MUL	22	DIS
16	Nerve	9,000,000		9,000,000	15,051,287		15,051,287	MUL	1	LGF
17	Independence Day: Resurgence	6,280,000	6,000,000	280,000	372,750,640	270,800,000	101,950,640	FOX	34	FOX
18	Yugo & Lala 3	5,200,000	5,200,000		5,200,000	5,200,000		MULTICN	1
19	Purge: Election Year, The	3,802,530	3,100,000	702,530	95,955,600	17,600,000	78,355,600	UNI	34	UNI
20	Central Intelligence	3,410,000	2,500,000	910,000	202,703,013	77,400,000	125,303,013	UNI	51	WB
21	Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates	3,050,000	1,600,000	1,450,000	54,987,112	11,000,000	43,987,112	FOX	24	FOX
22	Cafe Society	2,525,000	275,000	2,250,000	13,256,960	9,350,000	3,906,960	MUL	7	LGF

 

[TalismanRing]

34 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

Looks like a 275M WW finish at best for Ghostbusters currently.

 

$250m maybe, unless it goes crazy in Japan.

 

It's opened in 84 territories is at $52.1m and made $10.7m this weekend.  So maybe $75-80m int'l from existing markets.  If it hits $130m domestic that $205-10m

 

I think the only markets left to open are Germany, France, Japan, Denmark, Belgium.  

 

 

Edited July 31, 2016 by TalismanRing

[filmlover]

Weekend thoughts:

 

Certainly a very good opening for Bourne.

 

Nice start for Bad Moms. My audience last night went insane over it so I imagine word-of-mouth will be strong. Could see it leg its way to $80M ala The Other Woman.

 

Kinda rough drop for Star Trek. Another decent drop for Pets. Wish Ghostbusters was holding better.

 

Decent start for Nerve.

 

Solid expansion for Café Society.

 

Good limited beginnings for Indignation and Equity.

[grim22]

44 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I agree, it needs to hit a 3x so it doesn't sit with Nemesis.

 

Well, Rth said that STB is making most of its money from IMAX theaters, it loses all those screens next weekend to Suicide Squad. I wouldn't count on a good hold for next weekend tbh.

[straggler]

25 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

Looks like a 275M WW finish at best for Ghostbusters currently.

I'm curious about the math. Right now GB is at $158 million world wide and from what I read has six markets remaining. So where is the almost $120 million coming from?

Edited July 31, 2016 by straggler

[grim22]

9 minutes ago, straggler said:

I'm curious about the math. Right now GB is at $158 million world wide and from what I read has six markets remaining. So where is the almost $120 million coming from?

 

I'm giving it absolute best case scenario. Domestic legs it out to 135M i.e. follows The Heat from this point on (almost surely not going to happen, but let's give it the benefit of the doubt). It did 11M from existing markets this week, let's say it gets a further 1.5x from those markets to get to 16M and an OS take of 70M from those markets. The remaining big markets are Germany, Japan, Spain, France and a couple of other territories, I am being very very generous and saying it will get 50M from those territories due to a breakout in one or more of them (again, not very likely).

 

Just running the absolute best case numbers and coming up with 275M. Realistic scenario, 125-130M domestic, 60-64M from current markets, 30M from the remaining markets for 225-235M finish.

 

Too much controversy for almost no returns of significance.

[straggler]

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

I'm giving it absolute best case scenario. Domestic legs it out to 135M i.e. follows The Heat from this point on (almost surely not going to happen, but let's give it the benefit of the doubt). It did 11M from existing markets this week, let's say it gets a further 1.5x from those markets to get to 16M and an OS take of 70M from those markets. The remaining big markets are Germany, Japan, Spain, France and a couple of other territories, I am being very very generous and saying it will get 50M from those territories due to a breakout in one or more of them (again, not very likely).

 

Just running the absolute best case numbers and coming up with 275M. Realistic scenario, 125-130M domestic, 60-64M from current markets, 30M from the remaining markets for 225-235M finish.

 

Too much controversy for almost no returns of significance.

Thanks.

[DAJK]

A shame about Ghostbusters. One of the better movies this year.

[filmlover]

FYI: Bad Moms' audience was 82% female. If you wanna know why it fell so hard on Saturday, there ya go.

[grim22]

4 minutes ago, DAJK said:

A shame about Ghostbusters. One of the better movies this year.

 

In hindsight, I am sure the Sony execs are angry they ever courted the controversy head on and made it the cornerstone of their marketing campaign for the movie. It made the movie way too polarizing and toxic to discuss. They really expected the controversy to boost the box office a lot.