Second Act | STX | December 21, 2018 | Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens & Milo Ventimiglia | The Feel Good Comedy Of The Holiday Season

[Napoleon]

15 minutes ago, RichWS said:

Can't wait till my mother brings this up in a few months after she watches it On Demand.

Why not buy her and the entire family tickets to see the movie as a Christmas present?

[Napoleon]

With Mary Poppins bombing things are looking even better for Second Act. It could be the surprise hit of the Holidays and have The Greatest Showman legs.

 

Deadline reported a while ago that test screenings went excellent and that's why STX decided to move it to the Christmas weekend.

 

If this really gets excellent word of mouth I could see it happening, now that Mary Poppins isn't the Death Star everyone expected it to be.

[Napoleon]

 

The video was directed by JLo herself and it's one of the best music videos I have ever seen in my entire life.

 

How many talents does this woman have?

[TombRaider]

On 12/19/2018 at 5:09 PM, Napoleon said:

Sia wrote the theme song for the movie, and she has defended JLo in the past saying she's a talented singer.

This is a fucking lie. You're so embarrassing. I googled it and nothing came up.

[Napoleon]

35 minutes ago, TombRaider said:

This is a fucking lie. You're so embarrassing. I googled it and nothing came up.

 

[MrGlass2]

10 hours ago, Napoleon said:

With Mary Poppins bombing things are looking even better for Second Act. It could be the surprise hit of the Holidays and have The Greatest Showman legs. 

 

Deadline reported a while ago that test screenings went excellent and that's why STX decided to move it to the Christmas weekend.

 

If this really gets excellent word of mouth I could see it happening, now that Mary Poppins isn't the Death Star everyone expected it to be.

It's happening in some countries!

 

2 hours ago, Andreas said:

Romania box office update (December 16th):

 

"Second Act" opens at no.1 and scores a nice $169K / 697K RON on OW.

 

Edited December 21, 2018 by MrGlass2

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

So, apparently the movie is a little different than what's been sold in the trailers (spoilers in the link):

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jennifer-lopezs-second-act-has-the-craziest-movie-twist-of-the-year

[Napoleon]

Critics Consensus: Second Act proves Jennifer Lopez remains as magnetic as ever on the big screen; unfortunately, the movie's muddled story isn't always worthy of her gifts.

 

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Critics are praising her despite being mixed on the film.

[TombRaider]

On 11/19/2018 at 3:05 AM, Napoleon said:

Early reactions incredibly positive, I've never seen such a positive response to a movie before. $100 million domestic may be happening. Maid In Manhattan is going down.

SECOND ACT $2.49M Friday Estimate (Opening)  😂

[TombRaider]

On 11/19/2018 at 3:18 AM, Napoleon said:

STX took JLo's next movie away from Annapurna. Along with moving Second Act to the crowdest release date of the year, those are very strong signs they are confident in this film. Also, from Deadline: "We hear Second Act is moving due to some incredible test screenings." 

 

The Greatest Showman type of run incoming? STX is on to something.

 

I think I'll create my first club.

 

On 11/20/2018 at 12:18 AM, gravestone dt said:

Second Act could realistically do A+ cinemascore, 13.5 OW, 100 Domestic in December.

 

 

 

On 11/20/2018 at 2:33 AM, Napoleon said:

 If this movie is good and well reviewed it will make $100 million easily. JLo is a beloved legendary actress.

 

On 11/19/2018 at 3:05 AM, Napoleon said:

Early reactions incredibly positive, I've never seen such a positive response to a movie before. $100 million domestic may be happening. Maid In Manhattan is going down.

 

 

LOL. it will barely do 40m. jlos career is dead!

Edited January 13, 2019 by TombRaider

[Viktor Vilotijevic]

39-40 million $ is actually quite good! They released a film when there was so much competition, and it's actually way more decent than I expected it to be. I like her, but most of her films were not even my guilty pleasures. This one is.

[Barnack]

For a $16M budget movie from STX it is without a doubt quite good yes, that the studio history:

 

 

 

 

1	Bad Moms	STX	$113,257,297	3,215	$23,817,340	3,215	7/29/16
2	A Bad Moms Christmas	STX	$72,110,659	3,615	$16,759,161	3,615	11/1/17
3	I Feel Pretty	STX	$48,795,601	3,440	$16,030,218	3,440	4/20/18
4	Den of Thieves	STX	$44,947,622	2,432	$15,206,108	2,432	1/19/18
5	The Gift (2015)	STX	$43,787,265	2,503	$11,854,273	2,503	8/7/15
6	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	STX	$41,189,488	3,553	$17,007,624	3,553	7/21/17
7	Second Act	STX	$36,343,871	2,607	$6,489,983	2,607	12/21/18
8	Mile 22	STX	$36,108,758	3,520	$13,710,825	3,520	8/17/18
9	The Boy (2016)	STX	$35,819,556	2,671	$10,778,392	2,671	1/22/16
10	Peppermint	STX	$35,418,723	2,980	$13,423,255	2,980	9/7/18
11	The Foreigner	STX	$34,393,507	2,515	$13,113,024	2,515	10/13/17
12	Adrift	STX	$31,445,012	3,015	$11,603,039	3,015	6/1/18
13	Molly's Game	STX	$28,780,744	1,708	$2,349,967	271	12/25/17
14	The Bye Bye Man	STX	$22,395,806	2,220	$13,501,349	2,220	1/13/17
15	Free State of Jones	STX	$20,810,036	2,815	$7,572,206	2,815	6/24/16
16	The Happytime Murders	STX	$20,706,452	3,256	$9,532,425	3,256	8/24/18
17	The Circle (2017)	STX	$20,497,844	3,163	$9,034,148	3,163	4/28/17
18	The Secret in their Eyes (2015)	STX	$20,180,155	2,392	$6,652,996	2,392	11/20/15
19	The Upside	STX	$19,590,000	3,080	$19,590,000	3,080	1/11/19
20	The Edge of Seventeen	STX	$14,431,633	1,945	$4,754,215	1,945	11/18/16
21	Hardcore Henry	STX	$9,252,038	3,015	$5,107,604	3,015	4/8/16
22	The Space Between Us	STX	$7,885,294	2,812	$3,775,596	2,812	2/3/17
23	Gringo	STX	$4,969,853	2,404	$2,722,420	2,404	3/9/18
24	Their Finest	STX	$3,603,484	330	$76,197	4	4/7/17
25	Desierto	STX	$2,002,036	168	$514,282	73	10/14/16

 

 

Arguably their best performer domestic after The Gift and the Bad Mom franchise (Feel pretty & Den of Thieve had significantly bigger budget), until I imagine The Upside legs with that A cinemascore pass it, but still it give an idea looking at that list, among 25 release it will be in the Top 5, top 20% of the distributor history, top 4 if you remove sequel.

Edited January 14, 2019 by Barnack

[DAJK]

This had a good run for STX. Not as good as Napoleon was hoping nor as bad as TombRaider was hoping. Let's just say we move on and be happy for all involved

[Napoleon]

Production Budget: $16 million

 

 

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$38,414,799	61.4%
+ Foreign:	$24,100,000	38.6%
= Worldwide:	$62,514,799

[Napoleon]

4x its budget

5.9x multiplier at the domestic box office

 

What a mesmerizing success

[TombRaider]

it did worse than i feel pretty, life of the party, a simple favor and of course CRA

 

simple act remains the least succesful chick flick of 2018, yikes!

 

Spoiler

it was actually that flop spy who dumped me but i wanna tease napo

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by TombRaider

[TalismanRing]

7 hours ago, Napoleon said:

4x its budget

5.9x multiplier at the domestic box office

 

What a mesmerizing success

 

6 minutes ago, TombRaider said:

it did worse than i feel pretty, life of the party, a simple favor and of course CRA

 

simple act remains the biggest chick flick flop of 2018, yikes!

[DAJK]

Yeesh, either both of you are 12, trolls, have some kind of disability in understanding numbers, or a combination of the 3.

 

Like seriously, no one with any knowledge of box office can say this was a “bomb” of any kind nor can they defend it being a “mesmerizing hit” yeesh

[Eric Prime]

16 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Yeesh, either both of you are 12, trolls, have some kind of disability in understanding numbers, or a combination of the 3.

 

Like seriously, no one with any knowledge of box office can say this was a “bomb” of any kind nor can they defend it being a “mesmerizing hit” yeesh

The funniest thing was how one of them (you can probably figure out which one) was arguing about how Second Act was going to have Greatest Showman legs and make like 170M or something. But even with this only making like 40M, they're still trying to spin this as a massive success and saying stuff like "It managed to beat Holmes and Watson. STUNNING" or "Only the big tentpole movies made more. If this had a 100M budget, it would've made even more money. J-Lo's a true draw".

 

Like obviously this is still successful, but...really?

[LouisianaArkansasGeorgia]

What I don't understand about this site is...why do some people are so bothered by Napoleon's stanning of Jlo? How does that impact you (you know who you are) negatively? Can't people just let people enjoy what they enjoy without spreading their miserable negativity and trying to bring that person (who enjoys what they enjoy) down?