The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[TalismanRing]

http://akvalley.pythonanywhere.com/static/fandango_report.txt

 

Updated by @akvalley: 2018-07-18 00:00:28 Central
TICKETS	SHOW DATE	DAY	MOVIE
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5569	2018-07-19	THU	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
6347	2018-07-20	FRI	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2878	2018-07-21	SAT	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
1517	2018-07-22	SUN	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

1376	2018-07-19	THU	The Equalizer 2
2109	2018-07-20	FRI	The Equalizer 2
1320	2018-07-21	SAT	The Equalizer 2
500	2018-07-22	SUN	The Equalizer 2

[filmlover]

Equalizer 2 starts with 41% on RT with 22 reviews so far.

[Nova]

41 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Equalizer 2 starts with 41% on RT with 22 reviews so far.

Mamma Mia 2 can’t relate. 

[That One Girl]

I don't give a shit about reviews for Sequelizer.  Film looks great and the first one didn't exactly get glowing reviews either.  I kind of almost love the first one, so I'm sure I'll enjoy this.

[WrathOfHan]

Pulse:

 

1. Mamma Mia!

2. Hotel Transylvania 3

3. The Equalizer 2

4. Ant-Man and the Wasp

5. Incredibles 2

[el sid]

That's lower than I hoped but not terrible. And the average rating of 5.6/10 is almost on par with the first Equalizer (5.7/10).
The good news is that the film (again) increased strongly today from Pulse ticket sales (Edit: look above ):
2 times of 5 minutes eye counting showed at the moment for The Equalizer2 51 and 48 sold tickets (Sicario had ca. 18/5 minutes at the same time of day on Wednesday, so Equalizer expanded it's lead; Sicario had ca. 50/5 minutes on late Thursday),
Mamma Mia 2: 97/5 minutes (!),
Unfriended 2: saw only 2 tickets/5 minutes.

Edited July 18, 2018 by el sid

[That One Girl]

https://deadline.com/2018/07/the-dark-knight-tenth-anniversary-to-be-celebrated-with-imax-70mm-release-comic-con-1202428496/

 

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Ten years ago today Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight swept into theaters and Warner Bros. is celebrating with an exclusive one-week limited re-release of the movie in Imax 70MM starting Aug. 24.

 

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Jeff Goldstein, Warners’ President of Domestic Distribution, made the announcement today. The Dark Knight will play in four Imax locations: AMC Citywalk in Universal City, CA; AMC Lincoln Square in New York, AMC Metreon in San Francisco and and the Ontario Place Cinesphere in Toronto. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

 

Edited July 18, 2018 by That One Guy

[Eric Loves Rey]

https://deadline.com/2018/07/mamma-mia-here-we-go-again-equalizer-2-weekend-box-office-1202428517/

 

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After weathering a setback with Dwayne Johnson’s Skyscraper last weekend, Universal is expected to take the upper hand at the weekend box office with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, which is poised to make between $30 million-$36 million at 3,200 locations.

 

Sony, after owning last weekend’s crown with Hotel Transylvania 3, is looking to grab older men with Equalizer 2, Denzel Washington’s first sequel ever, which is expected to make around $26M, possibly a bit more. Much like HT3, Sony has a confidence here that the fall 2014 hit, which opened to $34.1M and legged out to $101.5M, can play the summer and reap off midweek business. Pic’s Rotten Tomatoes is 41% rotten. The sequel, directed by Antoine Fuqua, is in a tight spot on the calendar, arriving after the lackluster Skyscraper, which should drop 50% this weekend between $12M-$13M, and ahead of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which is poised to reap a $60M-plus opening. Previews start early on Thursday at 4 PM.

 

HT3 will be close behind Mamma Mia 2 and Equalizer 2 with a second weekend between $24M-$26M. Within five days, HT3 at $58.8M has exceeded the first-week $57.5M gross of its predecessor Hotel Transylvania 2.

 

[filmlover]

I think Mission: Impossible is poised to breakout with over $60M now with the excellent reviews along with Skyscraper and now The Equalizer 2 looking to be nonevents.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

6 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I think Mission: Impossible is poised to breakout with over $60M now with the excellent reviews along with Skyscraper and now The Equalizer 2 looking to be nonevents.

I've been thinking around there for a few weeks, but I'm not ruling out $75m or so now.

[Barnack]

38 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Sony, after owning last weekend’s crown with Hotel Transylvania 3, is looking to grab older men with Equalizer 2, Denzel Washington’s first sequel ever, which is expected to make around $26M, possibly a bit more.

 

At 26 if it follow those multiplier:

2 guns: 2.794 -> 72.644
Equalizer: 2.974 -> 77.324
Mag 7: 2.69 -> 69.94

 

It has full summer days run, but is a direct sequel + mediocre reviews + Mission Impossible coming for that audience. It is Denzel playing what marketing study told him what audience prefer the most watching him do (being the mean powerful guy protecting weaker one) to a ridiculous level, but he played that formula so many time.

 

 

Not too bad if it can achieve a good for Denzel 1:1 dbo/ibo and if they kep that budget cheap around 65m like on the first, but no margin to come under tracking a la Skyscraper.

 

Mamma Mia can go much higher than 30m, come-on.

Edited July 18, 2018 by Barnack

[La Binoche]

[MrGlass2]

Updated by @akvalley: 2018-07-18 14:01:26 Central (Lock time Fridays 11:00:00)
BUY TIME	TICKETS	MOVIE TITLE
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2018-07-18 13:00:00	422	Hotel Transylvania 3 Summer Vacation
2018-07-18 13:00:00	407	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018-07-18 13:00:00	330	Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018-07-18 13:00:00	182	Incredibles 2
2018-07-18 13:00:00	155	Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
2018-07-18 13:00:00	154	The Equalizer 2
2018-07-18 13:00:00	151	Skyscraper (2018)
2018-07-18 13:00:00	54	The First Purge
2018-07-18 13:00:00	53	Sorry to Bother You
2018-07-18 13:00:00	41	Ant-Man and the Wasp 3D

...

2018-07-18 13:00:00	19	Mission Impossible - Fallout

2018-07-18 13:00:00	3	Unfriended Dark Web

 

It is looking pretty awful for Unfriended 2, is it really releasing this weekend? The first one opened with $15.8M.

 

[MCKillswitch123]

4PM previews for Equalizer 2? LMFAO.

[Stewart]

15 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

4PM previews for Equalizer 2? LMFAO.

Maybe they're trying to attract the over 70s audience? 

 

Speaking of which, how are presales looking down in Elderly State @WrathOfHan?

[el sid]

MT update  - as mentioned already with one new film:

#1 HT3 21.7%
#2 Ant-Man 15.4%
#3 Mamma Mia! 10.1%
#4 TI2 9.4%

#5 Skyscraper 8.9%

Judging from presales, I would say both big new releases will open higher than in the deadline article predicted. And Skyscraper is lucky if it's losing only 50%. The total disinterest in Unfriended 2 is maybe not that surprising with only 37% at RT who liked the first one. Personal even as a horror film fan I wouldn't watch part 2 neither.

Edited July 18, 2018 by el sid

[MCKillswitch123]

12 minutes ago, feasby007 said:

Maybe they're trying to attract the over 70s audience? 

 

Speaking of which, how are presales looking down in Elderly State @WrathOfHan?

Why not just flat out do a 4-day OW, though? You're getting a full extra day's worth of service rather than to fake like Thursday previews + OD gross were anything all that impressive.

[Legion Again]

Can’t wait for when 10AM Thursday preview showings get rolled into OD 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Thanos Legion

[dxmatrixdt]

Unfriended 2 with theater counts a little less than BH Tilts other top releases.  Disappointing considering the brand recognition and low budget.  It looks like Unfriended 2 is not making the hype it could have reached with its promising trailer.

> NEW RELEASES
1	-	The Equalizer 2	Sony / Columbia	3,300+	-	-	1
2	-	Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!	Universal	3,200	-	-	1
3	-	Unfriended: Dark Web	BH Tilt	1,543	-	-	1

 

 

BH Tilt's widest releases

1	2	The Darkness	BH Tilt	$10,753,574	1,769	$4,950,859	1,755	5/13/16
2	7	Incarnate	BH Tilt	$4,799,774	1,737	$2,534,884	1,737	12/2/16
3	5	Birth of the Dragon	BH Tilt	$6,901,965	1,633	$2,702,430	1,618	8/25/17
4	4	The Green Inferno	BH Tilt	$7,192,291	1,543	$3,520,626	1,540	9/25/15
5	1	Upgrade	BH Tilt	$11,871,365	1,458	$4,670,905	1,457	6/1/18
6	3	The Belko Experiment	BH Tilt	$10,166,820	1,341	$4,137,230	1,341	3/17/17
7	9	The Resurrection of Gavin Stone	BH Tilt	$2,303,792	890	$1,206,771	890	1/20/17
8	8	Sleight	BH Tilt	$3,986,245	591	$1,701,785	565	4/28/17
9	6	Lowriders	BH Tilt	$6,303,560	365	$2,403,885	295	5/12/17

[Boxofficerules]

13 minutes ago, matrixdmath5 said:

Unfriended 2 with theater counts a little less than BH Tilts other top releases.  Disappointing considering the brand recognition and low budget.  It looks like Unfriended 2 is not making the hype it could have reached with its promising trailer.

> NEW RELEASES
1	-	The Equalizer 2	Sony / Columbia	3,300+	-	-	1
2	-	Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!	Universal	3,200	-	-	1
3	-	Unfriended: Dark Web	BH Tilt	1,543	-	-	1

 

 

BH Tilt's widest releases

1	2	The Darkness	BH Tilt	$10,753,574	1,769	$4,950,859	1,755	5/13/16
2	7	Incarnate	BH Tilt	$4,799,774	1,737	$2,534,884	1,737	12/2/16
3	5	Birth of the Dragon	BH Tilt	$6,901,965	1,633	$2,702,430	1,618	8/25/17
4	4	The Green Inferno	BH Tilt	$7,192,291	1,543	$3,520,626	1,540	9/25/15
5	1	Upgrade	BH Tilt	$11,871,365	1,458	$4,670,905	1,457	6/1/18
6	3	The Belko Experiment	BH Tilt	$10,166,820	1,341	$4,137,230	1,341	3/17/17
7	9	The Resurrection of Gavin Stone	BH Tilt	$2,303,792	890	$1,206,771	890	1/20/17
8	8	Sleight	BH Tilt	$3,986,245	591	$1,701,785	565	4/28/17
9	6	Lowriders	BH Tilt	$6,303,560	365	$2,403,885	295	5/12/17

I don't know why they gave their worst movies the widest release. I don't know why they don't release one of their bigger titles. Why not release Insidious 4 instead of selling it to Universal.