WEEKEND THREAD | Actual: Wonder Woman 58.63M, Estimates: Mummy 32.2M, Underpants 12.3M, Pirates 10.2M, ICAN 6M

[The Futurist]

Just now, Mulder said:

Doctor Strange was never the most unanimously loved film. It's very safe and by the numbers for the most part.

 

Like Logan.

 

Even though introducing audiences to the complex & intricate & surreal & mind bending world of Dr Strange must have been quite the filmmaker s challenge only truly great artists are able to tackle.

 

All the scenes from Logan were riffs of things we ve seen elsewhere thousands of times, I like Greatest Hits too though.

 

Dr Strange opened  my mind to new possibilities and showed me things I ve never seen before in any movie.

 

 

 

 

[Mulder]

Just now, The Futurist said:

 

Like Logan.

 

Even though introducing audiences to the complex & intricate & surreal & mind bending world of Dr Strange must have been quite the filmmaker s challenge only truly great artists are able to tackle.

 

All the scenes from Logan were riffs of things we ve seen elsewhere thousands of times, I like Greatest Hits too though.

 

Dr Strange opened  my mind to new possibilities and showed me things I ve never seen before in any movie.

 

 

 

 

[Nova]

We don't have to wait several months from now. 

 

Wonder Woman is the second most overhyped comic book movie. But unlike Doctor Strange it's not forgettable so there's that. 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

15 minutes ago, Mulder said:

Civil War was probably the least safe of the most recent MCU stuff.

That's all kinds of bullshit

[cax16]

Wait till Tom Cruise joins the DCEU then you'll see his real box office power! 

[75Live]

11 minutes ago, Nova said:

Doctor Strange is one of the most forgettable and overhyped comic book films I've ever watched. 

 

yeah I actually don't even mind the movie or think it's bad, but this is still pretty accurate

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Honestly they should have done another with Fraser, Weisz, and the rest of the gang back. Then have the next one take places decades later with his grandson or someone which sets up the Dark Universe, probably would have made as much or more than this 

 

Weisz, didn't even want to make the 3rd one, she wasn't coming back.  Frasier - I have no idea what's going on with him but I blame him for dropping out of Journey 2 and helping to make Rock the King of Being Added To Sequels which lead to his being in every other movie in production.

 

 

[John Marston]

Update, Noon: Universal’s The Mummy is looking pretty dingy at the domestic B.O. with an opening between $29.6M-$32M at 4,034 theaters, off a first day that’s between $11.5M-$12.5M. Last night’s previews of $2.66M are rolled into today’s ticket sales. This is a horrible domestic start for Universal’s Dark Universe monster franchise with The Mummy on track to be the lowest opening among the studio’s previous Mummies and spin-off, i.e. The Mummy 1999’s $43.3M opening, The Mummy Returns’ $68.1M, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor‘s $40.4M and even below the Dwayne Johnson spinoff The Scorpion King which opened to $36M. Per one rival marketing executive on The Mummy‘s cursed outcome, “Nobody wanted to see Tom Cruise in this movie.”  And we’ve heard that The Mummy in its production cost is substantially higher than the $125M-$130M reported before P&A; in the $195M vicinity.

 

This puts the Tom Cruise movie in second place behind Warner Bros./DC’s Wonder Woman which will hold on to No. 1 with $48.5M-$51M in its second weekend at 4,165 which is an average ease of 52%. If these figures hold up on the high end, Wonder Woman will stand at $198.9M by EOD Sunday.

20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants will take third with $4M today and $13.3M in weekend two at 3,529,  -44% for a 10-day gross of $45.6M.

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will take fourth with an estimated $3.2M today, and $11.1M in its third outing, -49% for a running stateside total of $136.3M.

Newcomer It Comes at Night from A24 will slot fifth with $3.7M today, and an opening of $9.1M at 2,533 locations. Bleecker Street’s Megan Leavey at 1,956 is looking at $800K-$1.1M today and $2.5M-$3.2M in its debut.

Again, all these figures could sway up or down by evening.

[John Marston]

1 minute ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Weisz, didn't even want to make the 3rd one, she wasn't coming back.  Frasier - I have no idea what's going on with him but I blame him for dropping out of Journey 2 and helping to make Rock the King of Being Added To Sequels which lead to his being in every other movie in production.

 

 

 

 

She didn't  want to make one back then but years later now she could have  changed her mind 

Edited June 9, 2017 by John Marston

[Mulder]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

That's all kinds of bullshit

Not really. Easily the darkest of the Marvel stuff so far and used pretty much every facet of it's cinematic universe. It also had not the greatest legs.

[Ethan Hunt]

The least safe is probably Ant-Man. Even though it's shit

[Nova]

1 minute ago, 75live said:

 

yeah I actually don't even mind the movie or think it's bad, but this is still pretty accurate

People are getting offended because I said it's overhyped and forgettable....that doesn't mean I think it's bad or anything. It simply just doesn't do anything and if you probably ask folks they'll have forgotten it even came out ie forgettable. 

[DAR]

I understand Universal wanting to bring back their classic monsters.  I just want a filmmaker to say, hey we going to make this one movie.  Hopefully if people like it, then we'll look for another story we can tell, etc etc etc

[CJohn]

Sweet Jesus, that is the beginning and end of the Dark Universe. Just let Blumhouse run with it and delete The Mummy from canon.

[ZattMurdock]

39 minutes ago, cax16 said:

Wait till Tom Cruise joins the DCEU then you'll see his real box office power! 

[mod edit] To imagine that one day I was mildly excited with the idea of him becoming Iron Man makes me go ugh at myself. 

[Nova]

So it's not even Friday night and Deadline is already ridding away with their $60M+ predictions for Wonder Woman? How very deadline of them. 

[Mulder]

1 minute ago, DAR said:

I understand Universal wanting to bring back their classic monsters.  I just want a filmmaker to say, hey we going to make this one movie.  Hopefully if people like it, then we'll look for another story we can tell, etc etc etc

I burst out laughing when the Dark Universe logo appeared before the movie started.

[DAR]

Doctor Strange was  fine as lay on the couch one afternoon and watch it type film

[a2k]

Just now, John Marston said:

Update, Noon: Universal’s The Mummy is looking pretty dingy at the domestic B.O. with an opening between $29.6M-$32M at 4,034 theaters, off a first day that’s between $11.5M-$12.5M. Last night’s previews of $2.66M are rolled into today’s ticket sales. This is a horrible domestic start for Universal’s Dark Universe monster franchise with The Mummy on track to be the lowest opening among the studio’s previous Mummies and spin-off, i.e. The Mummy 1999’s $43.3M opening, The Mummy Returns’ $68.1M, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor‘s $40.4M and even below the Dwayne Johnson spinoff The Scorpion King which opened to $36M. Per one rival marketing executive on The Mummy‘s cursed outcome, “Nobody wanted to see Tom Cruise in this movie.”  And we’ve heard that The Mummy in its production cost is substantially higher than the $125M-$130M reported before P&A; in the $195M vicinity.

 

This puts the Tom Cruise movie in second place behind Warner Bros./DC’s Wonder Woman which will hold on to No. 1 with $48.5M-$51M in its second weekend at 4,165 which is an average ease of 52%. If these figures hold up on the high end, Wonder Woman will stand at $198.9M by EOD Sunday.

20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants will take third with $4M today and $13.3M in weekend two at 3,529,  -44% for a 10-day gross of $45.6M.

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will take fourth with an estimated $3.2M today, and $11.1M in its third outing, -49% for a running stateside total of $136.3M.

Newcomer It Comes at Night from A24 will slot fifth with $3.7M today, and an opening of $9.1M at 2,533 locations. Bleecker Street’s Megan Leavey at 1,956 is looking at $800K-$1.1M today and $2.5M-$3.2M in its debut.

Again, all these figures could sway up or down by evening.

 

12 + 10.75 + 8 (-25%) = 30.75 for Mummy probably.

 

Will take 11.1 for POTC. APOC did 9.9.

[John Marston]

35 minutes ago, iJackSparrow said:

[mod edit] To imagine that one day I was mildly excited with the idea of him becoming Iron Man makes me go ugh at myself. 

 

 

Tom Cruise is awesome and should be in every universe