ROGUE ONE WEEKEND THREAD | Actuals R1 155.09m, Moana 12.7m, OCP 8.58m, CB 7.1m, FB 5.07m

[Alli]

56 minutes ago, Christmas Baumer said:

Roger Friedman seems to be a legit journalist.  So that 40 mill looks like it could be true.  If it did 40 million in previews, I'll admit defeat on the under 450 club.

He is a HACK.  he was fired by FOX for reviewing Wolverine from a leaked tape. He has no credibility

[redfirebird2008]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

I like Strangelove and Path Of Glory most. But, yeah, 2001 is bonkers good. And, yeah, pretty much all of his stuff is masterclass or bordering on masterclass.

 

He's the greatest ever and it's not that close. Hitchcock had similar control of the audience's emotion, but he stuck to his comfort zone. Kubrick was all over the place in different genres and providing his own unique spin to each genre.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Just now, GiantCALBears said:

$29m is still more than CW & BVS, not bad at all. $180m+/$600m+ predicts are likely dead at this point. 

Sigh. Yup, I concur. But, I very much believe the $150M to $175M OW range is still alive.

[Filmovie]

Estimated Top Midnight Grosses of All-Time

Rank / Title / Gross / Share of Opening Day

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 57,0 Million

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: $43.5 million (47.7 percent)

3. The Dark Knight Rises: $30.6 million (40.4 percent)

4. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 30.4 mln

5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1: $30.25 million (42.2 percent)

6. The Twiilght Saga: Eclipse: $30.1 million (43.9 percent)

7. Rogue One: A star wars story 29 M

8. Batman v Superman 27,7 Million

9. Avengers Age of Ultron 27,6 million

10. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $26.27 million (36.1 percent)

11. The Hunger Games – Catching Fire $25.26 million

12. Captain America: Ciwil War 25 Million

13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: $24 million (38.9 percent)

14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $22.8 million (39.2 percent)

15. Suicide Squad 20,5 M

16. The Hunger Games: $19.735 million (29.3 percent)

17. Marvel's The Avengers: $18.7 million (23.1 percent)

18. The Dark Knight: $18.5 million (27.5 percent)

19. Jurassic World 18,5 million

20. The Hunger Games – Mockingjay part 1 17 million

21. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: $16.9 million (33.8 percent)

22. Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen: $16.8 million (27.1 percent)

23. The Hunger Games – Mockingjay part 2 16 million

24. Furious 7 15,8 mln

25. Iron Man 3 15.6 mln

26. Transformers : Dark of the Moon: $13,5 million

27. The Hobbit – Un unexpected journey 13 mln

28. Deadpool $12.7 million

29. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: $12 million (27.1 percent)

30. Guardians of The Galaxy 11.2 mln

31. The Hobbit – Battle of the 5 armies 11.2 mln

32. The Hangover Part II: $10.4 million (32.9 percent)

33. Captain America 2 10.2 mln

34. Spider-Man 3: $10 million (16.7 percent)

35. Doctor Strange 9,4 M

36. Godzilla 9.3 mln

37. Finding Dory 9,2 M

38. Man of Steel 9 mln

39. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: $9 million (16.1 percent)

40. The Hobbit – The desolation of Smaug 8.8 mln

41. Transformers 8.8 mln

42. Transformers: Age of Extinction 8,75 mln

43. Fantastic Beasts 8,75 M

44. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 8.7 mln

45. Fifty Shades of Grey 8,6 mln

46. The Fault in Our Stars 8.2 mln

47. X-Men Apocalypse 8,1 M

48. X-Men Days of Future Past 8.1 mln

49. Paranormal Activity 3: $8 million (30.4 percent)

50. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: $8 million (23.2 percent)

51. Iron Man 2: $7.5 million (14.6 percent)

52. The Amazing Spider-Man 7.5 mln

53. Thor 2 7,1 mln

 

[cannastop]

Well, my Derby's looking bad. Why did I go with $180m OW?

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

If I had to throw out a guess now, probably 150m or so.

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, cannastop said:

Well, my Derby's looking bad. Why did I go with $180m OW?

That's what I lowered mine to  I think we'll be fine.

[MCKillswitch123]

Yeah, that # is really good, but it wouldn't have hurt 30M+.

 

Oh well. I just want it to hit my 150M+ prediction. W/that preview number, shouldn't have a very hard time.

[RandomCat]

Just now, Elessar said:

 

Why not? Some people don't know or don't care what a movie did back in time. They put the disc in, see the Tauntaun moving all herky-jerky and think to himself "that looks bad" and he would actually not be wrong.

 

I don't believe he'd be right either. It's an unfair judgment, because calling them bad because interstellar is better is a false equivalency. 40 years of advancement means effects get better, that doesn't make movies made 40 years ago suddenly have poorly done special effects, which is what bad effects means.

[TalismanRing]

Moana actually went up yesterday -  bodes well for the w/e

 

http://deadline.com/2016/12/rogue-one-star-wars-story-preview-box-office-social-media-1201871704/

 

Quote

Among regular ranked movies last night, Disney’s Moana was tops with $1.3M and a three week-running cume of $150.2M. Paramount/DreamWorks/Reliance’s Office Christmas Party was close behind in second with $1.29M at 3,210 theaters, and a first week’s take of $23M. The R-rated party movie is expected to ring up $7.6M, -55% in its second weekend for a 10-day cume of $30.6M.

 

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Just now, TalismanRing said:

Moana actually went up yesterday -  bodes well for the w/e

 

http://deadline.com/2016/12/rogue-one-star-wars-story-preview-box-office-social-media-1201871704/

 

 

Probably gonna be choice #1 of families sold out of RO I'd guess.

[lab276]

What would be stopping R1 from getting to 166m if BvS got there?

[Elessar]

8 minutes ago, ThePanda A Star Wars Story said:

Critcising ANH for having "out of date" effects would be like criticizing the Vikings for being poor at warfare because axes and swords "are out of date" and so they don't compare to a modern soldier.

 

Well, Vikings wouldn't win any fights today, would they? Doesn't detract from the courage of their soldiers.

[John Marston]

 

Decent number but I'm surprised more people who saw Force Awakens just last year would not come out for this 

[baumer]

6 years ago when new moon had 30 million dollar midnight it was the greatest thing in the history of box office at the time LOL. Now world one gets 29 million and some here, very few mind you, but some here are calling it disappointing LOL. I personally think it's a fantastic number and it puts it on Pace for around 130 - 140 million opening weekend.

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

He's the greatest ever and it's not that close. Hitchcock had similar control of the audience's emotion, but he stuck to his comfort zone. Kubrick was all over the place in different genres and providing his own unique spin to each genre.

 

 

William Wyler, Billy Wilder, David Lean >> Kubrick

[miketheavenger]

Here come the meltdowns over a preview number. BOT at its best.

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

That's what I lowered mine to  I think we'll be fine.

Lol, were you really on the $200m OW train?

 

No wonder you were so disappointed.

[GiantCALBears]

Mad I adjusted up my OW from  $148m to $160m. Still possible but way more unlikely as of the preview #.

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, Christmas Baumer said:

6 years ago when new moon had 30 million dollar midnight it was the greatest thing in the history of box office at the time LOL. Now world one gets 29 million and some here, very few mind you, but some here are calling it disappointing LOL. I personally think it's a fantastic number and it puts it on Pace for around 130 - 140 million opening weekend.

And it gives your club a chance at success.