SUICIDE SQUAD WEEKEND THREAD | New REVISED SUNDAY NUMBER 134m FROM GURU ON PG 212 | 267.1M WW OW | Nine Lives 6.5 OW |No Spoilers Allowed!!! | ACCOUNT SALES THIS WEEKEND - see first post for details !!

[EmpireCity]

4 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Fortunately, it's impossible to have those problems for an animated feature. Maybe it's why they're so successful lately.

 

That is actually a fantastic point.  The nature of the animation taking so long means they have time, sometimes years to get it right and the usually get it very right.  

 

Also, once the animation software is written and far enough along they can change things around if needed.  

 

It seems like live action budgets have gotten to the point where $175m - $300m is a normal tentpole budget and top level animation used to be really expensive is still holding steady at between $75m-$150m depending on the movie.  Given many are regularly making $1b now without much of a problem, it is a far better investment.  

[superweirdo87]

27 minutes ago, nilephelan said:

 

It all depends what their actual costs were.  Some rumblings out there it was closer to $250m plus marketing, points and all that other stuff.  If that is the case, they would want to see it make somewhere around $800m in theaters to feel great about it.  

 

They have gotten silly with the budgets lately.  It shouldn't cost $175m-$250m in production costs to make Suicide Squad.  

 

 

Thank you! Some say the reshoots apparently added tens of millions of dollars to production costs. But, at a basic level, the set pieces did not look more elaborate than Ghostbusters with a 144-154M price tag.

Edited August 6, 2016 by superweirdo87

[MinaTakla]

DHD 63.5-65m OD

Early Evening estimates have Warner Bros.’Suicide Squad at $140M for the weekend after a Friday that’s between $63.5M-$65M. But, when it comes to the audience and critics’ response to the film, it’s deja-vu all over again. Like Batman v. Superman, which earned a 27% Rotten Tomatoes score and B Cinemascore, Suicide Squad is getting panned by critics (26% Rotten Tomatoes) and has registered an above average response from CinemaScore crowds who gave it a B+ tonight. We’ll assess the long- term ramification of that in a bit, but Warner Bros. marketing department needs to be applauded here for delivering the third-best domestic opening of 2016 to date, the second best of the summer (afterCaptain America: Civil War‘s $179.1M) and the best opening of Will Smith’s career.Suicide Squad continues to validate Warner Bros. ability to capitalize on its brands.

 

Edited August 6, 2016 by MinaTakla

[cannastop]

4 minutes ago, nilephelan said:

 

That is actually a fantastic point.  The nature of the animation taking so long means they have time, sometimes years to get it right and the usually get it very right.  

 

Also, once the animation software is written and far enough along they can change things around if needed.  

 

It seems like live action budgets have gotten to the point where $175m - $300m is a normal tentpole budget and top level animation used to be really expensive is still holding steady at between $75m-$150m depending on the movie.  Given many are regularly making $1b now without much of a problem, it is a far better investment.  

The point is more about how the script needs to be finished before production begins, because it makes no sense for them to waste footage when everything about a scene has to be created. Not sure how software plays into it.

Edited August 6, 2016 by cannastop

[POTUS 2020]

http://deadline.com/2016/08/suicide-squad-weekend-box-office-opening-will-smith-margot-robbie-1201799046/

 

How Warner Bros. Opened ‘Suicide Squad’ To $140M+ – Late Friday B.O. Update

 

Europa Corp’s Nine Lives, the weekend’s second wide release is road kill in sixth place with $6.4M.

Edited August 6, 2016 by No Prisoners

[Chewy]

I know people like Geoff Johns as a comic writer but I still find it super odd that people were rejoicing when he was announced as the lead executive on these movies

 

Like... movies and comics are extremely different beasts, and his track record with movies isn't exactly the best

 

Who knows maybe he's the genius who can right this ship but let's see him prove something before we talk him up, y'know?

[Dementeleus]

13 minutes ago, nilephelan said:

...watch the making of feature for Edge Of Tomorrow.  They started filming that movie and didn't even have a 3rd act or much of the dialogue.  

 

I couldn't agree more with your post in general, but in terms of EOT, that's just Doug Liman's style. He routinely throws out scripted third-acts and/or backs himself into a creative corner because that's the only way he feels he can organically discover what's the "right" way for each particular story. He thrives in that chaos and panic, but it can be hell on the crew and others on the creative team if they're not used to it. 

[The Futurist]

2 hours ago, ecstasy said:

LOL sounds like a studio decision. Period movies are risky box office. Probably hoping he can put some butts in the seat.

Nolan has daughters.

 

[Chewy]

Just now, Tele the Jet Baller said:

 

I couldn't agree more with your post in general, but in terms of EOT, that's just Doug Liman's style. He routinely throws out scripted third-acts and/or backs himself into a creative corner because that's the only way he feels he can organically discover what's the "right" way for each particular story. He thrives in that chaos and panic, but it can be hell on the crew and others on the creative team if they're not used to it. 

 

See also: Bourne Identity, which the studio considered a disaster

[grim22]

Further Cinemascore details

 

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CinemaScore crowds under 35 gave Suicide Squad an A-, while 76% females gave it an A-.  The pic also earned an A with the under 18 demo (28%)

 

[Chewy]

What's interesting is that most of the franchise stuff people like, the Fasts and Marvels and Star Wars and Jurassic Worlds are built set piece out too. The studio just has to get 2 of the 8 writers they hire to zombie together something that works

[Water Bottle]

4 minutes ago, Tele the Jet Baller said:

 

I couldn't agree more with your post in general, but in terms of EOT, that's just Doug Liman's style. He routinely throws out scripted third-acts and/or backs himself into a creative corner because that's the only way he feels he can organically discover what's the "right" way for each particular story. He thrives in that chaos and panic, but it can be hell on the crew and others on the creative team if they're not used to it. 

 

Plus EOT worked.

 

Anyways just saw John Carter for the first time and I actually liked it. It has it's flaws like Taylor Kitsch's performance varies wildly scene by scene and sometimes within the same scene but yeah, I had a good time.

[a2k]

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Despite its (Nine Lives) distance from other family features on the release schedule, moviegoers know they’ve seen better, i.e. Illumination/Uni’s The Secret Life of Petswhich will reach close to $320M by Sunday, and Finding Dory which will near $474M by the end of the weekend.

SLOP would need 12m for 320.

DORY would need 2.1m for 474.

[dxmatrixdt]

Reserved Seating Report

Easy week.  I keep Suicide on one sheet, and everything else on another.  Suicide was easy counting.  A lot of extra shows were added.  It probably will not have those tomorrow and they will return to the former showing.  Good example of how Friday can be frontloaded even if Saturday’s capacity matches Fridays.  Last half night of Suicide Squad + full night of everything else. 

SUICIDE SQUAD

8:302D 474/493

8:452D 85/90

8:453D 42/42

9:003D 106/136

9:052D 286/295

9:302D 112/112

9:30RPX2D 426/580

9:303D 171/233

9:302D 118/127

9:453D 81/109

10:00IMAX 225/265

10:002D 90/90

10:002D 141/141

10:002D 344/366

10:003D 69/73

10:052D 166/190

10:102D 148/157

10:15RPX3D 252/453

10:202D 73/77

10:20RPX3D 359/485

10:30IMAX 349/570

10:303D 119/160

10:353D 128/128

10:402D 76/77

10:403D 157/157

10:403D 73/77

10:452D 87/87

11:002D 103/109

11:00IMAX 213/464

11:003D 119/119

11:003D 66/85

11:002D 155/180

11:152D 173/235

11:302D 73/73

11:302D 361/49

11:453D 41/42

11:552D 138/295

12:002D 61/62

 

ADULT ORIENTED FILMS (NOT AS MUCH COMPETITION)

Jason Bourne

6:00 27/98

6:00 149/162

6:15 56/81

6:30 32/32

7:00 53/98

7:30 32/32

7:35 59/77

8:15 82/235

8:15 100/111

9:05 59/98

9:15 81/81

9:15 32/32

9:15 109/162

10:05 39/157

10:15 56/68

10:30 41/77

11:15 31/111

 

Bad Moms

6:15 32/32

7:15 103/116

7:45 56/58

7:45 64/67

7:50 52/77

8:00 76/76

10:00 57/116

10:30 51/58

10:30 37/77

10:30 40/67

10:35 52/91

11:00 68/76

 

Star Trek

6:30 33/68

6:45 58/88

6:453D 34/116

6:45 20/87

6:50 35/122

7:35 35/109

7:40 87/87

7:40 12/65

8:45 60/121

9:30 12/91

9:40 26/68

9:45 38/62

9:45 62/80

9:50 39/122

9:50 17/87

10:303D 5/65

10:453D 11/32

 

Ghostbusters

6:453D 28/109

7:15 19/48

10:20 10/53

10:20 20/48

10:45 24/54

 

Tarzan

9:45 30/53

10:45 21/68

Infiltrator

6:15 40/91

9:15 23/61

10:00 23/32

Hillary’s America

6:30 39/61

10:15 7/109

Café Society

7:15 59/97

10:30 4/109

Absolutely Fabulous

20/90

 

KIDS MOVIES

Nine Lives

6:45 49/54

7:20 35/77

7:20 56/94

9:40 17/77

9:45 33/54

9:50 22/94

10:10 4/65

 

Finding Dory

6:45 33/53

7:00 62/62

9:30 28/53

 

Ice Age

6:50 27/52

 

Secret Life of Pets (a lot of animated movies lost the last screen to Suicide….Pets would have stayed strong)

6:15 56/121

6:40 44/68

6:55 62/62

7:15 49/77

9:103D 12/68

9:25 57/62

 

DIRECT SUICIDE COMPETITION

LIGHTS OUT

8:00 33/53

9:00 64/73

9:30 37/63

10:15 27/53

 

NERVE

7:50 31/67

8:15 44/46

10:00 17/79

10:25 17/67

11:15 35/46

 

MIKE AND DAVE

9:00 17/63

10:20 18/53

 

[Biggestgeekever]

4 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Further Cinemascore details

 

 

Fucking millennials.

[Johnny Tran]

Is WB selling Harley Quinn costumes and shit?  They must be. That's going to be big business come October.

[POTUS 2020]

Deadline is saying 8m now for 9L

It's over performing!!

 

Amazing how they upped that 1.6m in 15 minutes.

The monkeys are at it again 

Edited August 6, 2016 by No Prisoners

[babz06]

So deadline is expecting some BvS like drops throughout the weekend? 

[TheMovieman]

8 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

Is WB selling Harley Quinn costumes and shit?  They must be. That's going to be big business come October.

 

No doubt they will. They already have Daddy's Little Monster shirts I think.

[Viceversa]

16 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

Is WB selling Harley Quinn costumes and shit?  They must be. That's going to be big business come October.

Adult Harley Quinn Costume - Suicide Squad $49.99