A Really Boring Weekend Thread | Weekend Estimates: F8 38.7M | Boss Baby 12.8M | Beauty and the Beast 10M | everything else bombing terribly

[filmlover]

4 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

1.) The Fate of the Furious(UNI), 4,329 theaters (+19) / $11.4M Fri. (-75%) /3-day cume: $37M (-63%)/Total cume: $161.9M/Wk 2

2.) The Boss Baby (20^thCentury Fox/DWA), 3,697 theaters (-46)  / $3.1M Fri. (-53%) / 3-day cume: $11.9m (-25%)/ Total: $136M/Wk 4

3.) Beauty and the Beast (DIS), 3,315 theaters (-277)  / $2.7M Fri. (-47%)   / 3-day cume: $10M (-27%) / Total cume: $471M/ Wk 6
4/5/6/7) The Promise  (OR), 2251 theaters / $1.7m (includes $200k previews) Fri./3-day cume: $4.7M/Wk 1

Born in China  (DIS), 1,508 theaters / $1.65m Fri./3-day cume: $4.6M/Wk 1

Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), 2,737 theaters (-873) / $1.1M Fri. (-57%) /3-day cume: $4.6M (-31%)/Total: $33M/Wk 3

Going in Style (WB/VR), 3,038 theaters (-38) / $1.35M Fri. (-36% )/3-day cume: $4.6M  (-27%)/Total: $31.3M/Wk 3

8.) Gifted (FSL), 1,986 theaters (+840) / $1.3M Fri. (+27%)/3-day cume: $4.48M (+45%)/Total: $10.7M/Wk 3

9.) Unforgettable (WB), 2,417 theaters / $1.6m Fri./3-day cume: $4.4M/Wk 1

10.) The Lost City of Z  (BST/AMZ), 614 theaters (+610) / $597K Fri. (+1450%)/ /3-day cume: $1.99M (+172%)/Total: $2.1M/Wk 2

 

NOTABLES:

Phoenix Forgotten  (ENT), 1,592 theaters / $550K Fri./ 3-day cume: $1.56M/Wk 1

Free Fire  (A24), 1,070 theaters / $280K Fri./3-day cume: $773k/Wk 1

 

 

 

Wow, that's even more atrocious for the openers than reported earlier. Poor Free Fire, although A24 did it no favors by not giving it a TV ad push of any kind.

[MCKillswitch123]

Free Fire is cult status bound, I think. But yeah, A24's carelessness for box office really did it very few favors, considering this should've gotten a properly marketed wide release. But holy shit, under 1M (if DHD is right)... like I said last night, La La Land did more on OW IN 4 THEATERS than what Free Fire is supposedly doing in over 1000.

 

My God, the slaughterhouse is real w/this one. At least the expansions (Lost City Of Z and Gifted) are doing decent and the family films (Boss Baby and BATB) had good holds, otherwise this would be terrible all around.

Edited April 22, 2017 by MCKillswitch123

[RiffRanger]

I honestly didn't think The Promise would do better than Unforgettable.  Quality aside, I've seen basically zero buzz about The Promise (other than its huge budget) and Unforgettable seems like the kind of movie to have a built-in decent OW just because it's such a generic thriller that appeals to a lot of people.

[Jake Gittes]

Lost City of Z isn't doing well either. Can't see it grossing more than $6-7m in total now. It never would have been big but they should have just opened it wide right away on a weekend with no competition for its type of adult audience. 

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Jake Gittes said:

Lost City of Z isn't doing well either. Can't see it grossing more than $6-7m in total now. It never would have been big but they should have just opened it wide right away on a weekend with no competition for its type of adult audience. 

It's not too bad considering the nearly 2.5 hour running time limits the number of shows per day.

[WrathOfHan]

Yeah, that's an incredibly disappointing number for City of Z. It can still probably hit 1-1.5k theaters next weekend with how shitty the new releases are performing, but the final expansion will be then or May 5.

[Jake Gittes]

In other news La La Land finally passed Divergent on Thursday to become Lionsgate/Summit's highest-grossing non-Hunger Games, non-Twilight movie.

[TalismanRing]

44 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Lost City of Z isn't doing well either. Can't see it grossing more than $6-7m in total now. It never would have been big but they should have just opened it wide right away on a weekend with no competition for its type of adult audience. 

 

With another expansion I could see it doing $10m - unless WOM is bad.

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, TalismanRing said:

 

With another expansion I could see it doing $10m - unless WOM is bad.

 

 

The RT audience score is at 68%, which isn't too bad for a movie like this.

[WrathOfHan]

JESUS, The Promise's audience score is 90%  

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

The RT audience score is at 68%, which isn't too bad for a movie like this.

 

It started off around 60 from the UK roll out so even better than that for the US.

[Krissykins]

19 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

It started off around 60 from the UK roll out so even better than that for the US.

 

Yeh it bombed here in the U.K. too. 

[robertman2]

14 hours ago, Elessar said:

 

Probably because he doesn't bring in the big bucks anymore, even in his signature roles. Of course that's more on the quality of the movies than him...

 

Wish he would do another gig with his old buddy James Cameron. True Lies 2? Wouldn't that be cool!

Lol

[arpiaaaa]

Still great numbers for BATB.
It's gonna finish very near 500....what a pity¡¡¡¡

[Fancyarcher]

3 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

So then Unforgettable

 

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is a lot closer to being Heigl's biopic than I previously thought. 

 

 

I haven't seen it, but from what I'm reading, it sounds eerily close to real life.

[Finnick]

Here we go with Saturday studio estimates!!

 

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	1	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$11,200,000	+147%	-76%	4,329	$2,587	$136,096,220	8
2	2	The Boss Baby	Fox	$3,200,000	+138%	-51%	3,697	$866	$127,441,870	22
3	3	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$2,637,000	+104%	-48%	3,315	$795	$463,761,384	36
4	-	Unforgettable (2017)	WB	$1,670,000	-	-	2,417	$691	$1,670,000	1
5	-	Born in China	BV	$1,588,000	-	-	1,508	$1,053	$1,588,000	1
6	-	The Promise (2017)	ORF	$1,441,951	-	-	2,251	$641	$1,441,951	1
7	4	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$1,415,000	+86%	-33%	3,038	$466	$28,175,843	15
8	6	Gifted	FoxS	$1,370,000	+239%	+29%	1,986	$690	$7,584,792	15
9	5	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$1,140,000	+73%	-58%	2,737	$417	$29,677,985	15
10	-	The Lost City of Z	BST	$653,299	+6,791%	+1,596%	614	$1,064	$802,712	8
11	-	Phoenix Forgotten	CLF	$635,056	-	-	1,592	$399	$635,056	1
12	11	Get Out	Uni.	$476,000	+113%	-57%	965	$493	$169,114,145	57
-	7	The Case for Christ	PFR	$463,000	+69%	-52%	1,247	$371	$10,239,709	15
-	8	The Zookeeper's Wife	Focus	$392,470	+57%	-39%	1,029	$381	$12,156,620	22
-	9	Kong: Skull Island	WB	$390,000	+62%	-58%	1,203	$324	$162,813,946	43
-	12	Power Rangers (2017)	LGF	$342,000	+54%	-67%	1,292	$265	$82,029,052	29
-	-	Logan	Fox	$267,000	+63%	-60%	754	$354	$222,695,262	50
-	10	Ghost in the Shell (2017)	Par.	$247,000	+3%	-70%	913	$271	$38,478,504	22
-	-	Hidden Figures	Fox	$190,000	+711%	+242%	160	$1,188	$168,837,514	118
-	-	Life (2017)	Sony	$135,000	+125%	-36%	730	$185	$29,008,510	29
-	-	The Shack	LG/S	$74,000	-4%	-65%	374	$198	$56,504,689	50
-	-	John Wick: Chapter Two	LG/S	$31,000	+58%	-43%	181	$171	$91,877,388	71
-	-	La La Land	LG/S	$25,000	+35%	-32%	148	$169	$150,984,530	134
-	-	T2: Trainspotting	TriS	$22,000	-29%	-71%	160	$138	$2,141,870	36
-	-	Lion	Wein.	$13,400	+13%	-50%	82	$163	$51,585,270	148
-	-	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	BV	$9,000	+61%	-69%	71	$127	$532,100,909	127
-	-	Before I Fall	ORF	$6,436	+114%	-23%	70	$92	$12,213,480	50
-	-	Moana	BV	$4,000	+28%	-65%	37	$108	$248,738,321	150

 

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2017 by Finnick

[TalismanRing]

Well that opened the floodgates....

 

trickle trickle

 

 

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

Ooof at Unforgettable, I guess WB won't be copying the Screen Gems formula again and it'll be more commercials for Heigl:

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2017 by BoxOfficeChica

[filmlover]

I think the biggest reason for Unforgettable's failure is that it just looked like a rip-off of way too many movies. Audiences are averse to films that obviously only exist just to cash in on other movies.

[grim22]

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