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

[That One Girl]

 

 

[PPZVGOS]

2 hours ago, franfar said:

We've already been over this.

 

That external inflation calculator doesn't account for the rise in ticket prices, which were out of step with the CPI: http://collider.com/movie-ticket-price-inflation-statistics/

 

But that is exactly the point that I am making:

 

Being able to raise prices above the rate of "general inflation" or "average price increases across the economy" is what every company/industry is hoping for. Being able to raise your prices above the CPI is a sign of pricing power. In other words, movies have become somewhat more of a "luxury product" in recent years. The winners in capitalism are broadly those who manage to do exactly this. To give some examples from the US economy in recent years/decades: the pharmaceutical industry, education industry, landowners have raised prices well above the right of inflation, therefore hogging a larger share of the overall pie. On the other hand, electronic products, apparel makers and retailers have seen the prices they can charge customers fall, hence suffering a considerable fall in their share of the economic pie. 

 

When you manage to realize selling prices above the rate of inflation in the economy, this means that you are getting more real value per one ticket. Hence my claim that one ticket sold by TFA is worth more in real terms than a ticket sold by Titanic in 1997. 

 

Here for example you can read about Big Pharma's awesome pricing power. It's great for them: http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/press-center/info-12-2016/brand-name-drug-prices-increase-nearly-130-times-faster-than-inflation.html

Edited March 13, 2017 by PPZVGOS

[PPZVGOS]

19 minutes ago, That unBanned Guy said:

 

 

 

And that is despite the great revaluation of the USD since late 2014. The growth of the Chinese market has gone a long way in partly mitigating the USD appreciation. 

[Barnack]

11 minutes ago, PPZVGOS said:

Hence my claim that one ticket sold by TFA is worth more in real terms than a ticket sold by Titanic in 1997. 

 

No one (well no one reasonable) will ever disagree with this, the best way to evaluate how different movie made in money at the box office is certainly using the US inflation ratio.

 

But that is not what people usually try to achieve when they are adjusting for something else.

[franfar]

Adjusting movies for inflation isn't meant to be taken this seriously. It's just a rough way of contextualizing how popular a movie was.

[commonsense88]

Why is Warner brothers taking so long with the numbers?

[NoobSaibot]

2 minutes ago, commonsense88 said:

Why is Warner brothers taking so long with the numbers?

 

It's not just WB. Numbers for Logan and Get Out are not updated either.

[BenedictL11]

2 hours ago, Matrix4You said:

3

(2)

Get Out

Universal

$20,743,440

-27%

3,143

$6,600

$110,725,285

1

 

Looks like it's headed to around $170M. That's more ticket sales than The Grudge back in 2004!!!!

[grim22]

This is hilarious - what movie did Brie Larson think she was doing?

 

 

The top comment:  This is a movie about a giant gorilla that fights dinosaurs

 

[Blaze Heatnix]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

This is hilarious - what movie did Brie Larson think she was doing?

 

 

The top comment:  This is a movie about a giant gorilla that fights dinosaurs

 

 

 

That's cute and so "socially relevant" coming from Brie, lol.

 

 

[maryksinger]

My dream would be that the studios would reveal the number of tickets sold by each movie, it would be so fair and informative

[franfar]

14 minutes ago, grim22 said:

This is hilarious - what movie did Brie Larson think she was doing?

 

 

The top comment:  This is a movie about a giant gorilla that fights dinosaurs

 

 

 

 

Journalists that face death from giant gorillas deserve respect. The rest not so much. And movies are a form of activism. The rest of us have to work for living. Lucky you.

 

rekt

[That One Girl]

14 minutes ago, grim22 said:

This is hilarious - what movie did Brie Larson think she was doing?

 

 

The top comment:  This is a movie about a giant gorilla that fights dinosaurs

 

 

She's hot tho so she gets a pass.

[Poseidon]

5 minutes ago, maryksinger said:

My dream would be that the studios would reveal the number of tickets sold by each movie, it would be so fair and informative

 

Follow German or French Box Office then.

[franfar]

1 minute ago, That unBanned Guy said:

 

She's hot tho so she gets a pass.

Just pretend like you're listening to her

[fmpro]

Where's that freakin Kong number?!??!!?!

[PDC1987]

1 hour ago, BenedictL11 said:

 

Looks like it's headed to around $170M. That's more ticket sales than The Grudge back in 2004!!!!

TG adjusts to $153.7 million. GO is going to overtake that by a nice margin.

[maryksinger]

30 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

 

Follow German or French Box Office then.

here in brazil too, but What really matters is the American box office

[Finnick]

ACTUAL NUMBERS: KONG SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF ESTIMATION WITH 61.025M!!

 

		Movie	Distributor	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	new	Kong: Skull Island	Warner Bros.	$61,025,472		3,846	$15,867	$61,025,472	3
2	(1)	Logan	20th Century Fox	$38,112,425	-57%	4,071	$9,362	$152,919,158	10
3	(2)	Get Out	Universal	$20,743,440	-27%	3,143	$6,600	$110,725,285	17
4	(3)	The Shack	Lionsgate	$10,007,551	-38%	2,888	$3,465	$32,226,242	10
5	(4)	The Lego Batman Movie	Warner Bros.	$7,614,412	-35%	3,303	$2,305	$158,818,072	31
6	(6)	Before I Fall	Open Road	$3,000,782	-36%	2,346	$1,279	$8,929,594	10
7	(7)	Hidden Figures	20th Century Fox	$2,761,002	-28%	1,421	$1,943	$162,861,188	78
8	(5)	John Wick: Chapter Two	Lionsgate	$2,671,997	-44%	2,031	$1,316	$87,395,208	31
9	(10)	La La Land	Lionsgate	$1,773,669	-41%	1,578	$1,124	$148,449,258	94
10	(9)	Fifty Shades Darker	Universal	$1,652,095	-54%	1,498	$1,103	$112,945,330	31
11	(14)	Lion	Weinstein Co.	$1,324,172	-38%	960	$1,379	$48,647,617	108
12	(11)	Fist Fight	Warner Bros.	$1,303,187	-54%	1,285	$1,014	$30,493,683	24
13	(8)	The Great Wall	Universal	$1,264,920	-65%	1,592	$795	$43,836,005	24
14	(15)	Split	Universal	$1,253,940	-40%	981	$1,278	$135,866,075	52
15	(16)	A Dog’s Purpose	Universal	$1,095,500	-38%	1,022	$1,072	$61,795,515	45
16	(12)	Rock Dog	Lionsgate	$1,031,963	-55%	1,376	$750	$8,247,524	17
17	(13)	Moonlight	A24	$901,624	-61%	987	$913	$26,895,351	143
18	new	Badrinath Ki Dulhania	FIP	$862,008		152	$5,671	$862,008	3
19	(17)	Table 19	Fox Searchlight	$841,403	-47%	868	$969	$2,978,103	10
20	(19)	A United Kingdom	Fox Searchlight	$531,658	-16%	317	$1,677	$2,611,946	31
21	(21)	Sing	Universal	$443,165	+13%	400	$1,108	$268,744,865	82
22	(18)	Moana	Walt Disney	$430,601	-32%	276	$1,560	$247,486,833	110
23	(25)	KEDi	Oscilloscope Pictures	$322,500	+36%	114	$2,829	$1,008,060	31
24	(20)	I Am Not Your Negro	Magnolia Pictures	$302,129	-37%	197	$1,534	$6,076,416	38
25	(26)	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Walt Disney	$209,647	-6%	166	$1,263	$530,118,047	87
26	(22)	Why Him?	20th Century Fox	$189,879	-44%	68	$2,792	$60,191,438	80
27	(-)	The Salesman	Cohen Media Group	$170,202		105	$1,621	$2,050,205	45
28	(27)	Monster Trucks	Paramount Pictures	$157,442	-20%	181	$870	$33,243,820	59
29	(23)	Fences	Paramount Pictures	$154,989	-49%	189	$820	$57,393,468	87
30	new	The Ottoman Lieutenant	Paladin	$149,830		216	$694	$149,830	3
31	(31)	Passengers	Sony Pictures	$105,541	-20%	172	$614	$99,350,745	82
32	(32)	Fantastic Beasts and Where …	Warner Bros.	$100,034	-22%	188	$532	$233,818,593	115
33	(47)	xXx: Return of Xander Cage	Paramount Pictures	$96,204	+144%	139	$692	$44,850,317	52
34	new	Personal Shopper	IFC Films	$79,175		4	$19,794	$79,175	3
35	(48)	The Last Word	Bleecker Street	$73,683	+96%	25	$2,947	$114,341	10
36	(24)	Manchester-by-the Sea	Roadside Attractions	$67,389	-74%	113	$596	$47,532,151	115

 

 

Edited March 13, 2017 by Finnick

[maryksinger]

How much do you think TFA sold officially? in tickets

 

maybe 90M?