Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m

[sfran43]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	-	Sausage Party	Sony	$13,500,000	-	-	3,103	$4,351	$13,500,000	1
2	1	Suicide Squad	WB	$13,350,000	+63%	-79%	4,255	$3,137	$192,454,728	8
3	-	Pete's Dragon	BV	$6,955,000	-	-	3,702	$1,879	$6,955,000	1
4	2	Jason Bourne	Uni.	$3,860,000	+72%	-41%	3,528	$1,094	$117,022,345	15
5	3	Bad Moms	STX	$3,580,000	+65%	-20%	3,188	$1,123	$63,591,293	15
6	4	The Secret Life of Pets	Uni.	$2,520,000	+50%	-25%	2,958	$852	$329,622,075	36
7	-	Florence Foster Jenkins	Par.	$2,080,000	-	-	1,528	$1,361	$2,080,000	1
8	5	Star Trek Beyond	Par.	$1,825,000	+56%	-31%	2,577	$708	$134,704,949	22
9	6	Nine Lives (2016)	EC	$1,085,000	+37%	-54%	2,264	$479	$11,135,825	8
10	9	Lights Out	WB (NL)	$985,000	+55%	-51%	1,652	$596	$58,899,818	22
11	7	Nerve	LGF	$838,000	+20%	-48%	1,777	$472	$31,286,395	17
12	10	Ghostbusters (2016)	Sony	$640,000	+8%	-52%	1,437	$445	$120,049,002	29
-	8	Ice Age: Collision Course	Fox	$550,000	-19%	-55%	1,548	$355	$57,223,271	22
-	11	Finding Dory	BV	$370,000	+6%	-28%	631	$586	$475,783,060	57
-	12	Cafe Society	LGF	$244,000	+24%	-38%	455	$536	$7,787,186	29
-	-	Hell or High Water	LGF	$193,623	-	-	32	$6,051	$193,623	1
-	-	Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party	QF	$91,000	-27%	-66%	327	$278	$11,781,471	29
-	-	The BFG	BV	$89,000	+73%	-3%	193	$461	$53,119,538	43
-	-	Captain America: Civil War	BV	$53,000	+80%	-8%	162	$327	$407,381,783	99
-	-	The Jungle Book (2016)	BV	$53,000	+35%	-12%	186	$285	$362,853,566	120
-	-	Gleason	ORF	$52,470	+94%	+32%	148	$355	$368,561	15
-	-	Independence Day: Resurgence	Fox	$40,000	+81%	-21%	156	$256	$102,446,957	50
-	-	Now You See Me 2	LG/S	$34,000	+298%	+122%	151	$225	$64,757,449	64
-	-	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Fox	$32,000	-9%	-64%	139	$230	$45,304,453	36
-	-	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	FoxS	$32,000	-32%	-62%	91	$352	$4,369,686	22
-	-	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Par.	$25,000	+39%	-29%	117	$214	$81,737,726	71
-	-	Alice Through the Looking Glass	BV	$15,000	-11%	-44%	86	$174	$76,927,804	78

[Ent]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

 

No because my point was never to minimize GOTG's run. My point was simply that SS's marketing campaign allowed it to open huge and it will end up turning a nice profit despite it being a film with lukewarm reception including me.. I didn't love it.  There is more than one way to make a profit... you get so hung up on legs and forget that there are other body parts worth exploring.

 

But what people are saying is that the bigger opening versus GOGT shouldn't be only attributed to the marketing which were on par as far as i ma conscerned.  

 

The discrepancy in the big opening of the DCEU movies so far is mainly due to better known characters that the ones you compared them to from the MCU at the time.

 

Harley Quinn, Batman and Joker were all advertised as major assets in it when there are no equivalent whatsoever in the GOtg.  

 

So your premise is a little flawn to expalin that the bigger opening is just due to a better marketing.  

 

A list characters versus Z list characters are major factor in the size of an opening weekend.  The marketing will stretch the appeal characters from their primal fanbase.  

 

GOTG fanbase pre marketing was basicly nil and they happened to stretch it to $90+m on totally unknown characters while SS had already a sizeable fanbase based on the recgnition of its characters.

 

People tend to forget or dismiss it but the DCEUmovies so far is based strictly on A list characters.  They started with their big guns and so far no Z list characters...none on par with those of GOTG pre release.

 

 

[Gopher]

Suicide Squad's second weekend drop is so INSANE and SHOCKING and CRAZY it should take Jared Leto's role as the Joker

[Fancyarcher]

6 hours ago, Ent said:

 

I personally think it will do around $650M, MOS type of numbers.

 

The thing i have noticed with DCEU movies so far is that they usually do poorer than their somewhat counterparts properties/characters from Marvel movies (be it from Marvel Studio or Fox) abroad.

 

DC characters have that stronger recognition in the US but as a whole seem slightly lesser appealing than Marvel ones on the foreign front where the later are usually much stronger in the asian market which makes their foreign revenues usually stronger compared to more or less equal properties from DC.

 

You are more likely to have an IM movie being stronger on the foreign side than a Batman movie whle domestically, it's the other way around.  Same for a CA movie versus a Superman movie.

 

Usually DC and Marvel characters tend to do more or less the same between the european and south american continent but the asian continent lean very clearly towards Marvel characters most of the times, especially when comparing to the big three (South Korea, Japan and China)

 

For example SS is currently having a 85% drop in South Korea from its opening weekend, something you don't usually see with Marvel movies at this stage.

 

Well that has to do the fact that it's not considered a very good film, same with the other two DC films you mentioned.

[Ethan Hunt]

Pretty disappointed in Pete's Dragon. 

[CJohn]

SS had the exact same jump as GotG on 2nd Friday. They are truly the perfect comparison. 

[babz06]

4 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Pretty disappointed in Pete's Dragon. 

Disney can't market their films outside of fairy tales and animation. 

[sfran43]

Does Bad Moms have a chance at $100M domestic?

[Johnny Tran]

29 minutes ago, Finnick said:

7 minutes ago, Ent said:

 

But what people are saying is that the bigger opening versus GOGT shouldn't be only attributed to the marketing which were on par as far as i ma conscerned.  

 

The discrepancy in the big opening of the DCEU movies so far is mainly due to better known characters that the ones you compared them to from the MCU at the time.

 

Harley Quinn, Batman and Joker were all advertised as major assets in it when there are no equivalent whatsoever in the GOtg.  

 

So your premise is a little flawn to expalin that the bigger opening is just due to a better marketing.  

 

A list characters versus Z list characters are major factor in the size of an opening weekend.  The marketing will stretch the appeal characters from their primal fanbase.  

 

GOTG fanbase pre marketing was basicly nil and they happened to stretch it to $90+m on totally unknown characters while SS had already a sizeable fanbase based on the recgnition of its characters.

 

People tend to forget or dismiss it but the DCEUmovies so far is based strictly on A list characters.  They started with their big guns and so far no Z list characters...none on par with those of GOTG pre release.

 

 

 

 

Nobody was saying Harley Quinn is an A-list until after the first tracking number came in. When SS was announced the collective response was WTF? And these over $100M OW posts didn't begin until a couple months out. Most thought between $60-80M

[a2k]

Perspective:

87 good BOT members eventually participated in the SS August OW Record club (>94.32M). 

After the tracking 73 were IN (Duh...)

But before the 1st Official Trailer, only 17 people were IN (<brag>yours truly included</brag>),

and 65-85M I think was the popular range, which puts 200M dom in doubt and 225M as the upper limit.

It's gonna do 223.5 in 10-days.

Rejoice!

Edited August 13, 2016 by a2knet

[druv10]

Good hold for Jungle Book. Its within 217K of Deadpool and after the weekend gap will be under 100K. It's going to surpass Deadpool, for a while it looked touch and go.

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, CJohn said:

SS had the exact same jump as GotG on 2nd weekend. They are truly the perfect comparison. 

Thats what I said in the Thursday thread. I said it would perform like GOTG on the weekend. 

[MinaTakla]

		Movie	Distributor	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	new	Sausage Party	Sony Pictures	$13,500,000		3,103	$4,351	$13,500,000	1
2	(1)	Suicide Squad	Warner Bros.	$13,350,000	+63%	4,255	$3,137	$192,454,728	8
3	new	Pete’s Dragon	Walt Disney	$6,955,000		3,702	$1,879	$6,955,000	1
4	(2)	Jason Bourne	Universal	$3,860,000	+72%	3,528	$1,094	$117,022,345	15
5	(3)	Bad Moms	STX Entertainment	$3,580,000	+65%	3,188	$1,123	$63,591,293	15
6	(4)	The Secret Life of Pets	Universal	$2,520,000	+50%	2,958	$852	$329,622,075	36
7	new	Florence Foster Jenkins	Paramount Pictures	$2,080,000		1,528	$1,361	$2,080,000	1
8	(5)	Star Trek Beyond	Paramount Pictures	$1,825,000	+56%	2,577	$708	$134,704,949	22
9	(6)	Nine Lives	EuropaCorp	$1,085,000	+37%	2,264	$479	$11,135,825	8
10	(9)	Lights Out	Warner Bros.	$985,000	+54%	1,652	$596	$58,899,818	22
11	(7)	Nerve	Lionsgate	$838,000	+20%	1,777	$472	$31,286,395	17
12	(10)	Ghostbusters	Sony Pictures	$640,000	+8%	1,437	$445	$120,049,002	29
13	(8)	Ice Age: Collision Course	20th Century Fox	$550,000	-19%	1,548	$355	$57,223,271	22
-	(11)	Finding Dory	Walt Disney	$370,000	+6%	1,631	$227	$475,783,060	57
-	(12)	Café Society	Lionsgate	$244,000	+23%	455	$536	$7,787,186	29
-	new	Hell or High Water	Lionsgate	$193,623		32	$6,051	$193,623	1
-	(-)	The BFG	Walt Disney	$89,000	+73%	193	$461	$53,119,538	43
-	(-)	The Jungle Book	Walt Disney	$53,000	+35%	186	$285	$362,853,566	120
-	(-)	Captain America: Civil War	Walt Disney	$53,000	+80%	162	$327	$407,381,783	99
-	(-)	Gleason	Open Road	$52,470	+94%	148	$355	$368,561	15
-	(-)	Independence Day: Resurgence	20th Century Fox	$40,000	+81%	156	$256	$102,446,957	50
-	(-)	Now You See Me 2	Lionsgate	$34,000	+297%	151	$225	$64,757,449	64
-	(-)	Mike and Dave Need Wedding …	20th Century Fox	$32,000	-9%	139	$230	$45,304,453	36
-	(-)	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Fox Searchlight	$32,000	-32%	91	$352	$4,369,686	22
-	(-)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle…	Paramount Pictures	$25,000	+39%	117	$214	$81,737,726	71
-	(-)	Alice Through the Looking G…	Walt Disney	$15,000	-11%	86	$174	$76,927,804	78

[Blaze Heatnix]

Now You See Me 2 is up 298%...wow. lol

[robertman2]

6 minutes ago, babz06 said:

Disney can't market their films outside of fairy tales and animation. 

Star Wars and Marvel

[Nova]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

 

 

Nobody was saying Harley Quinn is an A-list until after the first tracking number came in. When SS was announced the collective response was WTF? And these over $100M OW posts didn't begin until a couple months out. Most thought between $60-80M

And when GOTG was announced people said it would flop. Things change as the release date gets closer, you see the trailers, the marketing etc.

Regardless, Harley Quinn has always been one of DC's more popular characters. And the Joker is the most popular comic book villain of all time. Harley Quinn may not be A-list to the GA, but she is certainly up there to the fanboys. 

Edited August 13, 2016 by Nova

[WrathOfHan]

7 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

Does Bad Moms have a chance at $100M domestic?

110+ is locked IMO

[Mojoguy]

What's up with the shitty increase for Dory (6%)?

I thought double features with PD was going to give it a boost?

[Johnny Tran]

8 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Perspective:

87 good BOT members eventually participated in the SS August OW Record club (>94.32M). 

After the tracking 73 were IN (Duh...)

But before the 1st Official Trailer, only 17 people were IN. (<brag>yours truly included</brag>)

65-85M I think was the popular range, which puts 200M dom in doubt and 225M as the upper limit.

It's gonna do 223.5 in 10-days.

Rejoice!

 

And there it is...

[Caladbolg]

5 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

Now You See Me 2 is up 298%...wow. lol

Dollar theater "expansion"