Weekend Actuals (Page 150): Apes 56.3M | SMH 44.2M | DM3 19.4M | Baby 8.7M | Big Dick 7.5M | WW 6.8M | Wish Upon 5.5M | Tomatoes losing their power

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

While I'm predicting 40/150 for Dunkirk, something like 35/125-130 wouldn't surprise me and would be decent.

[a2k]

Using Rth's Sat, SM probably

13.6 + 17.5 + 14.1 (-19.4%) = 45.2

 

Sun could be optimistic.

[Claire of Themyscira]

1 minute ago, Noctis said:

Your posts will always be forgiven because of your gifs.

I have my way with my apologies.

 

[YM!]

5 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Valerian - 9.3M

Now that would cause TOG to commit seppuku.

[Ethan Hunt]

35 minutes ago, Bernie86 said:

Is it possible that Apes beats Dunkirk next weekend?

Not at all

[JohnnyGossamer]

17 minutes ago, Noctis said:

I love that by the end of the year, the three biggest films of the year DOM will be headlined by women: Emma Watson, Gal Gadot, and Daisy Ridley. 

While Daisy and Emma will up there WW, Wondy will not place in Top 5 let alone Top 3. Still a magnificent feat.

[titanic2187]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/07/16/box-office-wonder-woman-is-going-to-be-the-biggest-domestic-hit-of-the-summer/#19f162575233

 

For those who haven't sick of Scott Mendelson

Box Office: 'Wonder Woman' Is Now Sure To Be Summer's Biggest Hit

Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.'s Wonder Woman earned another $6.885 million in its seventh weekend of release, dropping just 30% despite losing another 347 theaters. That brings the $150 million superhero movie's domestic total to $380.686m in 45 days. That puts it around $6m behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($386.5m as of today) so it should pass the Walt Disney/Marvel sci-fi sequel by the end of next week (or soon after) to become the summer's biggest domestic grosser.

And with Spider-Man: Homecoming probably topping out at $295 million at absolute best (horrors, I know) and Despicable Me 3 shooting for $275m as the best-case-scenario (#CanThisFranchiseBeSaved?), I think we can call it. Unless Dunkirk goes insane, Valerian becomes the next Star Wars and/or The Dark Tower becomes the next Fellowship of the Ring (none of these things are likely), Wonder Woman is your summer domestic champion.

At $380.7 million, it is pennies away from passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($381m in 2011) to become Warner Bros.' third-biggest domestic grosser ever, behind only The Dark Knight Rises ($448m in 2012 and sans 3D) and The Dark Knight ($534m in 2008 and sans 3D). When that happens, it will also be the biggest 3D movie ever in North America not released by Universal or Walt Disney since 20th Century Fox's Avatar back in 2009. It's already the biggest domestic grosser of any movie not released by Universal or Disney since Lionsgate's Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($424m in late 2013).

 

 

 

Say what you will about the summer season (with the caveat that there are still six weeks left to go), but this does look to be a sharing of the wealth. Warner Bros. has Wonder Woman (and hopefully Dunkirk), Disney has Guardians 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Cars 3 is looking like a whiff, pending overseas breakout), Sony has Spider-Man: Homecoming and Baby Driver and Universal/Comcast Corp. has Despicable Me 3 and The Mummy (over/under $400 million worldwide on a $125m budget ain't nothing). And relatively speaking, Lionsgate has All Eyez On Me, The Big Sick and possibly The Hitman's Bodyguard next month.

The only loser, all due respect, is poor Paramount/Viacom Inc. whose Baywatch underperformed in North America (and cost too much) and whose Transformers: The Last Knight is going to be seen as a $550-$600 million disappointment. We'll see if STX can parlay decent reviews and "You gotta see this on the big-screen!" buzz for Valerian next weekend. But this isn't a summer that has been overly dominated by Disney and Universal, as we've frankly seen over the last two summers. This is closer to 2014, which had smaller overall hits but more of a sharing of the wealth. And that's a good thing in my opinion.

 

In terms of worldwide grosses, Wonder Woman has now earned around $765 million global, putting it within striking distance of Guardians of the Galaxy ($773m in 2014), Deadpool ($783m with an R-rating, sans 3D and without China) and Spider-Man 2 ($784m in 2004). It has already passed the likes of Amazing Spider-Man ($757m in 2012) and Maleficent ($758m in 2014). Again, $800 million worldwide isn't a guarantee, but if it catches fire in Japan on August 25th, well, that becomes more plausible every week. Geez, I don't think I can keep these up for another six weeks...

[Zakiyyah6]

2 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Using Rth's Sat, SM probably

13.6 + 17.5 + 14.1 (-19.4%) = 45.2

 

Sun could be optimistic.

I'm thinking -21% for it.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Disappointed in Apes, Spidey and Sick. All of 'em came in about 3M to 5M less than I'd hoped. Curious of Apes hold bext weekend. I expect a 50%+ drop weekend to weekend given direct competition from Dunkirk and Valerian.

[cannastop]

9 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Early predictions for next week's openers:

Dunkirk - 35.3M

Girls Trip - 35.9M

Valerian - 9.3M

No way man. Dunkirk can make $45m ow.

[filmnerdjamie]

Just now, Jayhawk said:

While I'm predicting 40/150 for Dunkirk, something like 35/125-130 wouldn't surprise me and would be decent.

 

Agreed, and it would have to shit the bed pretty hard (John Carter style) for it not to be profitable.

[the beast]

Any Worldwide Numbers For Spidey?

[grim22]

19 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Audience just need to have some attention lesson, they are always mindless, they can produced a huge $150m opener but not enough attention to accommodate two $50m grosser. 

 

I think it's because there is too much demo overlap between the movies. The only time this has happened has been holidays with Avatar and Holmes, and when the demos were completely different with IM3 and Gatsby. All other times it happened, one movie was animated.

[MrPink]

Just now, cannastop said:

No way man. Dunkirk can make $45m ow.

 

This is what happens the Tomato Law breaks. He loses faith in anything he supports and will go extreme because his suffering has reached a new high.

 

He needs to trample.

[Zakiyyah6]

I think Dunkirk is going to be huge internationally. Domestically, it will do well because of legs.

[The Futurist]

Are we behind compared to summer 2016 ?

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

Are we behind compared to summer 2016 ?

Box office as a whole is behind 2016.

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

Are we behind compared to summer 2016 ?

Pretty sure it's not even close... '16 was much bigger. Much.

[Cochofles]

Anyway you slice it, that is an ”Ouch!”-worthy drop for a film (SM:H) that had so much going for it (at least on paper). Whatever the reason, it’s clear that ”OMG, WOM is insane!" claims were premature. Like someone else mentioned, the word-of-mouth monster that some expected/predicted still hasn’t materialized. 

[TheDarkKnightOfSteel]

4 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

While Daisy and Emma will up there WW, Wondy will not place in Top 5 let alone Top 3. Still a magnificent feat.

What other movie can do 400+M to get WW out of the Top 3?Unless i'm forgetting a surefire tentpole then...JL and Thor?Thor i can't see getting much more than 350M and  JL could do it but...oh well...WW is still one of the leads.Hell i'd say she is co-lead along with Batman.