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

[filmlover]

I can easily imagine them throwing in a joke saying Fox told him to be on his best behavior in the X-Men films and going from there.

[Nova]

7 minutes ago, superweirdo87 said:

 

X-Force vs X-Men.

That makes sense, yes but I have zero faith in Fox actually executing a film like that properly. However knowing Fox, they're going to milk Deadpool for all he's got. 

[a2k]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	Jason Bourne	Uni.	$22,710,000	-	-	4,026	$5,641	$22,710,000	1
2	-	Bad Moms	STX	$9,600,000	-	-	3,215	$2,986	$9,600,000	1
3	1	Star Trek Beyond	Par.	$6,750,000	+57%	-70%	3,928	$1,718	$88,470,378	8
4	2	The Secret Life of Pets	Uni.	$5,530,000	+48%	-37%	3,677	$1,504	$283,497,745	22
5	4	Lights Out	WB (NL)	$3,540,000	+63%	-61%	2,835	$1,249	$35,607,032	8
6	5	Ice Age: Collision Course	Fox	$3,225,000	+51%	-59%	3,997	$807	$34,834,623	8
7	3	Nerve	LGF	$3,200,000	+38%	-	2,538	$1,261	$9,251,287	3
8	6	Ghostbusters (2016)	Sony	$2,905,000	+42%	-54%	3,052	$952	$99,276,471	15
9	7	Finding Dory	BV	$1,220,000	+23%	-41%	1,733	$704	$466,012,930	43
10	9	Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party	QF	$707,000	+26%	-48%	1,066	$663	$6,997,384	15
11	8	The Legend of Tarzan	WB	$670,000	+5%	-64%	1,503	$446	$120,121,210	29
12	-	Cafe Society	LGF	$646,000	+863%	+175%	565	$1,143	$2,302,960	15
-	10	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Fox	$425,000	+29%	-68%	1,070	$397	$42,962,112	22
-	11	Central Intelligence	WB (NL)	$260,000	+14%	-69%	652	$399	$124,653,013	43

[superweirdo87]

5 minutes ago, Nova said:

That makes sense, yes but I have zero faith in Fox actually executing a film like that properly. However knowing Fox, they're going to milk Deadpool for all he's got. 

 

Maybe, the awful performance will lead shareholders to demand change, and a new crew could make it work.

[a2k]

Big drops for LOT and CI.

130 in doubt for all 3 - LOT, CI, GHOSTB

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, superweirdo87 said:

 

Maybe, the awful performance will lead shareholders to demand change, and a new crew could make it work.

Or the fab 4 (Tim Miller, Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick) can tell them to fuck off and leave the Deadpool movie making to those who actually understand the character. 

[baumer]

1 minute ago, a2knet said:

Big drops for LOT and CI.

130 in doubt for all 3 - LOT, CI, GHOSTB

 

They lost the most theaters.  

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Big drops for LOT and CI.

130 in doubt for all 3 - LOT, CI, GHOSTB

Theater counts killed LOT and CI. Its a shame because they were both having solid runs too. 

[filmlover]

Yeesh, even Absolutely Fabulous dropped by almost 2/3. Although I imagine the fanbase made up most of the opening weekend audience and appeal to anyone else is nonexistent so...

[a2k]

Giving BORN5 Sat and Sun holds of TREK3 (using True Friday) :

 

TREK3 5.5 + 16.75 + 20.66 (+23.3%) + 16.34 (-20.9%) = 59.2M

BORN5 4.23 + 18.47 + 22.77 (+23.3%) + 18.0 (-20.9%) = 63.5M

 

[Fancyarcher]

11 hours ago, Noctis said:

Suicide Squad isn't going to open to Civil War numbers...

 

Yeah, people who think it's going to the biggest film of the summer are probably in for a rude awakening. Thankfully James seems to be the only one who thinks it'll do Civil War numbers.

[a2k]

A very pleasing start for BORN5 as a bo follower.

BOURNE has a wide and loyal fan-base. The first 3 are considered the one of the best trilogies by many and at the bo each sequel improved over the previous one.

I don't care for the critics score, but the audience score on RT is 71%. I don't know if that's good or bad.

Considering it's early on and a high ratio of fans have rated the film I would expect it to be higher.

Hopefully this legs it to 170m+.

Edited July 30, 2016 by a2knet

[The Futurist]

1 hour ago, nilephelan said:

I think studios also need to learn a lesson this summer to start allowing some early reviews when they have a winner or at least a decent movie.  There are 4 instances where keeping the embargo until so late in the process hurt the film.  

 

Star Trek Beyond had bad marketing that made everyone think the film was going to be terrible, but when they finally showed it to people and realized it was really good, it was too late.  They should have been getting the word out in June that they had a good movie and let the WOM build.  Ghostbusters is the same way.  They let the negative bullshit be the narrative and only when it was a few days before the release did they let anyone know the film was actually pretty good.  

 

Same thing with Bad Moms.  I think STX could have pushed the opening even higher if they would have let the decent reviews and WOM spread longer than 48 hours before release.  Even Bourne could have benefited more from the release of a few select reviews as older audiences tend to gravitate towards that.  

 

Studios can't predict how the reviews are gonna turn out, only for the extreme cases, the very good movies and the very bad ones.

 

There are even movies that test great with audiences but do terrible with critics, it s not a oerfect science.

 

I am sure Universal thought they had a winner with Jason Bourne.

 

 

Edited July 30, 2016 by The Futurist

[WrathOfHan]

16 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Yeah, people who think it's going to the biggest film of the summer are probably in for a rude awakening. Thankfully James seems to be the only one who thinks it'll do Civil War numbers.

Him and MovieMan  

[a2k]

Quote

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Universal's Jason Bourne is coming out strong, delivering an estimated $22.7 million on Friday and heading toward a $60+ million opening weekend. This puts it ahead of Mojo's forecast and the "A-" CinemaScore answers whether or not opening day audiences would show it the support that would allow it to improve on expectations.

 

Internationally Jason Bourne debuted in 46 international markets and grossed an estimated $22.8 million, the largest international opening day for the Bourne franchise ever. The film is expected to top out around $50 million for the international weekend, resulting in a $110+ million worldwide opening.

 

Speaking of CinemaScore and improving on expectations, STX's Bad Moms earned an "A" CinemaScore to go along with an estimated $9.6 million opening day, heading toward a $27-30 million weekend. Many are beginning to wonder if this one could have legs similar to 2011's Bridesmaids, which opened with $26.2 million and went on to gross over $169 million domestically.

 

Lionsgate's Nerve brought in an estimated $3.2 million on Friday and is looking at a weekend around $10-11 million. 

 

The biggest story of the weekend, however, is looking like it will be a dramatic second weekend drop for Star Trek Beyond. After an estimated $6.7 million Friday it looks like the third film in the rebooted franchise will deliver only a $23 million second weekend, a 61% drop from its opening weekend.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4210&p=.htm

[Planodisney]

Good numbers for Pets.  Can't really project its final gross because it really is doing its "own thing".

Alot will depend on how well it holds against family films coming out the next 2 weeks and it's theater losses.

 

Great hold for Dory especially when considering the huge theater 

count hit it took this weekend.

Losing 843 theaters and dropping only 40% is pretty strong.

[a2k]

IMO 250+ DOM is a big win for SS.

Edited July 30, 2016 by a2knet

[Jay Beezy]

2 hours ago, nilephelan said:

 

Sony painted themselves into a corner from the start on this movie.  They decided to go all female cast, and that is great, but also comes with unintended consequences.  One of them is budget, and if you announce a big budget franchise reboot starring an all female cast, then you can't short the budget or you will be looked at bad.  If the men centric big budget action gets $140m budget, then you can't do this and not give it to the females.  

 

The reality is they should have gone with roughly a $80m - $90m budget on this and let Fieg do his thing.  He made Spy look great on a $65m budget and could have done the same on Ghostbusters with a $90m budget.  Even if they would have had a mixed cast or all males or the originals coming back, the budget still didn't make sense at $144m.  It is a 30 year old franchise that had limited potential.  

 

Sony though is not the studio to try and pull these things off as they found a way to fuck up 3 straight Spiderman films.  

 

It started with the notion that fans of the original weren't getting the Ghostbusters sequel they wanted and Reitman kept trying to bring them, as well as misogynists crying. Thing is, the way Feig announced it plus the decision to make it a remake, being blunt and stating that it would be an all female team, the word choice made it come off that they were making the movie as a propaganda statement.

 

Then the first still came out and that only elicited misogynist remarks. That was no big deal. They looked more than fine in the uniforms. So that misogyny was easy to ignore for a while.

 

Then the first trailer came out. And of course, more misogynist remarks, but there were remarks from people who simply didn't like what they were seeing. Where things really spiraled out of control was the feminazis either looped in the legitimate criticisms of the footage with the sexist criticisms and called in misogyny or just ignored the legitimate criticisms altogether. And Sony played up the feminazi angle and angered fans of the franchise further.

 

Cut to reviews coming out, you get a sense of a fair number of critics walking on eggshells with what they were saying. How many 3/5's or 6/10's did the movie get? Metacritic has it at a flat 60/100 average score.

 

Thing is 46M is a solid opening weekend for a standard Paul Feig film, but standard Paul Feig films have had less than half the budget of Ghostbusters, so marketing should have done *more* to interest people.

Edited July 30, 2016 by Jay Beezy

[Lordmandeep]

I think the box office would have been worse if GB did not have all that controversy

[MrPink]

1 hour ago, Ethan Hunt said:

@WrathOfHan @MrPink

 

Sorry we kicked your ass

 

I'm arbitrarily taking you out of the Nolanites you Pitch Perfect loving fuck