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)

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

2 minutes ago, Elessar said:

ATTENTION!!!

 

Can someone please explain to me why the hell did A Monster Calls drop 75% this weekend? More than Assassins Creed while losing like 1500 theaters?

 

I haven't seen it yet but it looks SO good, it has 87% with a high average rating on RT and people that actually saw it seem to realy like it.

 

Is it the tough subject matter?

Every theater has it down to a single showtime by me.

[4815162342]

My showing yesterday was nearly sold out. *shrug*

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

It shocks me how much people don't know economic systems. There is a very wide middle ground from what we have here in the US to fucking Venezuela.

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, Elessar said:

ATTENTION!!!

 

Can someone please explain to me why the hell did A Monster Calls drop 75% this weekend? More than Assassins Creed while losing like 1500 theaters?

 

I haven't seen it yet but it looks SO good, it has 87% with a high average rating on RT and people that actually saw it seem to realy like it.

 

Is it the tough subject matter?

huh, that is strange. I would offer 2 explanations:

 

1) the cinemas all reduced its showtimes drastically / gave it bad showtimes since it performed badly in 1st week. This is what we did in the cinema I worked for, if we were contractually obliged to show a film for a 2nd week, and it did really badly we would just show it at like 1 showing a day at 11pm.

 

2) the opening weekend was inflated from families who attended thinking it was a family film. The marketing has been a big problem and this I imagine is what caused the big drop. 

[cookie]

6 minutes ago, Elessar said:

ATTENTION!!!

 

Can someone please explain to me why the hell did A Monster Calls drop 75% this weekend? More than Assassins Creed while losing like 1500 theaters?

 

I haven't seen it yet but it looks SO good, it has 87% with a high average rating on RT and people that actually saw it seem to realy like it.

 

Is it the tough subject matter?

 

It tanked really hard in both limited and wide release so theaters have been quick to cut showtimes.

Edited January 15, 2017 by cookie

[Elessar]

2 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

Every theater has it down to a single showtime by me.

 

How many did it have last week?

[Fancyarcher]

38 minutes ago, ban1o said:

As American who's lived in Canada for like 8 years the cultural differences between the 2 countries is astounding. Universal health care is considered a normal thing and something we brag about to Americans lol. people literally can't comprehend why Americans are against it. 

 

 

Believe me, a lot of the people where I live would love universal healthcare. There's a lot of issues with getting it past, though, not the least of which has to do with money.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

1 minute ago, Elessar said:

 

How many did it have last week?

I don't know normal amount? 4-5 I guess?

[Avatree]

1 minute ago, Elessar said:

 

How many did it have last week?

it's impossible to say, theres never any showtime data.

[trifle]

1 hour ago, Finnick said:

WEEKEND CHART.......

 

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	Hidden Figures	Fox	$20,450,000	-10.3%	3,286	+815	$6,223	$54,833,100	$25	4
2	5	La La Land	LG/S	$14,500,000	+43.1%	1,848	+333	$7,846	$74,081,569	$30	6
3	3	Sing	Uni.	$13,810,970	-33.3%	3,693	-262	$3,740	$233,026,490	$75	4
4	2	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	BV	$13,759,000	-37.6%	3,162	-995	$4,351	$498,850,734	$200	5
5	N	The Bye Bye Man	STX	$13,378,000	-	2,220	-	$6,026	$13,378,000	$7.4	1
6	30	Patriots Day	LGF	$12,000,000	+11,350.1%	3,120	+3,113	$3,846	$12,924,082	$45	4
7	N	Monster Trucks	Par.	$10,500,000	-	3,119	-	$3,366	$10,500,000	-	1
8	N	Sleepless	ORF	$8,468,787	-	1,803	-	$4,697	$8,468,787	-	1
9	4	Underworld: Blood Wars	SGem	$5,815,000	-57.5%	3,070	-	$1,894	$23,931,118	$35	2
10	6	Passengers (2016)	Sony	$5,625,000	-36.2%	2,447	-953	$2,299	$90,004,731	$110	4
11	43	Live By Night	WB	$5,425,000	+20,050.8%	2,822	+2,818	$1,922	$5,610,644	-	4
12	8	Moana	BV	$3,909,000	-38.8%	1,847	-702	$2,116	$231,215,125	-	8
13	7	Why Him?	Fox	$3,340,000	-51.6%	1,977	-927	$1,689	$55,173,047	$38	4
14	9	Fences	Par.	$2,720,000	-43.5%	1,342	-1,026	$2,027	$45,852,362	$24	5
15	13	Lion	Wein.	$2,256,000	+8.8%	575	-25	$3,923	$13,298,604	-	8
16	20	Silence (2016)	Par.	$1,940,000	+302.5%	747	+696	$2,597	$3,021,764	-	4
17	11	Manchester by the Sea	RAtt.	$1,744,650	-30.7%	726	-331	$2,403	$36,906,428	-	9
18	10	Assassin's Creed	Fox	$1,550,000	-62.9%	968	-1,674	$1,601	$53,053,641	$125	4
19	22	Moonlight (2016)	A24	$1,104,140	+243.3%	582	+447	$1,897	$14,602,900	-	13

 

 

33 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Live by Night is not even in the top 10.

 

No, but Passengers is! 

 

and it is about $147M overseas at this point, as well.  Unfortunately, I don't know how much longer it has to run there. It only gets 2 weeks in China (and may make about $30M there according to estimates in the China box office thread.)

 

30 minutes ago, robertman2 said:

Lets talk about Pokemon.

 

My favorite is anything that can learn Stealth Rock

 

My favorite is Little Mew because he/she is cute and powerful and bobs around in a bubble, and I got a Little Mew in a plastic bubble at a Burger King once.

 

I never really got into the intricate part of Pokemon, I'm afraid.

 

Edited January 15, 2017 by trifle

[Elessar]

All sounds valid, i guess it is just hard to believe a movie that i believe looks fabolous and others speak highly of is tanking so hard.

 

I'll have to add it to the pile of box office mysteries (like Avengers grossing 600m+ )...

Edited January 15, 2017 by Elessar

[WrathOfHan]

 

Ben is on the verge of collapsing.

[trifle]

1 minute ago, Elessar said:

All sounds valid, i guess it is just hard to believe a movie that i believe looks fabolous and others speak highly of is tanking so hard.

 

I'll have to add it to the pile of box office mysteries (like Avengers grossing 600m+ ;))...

 

My twitter timeline says it is wonderful.  It's a shame it got a bad start at a super crowded time.

[Valonqar]

2 hours ago, baumer said:

 

Fuckin A.

 

Water parks are just as bad.  Dolphins are slaughtered by the Japanese or Dutch or Norwegians and the ones that are left behind are sold to water parks for a life time of slavery after they have watched their family get cut open while they are still breathing.  

 

 

Yep, nobody's ever going to convince me that that's necessary. That, fois gras, etc

Edited January 15, 2017 by Valonqar

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, Elessar said:

All sounds valid, i guess it is just hard to believe a movie that i believe looks fabolous and others speak highly of is tanking so hard.

 

I'll have to add it to the pile of box office mysteries (like Avengers grossing 600m+ )...

yup. it sucks. but, at least the movie exists, because it is seriously great. box office be damned.

[JB33]

3 minutes ago, Elessar said:

All sounds valid, i guess it is just hard to believe a movie that i believe looks fabolous and others speak highly of is tanking so hard.

 

I'll have to add it to the pile of box office mysteries (like Avengers grossing 600m+ )...

 

That one's not a mystery at all.

[Valonqar]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

The Help opened in the summer when it didn't really have Oscar buzz to piggyback on so no.

 

Oh, OK. For some reason I thought it was a end of the year contender. My bad.

[Joel M]

 

[JennaJ]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

 

Ben is on the verge of collapsing.

 

I saw those videos from Graham Norton for Emma and Ryan, and all I could think was "Darn, WTF is up with Ben Affleck's face?!"

 

Edited January 15, 2017 by JennaJ

[SchumacherFTW]

Hang on, when did La La Land get so close to $75m?!