The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[Nova]

5 minutes ago, damnitgeorge08 said:

That's what I do. This year I have gone to movies 12-14 times and the most I have paid for a ticket is bahubali 2: rs. 51. The actual price was 210. After discount it was around 15-25 rs. +tax it reached 51.

My actual question should have been, are their not enough discount codes given in USA? 

I think it has to do with the booming startups in india. There is new online purchasing service every few months. They all give heavy discounts in the beginning.

There are discounts like the deal I mentioned with The Hitman's Bodyguard or like twomisfits mentioned but these discounts aren't there all the time. So unless you have a special membership (like my AMC one) the tickets online are more expensive 

[filmlover]

Detroit shedding showtimes like crazy around here this weekend (with more than a few sticking it to only 9:30-10:30 shows at night). I fear it's in for a miserable hold this weekend after already not opening to particularly good numbers.

[dxmatrixdt]

9 hours ago, Matrix4You said:

Dunkirk - 11.1%

Emoji - 10.4%

Dark Tower - 10.3%

Spider-Man - 7.8%

Girls Trip - 7.7%

Dunkirk - 11.1%

Dark Tower - 10.5%

Emoji - 9.7%

Girls Trip - 8%

Spider-Man - 7.9%

[TwoMisfits]

2nd local is FINALLY up (nothing like waiting til almost last minute:)...

They have booked all 3 new movies on 1 screen each, with 4-5 showings/day for each (Nut Job 2 does not start til 12pm, so no extra showings for this one).

To make room, this theater KEPT WW and DM3, but only for 2 and 1 showings respectively.  Interestingly, APES also drops to a 1 showing/day (Spidey has kept his full screen here, as has EMOJI and DETROIT).  Valerian and Baby Driver are gone... 

 

PS - Nutty is being presold Thursday for 1 5pm showing, Glass Castle has 1 7pm showing, and Annabelle has 1 7pm showing, although its 3/4 sold, so it might get another last minute one...

Edited August 9, 2017 by TwoMisfits

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Annabelle is at #1 on Pulse!!!!!

[KeepItU25071906]

13 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

Annabelle is at #1 on Pulse!!!!!

Yeah. It's already been about 4 hours. May be more, but I did first check exactly 4 hours ago 

[WrathOfHan]

I feel like Annabelle's hype peaked too soon. The first reviews came out nearly two months ago, and new reviews are being less generous towards the film. 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

 

Warner did the right move, although. After the first movie, there were an obviously mistrust towards the sequel, allowing reviews to be published early made disappear a bit of this feeling that it would be a bad movie, something that would seems less impressive if the mixed reviews were posted at same time of the great ones.

[filmlover]

This year hasn't exactly been kind to sequels to movies that were generally considered unsatisfying. If Annabelle 2 comes close to making as much as the first, that would be a big win for it.

[WrathOfHan]

I think Annabelle will open around 22-23M and finish around 65M. It's still a sequel, and September legs will be nonexistent with It and mother! Annabelle has 4 weeks to make money, essentially. 

Edited August 9, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[TwoMisfits]

17 hours ago, TwoMisfits said:

So, less than 48 hours to go...and my mall has made another change, now kicking Nut Job 2 into one of its smallest theaters for its Thursday shows and dropping it to 600ish seats...so how many has it sold?  Still ZERO!  It's amazing they sold nothing, so could 1st drop a show and 2nd now drop this to the smaller theater - I am curious what movie is now getting "bumped up" into the bigger one...

 

Gonna track the one local now preselling...3 showings, 180 seats...also ZERO sales (but this one only started selling this morning vs last week, so less bad)...

 

Oh, and the local preselling Annabelle...it's got 2 showings with 60 seats for 120 seats total...it has currently sold 14/120...so, better than zero, although not sky high...

So, now that I can track 3 theaters for NJ2...here's where it's at...

1st local - FOUR seats sold - HALLELUJAH!  4/180

2nd local - ZERO seats sold - 0/160ish

Mall - ZERO seats STILL sold - 0/600ish (this has been on sale for over a week, so it's so sad)...

 

To say this is the lightest sales all year for an animated less than 30 hours out would be understating it...

[The Panda]

I'm going with Annabelle Creation matching Annabelle, for the sole reason that it's the only real high profile new release of August.  

[dxmatrixdt]

8 hours ago, Matrix4You said:

Dunkirk - 11.1%

Dark Tower - 10.5%

Emoji - 9.7%

Girls Trip - 8%

Spider-Man - 7.9%

Dunkirk - 11.3%

Dark Tower - 10.3%

Girls Trip - 8.5%

Atomic Blonde - 7.5%

Emoji Movie - 7.4%

 

I am heading out, but this will need updating with the next update by movietickets.  Emoji could rise during matinees but if it stays where it is, then...   Spider-Man?

[Taylor]

Deadline:

 

Annabelle 2: 30m+

Nut Job 2: 12-14m

 

http://deadline.com/2017/08/annabelle-creation-nutjob-2-dunkirk-box-office-preview-1202145555/

Edited August 9, 2017 by Taylor

[BeastByTheBay]

Annabelle 2 is gonna make it's money back the first weekend lol

[TalismanRing]

Some pretty big ad spends relative to low B.O. returns.  That Detroit number - ouch - and Nut Job 2's ad spend is par with Moana...

 

VARIETY / ispot.tv

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-nut-job-2-the-dark-tower-top-studios-tv-ad-spending-1202518055/

 

Top Movie Commercials by Weekly TV Spend Spend

figures are based on estimates generated from July 31 through Aug. 6

 

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$6.46M – The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

Impressions: 383,038,415

Attention Score: 93.16

National Airings: 2,329

Networks: 39

Most Spend On: Nick, Cartoon Network

Creative Versions: 13

Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $19.7M

Studio: Open Road Films

Started Airing: 01/16/17

$5.97M – The Dark Tower

Impressions: 353,542,269

Attention Score: 91.00

National Airings: 1,520

Networks: 38

Most Spend On: ESPN, NBC

Creative Versions: 24

Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $23.84M

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Started Airing: 05/03/17

$5.06M – Detroit

Impressions: 295,681,279

Attention Score: 87.40

National Airings: 1,589

Networks: 42

Most Spend On: NBC, ESPN

Creative Versions: 18

Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $21.63M

Studio: Annapurna Pictures

Started Airing: 06/09/17

$4.53M – Kidnap

Impressions: 318,139,757

Attention Score: 89.82

National Airings: 1,529

Networks: 26

Most Spend On: NBC, ABC

Creative Versions: 18

Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $11.63M

Studio: Aviron Pictures

Started Airing: 07/18/17

$3.69M – Annabelle: Creation

Impressions: 227,125,047

Attention Score: 93.845

National Airings: 1,020

Networks: 43

Most Spend On: Comedy Central, ABC

Creative Versions: 24

Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $10.08M

Studio: Warner Bros.

Started Airing: 06/25/17

¹ Movie titles with a minimum spend of $100,000 for airings detected between 07/31/2017 and 08/06/2017.

 

 

[grim22]

http://deadline.com/2017/08/annabelle-creation-nutjob-2-dunkirk-box-office-preview-1202145555/

 

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After giving us the summer’s highest grossing movie Wonder Woman, the sleeper Dunkirk, and this weekend’s Annabelle: Creation, Warner Bros. will literally be responsible for juicing the box office again on Sept. 8 with New Line’s Stephen King feature adaptation It. Many rivals are already expecting that pic to clear at least $50M. 

 

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Fandango is seeing brisk advance ticket sales for Annabelle: Creation that’s outstripping that of Annabelle and last summer’s Don’t Breathe ($26.4M). 

 

[TwoMisfits]

58 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Deadline:

 

Annabelle 2: 30m+

Nut Job 2: 12-14m

 

http://deadline.com/2017/08/annabelle-creation-nutjob-2-dunkirk-box-office-preview-1202145555/

Nutty is getting 4003 theaters!!!!!!!  There goes Emoji's record for worst widest release...

[Mojoguy]

Nutty is getting 4003 theaters!!!!!!!

What the fuck?!

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Only 24 Horror movies opened above $30m, if Annabelle opens above the mark, it will be 25 Horror movies opening above $30m, with 4 coming from the same franchise. The consistency of the TCU brand is something remarkable, it's like the Pixar for Horror fans.