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[the beast]

I still think They are Underestimating it and the friday for apes will end up being much higher

[Poseidon]

3 minutes ago, Water Bottle said:

 

Batman fights for family and love.

And he's successful at the BO. Just like Belle. So it fits.

[Barnack]

4 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

 

But then again, cities like Salt Lake City, Boise and Milwaukee, the cities the most money comes from in those states, are heavity democratic voting. And this is my point. 
 

 

Looking at youtube views I suspected that it did match your point very well for cities (I have no knowledge except the biggest one for rep/democrate)

 

That said with 80% of the population being urban (depending of the metric use) that was almost certain to be true.

[superduperm]

1 minute ago, the beast said:

I still think They are Underestimating it and the friday for apes will end up being much higher

I hope you're right. Sub-$20M just doesn't make sense. I was hoping for ~$28M when the preview number was announced this morning.

[filmlover]

I have been busy offline the last few hours so I'm behind on the last several pages but I'm gonna guess that a "comic book movies are killing other genres" overreaction is in there somewhere.

[the beast]

1 minute ago, superduperm said:

I hope you're right. Sub-$20M just doesn't make sense. I was hoping for ~$28M when the preview number was announced this morning.

Or Maybe The Friday will be at $23M and then Saturday & Sunday Will hold very well

[JohnnyGossamer]

6 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

 

But, there's no people in it...so what won't be CGI?  This does sound like an awful idea...

There's only one person in Jungle Book. It was a smash hit.

[Mr Impossible]

2 hours ago, grey ghost said:

Audiences during the 2000's were getting ripped off.

 

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.

 

The Star Wars prequels.

 

Affleck's Daredevil. 

 

Raimi's Spider-man 

 

Everything is a hundred times better now. 

 

Revenge of the Sith is underrated and better than Force Awakens. Daredevil is also underrated especially the director's cut. Spider Man 1 is top 20 best superhero movie and Spider Man 2 is top 10 at the very least.

[TwoMisfits]

Just now, JohnnyGossamer said:

There's only one person in Jungle Book. It was a smash hit.

 

Yes, but there still was a person - that's like most of the movie for I am Legend or Cast Away...

 

Zero people is something different...

[filmlover]

Also, $3M Friday would be very good for The Big Sick considering it just jumped from 326 theaters (where it averaged around $11,000 last weekend) to 2,597 theaters. Should be about $10M for the weekend.

[The Futurist]

The idealization of a past you never lived is one of human's most fascinating shortcoming.

 

[Poseidon]

For older skewing movies like Apes with its strong matinees, numbers usually tend to not go up like they do for evening movies. Let's see how things go, but i'm not expecting big surprises, unfortunately.

[Steele131]

Based of the projected Friday number for Apes, i'm thinking Saturday increases. 

[Lestranger]

Big Sick looking like a $3,200 per theater. Not great. Could have told you that was gonna happen. That movie has art film crowd in big city written all over it. They massively marketed it as well. At least 20 million in marketing, probably a lot more. Not sure what they were thinking. Maybe Amazon Studios just wants to get their name out there more.

[the beast]

Just now, Steele131 said:

Based of the projected Friday number for Apes, i'm thinking Saturday increases. 

I hope so

[superduperm]

1 minute ago, Steele131 said:

Based of the projected Friday number for Apes, i'm thinking Saturday increases. 

Dawn increased minus previews so I suppose it's possible, but I wouldn't count on it.

[MovieMan89]

Yeah, some people need to be fired over at fox for War's "marketing." There's really no excuse whatsoever for it to not be matching Dawn's opening, let alone dropping that bad, considering the reception of the first two, the reception of this one, and relatively weak direct competition. Hopefully this is a lesson that even in this day and age marketing still matters.

Edited July 14, 2017 by MovieMan89

[JohnnyGossamer]

And, remember everyone, Variety had Homecoming's OD at $42M while Deadline had it at $42M to $45M right around this time last Friday. And, well, its actual OD came in at just under $51M. So, let's wait see what happens with War's OD number.

Edited July 14, 2017 by JohnnyGossamer

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Lestranger said:

Big Sick looking like a $3,200 per theater. Not great. Could have told you that was gonna happen. That movie has art film crowd in big city written all over it. They massively marketed it as well. At least 20 million in marketing, probably a lot more. Not sure what they were thinking. Maybe Amazon Studios just wants to get their name out there more.

The movie's doing very well still considering how extreme the expansion was. It was always gonna be powered by WOM as it expanded anyway. Still on track for at least $40M, which puts it on the high end of Sundance acquisitions over the past decade.

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

And, remember everyone, Variety had Homecoming at $42M and Deadline had it at $42M to $45M right around this time last Friday. And, well, it's actual came in at just under $51M. So, let's wait see what happens with War's OD number.

 

There's also the multitude of other cases when they over-predicted things