Weekend Estimates: Kong 61M, Logan 37.8M, Get Out 21M, Shack 10M, Lego Batman 7.8M

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, Eevin said:

You're way, way too low on A Wrinkle in Time. No way it only does $50m with the talent behind it. Even Pete's Dragon did $76m.

 

Look at the talent behind The BFG.  It'll be coming into a crowded marketplace (2 weeks after Peter Rabbit, a week after Ready Player One), while Pete's Dragon's only competition was Kubo.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

1 minute ago, John Marston said:

lol animated Spider-Man won't do that good. Also Spider-Man Homecoming will likely not reach the crazy expectations either. 

What makes you think that, scoutboy? Is it because of The Amazing Spiderman 2....or that you just prefer the new upcoming ones  to miss at the box office and have mediocre quality like....again, TASM2?

[Wrath]

3 hours ago, baumer said:

Guys....let's try to be nice to each other.  Let's not label someone a troll just because of where they came from.  Let's be hospitable.

SCREW YOU BAUMER!!!!!!

 

[cannastop]

3 minutes ago, John Marston said:

lol animated Spider-Man won't do that good. Also Spider-Man Homecoming will likely not reach the crazy expectations either. 

Animated Spider-Man is probably going to look like generic mush, a la TMNT.

 

I'll think twice if the trailer looks good.

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

King Kong suffered from prerelease expectations. The epic 3 hour runtime and great critical reviews meant that everyone thought Titanic was in trouble. It then had a low OD and it's reputation never recovered.

 

Things went the other way for Skull Island, prerelease hype was low and everyone was expecting 40M with Logan winning the weekend. So this becomes an over performance.

 

King Kong (2006) adjusts to $292m domestic.  It only suffered in comparison to Jackson's LOTR movies.

[YM!]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Animated Spider-Man is probably going to look like generic mush, a la TMNT.

 

I'll think twice if the trailer looks good.

One could have said the thing about Sing or Pets, then again it's Sony.

[AgentofMONARCH]

19 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:

Godzilla and King Kong, Golden Geese. 

 

Why do you care so much anyways?

[filmlover]

Yeah, hype for Peter Jackson's King Kong was crazy back in the day, even if a lot of it had to do with Jackson coming off of Lord of the Rings.

[Jonwo]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Animated Spider-Man is probably going to look like generic mush, a la TMNT.

 

I'll think twice if the trailer looks good.

 

TMNT was made on a $34m budget, Spider-Man is likely going to be $75-80m budget. 

 

 

[Dementeleus]

31 minutes ago, filmlover said:

How profitable was that Lab Rats thing for Disney in the end?

 

I'm sure insanely. Up to a point.  Longest-running live-action show on the network! (actually, technically, it might be the longest,

period).

 

29 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Since that got cancelled... 

 

 

 

28 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Tele probably couldn't afford to pay his bills when making it so he invested a shit ton of stock in Michael Mann's untitled cyberthriller.  This did not work out for him.

 

 

[cannastop]

Just now, YourMother said:

One could have said the thing about Sing or Pets, then again it's Sony.

The difference is that those two movies weren't based on anything.

They're going to have to work hard to make an animated Spider-Man not feel like a cheap ripoff of live-action superhero movies.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

9 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

King Kong suffered from prerelease expectations. The epic 3 hour runtime and great critical reviews meant that everyone thought Titanic was in trouble. It then had a low OD and it's reputation never recovered.

 

Things went the other way for Skull Island, prerelease hype was low and everyone was expecting 40M with Logan winning the weekend. So this becomes an over performance.

Very true. But then Jackson's Kong made it to $218M DOM with good legs....which still made it one of the big hits of 2005. The reason that film didn't do higher...was mostly due to competition from the first Narnia-film.

Edited March 11, 2017 by MrFanaticGuy34

[YM!]

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

The difference is that those two movies weren't based on anything.

They're going to have to work hard to make an animated Spider-Man not feel like a cheap ripoff of live-action superhero movies.

Still a black Spider-Man especially animated will be a huge draw.

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, cannastop said:

The difference is that those two movies weren't based on anything.

They're going to have to work hard to make an animated Spider-Man not feel like a cheap ripoff of live-action superhero movies.

 

They've already made at least two TV SM animated series better than most of the movies (with most better than the last 3 movies)

 

I don't think it's going to make $300m though or even $200m because there's competition with the live action but with Lord & Miller producing and the material they have for Miles I don't think the odds of it being poor are that great.

 

 

Edited March 11, 2017 by TalismanRing

[grim22]

5 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

Very true. But then Jackson's Kong made it to $218M DOM with good legs....which still made it one of the big hits of 2005. The reason that film didn't do higher...was mostly due to competition from the first Narnia-film.

 

True, it is one of those rare movies which is most likely a big success in terms of profit but will be remembered as a big underperformer by people in general because it didn't live up to expectations. I remember it was built up huge by the entertainment media who were then first in line to tear it down as well.

 

PJ fell in love with his movie for sure, 3 hours for a Kong movie. He needs a ruthless editor going forward @Telemachos

[Bishop54]

6 minutes ago, AgentofMONARCH said:

 

Why do you care so much anyways?

Because it's not true, we have enough fake news floating around these days.

[TalismanRing]

5 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

Very true. But then Jackson's Kong made it to $218M DOM with good legs....which still made it one of the big hits of 2005. The reason that film didn't do higher...was mostly due to competition from the first Narnia-film.

 

That and it needed to be edited by about 30 minutes - like most Jackson movies it's bloated and drags in parts.

 

 

 

[The Futurist]

I thought Logan was so brilliant, groundbreaking, daring and creative that people would realize the movie is a pure gem and that it would prevent the usual big drops for superhero movies

and

that the R Rating was the answer to cinephile s nightmares that have to put up with the lazy, assembly lined fluff Disney puts out on a regular basis in worldwide multiplexes with their family friendly PG-13 ratings, except for Star Wars because ... STAR WARS !!!

 

 

 

 

 

[AgentofMONARCH]

4 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:

Because it's not true, we have enough fake news floating around these days.

 

If it's fake to you then don't worry about it then. There's your solution

[John Marston]

X-Men is the comic book version of Star Trek. It has a ceiling it won't pass