DUNKIRK WEEKEND THREAD | ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS | Official estimates Dunkirk 50.5M, GT 30.3M, SMH 22M, Apes 20.4M, Val 17M | Wonder Woman is the new summer champ with 389M total | Summer Sale is Live!

[Webslinger]

It's still wicked early, but something in the neighborhood of $20 million sounds good for Dunkirk. My early afternoon screening was at least 60 percent full (mostly grey-haired).

[filmlover]

Dunkirk and Girls Trip slaying is awesome. Moral of the story: quality pays.

[TwoMisfits]

Apes lost its last show tonight to Dunkirk at one local and to Girls Trip at the other local...both locals have now dropped Apes 1-2 showings from previous plans made Tuesday...since they had so little to pare away, it seems Apes is the loser to the big new movies...

[keysersoze123]

Dunkirk is doing great. Valerian bombed as expected and it also ended rotten. Good for Girls trip. It needs 30m OW for 100m finish. Horrible for Apes. I guess its playing to niche set of folks who love the trilogy. Spidey is looking at another big drop. 

[Jonwo]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Dunkirk and Girls Trip slaying is awesome. Moral of the story: quality pays.

 

True although quality didn't help Apes.... 

[ban1o]

So glad Girls Trip is doing well <3 

[grey ghost]

Welp, Valerian was my last hope to rank well in the summer game.

 

Stick a fork in it.

 

And if a time traveler told me Girls Trip and Baby Driver were going to make it instead of Baywatch and Valerian, I still would've told them to fuck off. So there was no saving my top 15.

 

[ban1o]

just from personal anecdote the Apes trailer didn't interest me at all. it just doesn't look that interesting. and i saw and enjoyed both Rise and Dawn 

[grey ghost]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Dunkirk and Girls Trip slaying is awesome. Moral of the story: quality pays.

 

Somewhere a super intelligent ape is flinging poop at you.

[ban1o]

1 minute ago, grey ghost said:

Welp, Valerian was my last hope to rank well in the summer game.

 

Stick a fork in it.

 

And if a time traveler told me Girls Trip and Baby Driver were going to make it instead of Baywatch and Valerian, I still would've told them to fuck off. So there was no saving my top 15.

 

lol Valerian was always going to be a flop 

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Dunkirk and Girls Trip slaying is awesome. Moral of the story: quality pays.

Did you say... TOMATO LAW?!?!!

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow is Valerian bombing overseas too?

[CJohn]

11 minutes ago, Rth Homecoming said:

Couple hours ago thinking Dunkirk 22, I think for now I'll keep it at that, GT 13, Val 6.5 , SMH 6, Apes 5.5

Great for Dunkirk and Girls Trip.

Apes is dead. Bury it.

SMH should do above 20M over the weekend with ease.

Valerian

[grey ghost]

2 minutes ago, ban1o said:

So glad Girls Trip is doing well <3 

I wonder why it did so much better than Rough Night.

 

They both play on the Bad Moms' theme.

[TwoMisfits]

1 minute ago, ban1o said:

lol Valerian was always going to be a flop 

 

Yeah, but it only needs $75-$80M by Labor Day to probably make Top 15...that wasn't asking that much pre-summer:)...

[vc2002]

Dunkirk opens bigger than Interstellar.

 

 

[filmlover]

Just now, grey ghost said:

 

Somewhere a super intelligent ape is flinging poop at you.

Well, quality movies that aren't sequels (or maybe that should be "aren't comic book sequels").

 

Why didn't Apes catch on? I have no idea. A revolving door of human stars with each movie? Dawn being helped by 2014 being a weak summer? I don't know. One thing I have noticed is that been an unusually flop/disappointment heavy summer (although the movies themselves were mostly the problem).

[cannastop]

So Dunkirk could make $200m dom.

 

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

I wonder why it did so much better than Rough Night.

 

They both play on the Bad Moms' theme.

Rough Night had a pretty dark premise for what was supposed to be a featherlight comedy. Girls Trip had a premise that went down easily and also had a hilarious marketing campaign. Plus a marketplace that was a desperate for a mainstream comedy that actually looked funny.

Edited July 21, 2017 by filmlover

[YM!]

So Homecoming is doing $19M-$21M for the weekend like I was predicting.