THE THREAD OF THE FURIOUS: Friday #s (DHD, Pg 36) F8 45.5M, BB 6.6M, BATB 5.3M, Smurfs 2.9M, GIS 2.1M

[DAJK]

1 minute ago, Olive said:

OD in China has beaten Warcraft by 3PM...

 

^^ me right now

[DAJK]

Beaten Warcraft... total?

[Olive]

Just now, DAJK said:

Beaten Warcraft... total?

OD to OD

[DAJK]

Just now, Olive said:

OD to OD

I know

[Krissykins]

This weekend is just as boring as last weekend. 

 

It's very early for preview numbers.

 

But a big drop from Furious 7 seems likely everywhere apart from China for some reason. 

Edited April 14, 2017 by Krissykins

[BadAtGender]

I am busy being staff for Sakura-Con all weekend. I doubt I will be able to get away from it for a few hours to see it, but who knows.

[The Stingray]

No more F&Fs for me.

[MCKillswitch123]

DHD, folks. It's waaaaayyyyyyyy too early for previews. It's probably gonna rise to 13M.

 

That being said, if it does pull off 9-10M (and that's a big if), I could see it coming under Fast 6's opening (97M, iirc). But that's very unlikely.

Edited April 14, 2017 by MCKillswitch123

[vc2002]

Change the title to "Fate of the Furious: China weekend thread", because it's gonna be a hell lot more exciting, like $200-250m exciting.

Edited April 14, 2017 by vc2002

[JonathanLB]

Too much fam, not enough racing! Lol jk it was fun. I enjoyed it. Beat the awful trailer at least. It was worse than at least 4-7 though, each of which was better than the one before. The streak is broken. Maybe my lowest of the series besides Tokyo Drift (garbage) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (guilty pleasure, but pretty laughable).

Edited April 14, 2017 by JonathanLB

[dxmatrixdt]

What will make more.... Spark: A Space Tail or T2: Trainspotting.

 

Spark debuts in 365 theaters.  T2:Trainspotting adds 174 locations to bring its total up to 331.    Therefore Spark has a 10% advantage for locations, but can T2:Trainspotting average 10% or higher than Spark to overtake it on the weekend charts???

[FantasticBeasts]

My club is dead.. :cry:

F8 will have double the admissions of TFA but won't reach its OW gross I in China.

[Jake Gittes]

8 hours ago, Fancyarcher said:

 

I'd imagine not. His status as a wrestler turned action star has pretty much typecasted him mainly in action films and comedies. Those "dramatic roles" aren't likely being offered to him right now, though it'd be kinda cool if he did try his hands at a quirky comedy sooner or later. 

 

 I hope he gets another Pain & Gain type of role. That was a legit great performance. 

[Krissykins]

Furious 7 multiple from previews was 9.3x.

 

Oooh, maybe this won't be boring after all, if it opens under $100m. 

[zackzack]

3 hours ago, DAJK said:

Beaten Warcraft... total?

 

Some are predicting that, believe it or not

[baumer]

Seeing as no film in this series had opened up to a hundred million besides the last one seeing this one open right around a hundred million really shouldn't be a shock if that's how it goes. The death of Paul Walker clearly had a curiosity factor to the last one. So if this does open up to a hundred million and makes around 230 that seems to be par for the course.

[a2k]

9 hours ago, John Marston said:

11m would not be bad. 9m somewhat disappointing 

 

Going by expectations 11m would be bad imo.

F7 did 9.3x the previews over the ow (15.8*9.3=147.1)

Those previews started at 7pm

F8 had them starting at 5pm plus some more sequelitis makes it difficult for F8 to do more than 9.3x.

With 11m it would get to 100m ow with that multiplier. That's still a huge ow but well below expectations.

If it can manage 10x then 11m would give 110m ow. That seems to be ceiling right now unless the preview numbers come in higher.

Edited April 14, 2017 by a2knet

[filmlover]

The earlier discussion of Dwayne Johnson tackling drama for a change reminds me of when Vin Diesel took an actual stab at acting in one of Sidney Lumet's final movies. That wig

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

The earlier discussion of Dwayne Johnson tackling drama for a change reminds me of when Vin Diesel took an actual stab at acting in one of Sidney Lumet's final movies. That wig

 

Sidney Lumet!

[a2k]

4 hours ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

DHD, folks. It's waaaaayyyyyyyy too early for previews. It's probably gonna rise to 13M.

 

That being said, if it does pull off 9-10M (and that's a big if), I could see it coming under Fast 6's opening (97M, iirc). But that's very unlikely.

I am hoping the previews rise at list a little. From 15.8 to 9-11 despite 5pm start would be a very surprising fall.

We saw last year how APOC managed to have same previews as DOFP and fell behind a lot over the weekend thanks to more sequelitis , early start, lesser wom.

Similar previews as F7 would have given F8 a 120s ow opposed to F7's 147.

Edited April 14, 2017 by a2knet