Weekend Thread (Dec-30-Jan 2nd) 3/4-day #s R1 49.5m/64.3m, Sing 42.8m/56.4m, Pass 16.15m/20.7m, Moana 10.97m/14.3m, WH 10.6m/13m, Fences 10m/12.7m

[Valonqar]

15 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

social media data for Beauty & Beast, Fifty Shades of Darker, Hidden Figures, lala land, Spiderman Homecoming

 

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/beauty-and-the-beast-fifty-shades-darker-social-media-buzz-1201951580/

 

LOL, Variety still thinks social media chatter means squat. 50 Shades won't make more than Spiderman because that's the kind of a movie that doesn't. No matter how much social media talk about it or re-watch the trailer or whatever. I'd love a surprise just to see fanboy faces when that happens (we need another Titanic-Demolishes-Star Wars shocker) but not gonna happen with this movie. 

[terrestrial]

Gitesh Pandya ‏@GiteshPandya  2m2 minutes ago

#TheGreatWall has had a stellar holiday run in China w/ big $154M to date which is 24% more than what #StarWars #TheForceAwakens did there.

[Porthos]

14 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

 

LOL, Variety still thinks social media chatter means squat. 50 Shades won't make more than Spiderman because that's the kind of a movie that doesn't. No matter how much social media talk about it or re-watch the trailer or whatever. I'd love a surprise just to see fanboy faces when that happens (we need another Titanic-Demolishes-Star Wars shocker) but not gonna happen with this movie. 

 

Remember the hand wringing by some over the relative softness of social media buzz/trailer views for Rogue One?

 

Good times, good times.

[4815162342]

3 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

Gitesh Pandya ‏@GiteshPandya  2m2 minutes ago

#TheGreatWall has had a stellar holiday run in China w/ big $154M to date which is 24% more than what #StarWars #TheForceAwakens did there.

 

The wall failed to keep out Matt Damon.

[MrPink]

1 minute ago, 4815162342 said:

 

The wall failed to keep out Matt Damon.

 

THIS WILL BE A BIGGER HIT THAN STAR TREK BEYOND 

 

[4815162342]

9 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

THIS WILL BE A BIGGER HIT THAN STAR TREK BEYOND 

 

 

This is where the Chinese market pushes back.

[miketheavenger]

2 hours ago, Daxtreme said:

Also, Rogue One's 3rd Monday is the highest 3rd Monday of all-time 

 

Not bad for a nonevent

 

edit: For the record, the previous highest 3rd Monday was Toy Story 3's 5th of July gross.

 

I would have thought a December movie had the crown... Nope!

 

 

[grim22]

18 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

THIS WILL BE A BIGGER HIT THAN STAR TREK BEYOND 

 

 

Almost everything is a bigger hit than that flop called Star Trek Beyond. 

 

I liked it till they revealed the villains back story after which point I was just "Why this nonsense again?". Star Trek writers need to stop going to that well.

[WrathOfHan]

9 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

Almost everything is a bigger hit than that flop called Star Trek Beyond. 

 

I liked it till they revealed the villains back story after which point I was just "Why this nonsense again?". Star Trek writers need to stop going to that well.

 

 

[cannastop]

Is Sing going to be the biggest movie to never hit #1?

Edited January 3, 2017 by cannastop

[Joel M]

4 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Is Sing going to be the biggest movie to never hit #1?

 

If it manages to overtake Rogue One next weekend and Hidden Figures doesn't break out, no. Otherwise yes.

[Celedhring]

9 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Is Sing going to be the biggest movie to never hit #1?

 

I can't see how it doesn't hit #1 though. Rogue One will fall harder and competition from new releases looks really weak. It has a good chance to win the first two weekends of January. Hidden Figures will do well, but I can't see it opening that big. The rest, meh.

 

What's the current holder anyhow? My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I presume?

Edited January 3, 2017 by Celedhring

[dxmatrixdt]

11 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Is Sing going to be the biggest movie to never hit #1?

 

With Rogue One crumbling the way it has been, I fear next week Sing might take #1.  If not, then surface at #1 for a few days.

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, Celedhring said:

 

I can't see how it doesn't hit #1 though. Rogue One will fall harder and competition from new releases looks really weak. It has a good chance to win the first two weekends of January. Hidden Figures will do well, but I can't see it opening that big. The rest, meh.

 

What's the current holder anyhow? My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I presume?

Yep, that's the current record holder. It's held it for too long, in my opinion. Inside Out had half of a chance of overtaking it, but it was #1 on a particularly lousy weekend.

[Porthos]

4 minutes ago, Celedhring said:

 

I can't see how it doesn't hit #1 though. Rogue One will fall harder and competition from new releases looks really weak. It has a good chance to win the first two weekends of January. Hidden Figures will do well, but I can't see it opening that big. The rest, meh.

 

What's the current holder anyhow? My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I presume?

 

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

Yep, that's the current record holder. It's held it for too long, in my opinion. Inside Out had half of a chance of overtaking it, but it was #1 on a particularly lousy weekend.

 

Adjusted, it would be Gremlins:

 

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Rank	OR^	Title (click to view)	Studio	Top Rank	Adjusted Gross**	Year^
1	302	Gremlins	WB	2	$379,681,700	1984^
2	203	Dances with Wolves	Orion	2	$376,250,900	1990
3	112	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	IFC	2	$356,621,700	2002
4	139	Beauty and the Beast	BV	2	$301,054,800	1991^
5	357	Sister Act	BV	2	$289,638,600	1992

 

Suspect THAT is a record that is going to stand for a long long time.

[Mojoguy]

I don't want Sing to hit #1 then, if only to take that record away from Greek Wedding.

[George Parr]

1 hour ago, Valonqar said:

 

LOL, Variety still thinks social media chatter means squat. 50 Shades won't make more than Spiderman because that's the kind of a movie that doesn't. No matter how much social media talk about it or re-watch the trailer or whatever. I'd love a surprise just to see fanboy faces when that happens (we need another Titanic-Demolishes-Star Wars shocker) but not gonna happen with this movie. 

 

I think you switched around the meaning there, because "means squat" = "doesn't mean a thing", which in this case would suggest that Variety thinks it doesn't matter at all, and not that it puts more importance on this than it should

[CelestialFairyIX]

Beauty and the Beast never hit #1!?  0_0 

[Mojoguy]

Beauty hit our our hearts though.

[Valonqar]

54 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

Remember the hand wringing by some over the relative softness of social media buzz/trailer views for Rogue One?

 

Good times, good times.

 

Exactly. Nobody knows what GA thinks until GA starts buying tickets, not to mention overseas GA. Studios learned the hard way that social media buzz and Hall H standing O or lack thereof (in comparison to something else) don't guarantee success. So now they smartened up but media outlets such as Variety have to fill the clickbait quota with something and this shit is the easiest way.