The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[WrathOfHan]

Leap finished with two tickets, the same as Nut Job did a couple weeks ago  

[WrathOfHan]

Alright, I'm fucking PISSED my AMC didn't get Wind River. This is total BS.

 

> NEW RELEASES
6	-	Leap!	Weinstein Company	2,575	-	-	1
12	-	Birth of the Dragon	BH Tilt	1,617	-	-	1
16	-	All Saints	Sony / Columbia	800	-	-	1
27	-	A Gentleman	FIP	135	-	-	1
42	-	Served Like a Girl	Entertainment Studios	9	-	-	1
46	-	Beach Rats	Neon	3	-	-	1
> EXPANDING
1	2	Annabelle: Creation	Warner Bros. (New Line)	3,565	+23	+0.6%	3
7	16	Wonder Woman	Warner Bros.	2,210	+1,407	+175.2%	13
8	13	Despicable Me 3	Universal	2,108	+557	+35.9%	9
9	17	Wind River	Weinstein Company	2,095	+1,401	+201.9%	4
17	53	Good Time	A24	721	+701	+3,505.0%	3
18	19	The Big Sick	Lionsgate	706	+88	+14.2%	10
19	50	Ingrid Goes West	Neon	647	+621	+2,388.5%	3
22	30	47 Meters Down	Entertainment Studios	307	+161	+110.3%	11
23	27	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Buena Vista	299	+104	+53.3%	17
24	37	The Only Living Boy in New York	Roadside Attractions	289	+223	+337.9%	3
30	35	Menashe	A24	103	+17	+19.8%	5
34	59	Patti Cake$	Fox Searchlight	59	+45	+321.4%	2
35	54	The Trip to Spain	IFC	56	+37	+194.7%	3
40	62	City of Ghosts	IFC	13	+1	+8.3%	8
41	78	Crown Heights	IFC	10	+7	+233.3%	2
43	68	From the Land of the Moon	IFC	8	+1	+14.3%	5
44	82	It Comes At Night	A24	7	+4	+133.3%	12
45	88	The Exception	A24	4	+2	+100.0%	13
47	104	Il Boom (2017 re-release)	Rialto	2	+1	+100.0%	10
> NO CHANGE
2	3	The Hitman's Bodyguard	Lionsgate/Summit	3,377	-	-	2
4	6	Logan Lucky	Bleecker Street	3,031	-	-	2
> DECLINING
3	1	The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature	Open Road Films	3,090	-913	-22.8%	3
5	4	Dunkirk	Warner Bros.	2,774	-497	-15.2%	6
10	10	Girls Trip	Universal	1,768	-242	-12.0%	6
11	8	Kidnap (2017)	Aviron	1,693	-652	-27.8%	4
13	14	The Glass Castle	Lionsgate	1,298	-163	-11.2%	3
14	12	War for the Planet of the Apes	Fox	1,114	-494	-30.7%	7
15	11	Atomic Blonde	Focus Features	981	-647	-39.7%	5
20	15	Detroit	Annapurna Pictures	525	-903	-63.2%	5
21	21	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	STX Entertainment	318	-147	-31.6%	6
25	25	Cars 3	Buena Vista	214	-33	-13.4%	11
26	28	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Buena Vista	165	-19	-10.3%	14
28	20	An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power	Paramount	127	-387	-75.3%	5
29	23	Step (2017)	Fox Searchlight	118	-188	-61.4%	4
31	32	Maudie	Sony Classics	96	-28	-22.6%	20
32	31	The House	Warner Bros. (New Line)	95	-43	-31.2%	9
33	22	Brigsby Bear	Sony Classics	94	-314	-77.0%	5
36	39	Megan Leavey	Bleecker Street	52	-7	-11.9%	12
37	34	Lady Macbeth	Roadside Attractions	41	-45	-52.3%	7
38	44	A Ghost Story	A24	21	-18	-46.2%	8
39	51	Beatriz At Dinner	Roadside Attractions	18	-7	-28.0%	12

[CJohn]

The Glass Castle expansions continue to amaze me.

[WrathOfHan]

Oh God, my AMC put Friday showtimes up for It, and it's in an average auditorium during the day and the biggest at night. If they're seriously not putting it on multiple screens......  

[WrathOfHan]

This Wind River expansion has to be super last minute; there's still a few big theaters around Orlando like Universal that aren't getting it.

[CJohn]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Oh God, my AMC put Friday showtimes up for It, and it's in an average auditorium during the day and the biggest at night. If they're seriously not putting it on multiple screens......  

Exactly the same they did with Annabelle, which wasn't all that smart to begin with, and we are talking about a movie which should have the two biggest screens for itself...

[CJohn]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

This Wind River expansion has to be super last minute; there's still a few big theaters around Orlando like Universal that aren't getting it.

Box Office mentioned it on their weekend preview.

[WrathOfHan]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Exactly the same they did with Annabelle, which wasn't all that smart to begin with, and we are talking about a movie which should have the two biggest screens for itself...

Annabelle was the second biggest, mind you  I'm going to be amazed if it doesn't get 3+ screens with how shitty some of the holdovers will be. 

 

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Box Office mentioned it on their weekend preview.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

I can't remember the last time my AMC didn't get something that was in 2k+ theaters. It has to be coming next weekend, right? RIGHT?  

All Saints in their second biggest auditorium will be fun to watch, at least  

[MattW]

http://www.thewrap.com/box-office-predictions-balloon-record-bursting-60-million-opening/

Last week, the first round of tracking had the remake of Stephen King’s seminal horror tale making $50 million in its opening weekend. Now, those numbers have floated up to $60 million, a figure that would give “It” the biggest theatrical debut in horror movie history as well as the biggest opening for any film released in September.

The record currently belongs to “Hannibal,” which made $58 million in its opening weekend in 2001. Second on the list is “Paranormal Activity 3,” which made a $52.5 million opening  in 2011. The September record belongs to “Hotel Transylvania 2” with $48.4 million in 2015.

[CJohn]

19 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Annabelle was the second biggest, mind you  I'm going to be amazed if it doesn't get 3+ screens with how shitty some of the holdovers will be. 

 

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

I can't remember the last time my AMC didn't get something that was in 2k+ theaters. It has to be coming next weekend, right? RIGHT?  

All Saints in their second biggest auditorium will be fun to watch, at least  

The idea is still pretty much the same, and you know it was dumb to not plug Annabelle on their biggest screen and be done with it. It deserves 3 screens, I fully agree.

 

I guess it depends on how the expansion goes? If it goes well enough, they will probably expand it more over LD weekend, if not you will have to go see Alicia Vikander Naked: The Movie instead

 

[WrathOfHan]

4 minutes ago, CJohn said:

The idea is still pretty much the same, and you know it was dumb to not plug Annabelle on their biggest screen and be done with it. It deserves 3 screens, I fully agree.

 

I guess it depends on how the expansion goes? If it goes well enough, they will probably expand it more over LD weekend, if not you will have to go see Alicia Vikander Naked: The Movie instead

 

That movie is only gonna be in like 600-700 theaters (BOM says it's a moderate release), so that probably wouldn't happen  

 

Yeah, Annabelle easily deserved to have the largest all day on OW. Most of the showings that weekend reached the point where you had to be desperate for shit seats if you wanted to see it. I can't imagine what they're going to do with something like mother!, American Made, or (god forbid) Kingsman.

Edited August 24, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[JB33]

I actually can't believe my theatre brought in WIND RIVER starting tomorrow. Psyched to go see it tomorrow, because usually my theatre doesn't keep movies like this - that expand after limited initial releases - for very long at all. They brought in THE BIG SICK for like a week so I'm wasting no time.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2017 by JB33

[WrathOfHan]

@CJohn I remember back in March for Kong's OW they had 2D split between the second biggest and an average auditorium with The Shack and 3D in an average alltogether. Once it sold out literally every show on Friday, they scrambled and cancelled Logan's early showings in the largest auditorium to replace them with Kong. They couldn't even cancel The Shack because of church groups  

Edited August 24, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[CJohn]

7 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

That movie is only gonna be in like 600-700 theaters (BOM says it's a moderate release), so that probably wouldn't happen  

 

Yeah, Annabelle easily deserved to have the largest all day on OW. Most of the showings that weekend reached the point where you had to be desperate for shit seats if you wanted to see it. I can't imagine what they're going to do with something like mother!, American Made, or (god forbid) Kingsman.

The official estimate is actually 600 theaters so might guess is that Harvey will go all in on expanding Wind River again.

 

4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

@CJohn I remember back in March for Kong's OW they had 2D split between the second biggest and an average auditorium with The Shack and 3D in an average alltogether. Once it sold out literally every show on Friday, they scrambled and cancelled Logan's early showings in the largest auditorium to replace them with Kong. They couldn't even cancel The Shack because of church groups  

Why not just put Kong on the biggest in 2D and an average in 3D? Why not move Logan to two average screens? Why not just put The Shack alone on their 2nd biggest screen? Or why not give The Shack two average theaters and put Logan in the 2nd biggest? They seem to be really fucking stupid

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, CJohn said:

The official estimate is actually 600 theaters so might guess is that Harvey will go all in on expanding Wind River again.

 

Why not just put Kong on the biggest in 2D and an average in 3D? Why not move Logan to two average screens? Why not just put The Shack alone on their 2nd biggest screen? Or why not give The Shack two average theaters and put Logan in the 2nd biggest? They seem to be really fucking stupid

YEP. A lot of the time when they underestimate a movie, the following weekend they'll keep it in the second biggest to make up for the following weekend (it happened with Kong, Snatched, CU, POTC, and a few others I'm forgetting)

 

Logan had two screens that weekend: the biggest and an average one. Keeping it in one of the two biggest made sense because it was expected to perform close to Kong, but keeping The Shack in the 2nd biggest made no fucking sense.

[WrathOfHan]

All the theaters in this area don't know how to schedule and place movies for shit. The independent chain not far from me often puts movies at the wrong theater (IE Baby Driver got put at their smallest and oldest skewing theater) and pretty much refuses to schedule movies on more than one screen per location. Even for the big openers. 

[CJohn]

5 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

YEP. A lot of the time when they underestimate a movie, the following weekend they'll keep it in the second biggest to make up for the following weekend (it happened with Kong, Snatched, CU, POTC, and a few others I'm forgetting)

 

Logan had two screens that weekend: the biggest and an average one. Keeping it in one of the two biggest made sense because it was expected to perform close to Kong, but keeping The Shack in the 2nd biggest made no fucking sense.

Damn church groups

[filmlover]

Some big expansions this weekend between earlier summer movies and indies. Theaters are truly desperate for content at the moment and it shows.

 

Can't wait for the Oogieloves-esque PTA for Tulip Fever next weekend!

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

Damn church groups

And they aren't showing up for All Saints  When a faith movie is selling poorly in MY area, you know it's going to bomb. Even that one faith movie that was in like 600-700 theaters back in December (Believe?) was selling better than All Saints. I totally won't be surprised if Sony lets theaters drop it next weekend like Brigsby Bear

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

And they aren't showing up for All Saints  When a faith movie is selling poorly in MY area, you know it's going to bomb. Even that one faith movie that was in like 600-700 theaters back in December (Believe?) was selling better than All Saints. I totally won't be surprised if Sony lets theaters drop it next weekend like Brigsby Bear

I was thinking maybe 2.5-3M for the weekend but it might go lower than that.