Labor Day Weekend Thread: The Death of Box Office | Posting or Discussing Any Weekend Numbers = Banned | Pokémon or True Detective gifs Are Allowed

[Rorschach]

40 minutes ago, CJohn said:

They are desperate to sell some Blurays for Baywatch.

I know two friends of mine who would want those blu-rays badly for whatever reason 

[That One Girl]

My Moviepass came in today, woo

[a2k]

F8 226, POTC4 241, TF4 245, DM3 260+ ... 1b+ ww with sub-300 dom.

F9 could be the first 1b+ ww with sub-200 dom.

[Plain Old Tele]

9 minutes ago, Blankments said:

final tally goes (between here and friends on FB):

 

Dunkirk - 5

Dark Tower - 3

The Nut Job 2 - 3

All Saints - 1

 

See y'all, Nolan's awaiting

 

Y'all led @Blankments astray.

[CJohn]

Deadline's review of the Summer is savage

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Paramount tried and failed

http://deadline.com/2017/09/wonder-woman-summer-box-office-2017-warner-bros-champion-marvel-1202160411/

[That One Girl]

Just now, CJohn said:

Deadline's review of the Summer is savage

http://deadline.com/2017/09/wonder-woman-summer-box-office-2017-warner-bros-champion-marvel-1202160411/

 

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with a $192M summer take, -33% from the same May-August period last year. They really wanted Baywatch to win, and it looked fun and fresh with beefcakes Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron buzzing around on the beach. But the brand proved to be a marketing nightmare: The brand was always meant for men, yet couldn’t be sold on T&A alone for fear of being offensive and putting off greater crowds. So the studio went out on a limb and sold to the non-Baywatch fans, the ladies, but the Magic Mike fans never showed up.

 

[a2k]

1 minute ago, Squadron Leader Tele said:

 

Y'all led @Blankments astray.

With Nut Job 2 I am sure you had his best interests at heart 

[jj99]

3 hours ago, That One Guy said:

@Matrix4Tulip @jj99 NOOOOOOOOOOO

 

DUNKIRK IS ESTIMATED TO DROP ON SUNDAY NOOOOOOOOOOO 

 

BITCH!!!!

 

its still too close to call (in my dreams).  We had a nice swing last week with actuals.

 

With no major event this Sunday (I believe), I hope we'll see some nice adjustments. Most of those Sunday drops look hella pessimistic to me. 

Edited September 3, 2017 by jj99

[Mockingjay Raphael]

@CJohn Annabelle: Creation broke the OW record for a Horror movie in Argentina, had the biggest OW for Warner this year, and is the fourth biggest OW of year despite facing an Argentina soccer play on the OD. 

[Ms Lady Hawk]

2 hours ago, iJackSparrow said:

These estimates are freaking insane. A +29.4% for a $3.6m Labour Weekend without we even seeing the Monday makes $330m a lock and topping Spider-Man 3 for the biggest Spider-Man film of all time now doesn't look so crazy, does it?  

You must be ecstatic about the performance of this movie. It is great to see CBM carry the summer. Homecoming shows that sometimes a movie needs to run its course before a verdict is rendered on its performance. Its late legs have been darn impressive. Just as you do, I think it may very well pass Spider Man 3.

[dxmatrixdt]

1 hour ago, jj99 said:

 

BITCH!!!!

 

its still too close to call (in my dreams).  We had a nice swing last week with actuals.

 

With no major event this Sunday (I believe), I hope we'll see some nice adjustments. Most of those Sunday drops look hella pessimistic to me. 

Saturday increases were bigger than years before in comparison.  Sunday drops for everything most likely.

Edited September 3, 2017 by Matrix4Tulip

[Blankments]

man dunkirk really is something else. A part of me is tempted to see a third time before it leaves theaters lol

[filmscholar]

Wow, this year definitely deserves my trademark "Summer What Went Wrong" Thread.  But there's no need, Hollywood got punched in the mouth by moviegoers this summer.  Not great numbers overall.   Lowest Attendance since I was 12 years old.   Summer of 1992 does bring back memories.  Here's the Top 20 from that year:

 

1	Aladdin	BV	$217,350,219	2,331	$196,664	2	11/13
2	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Fox	$173,585,516	2,461	$31,126,882	2,222	11/20
3	Batman Returns	WB	$162,831,698	2,644	$45,687,711	2,644	6/19
4	Lethal Weapon 3	WB	$144,731,527	2,568	$33,243,086	2,510	5/15
5	A Few Good Men	Col.	$141,340,178	2,201	$15,517,468	1,925	12/11
6	Sister Act	BV	$139,605,150	2,087	$11,894,587	1,430	5/29
7	The Bodyguard	WB	$121,945,720	1,806	$16,611,793	1,717	11/25
8	Wayne's World	Par.	$121,697,323	1,878	$18,122,710	1,768	2/14
9	Basic Instinct	TriS	$117,727,224	1,884	$15,129,385	1,567	3/20
10	A League of Their Own	Sony	$107,533,928	2,084	$13,739,456	1,782	7/1
11	Unforgiven	WB	$101,157,447	2,087	$15,018,007	2,071	8/7
12	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	BV	$88,036,683	1,759	$7,675,016	766	1/10
13	Under Siege	WB	$83,563,139	2,248	$15,760,003	2,042	10/9
14	Patriot Games	Par.	$83,351,587	2,396	$18,511,191	2,365	6/5
15	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Col.	$82,522,790	2,491	$30,521,679	2,491	11/13
16	White Men Can't Jump	Fox	$76,253,806	1,929	$14,711,124	1,923	3/27
17	The Last of the Mohicans	Fox	$75,505,856	1,856	$10,976,661	1,491	9/25
18	Boomerang	Par.	$70,052,444	2,145	$13,640,706	2,127	7/1
19	Scent of a Woman	Uni.	$63,095,253	1,252	$357,468	20	12/23
20	The Crying Game

[shayhiri]

EXPLAIN TO THE SHAY ONE THING:

 

Why are American distributing strategies so dumb as to allow so many EMPTY weekends, while others are ridiculously jammed to the point of outright cannibalism? What makes a month or a weekend SO FUCKING TERRIBLY DIFFERENT from another?

 

This is utter bullshit. In my country all weeks are more or less equal. If your movie is good - it will get seen. You just need to put it the EMPTIEST possible weekend, not the fullest!!

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, shayhiri said:

EXPLAIN TO THE SHAY ONE THING:

 

Why are American distributing strategies so dumb as to allow so many EMPTY weekends, while others are ridiculously jammed to the point of outright cannibalism? What makes a month or a weekend SO FUCKING TERRIBLY DIFFERENT from another?

 

This is utter bullshit. In my country all weeks are more or less equal. If your movie is good - it will get seen. You just need to put it the EMPTIEST possible weekend, not the fullest!!

 

Well, this was the weekend before It.

[shayhiri]

Why are April, August and September so hated by distributors? Even January gets less shit than September!!

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by shayhiri

[Ethan Hunt]

1 minute ago, shayhiri said:

Why are August, April and September so hated by distributors? Even January gets less shit than September!!

What.

 

September looks like the motherfucking shit

[Barnack]

31 minutes ago, shayhiri said:

EXPLAIN TO THE SHAY ONE THING:

 

Why are American distributing strategies so dumb as to allow so many EMPTY weekends, while others are ridiculously jammed to the point of outright cannibalism? What makes a month or a weekend SO FUCKING TERRIBLY DIFFERENT from another?

 

This is utter bullshit. In my country all weeks are more or less equal. If your movie is good - it will get seen. You just need to put it the EMPTIEST possible weekend, not the fullest!!

In the domestic market it does not work much like that (kind of doubt that it work like that in many market at all), the if the movie is good people will see it does not hold much (barely at all), there is almost no correlation between Rotten tomatoes and box office for example (you need to work quite a bit to find one), look at logan lucky, Nice guys, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Brudge, being a good movie is not in any way any guarantee of success and being a bad movie not in any way mean that it will fail. If it would work you would just need to re-release old good movie to make a fortune at the box office, obviously there is much more going on that good/bad, it is in industry made into tricking us at paying a giant premium for a movie just for the very fact that it is a new one.

 

Why would anyone go see a movie if it is good, how will it know that a movie is good before actually seeing it ? That where marketing/release date matter a lot.

 

There is much better weekend than others, big 4 days holiday, big summer spot, Christmas time that studio fight for right away sometime more than a year in advance (well known 4 year's in advance with those long franchise release planned) and the biggest title/biggest star achieve to get those, after they goes for the second tier weekend and fight for them and so on.

 

It is a lot about building comparable, in the last 20 year's, 14 similar movie used the exact same weekend and did well 80% of the time. Use that one, it is executive/studio building a list of reason trying to control what will happen with a movie, so if it flop they can give reason why they lowered the chance for that happening and if it work they can give reason why they should get some credits.

 

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Why are August, April and September so hated by distributors? Even January gets less shit than September!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump_months

Edited September 4, 2017 by Barnack

[Johnny Tran]

That summer of '92 is so much better than what we got this summer.  It's much better in terms of quality (obviously my own opinion) and I think it's a nice variety of different genres. I love a lot of the movies listed there. 

[shayhiri]

I get what you saying, Barnack - and it makes me even angrier. Lol, so the stupid executives are shooting themselves in the foot. This kind of thinking is deplorable - and creates a terrible self fulfilling prophecy. Big movies (not the biggest) should go exactly for the empty months! If I had my own company, I would do just that, lol! Since there is no reasonable difference between March and April (or September and October, or July and August), OF COURSE I'm gonna release my big potential movie IN APRIL, where it won't have competition and will inescapably profit - not in fucking March, where there are already FIVE more such movies!

Edited September 4, 2017 by shayhiri