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

[CJohn]

All three of Paramount's 100M+ tentpole releases of the Summer bombed. Impressive.

[a2k]

Paramount has reported $900K for last night’s previews to MGM’s $100M epic Ben-Hur. It currently has the worst reviews of the three wide releases at 29% rotten.

 

http://deadline.com/2016/08/ben-hur-war-dogs-suicide-squad-sausage-party-weekend-box-office-1201805947/

 

[The Fast and the Furiosa]

So The Numbers has 1.9 mil for War Dogs... http://www.the-numbers.com/news/215360830-Thursday-Night-Previews-Dogs-Go-to-War-with-1-9-million-Preemptive-Strike

 

edit: checked other sites, everything else is at 1.25 mil. Strange typo to have

Edited August 19, 2016 by The Fast and the Furiosa

[TalismanRing]

4 minutes ago, ThatOneWardog said:

War Dogs isn't gonna get only 13M.  It's gonna hit high teens easily with a crowd that skews older than SP and M&D.

 

Older with Jonah Hill and Miles Teller?  This isn't Gosling and Crowe  in Nice Guys or even Nicholas Cage in Lord Of War

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

All three of Paramount's 100M+ tentpole releases of the Summer bombed. Impressive.

Star Trek isn't a bomb till China 

[RichWS]

[TalismanRing]

http://deadline.com/2016/08/ben-hur-war-dogs-suicide-squad-sausage-party-weekend-box-office-1201805947/

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Warner’s Suicide Squad and Sony/Annapurna’s Sausage Party are expected to rule supreme in the top two spots with respectively $20M and $18.8M. Last night both titles were at each other’s throats with Suicide Squad having a slight upper hand with $3.57M ($241.6M two-week cume) and Sausage Party taking $3M (First week’s haul: $50M).

 

 

[Maxmoser3]

Not bad for War Dogs, but should do between $15-$17 million for the weekend. Families will flock to Kubo on the weekend but nothing huge, I see a debut around $15 million for the weekend. Still bleh for Ben-Hur, word of mouth will kill the film, and Paramount is in real need of big hit. 

[a2k]

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FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Thursday results are coming in with Warner Bros' War Dogs leading the charge, delivering $1.25 million from Thursday night showings which began at 7PM in approximately 2,800 theaters. Among fellow August releases, this compares to 2013's 2 Guns, which brought in $1.28 million on Thursday night before opening with $27 million. It's unlikely War Dogs will climb as high, but it does speak to the film's potential.

 

Paramount's Ben-Hur delivered $900,000 from 2,389 locations with showings beginning at 7PM. Given some of our comparisons below, this is behind the $1.2 million Exodus: Gods and Kings started with before opening with $24.1 million. Otherwise, comparisons in the same range are difficult, though, while not exactly the best genre comparison, WB's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also brought in $900k in Thursday previews last August before opening with $13.4 million.

 

Finally, Kubo and the Two Strings brought in $515,000 from 2,100 domestic locations on Thursday evening from screenings that began at 6PM. This is only the second Laika film to have taken part in Thursday previews withThe Boxtrolls bringing in $270,000 from early showings in 2014 before opening with $17.2 million. Comparisons among animated titles, however, have yet to display much of a correlation between Thursday previews and final weekend results.

For example, Planes: Fire & Rescue brought in $500k from Thursday previews last year before opening with $17.5 million while The LEGO Movie started with $400k before opening with $69 million.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4216&p=.htm

[filmlover]

Ben-Hur will likely mimic the run of Conan the Barbarian '11. Same release date too.

[a2k]

BEN-HUR to debut out of top-5?

SP

SS

WD

KUBO

PDRAGON

BEN-HUR

[That One Girl]

15 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

The main target for all of them is young men

 

I'm sure young men make up a portion of the audience for the film, but more older men would want to see a political comedy about two twenty-somethings who arm America's allies in Afghanistan over a movie where there's talking sausages that spit out crude humor for an hour and a half, ending on a fucking

food orgy.

[That One Girl]

Okay, my projections:

 

War Dogs - 17-18M

Kubo - 15-16M

Ben-Hur - 10-11M

[Nova]

What boring numbers. I think I'm gonna just take this weekend off. 

[DAR]

Well summer is officially over

[DAJK]

I said around 400-500k for Kubo, 850k for Ben Hur and 890k for War Dogs. I wasn't too far off in general, but I'm glad everything came in slightly above what I was predicting.

[baumer]

Why is everyone so excited about Kubo? What makes it so appealing?

[Plain Old Tele]

Dammit, only 200k off on BH midnights and I'm still screwed. 

 

 

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, Baumer loves Dory said:

Why is everyone so excited about Kubo? What makes it so appealing?

 

 

[baumer]

And I don't think families are going to "flock" to Kubo. A 15 mill opening isn't much to get excited about.