Weekend Actuals (Page 61): Kingsman 39M | It 29.8M | Ninjago 20.4M | AA 6.3M | mother! 3.3M | Friend Request 2M (lol)

[YM!]

In hindsight a Lego Ninjago movie shouldn't have happened. As @TwoMisfits pointed out, there's multiple seasons of this on Netflix that families can watch over the movie which had bad reception and the movie itself really doesn't appeal to anyone over 10. It was Penguins of Madagascar all over again.

Edited September 23, 2017 by YourMother

[YM!]

The LCU should've done Lego 2 and Batman and did Ninjago shorts. Billion Brick Race and other original Lego based movies could work and would've also worked better than Lego IP's. However Ninjago crushes hopes for my childhood dreams come true with a Lego Bionicle Movie.

[WrathOfHan]

I have no clue what to predict for Flatliners. There hasn't been a PG-13 horror since Wish Upon, but when Sony gives a film a low TC, it's almost always the mark of death for their films. I'm going with 7M

[filmlover]

Hopefully we get less worrying now about Coco disappointing when it's gonna be the first really major animated movie since the summer.

[the beast]

Next Weekend:

 

American Made: 28.5M

Kingsman 2: 21.4M

IT: 20M

Ninjago: 15M

Flatliners: 10.2M

 

[That One Girl]

Flatliners should appeal to the "I can't get into It but I wanna see a horror movie" crowd

[YM!]

Just now, filmlover said:

Hopefully we get less worrying now about Coco disappointing when it's gonna be the first really major animated movie since the summer.

Disney needs to market it though. It looks lackluster compared to the other past Disney movies and even then there's still a lot of movies with big family appeal, with Thor, Daddy's Home, and the week before has both JL and The Star.

[MCKillswitch123]

21 minutes ago, a2knet said:

I doubt if it has happened in any franchise (horror or non-horror).

As far as spin-off prequels go, while I can't think of any one that outgrossed its direct main series predecessor, Minions is the 2nd highest grossing DM movie after DM2, and Rogue One is the 2nd highest grossing Star Wars movie after TFA. Off the top of my head. Annabelle 2 is the 1st one to beat its main series counterpart (Conjuring 2), and the 1st one to do 100M while its own original (Annabelle 1) didn't.

 

Anyway, I think American Made might be a little underestimated around here. With Kingsman and Ninjago being a one and done type deal for audiences, I see them being ready to move on to something else, and I could totally see AM pulling Black Mass numbers. Maybe even being #1 next weekend.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, YourMother said:

Disney needs to market it though. It looks lackluster compared to the other past Disney movies and even then there's still a lot of movies with big family appeal, with Thor, Daddy's Home, and the week before has both JL and The Star.

Stop.

[KeepItU25071906]

 

 

 

Muted for IT, awful for cartoon.

[YM!]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

Stop.

It'll take theaters even if it's not doing shit, which again I think is doing around $30M-$50M domestic. It's still competition.

[Zakiyyah6]

So Deadline's early number for IT was dead on.

 

Ninjago only doing 5.8mil is pretty embarrassing. WB can't win em all.

[That One Girl]

The Star will bomb and have zero effect on Coco.  End of discussion.

[YM!]

Ninjago's OD is the same as Storks. 

[filmlover]

Geez, Ninjago could open with less than Storks. Audiences were just not here for this for the most part.

[The Panda]

53 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

I think even with good stories, lego movies just don't look appealing at all.

Yeah, the first one was novel but these last two just came across as obnoxious.

[YM!]

5 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Stop.

 

Again. I know that The Star is probably not doing shit. I'm just acknowledging the fact that there's a lot of family movies.

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, YourMother said:

It'll take theaters even if it's not doing shit, which again I think is doing around $30M-$50M domestic. It's still competition.

Nope

 

Neither is Daddy's Home.

 

If Coco gets good reviews it will be the first quality animation wide release in ages. (for me since 2016, for others and critics since Feb)

 

 

[That One Girl]

Lord/Miller ain' doing anything after getting fired from Star Wars.  It's time to bring them back to direct.

[YM!]

Just now, TalismanRing said:

Nope

 

Neither is Daddy's Home.

 

If Coco gets good reviews it will be the first quality animation wide release in ages. (for me since 2016, for others and critics since Feb)

 

 

Coco needs better marketing though. You need to use all of your tools to make a machine.