Weekend Thread | Official Estimates: Moana - 55.5/81.1M; Fantastic Beasts - 45.1M; Doctor Strange - 13.4M; Allied - 13/18M; Arrival - 11.3M; Trolls - 10.3M; Bad Santa 2 - 6.1/9M

[filmlover]

Just now, Arlborn said:

 

I think we just got taken over by Disney by the way this thread has been going.

 

In fact, there's a lot of (irrational)Disney love goni through this form for the past few months. I feel like this weekend might get crazy.

We're all excited about the prospect of Disney taking over the world (and in the process, saving us from an impending Trump presidency).

[AniNate]

Just now, Arlborn said:

In fact, there's a lot of (irrational)Disney love going through this forum for the past few months. I feel like this weekend might get crazy.

 

Irrational? It's fully deserved

[Mojoguy]

I can confirm as someone who currently lives in Canada Discount Tuesday DOES NOT apply to new releases, at least in the theatres I've been to.

No discount Tuesday tickets at my theater for Moana as well.

[Dementeleus]

Irrational sounds good to me.  

[WeneedtotalkaboutKevin]

The awkward moment when you wish your own studio could have been sold to Disney instead of AT&T who knows basically nothing about film-making. Not that your own knows it very well though. But, hey, maybe Donald Trump will ban the Time Warner-AT&T deal just like he said. Trump will always act by his words, RIGHT!? 

 

All hail Disney for the crazy Moana numbers!

Edited November 23, 2016 by WeneedtotalkaboutKevin
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[DAR]

I concur it's a terrific number

[stripe]

Amazing start! And given the WOM, legs will be awesome for sure.

[Mojoguy]

Disney should really delay Gigantic until 2019. Disney has a good thing going here, 3 years between musicals. That was the time between Tangled to Frozen, and Frozen to Moana. Don't make the same mistake they did in the Renaissance by rushing out Musicals right after each other, make them events.

[AniNate]

5 minutes ago, Nutella of Arabia said:

Irrational sounds good to me.  

 

Two films with great reviews / box office, coupled with almost a decade of consistently quality product? If that isn't enough to earn adulation, I don't know what is

Edited November 23, 2016 by tribefan695

[filmlover]

@Nutella of Arabia is just jelly that Lab Rats never had that kind of success.

[elcaballero]

1 minute ago, Mojoguy said:

Disney should really delay Gigantic until 2019. Disney has a good thing going here, 3 years between musicals. That was the time between Tangled to Frozen, and Frozen to Moana. Don't make the same mistake they did in the Renaissance by rushing out Musicals right after each other, make them events.

The last thing I want them to do is start delaying things...

[DAJK]

23 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

I, for one, welcome our new Disney overlords.

Good thing you don't work at a movie theatre. Disney brings in the crowds but they're also a huge nuisance.

[YM!]

Guessing $60M (3 Day)/$85M (5 Day)

[AniNate]

They've already delayed Gigantic 8 months so I'm sure they're not planning on rushing anything there

[DAJK]

Curious to see Rules don't Apply's numbers. Bomb waiting to happen. I asked my GM why we got it this week and he laughed and said "fox's distributor basically begged us to play it."

 

Lmao fox

[75Live]

Really good number for Moana.  Finally a "weekend" that is worth following again  

[filmlover]

Just now, DAJK said:

Curious to see Rules don't Apply's numbers. Bomb waiting to happen. I asked my GM why we got it this week and he laughed and said "fox's distributor basically begged us to play it."

 

Lmao fox

It's gonna do awful. Fully expecting a sub-$5M 5-day opening. No1currs.

[Dementeleus]

4 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

 

Two films with great reviews / box office, coupled with almost a decade of consistently quality product? If that isn't enough to earn adulation, I don't know what is

 

WDA doesn't interest me. So all this is irrational.  

[eXtacy]

It's 115% larger than Frozen which did 94m for the 5-day. Even if was inflated more with increasing Tuesday admissions you would think 100m+ is quite likely.

[AniNate]

2 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Good thing you don't work at a movie theatre. Disney brings in the crowds but they're also a huge nuisance.

 

As much as I root for the film's success, I do fear what will happen if it achieves Frozen-level popularity. Not looking forward to the pages and pages of fanwankery and Moana and Maui's likeness on every single child-aimed food product