Weekend Actuals (Page 40): Hidden Figures 22.8M | Rogue One 22.1M | Sing 20.7M | Underworld 13.7M | La La Land 10.1M | Passengers 8.8M | A Monster Calls 2.1M

[Jonwo]

1 hour ago, TalismanRing said:

 

I'd say that was true for darker and more dramatic movies in general - at least in the last several years or even decades.

 

Manchester by The Sea isn't having the breakout La La Land is. Poor A Monster Calls is DOA.  The Room did $14m, Spotlight made $45 0 even with winning Best Film.

 

It's not a coincidence the top 10 movies of the year are what they are - or even the top 20 to 50. 

 

Spotlight was a hard sell but at $20m budget and $88m gross WW, it was still successful. Likewise with Room. For films like those and Manchester by the Sea, making huge profits isn't the main aim, it's awards. 

 

It's the same with Silence, an excellent film but it's never going to appeal to a wide audience due to the subject matter. 

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Gitesh Pandya ‏@GiteshPandya  29 seconds ago

Uni reports $19.6M wknd est for #Sing which seems conservative. It cracked $200M SAT & sits at new totals of $213.4M dom & $356.9M ww.

[WrathOfHan]

That's an excellent hold for Why Him. That Sing drop though 

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BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 2 minutes ago

JACKIE makes an est. $1.0M weekend, down 35.6%, for $9.19M total to date. #Jackie

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BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice  19s19 seconds ago

SING makes an est. $19.57M weekend, down 54.3%, for $213.36M total through 3 weekends. #Sing

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Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice  56 seconds ago

PATRIOTS DAY is racking up $15k per in 7 theaters, Peter Berg's film goes wide in 2,900+ theaters next Friday.

[redfirebird2008]

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

 

Spotlight was a hard sell but at $20m budget and $88m gross WW, it was still successful. Likewise with Room. For films like those and Manchester by the Sea, making huge profits isn't the main aim, it's awards. 

 

It's the same with Silence, an excellent film but it's never going to appeal to a wide audience due to the subject matter. 

 

But they spent $50 million producing Silence. Throw in the marketing budget and awards campaign budget. Probably around $100 million total spent on it. Massive financial bust. 

[DAJK]

I want hidden figures to do as well as it can. The more cash it makes, the more likely it is I'll be able to see it in theatres

 

Plus I mean come on, I don't thing too many people hoped Underworld would be the breakout this weekend.

[Amadeus]

Is arrival the first >$20m OW to have a 4x multiplier this year?

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Amadeus said:

Is arrival the first >$20m OW to have a 4x multiplier this year?

Zootopia

[Amadeus]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

Zootopia

That was awesome, yes.

The Revenant too if you don't count the 2015 LR. Almost 5x

[Finnick]

 

Edited January 8, 2017 by Finnick

[Jonwo]

Just now, redfirebird2008 said:

 

But they spent $50 million producing Silence. Throw in the marketing budget and awards campaign budget. Probably around $100 million total spent on it. Massive financial bust. 

 

Silence was financed by several different companies and distributed by different studios so it's likely the production budget is already recouped. 

 

 

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Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice  4 minutes ago

ROGUE ONE has topped HIDDEN FIGURES, for now, $21.9M vs. $21.8M. The STAR WARS prequel has now grossed $477M domestically.

Gitesh Pandya ‏@GiteshPandya  30 seconds ago

#Disney reports $22M wknd est for #RogueOne retaining #1 spot & edging out $21.8M of #HiddenFigures. Close race, must wait for MON finals.

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice 16 seconds ago

Sadly, Focus Features' A MONSTER CALLS had a monstrously blah wide debut, grossing just $2M in 1,523 theaters, $1,313 per.

[dxmatrixdt]

 

[CoolioD1]

scorsese has always been seen as a guy whose movies cost too damn much. it's only when he paired up with leo that his hit rate got a little more consistent. lucky he's so goddamn revered i guess. was tough for him in the 80s. 

 

apparently half of silence's budget was spent on legal fees.

[a2k]

Tintin added 2.32x the weekend to it's cume.

Same multi will give SIng 2.32*19.6 = 45.5 more for a ~259 dom total.

 

TS2 added 3.66x it's weekend more to it's cume.

Same multi will give Moana 3.66*6.41 = 23.5 more for a ~249 dom total.

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BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 1 minute ago

ROGUE ONE makes an est. $56.6M overseas weekend, up 23.6%, for a $437.1M overseas / $914.4M global total. #RogueOne

 

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 1 minute ago

MOANA makes an est. $20.0M overseas weekend, down 6.1%, for a $224.7M overseas / $450.1M global total. #Moana

[WrathOfHan]

Come on Cookie Monster! Get the #1 spot from the rebel scum! 

[Valonqar]

20 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Did you watch Selma?  Not only were their white supporters of MLK but white victims of the Segregationist Racists portrayed - as they existed in realty.

 

LBJ wasn't a semi villain in Selma.  It showed him as a political realist and a man in conflict navigating some difficult waters and that while he shared many of MLKs goals and beliefs his course as President also had other concerns like getting the rest of his Great Society Plan implemented.  He wasn't alone in that treatment.  Selma also showed MLK acting at times politically rather than righteously in service of his goal.

 

Twelve Years A Slave.   Slavery is bad - kind of cut and dry.  if you feel kinship and identify with slave owners and those that supported a system of slavery or looked the other way because it made their lives more convenient then well yes I guess the movie wouldn't be for you.  Just like Nazis probably care to avoid Nazi Germany is bad movies.

 

 

 

 

 

How LBJ was presented in Selma was criticized heavily and DuVerney even said that she deliberately made a change to give MLK an antagonist and that her perspective overrides historical fact or something. So, yes, there is a documented problem with twisting LBJ into something that he was not.

 

Either way, people will not see movies that are deliberate agenda. People saw Djnago unchained because it didn't strike them as agenda, and it got the point across much better than boring af torture porn 12YS. Oh, and if Germans are sick of being reminded of WW2 they are not the only ones. Holocaust movies are bombing everywhere. What was the last one that did well, Inglorious Bastards? Because it wasn't another guilt-tripping crap. 12YS is guilt-tripping crap and people who have nothing to do with slavery and don't care for that historical period refuse to be guilt tripped. There. Bombs away!