STEPHEN KING'S IT WEEKEND THREAD | 117.15 Mill!....NO SPOILERS..NOT EVEN IN TAGS!

[Ryan Reynolds]

IT being so popular, we may get a prequel series, IT Begins

[Zakiyyah6]

6 minutes ago, Noodlebug said:

I really think the drought of movies the past month or so is the sole contributor to this. People are ready for a hyped movie that is actually good.

I disagree. Nostalgia, Nostalgia, great trailers and lastly massive trailer views are the reasons IT is opening as well as it is.

[KeepItU25071906]

http://deadline.com/2017/09/stephen-king-it-home-again-box-office-1202163667/

 

The studio that gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street and Conjuring horror franchises has created another milestone for the genre with their feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which is now on course to slot the best opening day ever for an R-rated and horror title with an estimated $49.6M opening day (easily smashing Deadpool‘s $47.3M) and the second best R-title three-day with $101M, behind Deadpool‘s $132.4M.

 

 

 

 

[the beast]

1 minute ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

http://deadline.com/2017/09/stephen-king-it-home-again-box-office-1202163667/

 

The studio that gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street and Conjuring horror franchises has created another milestone for the genre with their feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which is now on course to slot the best opening day ever for an R-rated and horror title with an estimated $49.6M opening day (easily smashing Deadpool‘s $47.3M) and the second best R-title three-day with $101M, behind Deadpool‘s $132.4M.

 

 

 

 

fucking insane

[Noctis]

Yea, that's an absolutely phenomenal number. I'm not THAT surprised, though...it was going to be massive and I saw over $80m.

 

@AndyLL and you said this wouldn't even sniff $70m.

[Noodlebug]

3 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I disagree. Nostalgia, Nostalgia, great trailers and lastly massive trailer views are the reasons IT is opening as well as it is.

The movie being great is helping it, but if August had much stronger films and the competition that would come along with that, IT would probably be doing $80-85M OW.

[UNDERDOG]

3 minutes ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

http://deadline.com/2017/09/stephen-king-it-home-again-box-office-1202163667/

 

The studio that gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street and Conjuring horror franchises has created another milestone for the genre with their feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which is now on course to slot the best opening day ever for an R-rated and horror title with an estimated $49.6M opening day (easily smashing Deadpool‘s $47.3M) and the second best R-title three-day with $101M, behind Deadpool‘s $132.4M.

 

 

 

 

 

Wtf.

[grim22]

9 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

IT being so popular, we may get a prequel series, IT Begins

 

That will be followed by how IT came to be, they will call that movie "IT happened one night"

[FlashMaster659]

Very huge numbers for IT.

[Mojoguy]

Please be over 100M this weekend.

Please be over 100M this weekend.

Please be over 100M this weekend.

[UNDERDOG]

Oh, the trailer of The Disaster Artist was great.

[Mojoguy]

So how much did Stephen King get paid for this IT movie?

[Biggestgeekever]

$101M is awfully conservative with a $49.6M OD. That would mean $36.1M for Friday, so it would have to fall 5% from that on Saturday and then another 50% on Sunday. I'm thinking a 10% increase today and then a 47% drop on Sunday, so 13.5 + 36.1 + 39.7 + 21  = $110.3M

[the beast]

1 minute ago, Biggestgeekever said:

$101M is awfully conservative with a $49.6M OD. That would mean $36.1M for Friday, so it would have to fall 5% from that on Saturday and then another 50% on Sunday. I'm thinking a 10% increase today and then a 47% drop on Sunday, so 13.5 + 36.1 + 39.7 + 21  = $110.3M

This is quite realistic tbh

[Mojoguy]

IT being so popular, we may get a prequel series, IT Begins

Nah, WB already split the IT novel into two movies. That's already milking it when it could have been a 3 hour movie, and also compared to the miniseries which filmed the entire thing in one go and released on one dvd.

[JJ-8]

That is insane. I thought 80-85 was high end. But 100+ unrealistic. With around 49 OD. I'm thinking 101 is lowballing it. 110 is closer. 

 

Wow. 

 

 

[moah]

2 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

Nah, WB already split the IT novel into two movies. That's already milking it when it could have been a 3 hour movie, and also compared to the miniseries which filmed the entire thing in one go and released on one dvd.

The miniseries was 3 hours, and it already cut so much from the book. Also the pacing was so rushed, that barely any of the losers even registered as characters since there was so much plot to burn through.

[picores]

Almost 50m OD for IT is a record (among the 100m OW achieve) in the genre that probably will never be topped. Maybe in 100 years. But humanity will be dead by then so....fuck it. All hail the clown.

Edited September 9, 2017 by picores

[DAJK]

The fact that IT is going to have the same OD as the "Spider-Man finally joins the MCU along with Iron Man team up" holy shit

[Mojoguy]

The miniseries was 3 hours, and it already cut so much from the book. Also the pacing was so rushed, that barely any of the losers even registered as characters since there was so much plot to burn through.

I'm not going to criticize WB too much for making IT into two movies. It was smart if only to save money.
The two movies together will probably be around 4 hours which should be fine. There will be backlash if they try to make IT into more than two movies, I'd imagine there was plenty of groaning from audiences when they realize there was going to be more story left.

Edited September 9, 2017 by Mojoguy