Weekend Thread...Friday numbers (Deadline) HF: 6M| BBM: 5M| PD: 4.2| LLL: 3.97 (PG 18) - NOT THE PIRACY THREAD (OR THE POLITICS THREAD)

[filmlover]

STX will probably crank out a sequel in no time for The Bye Bye Man unless it completely dies today.

[filmlover]

La La Land pulling in bigger numbers than Patriots Day is something else. The fact it's gonna be at almost $80M without hitting 2,000 theaters yet is astounding. Anyone still doubting $150M+ is in for a rude awakening.

[Cmasterclay]

What's up with Lion's expansion? I know Weinstein is in trouble, but it's not expanding at all and it has no marketing. Having seen the movie, I think it could absolutely be a big time hit if they do something with it, given the coming nominations as well.

[WrathOfHan]

I might see The Bye Bye Man out of curiosity. I know I should be seeing Hidden Figures, but I have little interest in it.

 

1 minute ago, Cmasterclay said:

What's up with Lion's expansion? I know Weinstein is in trouble, but it's not expanding at all and it has no marketing. Having seen the movie, I think it could absolutely be a big time hit if they do something with it, given the coming nominations as well.

It'll expand by the end of the month once the Oscar noms are out.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Cmasterclay said:

What's up with Lion's expansion? I know Weinstein is in trouble, but it's not expanding at all and it has no marketing. Having seen the movie, I think it could absolutely be a big time hit if they do something with it, given the coming nominations as well.

They're waiting until after nominations are announced to expand it. Given that this weekend's plethora of new releases will be dropped like crazy real soon, that seems like a wise choice.

[CJohn]

3 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

What's up with Lion's expansion? I know Weinstein is in trouble, but it's not expanding at all and it has no marketing. Having seen the movie, I think it could absolutely be a big time hit if they do something with it, given the coming nominations as well.

Weinstein is too busy with The Founder and Gold coming out in the next two weekends.

[WrathOfHan]

I'm hoping Lion expands by the Top 25 deadline.

[Cmasterclay]

Just now, filmlover said:

They're waiting until after nominations are announced to expand it. Given that this weekend's plethora of new releases will be dropped like crazy real soon, that seems like a wise choice.

I hope so! I enjoyed the hell out of it. In my top five of the year, actually, pending Silence/Jackie/OJ/Elle/The Lobster. 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, CJohn said:

Weinstein is too busy with The Founder and Gold coming out in the next two weekends.

Did you see that The Founder is only getting 1,100 theaters?  

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Did you see that The Founder is only getting 1,100 theaters?  

I did. I assume Gold will have a similar release  

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Did you see that The Founder is only getting 1,100 theaters?  

It's actually getting an alright ad push, but yeah. It has no awards prospects even though the reviews are good, probably should've released it in the summer as an adult-friendly alternative like Southpaw or something.

[misafeco]

20 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

passengers is quickly losing its advantage over TGWTD from 2011 for the same period, might not break $100m

No way it misses 100M. 90M after the 4-day weekend, 95M after next weekend. Sony will fudge the numbers if needed, they're not going to stop at 99M. They don't even need that if Passengers can hold that ~75% daily gross compared to TGWTDT.

 

	Passengers	TGWTDT	%
5 day	22,19	21,15	104,97
Fri	2,66	3,53	75,36
Sat	3,81	4,95	77,03
Sun	2,34	2,88	81,22
Mon	0,75	0,94	79,61
Tue	1,23	1,25	98,10
Wed	0,78	1,08	72,35
Thu	0,71	1,00	70,57
Fri	1,53	1,94	78,68
Gross to date	85,90	83,12	103,35
Legs (5 day)	3,87	3,93	98,46
Final gross*	101,17	102,5158	98,68
*if Passengers holds the last day's %

 

Actually this Friday increase is very good despite losing a bigger amount of theaters.

Edited January 14, 2017 by misafeco

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, filmlover said:

It's actually getting an alright ad push, but yeah. It has no awards prospects even though the reviews are good, probably should've released it in the summer as an adult-friendly alternative like Southpaw or something.

Like it was originally planned to?

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

It's actually getting an alright ad push, but yeah. It has no awards prospects even though the reviews are good, probably should've released it in the summer as an adult-friendly alternative like Southpaw or something.

That was the original plan. But I guess they thought Keaton could get nominated.

[filmlover]

Who would've thought The Bye Bye Man would be the "success" story of this weekend's openers? The trailer got laughs every time I saw it over the holidays.

[WrathOfHan]

RT audience scores:
 

Patriots Day: 88%

Silence: 72%

Sleepless: 62%

Live by Night: 58%

The Bye Bye Man: 39%

 

      

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

RT audience scores:
 

Patriots Day: 88%

Silence: 72%

Sleepless: 62%

Live by Night: 58%

The Bye Bye Man: 39%

 

      

Bye bye bye, man.

[Maxmoser3]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Who would've thought The Bye Bye Man would be the "success" story of this weekend's openers? The trailer got laughs every time I saw it over the holidays.

STX surprises the hell out of us. I saw the trailer for The Boy in late 2015, and thought it looked like laughable shit. But then I saw it, and I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually good.

[filmlover]

Also, La La Land is looking to become Lionsgate's biggest non-Hunger Games and non-Twilight (even though they only distributed the last movie in that series) by a very large margin. Bow, @CJohn.

[wileECoyote]

So 800K for Moana. If it follows BH6 it'll do about 6.7 4-day.   Still a shot at top 10.