Weekend Actuals (Page 62): Suicide Squad 20.9M | Sausage Party 15.5M | War Dogs 14.7M | Kubo 12.6M | Pete's Dragon 11.3M | Ben Hur 11.2M

[dxmatrixdt]

RESERVED SEATING REPORT (4:00-4:59)
General admission rate applied
$10.50	4:00	Ghostbusters	7	$73.50
$13.25	4:00	Suicide 3D	5	$66.25
$10.00	4:00	War Dogs	33	$330.00
$17.00	4:00	War Dogs	49	$833.00
$12.50	4:00	Kubo 3D	8	$100.00
$15.50	4:00	Suicide 3D	15	$232.50
$13.25	4:00	War Dogs XD	23	$304.75
$12.00	4:05	War Dogs	29	$348.00
$12.00	4:00	Nine Lives	17	$204.00
$9.75	4:10	Star Trek	5	$48.75
$10.00	4:10	Jason Bourne	6	$60.00
$9.75	4:10	Ben-Hur	31	$302.25
$9.75	4:15	Sausage Party	7	$68.25
$12.00	4:15	Sausage Party	33	$396.00
$14.00	4:15	Bad Moms	14	$196.00
$17.00	4:15	Foster Florence	43	$731.00
$12.00	4:20	Ben-Hur	39	$468.00
$15.50	4:20	Kubo 3D	21	$325.50
$17.50	4:20	Suicide IMAX 2D	12	$210.00
$9.75	4:20	War Dogs	22	$214.50
$10.00	4:15	Pets	8	$80.00
$14.00	4:30	Suicide Squad	21	$294.00
$13.25	4:30	Pete's 3D	8	$106.00
$17.00	4:30	Star Trek	16	$272.00
$15.25	4:30	War Dogs	38	$579.50
$12.00	4:40	Pete's Dragon	22	$264.00
$10.00	4:40	War Dogs	11	$110.00
$15.25	4:45	Lights Out	4	$61.00
$12.00	4:55	Jason Bourne	20	$240.00
$10.00	4:55	Pete's Dragon	4	$40.00
	7 show	War Dogs	$2,719.75	$389 avg
	4 shows	Suicide Squad	$802.75	$201 avg
	2 shows	Ben-Hur	$770.25	$385 avg
	2 shows	Sausage	$464.25	$232 avg
	2 shows	Kubo	$425.50	$213 avg
	2 shows	Star Trek	$320.75	$160 avg
	2 shows	Jason Bourne	$300	$150 avg
	3 shows	Pete's Dragon	$410.00	$137 avg
	1 show	Florence Foster	$731.00	$731 avg
	1 show	Nine Lives	$204.00	$204 avg
	1 show	Bad Moms	$196.00	$196 avg
	1 show	Pets	$80.00	$80 avg
	1 show	Ghostbusters	$73.50	$73.50 avg
	1 show	Lights Out	$61.00	$61.00 avg

[Sal]

If Laika had more engaging stories, they'd do better.  Box Trolls and Kubo are both a bit on the dry side, at least if marketing to kids.

[Morieris]

4 minutes ago, Sal said:

If Laika had more engaging stories, they'd do better.  Box Trolls and Kubo are both a bit on the dry side, at least if marketing to kids.

 

Yep. This one was a lot closer to being on the level of Coraline and Paranorman, so it's an improvement from BT.

[That One Girl]

Nerve was a pretty standard teen thriller, but it was somewhat creative.  Probably a 6/10.

[Fancyarcher]

58 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

 

Stop motion has never been a huge performer, the exceptions are Chicken Run which had great legs and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit and those only did $200m+ WW I think Laika does well with what they do same with Aardman and neither should do the sort of films that other studios do because that's a market that already well served. 

 

I'd love to see another Chicken Run type hit for a stop motion film but I accept that's probably not going to happen anytime soon

 

It's a shame, since stop-motion can be so creative, yet financially it's in a bit of a rut. Even Laika's movies technically don't break even. I'd really love to see another stop-motion film crack 100m, but it'd likely have to be a film that opened well (say 20m), and have great legs, and given the current box office climate, that's unlikely to happen.

[Jonwo]

10 minutes ago, Sal said:

If Laika had more engaging stories, they'd do better.  Box Trolls and Kubo are both a bit on the dry side, at least if marketing to kids.

 

Laika aren't going for cookie cutter stories with their films which is both a pro and a con. I couldn't see Pixar or Illumination doing the films Laika have made because they're going for a mass audience. 

[dxmatrixdt]

RESERVED SEATING REPORT (5:00-5:49)
GENERAL ADMISSION APPLIED
$12.00	5:00	Kubo	58	$696.00
$9.75	5:00	Bad Moms	8	$78.00
$10.00	5:00	Nerve	3	$30.00
$12.00	5:00	Sausage Party	32	$384.00
$15.25	5:00	Bad Moms	17	$259.25
$16.75	5:00	Ben-Hur RPX3D	12	$201.00
$9.75	5:10	Nerve	15	$146.25
$12.25	5:10	Hell or High	19	$232.75
$9.75	5:10	Suicide Squad	24	$234.00
$12.00	5:15	Pets	13	$156.00
$9.75	5:15	Sausage Party	6	$58.50
$12.25	5:15	Bad Moms	9	$110.25
$10.00	5:15	Sausage Party	11	$110.00
$15.25	5:15	Sausage Party	21	$320.25
$20.25	5:15	Suicide IMAX3D	6	$121.50
$9.75	5:20	Nine Lives	3	$29.25
$12.25	5:20	Sausage Party	21	$257.25
$9.75	5:15	War Dogs	30	$292.50
$14.00	5:30	Sausage Party	26	$364.00
$9.75	5:30	Lights Out	7	$68.25
$15.50	5:45	Pete's Dragon	39	$604.50
$13.75	5:45	Kubo	49	$673.75
	6 shows	Sausage Party	$1,494.00	$249 avg
	2 shows	Kubo	$1,369.75	$685 avg
	2 shows	Suicide	$355.50	$178 avg
	1 show	War Dogs	$292.50	$293 avg
	1 show	Hell or High	$232.75	$233 avg
	3 shows	Bad Moms	$447.50	$149 avg
	1 show	Ben-Hur	$201.00	$201 avg
	2 shows	Nerve	$176.25	$88 avg
	1 show	Pete's Dragon	$604.50	$605 avg
	1 show	Pets	$156.00	$156 avg
	1 show	Lights Out	$68.25	$68 avg
	1 show	Nine Lives	$29.25	$29 avg

[Jonwo]

1 minute ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

It's a shame, since stop-motion can be so creative, yet financially it's in a bit of a rut. Even Laika's movies technically don't break even. I'd really love to see another stop-motion film crack 100m, but it'd likely have to be a film that opened well (say 20m), and have great legs, and given the current box office climate, that's unlikely to happen.

 

Both Laika and Aardman are in the position where they don't need big box office to make money and in the case of Laika, it's an endeavour by Phil and Travis Knight who are wealthy enough to fund these films and Focus Features and Universal clearly are happy with them as they've partnered on the next two Laika films. 

 

In the case of Aardman, the money comes from television commercials and TV shows like Shaun the Sheep plus the backcatalogue of shorts like Morph and Wallace and Gromit and the films. They've realised that they're never going to break out in America hence why they have Studiocanal, a European film studio to distribute their films and  Shaun the Sheep Movie while not a huge hit made a nice profit with $106m WW on a $25m budget. 

[baumer]

9 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

 

Laika aren't going for cookie cutter stories with their films which is both a pro and a con. I couldn't see Pixar or Illumination doing the films Laika have made because they're going for a mass audience. 

 

But what exactly is cookie cutter?  This is a story about a kid and magic and such.  It's got Harry Potter kind of qualities.  I don't see Kubo being anything revolutionary.  

[filmlover]

What is everyone thinking for next weekend? Don't Breathe seems like a solid performer but I have no idea about Mechanic and Hands of Stone is destined to make peanuts.

[Mojoguy]

So stop motion animated movies repulse people or are disliked by general audiences?

Or does Laika's movie just need better scripts? Good thing these stop motion movies are pretty cheap to make compared to these big scary Pixar movies.

Edited August 20, 2016 by Mojoguy

[CJohn]

Suicide Squad passed the final total of BvS here in 2 weeks lol. Deadpool is coming next.

[That One Girl]

8 minutes ago, filmlover said:

What is everyone thinking for next weekend? Don't Breathe seems like a solid performer but I have no idea about Mechanic and Hands of Stone is destined to make peanuts.

 

DB - 15-20M

Mechanic - 3-7M

HoS - 2-6M

 

Something like that imo

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, ThatOneWardog said:

 

DB - 15-20M

Mechanic - 3-7M

HoS - 2-6M

 

Something like that imo

Lol what a range with those last two.

[MovieMan89]

41 minutes ago, Sal said:

If Laika had more engaging stories, they'd do better.  Box Trolls and Kubo are both a bit on the dry side, at least if marketing to kids.

Not really...it's just non-cgi animation has ceased to be appealing to the GA for a decade. Even Disney couldn't get Princess and the Frog to be successful.

[vc2002]

Damn that's an epic flop for Ben Hur.

Edited August 20, 2016 by vc2002

[That One Girl]

9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Lol what a range with those last two.

 

Both are gonna be flops.  The question is: How big?  

 

[Mojoguy]

Not really...it's just non-cgi animation has ceased to be appealing to the GA for a decade. Even Disney couldn't get Princess and the Frog to be successful.

To be fair, the title for that movie had zero appeal for boys...

[CJohn]

The smell of a 100M movie opening with 8-9M. Incredible.

[Nova]

Just now, CJohn said:

The smell of a 100M movie opening with 8-9M. Incredible.

I'm looking forward to the estimates for this said movie to decrease throughout the weekend