WEEKEND THREAD | Official Weekend Estimates: Beauty and the Beast - 88.3M; Power Rangers - 40.5M; Life - 12.6M; Other Numbers First Post. Gokira has been threadbanned.

[arpiaaaa]

6 minutes ago, Claudio said:

 

Sing and Pets are Illumination not DreamWorks

 

LOL

yeah, my apologies. I didn't know what I was thinking

[Krissykins]

That number keeps PR over $40m, I take back what I said yesterday. 

 

Still, with those OS numbers, no sequel. 

[PDC1987]

54 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

I don't know for story of the century, the genre has a lot of competition in incredible run, for example the 450K paranormal activity:

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=paranormalactivity.htm

 

And theat franchise in general, the Saw franchise did something quite extraordinary too

GO has already surpassed any Saw or PA film, even after inflation.

[Brainbug]

2 minutes ago, arpiaaaa said:

Don't remind me how much we love Fifty Shades...........
It's embarrassing

 

Im a German and its also embarrassing for me how succesfull these *films* were in my country

[Krissykins]

Get Out's run is definitely up there with Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity.

 

The only difference is it was released wide straight away. 

[Joel M]

2 hours ago, The Futurist said:

 

So it s gonna sell more tickets than the 91 version.

 

 

It's gonna sell more tickets than Aladdin which was a much bigger hit than BatB '91.

[Barnack]

11 minutes ago, PDC1987 said:

GO has already surpassed any Saw or PA film, even after inflation.

 

Yes, but it will not turn into a franchise and costed much more, it is certainly up there, but I'm not sure it is clearly the horror phenomenon of the 2000's or the story, the first Saw movie had a bit more story behind it, first major release to use porn magazine and website for marketing for example.

[fmpro]

1 hour ago, Hades said:

Its been a great March, but March next year is starting to look very weak. Meg moved to August and the Fox-Marvel film won't make its release  date there. Wreck it Ralph 2 is the only film guaranteed to be a hit, and even that won't make much more than the original. February 2018 is actually  looking stronger. 

 

Deadpool 2 could make it. If they wanted too

[PDC1987]

15 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

Yes, but it will not turn into a franchise and costed much more, it is certainly up there, but I'm not sure it is clearly the horror phenomenon of the 2000's or the story, the first Saw movie had a bit more story behind it, first major release to use porn magazine and website for marketing for example.

It cost $4.5 million.

[Barnack]

6 minutes ago, PDC1987 said:

It cost $4.5 million.

 

Yeah I imagine ratio is a bit useless once you consider releasing cost, 450k or 4.5 million is not that important.

 

Just saying that a 450k that spawn a giant printing money franchise is certainly up there in term of horror box office story of the 2000's.

 

Same for SAW, specially that Saw was not distributed by a studio (and in 2004 Liongates was really not big and had to be really creative in marketing)

[TheDarkKnightOfSteel]

Have we gotten the actuals?

[Momo]

Some news for PR fans that might help it's OS. It has been cleared for a China release in April..

 

"Sources tell THR that Lionsgates' Power Rangers also has been cleared for an April release, and state distributor China Film Group is currently working on dating."

 

It's on the bottom of this article.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-kong-skull-island-opens-muscular-72m-988874

[a2k]

90 will be a 43.2% drop for BATB from OW-previews (158.4).

Similar drop next weekend will give it a 3rd weekend of 51.

Mon-Thu should add a little over 30. So it's pretty much a lock to cross 400 next weekend itself.

[kitik]

We just watched Life. We both loved it.

 

Go see it!

[kitik]

Also we had a decent number of votes last week in the Most Anticipated Movies thread.

Let's keep it up for this week!

 

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/667-box-office-theorys-most-anticipated-films/?page=301

[JB33]

21 minutes ago, kitik said:

We just watched Life. We both loved it.

 

Go see it!

 

I concur!

[Nova]

22 minutes ago, kitik said:

We just watched Life. We both loved it.

 

Go see it!

If only Life wasn't DOA 

[MJL]

Logan - $10,334,390

Get Out - $8,851,845

[commonsense88]

2 hours ago, Hades said:

Its been a great March, but March next year is starting to look very weak. Meg moved to August and the Fox-Marvel film won't make its release  date there. Wreck it Ralph 2 is the only film guaranteed to be a hit, and even that won't make much more than the original. February 2018 is actually  looking stronger. 

Am I  the only one who think everyone would win if studios work together to spread there movies across the calendar instead of choking each other off.

[Durden]