The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[filmlover]

57 minutes ago, grim22 said:

The Alien "sponsored hashtags" have been pretty lame and are upstaged by the actual politics happening daily. On Monday it was #SheWontGoQuitely which people thought was about Hillary launching her new PAC, yesterday was #EvilReturns and today's is #RunHidePray which sounds like a sequel to the Julia Roberts movie. Why not just sponsor #AlienCovenant instead???

To be fair, with everything happening in politics right now, movies feel like a secondary source for entertainment.

[Jonwo]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

Wimpy Kid makes it onto Pulse. WW and Pirates trading the 5th spot through the day by the looks of it

 

1. Alien

2. GOTG2

3. Wimpy Kid

4. Snatched

5. Wonder Woman

 

Pulse is way too noisy for sure, changes every 15 minutes.

 

Wimpy Kid on Pulse makes me think it'll do $10-15m OW which isn't great but these films are cheap to make so they don't need huge OWs to succeed. 

 

Pirates and WW on Pulse makes me think they'll do better than expected.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Awe, you are a great user Empirecity!

 

Also, less presale data means more surprise weekend threads. It's nice to not know how well a movie will do beforehand.  

[druv10]

15 hours ago, Boner Omega said:

What in the world?  Just got caught up on what happened here.  Positively crazy!

Love your avatar! 28-12!

[grim22]

Alien needs to pick up the pace for sure to make any kind of big impact

 

Pulse:

1. GOTG2

2. Alien

3. Wonder Woman

4. Snatched

5. GOTG2 3D

 

MT:

GOTG2 35.7%

Snatched 10.9%

KA 10.9%

Alien 7.3%

F8 3.2%

[John Marston]

5 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Alien needs to pick up the pace for sure to make any kind of big impact

 

Pulse:

1. GOTG2

2. Alien

3. Wonder Woman

4. Snatched

5. GOTG2 3D

 

MT:

GOTG2 35.7%

Snatched 10.9%

KA 10.9%

Alien 7.3%

F8 3.2%

 

 

Alien isn't in IMAX or 3D I found out. They could have solved the first part of they kept the original August date

[grim22]

2 minutes ago, John Marston said:

 

 

Alien isn't in IMAX or 3D I found out. They could have solved the first part of they kept the original August date

 

It is playing in every IMAX near me. Every IMAX theater apart from Disney is playing it on their IMAX screen in SoCal.

 

https://www.imax.com/movies/alien-covenant#showtimes-wrapper

[John Marston]

Just now, grim22 said:

 

It is playing in every IMAX near me. Every IMAX theater apart from Disney is playing it on their IMAX screen in SoCal.

 

 

Checked both Amc IMAX's near me and it looks like Guardians is still playing. Weird 

[grim22]

Just now, John Marston said:

 

 

Checked both Amc IMAX's near me and it looks like Guardians is still playing. Weird 

 

https://www.imax.com/movies/alien-covenant#showtimes-wrapper

 

This will show the theaters near you playing it in IMAX.

[marveldcfox]

Ah I can smell victory already!

[WrathOfHan]

Alien will be fine. Let's not forget that it's a horror movie.

 

Universal is the only IMAX in Orlando that's getting Alien. At the Altamonte Mall and Pointe Orlando, Alien is getting Dolby/4DX respectively while GOTG is keeping IMAX. All the theater based PLFs are getting it.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

Ah I can smell victory already!

Is it your sole duty to bad mouth anything by Fox?

[Biggestgeekever]

MT:

 

1. Guardians 2: 35.4%

2. Snatched: 10.8%

3. King Arthur: 10.7%

4. Alien: 8.1%

5. Fate of the Furious: 3.1%

 

It may blow up tomorrow, but it does not seem likely that Alien will reach #1 at any point. 

[WrathOfHan]

Also, keep in mind that MT skews older.

[DAJK]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

Is it your sole duty to bad mouth anything by Fox?

Yep, I had to give him credit though after how bad F4 was

[Biggestgeekever]

24 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Also, keep in mind that MT skews older.

That probably makes Alien look worse, then. It's part of a 40+ year old franchise and Prometheus skewed old on OW(64% were 25 years or older according to BOM: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3461&p=.htm)

[Eevin]

@EmpireCity thank you for your service. I'm sorry some people can't respect confidentiality, but hopefully you can continue posting as a regular user as I value your insight.

 

@Boner Omega 

...

cool name

[TalismanRing]

1 hour ago, Biggestgeekever said:

That probably makes Alien look worse, then. It's part of a 40+ year old franchise and Prometheus skewed old on OW(64% were 25 years or older according to BOM: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3461&p=.htm)

 

Spring chickens compared to GOTG2 o/w

[Arlborn]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

Is it your sole duty to bad mouth anything by Fox?

To be fair to him he shits on a movie in half of the threads he post and some of them aren't from Fox. He's just one of those people, sadly.

 

Not a fan.

 

 

Edited May 17, 2017 by Arlborn

[TalismanRing]

http://pro.boxoffice.com/weekend-forecast-alien-covenant-diary-wimpy-kid-long-haul-everything-everything/

 

Title	Distributor	Weekend	Domestic Total through Sunday, May 21	% Change
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Buena Vista	$36,000,000	$303,360,000	-44.84%
Alien: Covenant	Fox	$35,900,000	$35,900,000	NEW
Everything, Everything	Warner Bros.	$9,500,000	$9,500,000	NEW
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	Fox	$9,000,000	$9,000,000	NEW
Snatched	Fox	$8,600,000	$33,830,000	-56.00%
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	Warner Bros.	$7,450,000	$27,880,000	-51.50%
Beauty and the Beast (2017)	Buena Vista	$3,370,000	$498,720,000	-30.00%
The Fate of the Furious	Universal	$3,240,000	$219,930,000	-40.00%
The Boss Baby	Fox	$3,150,000	$166,420,000	-30.00%
How to be a Latin Lover	Pantelion	$2,120,000	$29,440,000	-45.00%

Shawn Robbins and Alex Edghill contributed to this report.