The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Barnack]

38 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

For example, The Intouchables was a MASSIVE hit in France and Germany, but it didnt really work anywhere else.

This is crazy, I assumed that 416m was much more dispersed than those 2 country making for more than 58% of it.

 

Animation or SH wearing helmet can make the dubbing easier (possible to cast a local star, change the text a bit more), but they need to spend the time and money to make and test screen local versions and it is a crap shot if the X language version is a good one or not.

[poweranimals]

MovieTickets.com is frozen again  isn't it?

[salvador-232]

You people are making too many assumptions that are impossible to prove. 

 

 

How exactly do we know that Lego Batman suffered for it's animation style? I didn't even know that it was a thing that existed until I started following box office and is not like "traditional" WBA titles have done much better OS. How are we so sure that is animation and not a marketing problem? 

 

 

Humor is irrelevant in the range of money this movie is targeting. Coco has little humor (and very specific even in some cases) and yet there it sits with 76% foreign split. You probably need more universal humor if you want to do, say, minions /DM numbers overseas, but again, that's not the target of this 

 

 

And FWIW, it has good buzz in Chile 

Edited December 12, 2018 by salvador-232

[Taruseth]

6 minutes ago, Barnack said:

This is crazy, I assumed that 416m was much more dispersed than those 2 country making for more than 58% of it.

 

Animation or SH wearing helmet can make the dubbing easier (possible to cast a local star, change the text a bit more), but they need to spend the time and money to make and test screen local versions and it is a crap shot if the X language version is a good one or not.

In admission Intouchables is the most successful film this decade in Germany, even slightly above TFA!

But to be fair, the film is amazing.

 

 

And I am actually kinda surprised that Wreck it Ralph is on top of Movieticktets.🤣

 

Edited December 12, 2018 by Taruseth

[WrathOfHan]

Spider-Verse is getting two screens at my local AMC including the biggest. Mortal Engines has the second biggest while The Mule is in an average auditorium. Gonna do Tallahassee's placements in a minute.

[WrathOfHan]

On 12/4/2018 at 9:00 PM, WrathOfHan said:

Boy Erased and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween are gone.

 

Elf 15th Anniversary: 3 (Smallest x0.4)

Schindler's List 25th Anniversary: 3 (Dolby)

The Wife: 3 (Smallest x0.75)

The Hate U Give: 2 (Return; Smallest x0.4)

Venom: 2 (Return: Smallest x0.4)

Halloween: 1 (Return; Biggest x0.2)

 

Creed II: 10 (Up 2; Biggest x1.8, Below Average x0.2, and Smallest x0.25)

Ralph Breaks the Internet: 9 (Down 3 and lost 3D; Biggest x1.8)

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: 6 (Down 2; 5 2D/1 3D; Above Average)

The Possession of Hannah Grace: 5 (Down 1; Average)

A Star Is Born: 5 (Up 1; IMAX and Below Average x0.2)

Nobody's Fool: 5 (Flat; Smallest)

Robin Hood: 5 (Up 1; Smallest)

Widows: 5 (Up 1; Average and Below Average x0.2)

2.0: 4 (Flat; All 3D; 2 Hindi/2 Tamil; Smallest)

Bohemian Rhapsody: 4 (Flat; Average)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: 4 (Down 4 and lost 3D; Above Average)

Green Book: 4 (Flat; Average)

Instant Family: 4 (Flat; Below Average x0.8)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: 3 (Down 2; Smallest x0.6)

Overlord: 2 (Flat; Below Average x0.4)

The Front Runner: 1 (Down 1; Biggest x0.2)

 

Auditorium sizes for reference:

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IMAX: 372 seats

Dolby: 236 seats

Biggest: 104-107 seats (4 auditoriums are this size)

Above Average: 77 seats (2 auditoriums are this size)

Average: 67-70 seats (4 auditoriums are this size)

Below Average: 51-54 seats (2 auditoriums are this size)

Smallest: 40 seats (6 auditoriums are this size)

 

 

2.0, Elf 15th Anniversary, The Front Runner, Halloween, The Hate U Give, Overlord, Schindler's List 25th Anniversary, Venom, and The Wife are gone.

 

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 21 (13 2D/8 3D; IMAX x0.6, Dolby, Biggest, Average x0.5, and Smallest x1.3)

Mortal Engines: 9 (5 2D/4 3D; IMAX x0.4, Biggest, and Below Average x0.4)

The Mule: 5 (Average x1.2)

Once Upon a Deadpool: 5 (Biggest x0.8 and Smallest x0.2)

Vox Lux: 4 (Average x0.8)

 

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: 6 (Flat; Biggest x1.2)

Ralph Breaks the Internet: 5 (Down 4; Above Average and Average x0.25)

Bohemian Rhapsody: 4 (Flat; Below Average)

Creed II: 4 (Down 6; Above Average)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: 4 (Flat; Smallest)

Green Book: 4 (Flat; Smallest)

Instant Family: 4 (Flat; Smallest)

The Possession of Hannah Grace: 3 (Down 2; Smallest x0.6)

Robin Hood: 3 (Down 2; Below Average x0.6)

Widows: 3 (Down 2; Average x0.75)

Nobody's Fool: 2 (Down 3; Smallest x0.4)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: 2 (Down 1; Smallest x0.5)

A Star Is Born: 2 (Down 3; Average x0.5)

 

Auditorium sizes for reference:

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IMAX: 372 seats

Dolby: 236 seats

Biggest: 104-107 seats (4 auditoriums are this size)

Above Average: 77 seats (2 auditoriums are this size)

Average: 67-70 seats (4 auditoriums are this size)

Below Average: 51-54 seats (2 auditoriums are this size)

Smallest: 40 seats (6 auditoriums are this size)

 

 

Edited December 12, 2018 by WrathOfHan

[el sid]

MT update:

#1 Ralph2 10.3%
#2 Creed II 9.2%
#3 The Grinch 8.6%
#4 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 6%
#5 Instant Family 6%

[MaxAggressor]

 

[dxmatrixdt]

how are the tens of thousands of crowd reports for Deadpool 2 showing this afternoon?  Where do all the crowd reports stream to once they are done at the movies?

[filmlover]

The Mule is getting good reviews. Also appears to be selling well too (the 6:45 on Friday is already 1/3 full in one of the bigger auditoriums). I could see it pushing mid-to-upper teens this weekend.

[YLF]

how's it looking for spider verse? any chance of exceeding 40M for opening weekend?

[Manny G]

I got to be honest. The China box office discussion is the only worthy discussion thread on this website. Everything else is just full of fluff and useless post. 

[Eric S'ennui]

1 minute ago, Manny G said:

I got to be honest. The China box office discussion is the only worthy discussion thread on this website. Everything else is just full of fluff and useless post. 

[Brainbug]

3 minutes ago, Manny G said:

I got to be honest. The China box office discussion is the only worthy discussion thread on this website. Everything else is just full of fluff and useless post. 

 

You dont think the delightfull Comic Book Movie Threads and the very calm and respectfull Star Wars-Discussions here are noteworthy?

[efialtes76]

1 hour ago, el sid said:

MT update:

#1 Ralph2 10.3%
#2 Creed II 9.2%
#3 The Grinch 8.6%
#4 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 6%
#5 Instant Family 6%

Very poor after a boring weekend.

 

[Welfin]

Just like Star Wars and Harry Potter, a Spider-Man film had to flop eventually. 

[VTKajin]

Spider-Verse is not flopping. The budget is a mere $90M. It'll absolutely profit. 

[Brainbug]

22 minutes ago, Welfin said:

Just like Star Wars and Harry Potter, a Spider-Man film had to flop eventually. 

 

Calling an animated film with a 90M budget that opens before the most lucrative period of the whole year a flop before we even have a Preview number.

 

 

 

Edit: And btw, Harry Potter doesnt have a flop yet. Crimes of Grindelwald for sure is underperforming, but a 600M+ worldwide total on a 200M budget is still not that bad on a purely financial basis.

Edited December 12, 2018 by Brainbug

[Eric S'ennui]

1 minute ago, Brainbug said:

 

Calling an animated film with a 90M budget that opens before the most lucrative period of the whole year a flop before we even have a Preview number.

 

Every post I've seen from him is basically "This movie's gonna flop" with no other details or variation. The funniest thing ever was when he was all "I predicted Solo would flop. I killed Solo. I will kill Jurassic." Then after it did good, homeboy just disappeared until Fantastic Beasts dropped. What a goober.

[Brainbug]

Just now, CoolEric258 said:

Every post I've seen from him is basically "This movie's gonna flop" with no other details or variation. The funniest thing ever was when he was all "I predicted Solo would flop. I killed Solo. I will kill Jurassic." Then after it did good, homeboy just disappeared until Fantastic Beasts dropped. What a goober.

 

Thats not even good trolling then. Thats just pathetic