Weekend Thread. Dark Tower 19.5...Dunkirk 17.6....Emoji 12.3...Girls Trip 11.4 not sure what page| Not the sex thread

[Zakiyyah6]

After Monday and Tuesday numbers Wonder Woman will be over 400mil. So excited!

[YM!]

Looking at these WW numbers make me feel pride.

[WrathOfHan]

Kidnap is going to do 35M lmao

[redfirebird2008]

Just now, MrPink said:

 

Think 450 is pretty likely but not sold on 500m WW. Depends on China

 

China probably won't be good. Extremely crowded schedule for Hollywood between late August and mid September. Spidey is extremely popular in that market and comes out just a week after Dunkirk.

 

Plus South Korea is outright rejecting the film with 60% drops in back to back weeks. Doesn't bode well for other Asian territories.  

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Finnick said:

 

 

That this and 47 Meters Down did well this summer considering they were both once in jeopardy of going straight to VOD goes to show that there will always be some sort of audience for a low-budget thriller with an easily marketable premise.

Edited August 6, 2017 by filmlover

[filmnerdjamie]

Just now, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Nope. 400 is locked. Question is whether it can go above 450 and push for 500. 

That puts it below Interstellar. But then again it was considerably cheaper to make and war films are limited to their overseas appeal. So yeah $450M would be a win.

[Zakiyyah6]

1 minute ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

China probably won't be good. Extremely crowded schedule for Hollywood between late August and mid September. Spidey is extremely popular in that market and comes out just a week after Dunkirk.

 

Plus South Korea is outright rejecting the film with 60% drops in back to back weeks. Doesn't bode well for other Asian territories.  

Didn't know that about South Korea. Interesting.

[MrPink]

4 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

China probably won't be good. Extremely crowded schedule for Hollywood between late August and mid September. Spidey is extremely popular in that market and comes out just a week after Dunkirk.

 

Plus South Korea is outright rejecting the film with 60% drops in back to back weeks. Doesn't bode well for other Asian territories.  

 

South Korea isn't a rejection so much as stiff competition. Local movies crushed it plus Despicable Me 3. Battleship Island had one of the biggest openings of all time. Dunkirk had to give in the process.

 

I don't expect much more than 50m or so in China despite that, but it's not impossible for that # to climb a bit. Plus, China is the kind of market where you do most of your damage in the first week anyway.

Edited August 6, 2017 by MrPink

[John Marston]

BoxOfficeReport.com Retweeted

 

 

China Box Office @ChinaBoxOffice·7m

 

 

WOLF WARRIOR 2 will pass The Mermaid on Tuesday to become the highest-grossing film ever in China...after just 12 days in theaters!

[redfirebird2008]

Just now, filmnerdjamie said:

That puts it below Interstellar. But then again it was considerably cheaper to make and war films are limited to their overseas appeal. So yeah $450M would be a win.

 

Sci-fi concept with a lot of visual eye candy is much easier to sell to audiences in general, no matter what territory. Just glad Dunkirk won't be a money loser, which it could've been pretty easily.  

[a2k]

Kidnap is the story of the weekend. We discussed it in the thread, among other topics, in the following order :

 

1) sex

2) dt

3) dunkirk

4) sex

5) girls trip

6) valerian

7) sex

8) cjohn

9) detroit

10) sex

11) kidnap

[Jonwo]

2 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

That puts it below Interstellar. But then again it was considerably cheaper to make and war films are limited to their overseas appeal. So yeah $450M would be a win.

The UK is overperforming but that's to be expected given the subject matter. WB will make money from it and Nolan will get a nice payday as well.

[Lordmandeep]

Dunkirk is a WW2 historical movie, doing 400-500 million WW is a big deal.

 

Without Nolan doubt it do half.

[Rman823]

4 minutes ago, filmlover said:

That this and 47 Meters Down did well this summer considering they were both once in jeopardy of going straight to VOD goes to show that there will always be some sort of audience for a low-budget thriller with an easily marketable premise.

In a time where every weekend releases a new blockbuster, sometimes people want a simple turn off your brain low budget movie. Although personally I'd wait to redbox either one. 

[Finnick]

THE DARK TOWER WINS THE WEEKEND WITH $19.5M!!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2017 by Finnick

[a2k]

5 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

That puts it below Interstellar. But then again it was considerably cheaper to make and war films are limited to their overseas appeal. So yeah $450M would be a win.

Yeah, Interstellar's OS is very impressive. It actually beat Gravity!

 

Gravity      274 dom + 449 os = 723 ww

Interstellar 188 dom + 487 os = 675 ww

[Zakiyyah6]

Pretty Ballsy for WB to put a straight war film in such a coveted Summer slot but it paid off. I did over predict it's overseas numbers but I do that a lot.

Edited August 6, 2017 by Zakiyyah6

[redfirebird2008]

1 minute ago, Lordmandeep said:

Dunkirk is a WW2 historical movie, doing 400-500 million WW is a big deal.

 

Without Nolan doubt it do half.

 

Without Nolan, it wouldn't be greenlit by an American studio due to the large budget and lack of American characters. Even recent war movies on much smaller budgets seem to lean on famous American actors like Brad Pitt. 

[Lordmandeep]

So WW won the domestic box office this summer

Pirates 4 overseas

and GOTG globally

 

 

 

 

[Jonwo]

5 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Sci-fi concept with a lot of visual eye candy is much easier to sell to audiences in general, no matter what territory. Just glad Dunkirk won't be a money loser, which it could've been pretty easily.  

 

Just now, Zakiyyah6 said:

Pretty Ballsy for WB to put a straight war film in such a coveted Summer slot but it paid off. 

Warner Bros made so much money from Nolan from TDK trilogy alone that they can afford to greenlit a risky film like Dunkirk.