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

[WrathOfHan]

How my theater looks today:

 

Apes looks about even with yesterday. The 3D showings for earlier in the day are selling well.

SMH's 2D showings have sold a fuckton, but 3D shows have few tickets, especially later in the day.

Wish Upon is down big time from yesterday. The 7 PM showing has sold around 10 tickets, but the rest of the day is super scattered.

The Big Sick continues to sell like shit. The showing in 10 minutes only has 3 tickets sold, and there's like 4 max throughout the rest of the day.

DM3's 2D shows are selling great. It's already down to one screen, so 3D is probably gone next week with how its selling.

WW is pretty consistent with 8-12 tickets for each of the first three showings (including the one starting in a few minutes). 

Baby Driver is looking good early in the day but hasn't sold anything for later yet like WW.

Cars and Transformers are selling.... ok? Too bad because it's their last weekend kek

[Mojoguy]

That would make sense if it had a terrible opening ala Batman Begins. It didn't

If homecoming is as good as people make it out to be it would be holding a lot better

Spidey movies are always going to be a somewhat frontloaded because of how popular he is.

[The Panda]

1 minute ago, DlAMONDZ said:

 

That would make sense if it had a terrible opening ala Batman Begins. It didn't

 

If homecoming is as good as people make it out to be it would be holding a lot better

 

 

It's performing like a normal frontloaded MCU movie.  It's the 6th installment of a franchise that features a character from another popular franchise, of course it's going to be frontloaded.

 

Like I said last week, anybody who thought this was getting a near 3x+ multi was setting themselves up for disappointment.

[Mojoguy]

The Dark Tower is going to be purge floppage. Everyone knows this.

[Finnick]

20 hours ago, TwoMisfits said:

 

Now, see, this deserves 100 likes all by itself:)...

 

Other than a little pride hit (and some lost fake Casino money), I never understand why folks take poor box office for their favorite movies so personally...

 

You're disappointed folks didn't see greatness...okay...you're eating a little crow...okay...but getting really angry and sad b/c your neighbor and his 10000 friends didn't feel like spending $15 to watch a 2 hour piece of entertainment...I mean, maybe if you think you'll never get another film like that again...but as always in movies, even that's probably not true, b/c they'll mine what's made for remakes or redos at least every decade:)...

 

As a hobby, movie following should pretty much be a happy affair, even if you screw it up royally:)...then it's almost as fun when you're right twice a year:)...

 

I mean, I'd have loved if IJack was right this weekend...I didn't expect him to be, but I'd hoped he'd be...and Spidey's coming in even a touch lower than what I wanted...okay...I'll still have a great day going out for Indian with my kids and going to a movie night/pool party to see Sing tonight (one of the few animateds I managed to duck last year, even as I knew it would break out - I'll see if I see and hear enough to decide if I like it tonight:)...

TwoMisfits: You deserve a 1000 likes for your post. And for the others: Please enjoy the movies and dont let your hatred spills poison everywhere,

Edited July 16, 2017 by Finnick

[WrathOfHan]

I'm curious how wide A24 can get A Ghost Story in two weeks. It has no GA appeal whatsoever and isn't grossing anything spectacular in limited.

[John Marston]

7 hours ago, EmpireCity said:

I said this on here before at some point, but studios did this to themselves this summer.  They had way too many well reviewed movies shoved into a very small window and nothing had a chance to breathe.  The movie going public only has so much money theoretically, and asking people to come out and support about 10 good to brilliant films in a 4 week period is idiotic.  Baby Driver made it even worse when it moved dates and shoved itself into that late June and early July window.  

 

Some of it is bad luck of scheduling, but too much high quality ended up right on top of each other.  I think it also shows this summer, and hopefully we see it continue next weekend, that audiences rewarded "new" or original films and didn't exactly reward a lot of the sequels and rehashes no matter how good they were.  

 

Spider-Man: Homecoming is about to drop 70% or so.  Cars 3 and Despicable Me 3 were toast very quickly.  War of the Planet of the Apes might have the worst opening of the trilogy.  Fate of the Furious fell way off.  Transformers and Pirates were rejected.  The Mummy and Alien: Covenant were rejected.  King Arthur was rejected.  Obvious copycat formula movies like Baywatch,Rough Night and The House were rejected.  

 

Wonder Woman was "new" and rewarded in a huge way.  Guardians 2 was still fresh enough it wasn't penalized.  Baby Driver was rewarded.  The Big Sick is being rewarded. I hope that Dunkirk and Girls Trip will be rewarded next week.  Detroit should be rewarded as should Logan Lucky.  

 

Lots of factors at work here, but add this to Split and Get Out doing huge numbers and a fresh take on super hero movies with Logan, then maybe audiences are embracing original movies or fresh takes in a bigger way.  There is the outlier of Beauty and the Beast, but that one was simply a freight train that wasn't going to be stopped.  

 

Will be interesting to watch the rest of the year.  

 

 

Or you could say, if you don't have a superhero franchise, you're fucked 

[TwoMisfits]

8 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

It's not going to drop 60% next weekend. I don't think so anyway. Unless Dunkirk does something crazy like opens up to 70 million I don't think the three openers are going to total up to 100 million.

 

They are gonna take 3 screens though...and that's gonna pinch a lot of theaters who may not drop screens for Apes, but may drop showings...and its got a direct "audience sucker" in Dunkirk...and Apes will probably lose all of its expensive showings and be almost all 2d only...and it's a trilogy ender...and the Atom BOGO deal finally ended last night, so unless there's another one, people will now all be paying full price...etc, etc...

 

So, it's got a lot of things heading against its great WOM heading into next weekend...but great WOM has been known to overcome a lot of things:)...

 

 

[titanic2187]

6 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

How my theater looks today:

 

Apes looks about even with yesterday. The 3D showings for earlier in the day are selling well.

SMH's 2D showings have sold a fuckton, but 3D shows have few tickets, especially later in the day.

Wish Upon is down big time from yesterday. The 7 PM showing has sold around 10 tickets, but the rest of the day is super scattered.

The Big Sick continues to sell like shit. The showing in 10 minutes only has 3 tickets sold, and there's like 4 max throughout the rest of the day.

DM3's 2D shows are selling great. It's already down to one screen, so 3D is probably gone next week with how its selling.

WW is pretty consistent with 8-12 tickets for each of the first three showings (including the one starting in a few minutes). 

Baby Driver is looking good early in the day but hasn't sold anything for later yet like WW.

Cars and Transformers are selling.... ok? Too bad because it's their last weekend kek

Is there any possibility that apes increase from $22m friday???

it would need at least 32% for that, almost unheard in summer, but could it be??  

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I'm curious how wide A24 can get A Ghost Story in two weeks. It has no GA appeal whatsoever and isn't grossing anything spectacular in limited.

I doubt it'll ever get further than like 250 theaters. A sub-$1K PTA would be a given if they attempt a 600+ theater wide release.

[Mojoguy]

Is there any possibility that apes increase from $22m friday???

it would need at least 32% for that, almost unheard in summer, but could it be??

Dawn didn't increase on its first Sat from Fri, I don't see why War would.

Dawn actually deceased 7.8%.

[DAR]

Going back to @EmpireCitypoint about studios releasing too many good to great films in a short window.  In a way it's a good problem to have.

[FantasticBeasts]

Spider Man's WoM is as good as any successful MCU film. The problem started when people thought it was something more special like Wonder Woman was.

2.5 is a good multi to go with.

 

[Ethan Hunt]

8 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I'm curious how wide A24 can get A Ghost Story in two weeks. It has no GA appeal whatsoever and isn't grossing anything spectacular in limited.

I NEED IT

[Ethan Hunt]

2 minutes ago, Gumby said:

 

 

Spoiler tag that shit

[Cochofles]

40 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

 

Now, see, this deserves 100 likes all by itself:)...

 

Other than a little pride hit (and some lost fake Casino money), I never understand why folks take poor box office for their favorite movies so personally...

 

You're disappointed folks didn't see greatness...okay...you're eating a little crow...okay...but getting really angry and sad b/c your neighbor and his 10000 friends didn't feel like spending $15 to watch a 2 hour piece of entertainment...I mean, maybe if you think you'll never get another film like that again...but as always in movies, even that's probably not true, b/c they'll mine what's made for remakes or redos at least every decade:)...

 

As a hobby, movie following should pretty much be a happy affair, even if you screw it up royally:)...then it's almost as fun when you're right twice a year:)...

 

I mean, I'd have loved if IJack was right this weekend...I didn't expect him to be, but I'd hoped he'd be...and Spidey's coming in even a touch lower than what I wanted...okay...I'll still have a great day going out for Indian with my kids and going to a movie night/pool party to see Sing tonight (one of the few animateds I managed to duck last year, even as I knew it would break out - I'll see if I see and hear enough to decide if I like it tonight:)...

 

I'd like to add something: in the case of me and Wonder Woman, I would have been devastated if it had flopped, and you can probably guess why; as the first WW film ever, its flopping would have meant, most likely, that no more solo Wonder Woman adventures would be made for Zeus knows how long. And it would probably impact other potential female-centric CBMs. If Wondy, the only truly iconic female superhero cannot sustain a film, why would studios pony up cash for movies about the Vixens, Black Widows, and Vampirellas of the world? While Spidey, Supes, and Bats can afford the ocassional underperformer or even flop because, at this point, they are thoroughly established as viable film brands, Wondy needed  this film to succeed. And believe me, her fans were desperately wishing, hoping, and praying for some sort of miracle at the box office and at Rotten Tomatoes. And lo and behold, it happened.  

[FlashMaster659]

Wonder Woman grossed an estimated $2.01M on Friday. 43-Day total stands at $375.81M.#WonderWoman #BoxOffice

— BoxOfficeReport.com (@BORReport) July 15, 2017

[CJohn]

Show them hell, Wonder Woman.

[Mojoguy]

Wonder Woman grossed an estimated $2.01M on Friday. 43-Day total stands at $375.81M.#WonderWoman #BoxOffice

BoxOfficeReport.com (@BORReport) July 15, 2017

We KEEP getting WW's numbers first! lmao

[WrathOfHan]

14 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Is there any possibility that apes increase from $22m friday???

it would need at least 32% for that, almost unheard in summer, but could it be??  

It'll probably increase from its true Friday but not 22M.

 

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I doubt it'll ever get further than like 250 theaters. A sub-$1K PTA would be a given if they attempt a 600+ theater wide release.

A24 has always planned for it to go wide on the 28th, and I don't think they'll stray for that. It'll probably be in 600-700 theaters.

 

8 minutes ago, Gumby said:

 

That's just too indulgent/pretentious and screams "don't see this movie."

Oh Gumby.