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

[RichWS]

15 minutes ago, DAR said:

I liked North and love love love Hudson Hawk

 

[Lordmandeep]

SS will be around ~20 not more 

[robertman2]

41 minutes ago, Baumer loves Dory said:

 

Paula Patton is in it, she's the hottie from Ghost Protocol. 

I haven't see Ghost Protocol yet...

[dxmatrixdt]

RESERVED SEATING REPORT (2:00 - 2:59)
used price of general admission to compensate for the fact that
probably over 10% more business will show up during the 20 minutes of previews
$12.50	2:15	Bad Moms	21	$262.50
$15.25	2:15	Bad Moms	7	$106.75
$20.25	2:15	Suicide IMAX 3D	7	$141.75
$9.75	2:15	Suicide Squad	16	$156.00
$8.75	2:20	War Dogs RPX	13	$113.75
$10.00	2:20	Kubo	51	$510.00
$12.50	2:30	War Dogs	10	$125.00
$9.75	2:30	Bad Moms	5	$48.75
$10.00	2:30	Nerve	10	$100.00
$9.75	2:30	War Dogs	31	$302.25
$15.25	2:30	Lights Out	4	$61.00
$12.00	2:30	Sausage Party	14	$168.00
$10.50	2:40	Pets	13	$136.50
$9.75	2:40	Sausage Party	11	$107.25
$10.00	2:40	Hell or High	24	$240.00
$10.00	2:40	Bad Moms	8	$80.00
$10.50	2:45	Pete's Dragon	20	$210.00
$9.75	2:45	Nerve	14	$136.50
$20.00	2:45	Kubo 3D	13	$260.00
$15.25	2:45	Sausage Party	15	$228.75
$9.75	2:50	Nine Lives	2	$19.50
$10.00	2:50	Sausage Party	10	$100.00
Kubo	2 shows	$770.00	$385 avg
Sausage Party	4 shows	$664	$166 avg
War Dogs	3 shows	$541.00	$180.33 avg
Bad Moms	4 shows	$498.00	$124.50 avg
Suicide Squad	2 shows	$297.75	$148.88 avg
Nerve	2 shows	$236.50	$118.25 avg
Hell or High	1 show	$240.00	$240.00 avg
Pete's Dragon	1 show	$210.00	$210.00 avg
Pets	1 show	$136.50	$136.5 avg
Lights Out	1 show	$61.00	$61.00 avg
Nine Lives	1 show	$19.50	$19.50 avg

[The Panda]

36 minutes ago, DAR said:

My name is DAR and I like North

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

54 minutes ago, a2knet said:

fwiw

SS 20

WD 18 (6.5 Friday)

SP 16

KUBO ? ("BH is battling KUBO for 4th place")

BH 12 (4.5 Friday)

 

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-suicide-squad-ben-hur-war-dogs-1201841120/

 

They wrongly say SS's 20 is down 59%. 20 would be down 54%. Or they are wrong about 20 and mean 18. That would make for a dismal Fri bump though.

Maybe 59% from last Friday?

[Fancyarcher]

1 hour ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

I thought Kubo had maybe the best American animation of anything since the opening half of WALL-E. And, maybe the best narrative through line with the most provocative message of any Laika production yet. But, fuck, man - and, I hate complaining about this because it feels petty - patches of the dialogue were clunky as hell. Wish they'd hired a someone more gifted with words to clean that up. I'm kind of shocked that they didn't. Otherwise, yeah, pretty great. I mean, again, the animation here is just, well, mesmerizing. The best stop motion animation I've seen and by a wide, wide margin too. I'd put it alongside Coraline for Laika... That's still my favorite of theirs. Gotta admit that I like Boxtrolls a lot. I think more than most. The gross oddities crack me up and the bizarre machines and inventions gave me a smile.

 

I enjoyed Boxtrolls a lot as well. I thought the boxtrolls themselves were pretty nice as characters, and I enjoyed the animation and story overall.

[Ozymandias]

SS 3rd weekend drop higher than BvS? 

[JohnnyGossamer]

6 minutes ago, Ozymandias said:

SS 3rd weekend drop higher than BvS? 

Whoops. Never mind.

Edited August 19, 2016 by JohnnyGossamer

[UrosepsisFace]

2 hours ago, filmlover said:

That would be not good for War Dogs considering the budget.

 

Wouldn't that be bad for all three, considering the budget of all three? Or you're factoring in the overseas revenue? Even if that's the case, Ben-Hur's budget is significantly larger than the other two. Either way, I can't wait to see all three of them and Hell or High Water. Praying Kubo is just that awesome, but feeling like I'm betraying my stance against animated movie by watching it instead of Ben-Hur, lol.

[Nova]

1 minute ago, UrosepsisFace said:

 

Wouldn't that be bad for all three, considering the budget of all three? Or you're factoring in the overseas revenue? Even if that's the case, Ben-Hur's budget is significantly larger than the other two. Either way, I can't wait to see all three of them and Hell or High Water. Praying Kubo is just that awesome, but feeling like I'm betraying my stance against animated movie by watching it instead of Ben-Hur, lol.

I don't want to speak for them, but I'm guessing because War Dogs is at least decent, it had a chance to do good numbers whereas Ben-hur was DOA. And then Kubo being the type of movie it is, can still pull a good multiplier and make some decent money at the box office. 

[UrosepsisFace]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

Stage seems somewhat set for Don't Breathe to somewhat break out next weekend. 15M+ possible. 

 

Or maybe 1 or 2 of september's releases to massively break out. I'm still thinking Mag 7 does "only" 50/150. But Deepwater could break out to 100M, I feel like Sully just isn't gaining enough attention to make it past 80M. Even Snowden I think has 50M potential.

 

Also, holy crap at those Blair Witch reviews!!! I had no idea!

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blair_witch

 

Yeah, horror/gore/R-rate violence are getting Red Tomatoes from RT. That's been a thing for quite a while, from what I've seen. At least to a much higher percentage than any other genre other than animation. It feels rather odd to say that...Animation > Horror > Drama > Action.

[filmlover]

31 minutes ago, Ozymandias said:

SS 3rd weekend drop higher than BvS? 

Cue the speculative "reports" of more panic at WB.

[Krissykins]

Lights Out was very basic.

 

Horror for tweens. 

[Nova]

11 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Lights Out was very basic.

 

Horror for tweens. 

Your description of it 

[baumer]

2 hours ago, a2knet said:

Laika needs to make a movie about a rabbit shitting in stop-motion.

Kubo is.....fine.  Nothing g memorable but somewhat entertaining and somewhat boring.

 

I also found it to be void of humor and pretty dry throughout long stretch. It's just in my opinion I really forgot about film. I won't remember much about it tomorrow.

[baumer]

15 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Lights Out was very basic.

 

Horror for tweens. 

 

Disagree. It was good but not great. But better than a lot.

[dudalb]

24 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Cue the speculative "reports" of more panic at WB.

Paramount is the one where production execs should be getting their resumes in order,givne what has happened to their Summer schedule....

[dxmatrixdt]

RESERVED SEATING REPORT (3:00-3:59)
general admission price applied for all.
$10.50	3:00	Star Trek	12	$126.00
$9.75	3:00	Suicide Squad	17	$165.75
$10.00	3:00	Sausage Party	18	$180.00
$19.25	3:00	Ben-Hur 3D	10	$192.50
$12.00	3:00	Jason Bourne	33	$396.00
$9.75	3:10	Ben-Hur	18	$175.50
$17.00	3:15	Anthropoid	13	$221.00
$12.50	3:15	Florence Foster	17	$212.50
$9.75	3:15	Lights Out	2	$19.50
$15.25	3:15	Suicide Squad	26	$396.50
$12.00	3:15	Pete's Dragon	57	$684.00
$10.50	3:20	Train to Busan	12	$126.00
$9.75	3:20	Pete's Dragon	20	$195.00
$13.25	3:30	Kubo 3D	43	$569.75
$10.00	3:30	Star Trek	5	$50.00
$17.00	3:30	Hell or High	24	$408.00
$12.50	3:30	Ben-Hur 3D	12	$150.00
$19.25	3:30	Kubo 3D	14	$269.50
$17.00	3:30	Ben-Hur RPX 3D	30	$510.00
$9.75	3:40	Jason Bourne	19	$185.25
$10.50	3:45	Suicide Squad	20	$210.00
$17.00	3:45	Café Society	13	$221.00
$10.00	3:45	Suicide Squad	13	$130.00
$15.25	3:45	Pete's Dragon	0	$0.00
$12.00	3:45	Bad Moms	7	$84.00
$13.25	3:50	Pets 3D	2	$26.50
$10.00	3:55	Bad Moms	5	$50.00
$9.75	3:55	Sausage Party	12	$117.00
Ben-Hur	4 shows	$1,028	$257 avg
Kubo	2 shows	$839	$419.63 avg
Suicide	4 shows	$902.25	$225.56 avg
Pete's D	3 shows	$879.00	$293 avg
Jason B	2 shows	$581.25	$290.63 avg
Sausage	2 shows	$297	$148.50 avg
Star Trek	2 shows	$176	$88.00 avg
Hell or Hi	1 show	$408.00	$408 avg
Anthro	1 show	$221	$221 avg
Florence	1 show	$212.50	$212.50 avg
Bad Moms	2 shows	$134.00	$67 avg
Café	1 show	$130	$130.00 avg
Train to busan	1 show	$126	$126 avg
Pets	1 show	26.500\	26.50 avg
Lights Out	1 show	$19.50	$19.50 avg

[Jonwo]

3 hours ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

I'm hoping it has good enough legs to get to 60m. Moviegoers just don't seem to care about stop-motion.

 

 

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