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

[baumer]

4 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

No.

 

Yes and no

 

74% of schools were off yesterday according to Deadline. Also its a National holiday in Canada.

[robertman2]

6 hours ago, jandrew said:

It's the obligatory "what trailers did everyone get?" 

 

I had to buy 2 tickets so I was a cheapass and did the smallest theater in town...yeah only got Mummy and Atomic Blonde. Was pretty sour about it. 

Mummy, Atomic Blonde, Spider-Man, Baywatch, and War for the Planet of the Apes

[picores]

Expect a better internal multiplier over the weekend for F8 respect F7 two years ago.

[DeeCee]

I should have said mostly no. 

[baumer]

12 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

I should have said mostly no. 

 

But it's target audience is mostly out of school.

[baumer]

If BatB follows Cinderella on Easter weekend, it'll make 13.5 mill.

[miketheavenger]

I don't think Universal would fudge F8 to 100m if necessary. They're not nearly as desperate as Paramount. It could still crack 100m without help anyway, so let's wait and see.

[Krissykins]

$100M is, of course, always a fantastic opening number.

 

 

It's just a big drop and below industry tracking. 

[Dragon]

100 million... Get Money, F8.

[Blaze Heatnix]

Fine performance for FF 8, but it'll have to make money before GOTG 2 arrives and breaks its engines.

[Yandereprime101189]

Ah well, it may not do the $117 million I was expecting, but $100 million ain't so bad, and Fast 9 and 10 are still in the looming horizon.

[The Panda]

I'm still not sure why people were predicting 300m+ for this movie in the first place.

[baumer]

4 minutes ago, 2 Panda 2 Furious said:

I'm still not sure why people were predicting 300m+ for this movie in the first place.

 

Exactly.

[grey ghost]

I wonder if most the main Fast/Furious cast make enough from the series to retire outside the franchise.

 

 

[The Panda]

Just now, baumer said:

 

Exactly.

 

Yeah, this is on par (or better) than Furious 6.  F7 was an anomaly for multiple reasons.  There's no reason anyone outside this movie's original base was going to see this one like they did for F7.

[grey ghost]

This should end up being the highest grossing movie by a black director.

 

Black Panther should easily become second highest grossing by a black director.

 

Finally Tim Story (Fantastic Four) gets knocked off the top. 

[baumer]

I would imagine outside of Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel the other cast members have to be making at least two or three million a movie with Prophet points. But I'm completely guessing and I have no idea.

[JonathanLB]

12 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

I wonder if most the main Fast/Furious cast make enough from the series to retire outside the franchise.

 

 

 

Im not sure if it was just me but I honestly felt the entire rest of the cast was absolutely painful outside of Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, and Vin Diesel. Well and Charlize was good, I just mean the rest of the "crew" was just... bad. Cheesy, stereotypical, and trying too hard. Thankfully the real A listers saved the movie. 

[Blaze Heatnix]

22 minutes ago, 2 Panda 2 Furious said:

I'm still not sure why people were predicting 300m+ for this movie in the first place.

 

 

Agreed.

 

Furious 7 is the Avengers of the series. Sequels won't be able to beat Furious 7 domestic grosses. So, drops are expected.

[grey ghost]

So is the Furious franchise going to become like PotC and Transformers?

 

Falls domestic to make around 200 m each movie but the OS gross pushes it close to 1 billion WW every time.