WEEKEND Box Office: BOO-21.6M; Geostorm-13.3M; OTB-6M; Snowman-3.4M

[TalismanRing]

18 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

It was financed by the same parent company, however.

WB (like every other studio except currently Disney) often has outside investors even on films like WW and BvS (It helps mitigate losses but also profits).  IT's budget was comparatively low but about the same as Collateral which had outside investors.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservative-koch-brothers-are-secret-investors-wonder-woman-1027376

 

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by TalismanRing

[narniadis]

Oof that 58% increase for BR just hurts. 

 

I think everyone forgot that even though the new films almost all underperformed there 5!!! Wide new releases. That kills holdovers no matter how poorly the new stuff does. 

[TalismanRing]

http://pro.boxoffice.com/weekend-estimates-boo2-madea-geostorm-only-the-brave-snowman-same-kind-different-as-me/

Weekend Estimates:

WIDE (1000+)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween	$20,000,000	—	2,388	—	$8,375	$20,000,000	1	Lionsgate
2	Geostorm	$13,000,000	—	3,246	—	$4,005	$13,000,000	41	Warner Bros.
3	Happy Death Day	$9,600,000	-63%	3,298	149	$2,911	$40,909,365	2	Universal / Blumhouse
4	Blade Runner 2049	$6,600,000	-57%	3,203	-855	$2,061	$73,450,203	3	Warner Bros.
5	Only The Brave	$6,150,000	—	2,577	—	$2,386	$6,150,000	1	Sony Pictures
6	The Foreigner	$5,200,000	-60%	2,515	0	$2,068	$22,594,253	2	STX Entertainment
7	The Snowman	$3,600,000	—	1,812	—	$1,987	$3,600,000	1	Universal
8	It (2017)	$3,200,000	-47%	2,560	-616	$1,250	$319,934,616	7	Warner Bros. / New Line
9	American Made	$3,200,000	-42%	2,559	-539	$1,250	$45,541,735	4	Universal
10	Kingsman: The Golden Circle	$3,025,000	-44%	2,318	-664	$1,305	$94,593,932	5	Fox
11	Same Kind of Different as Me	$2,900,000	—	1,362	—	$2,129	$2,900,000	38	Pure Flix Entertainment
12	The Mountain Between Us	$2,775,000	-52%	3,151	-108	$881	$25,553,885	3	20th Century Fox
13	Victoria & Abdul	$2,100,000	-30%	1,060	160	$1,981	$14,810,534	5	Focus Features
14	The LEGO Ninjago Movie	$2,000,000	-54%	2,102	-951	$951	$54,483,502	5	Warner Bros.
15	My Little Pony: The Movie	$2,000,000	-51%	2,301	-227	$869	$18,529,599	3	Lionsgate

LIMITED (100 — 999)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Marshall	$1,400,000	-53%	821	0	$1,705	$5,351,991	2	Open Road
2	Battle of the Sexes	$570,000	-58%	545	-849	$1,046	$11,437,167	5	Fox Searchlight
3	Professor Marston & The Wonder Women	$230,000	-69%	959	-270	$240	$1,310,446	2	Annapurna Pictures
4	Flatliners	$220,000	-86%	535	-1448	$411	$16,415,051	4	Sony Pictures
5	American Assassin	$160,000	-69%	312	-508	$513	$35,969,166	6	CBS Films / Lionsgate
6	The Hitman’s Bodyguard	$100,000	24%	172	7	$581	$75,316,595	10	Lionsgate / Summit
7	Home Again	$55,000	-67%	158	-203	$348	$26,913,654	7	Open Road

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Goodbye Christopher Robin	$147,000	154%	61	52	$2,410	$226,505	2	Fox Searchlight
2	Cars 3	$70,000	-20%	94	-25	$745	$152,840,233	19	Disney
3	Friend Request	$11,000	15%	40	-10	$275	$3,746,539	5	Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures

[John Marston]

Blade Runner will lose a shit load of theaters next week likely and then the week after so except constant 55-60 drops

[filmlover]

Just now, John Marston said:

Blade Runner will lose a shit load of theaters next week likely and then the week after so except constant 55-60 drops

Probably not next weekend (since nothing is opening in 3,000 theaters) but the following week for sure.

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, filmlover said:

Probably not next weekend (since nothing is opening in 3,000 theaters) but the following week for sure.

I expect it to lose at least 600 next week. If my theater reflects others, it makes nothing Monday-Friday. The weak holds for It, MBU, AM, and Ninjago will help offset the drop somewhat, but it's probably dropping 50% again.

[John Marston]

Too bad last weeks drop for BR was a fluke 

[Eric the IF]

October all things considered was pretty awful, but the one silver lining is that it will likely lead to a stellar November...at least I hope.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, CoolEric258 said:

October all things considered was pretty awful, but the one silver lining is that it will likely lead to a stellar November...at least I hope.

Blame it on an unappealing crop of movies. And perhaps rival studios thinking that Blade Runner would be a much bigger deal than it ended up being.

[grey ghost]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

"Winning" the year by adding up the grosses of all the movie a studio distributes, regardless of whether they financed them or make a profit from them is rather meaningless anyway.

 

BR2049 under-performed and Geostorm is a bomb but WB didn't finance either of them.

 

Or what's the point of adding King Arthur's domestic gross when the movie cost the studio over $100m?

 

Valerian is the second highest grossing film STX has ever released but it cost them money - even as just a distributor  - while lower grosses might have made money

 

 

So Disney has a shot at the studio crown the next two years for a record breaking 3 times in a row, now suddenly, studio crowns don't matter any more.

 

I guess everyone forgot how fun it was to watch Universal upset Disney in 2015 when both had their biggest hits (The Force Awakens/Age of Ultron/Inside Out vs Jurassic World/Minions/Furious 7)

 

Watching studio de-facto wars for revenue is fun.

 

The "who produced it" technicality is a joy kill. There are always various investors but if a studio can attach themselves to more megahits than any other it's still an accomplishment that should be acknowledged.

 

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by grey ghost

[a2k]

K2 : 3m weekend / 94.55m cume.

 

next week

mon-thu: 1 (-46%)

weekend: 1.7 (-43%)

cume: 94.55 + 1 + 1.7 = 97.25

 

following week

mon-thu: 0.55 (-45%)

weekend: 0.6 (-65%) due to Thor3

cume: 97.25 + 0.55 + 0.6 = 98.4

 

following week

mon-thu: 0.3 (-65%)

weekend: 0.3 (-50%)

cume: 98.4 + 0.3 + 0.3 = 99

 

then big drop again as JL opens. But Thanksgivings + dollar bump will give it 100 without any fudge required from the studio.

[babz06]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

With the way everything is performing, theaters are going to be begging for Thor and Bad Moms. The only opener next week with a chance at doing solid business is Jigsaw, and that will make like 80% of its money on the first two nights. Every holdover not named TYLER PERRY'S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN is going to be under 6M next weekend, and the other two openers very well might be below that mark too. Even when Orient Express and Daddy's Home open, midsize and large theaters are still going to have a significant portion of their screens filled with empty movies. Sony would be wise to just release Roman Israel wide that weekend instead of waiting one week.

I think Last Flag Flying, Lady Bird and Roman Isreal Esq are all going semiwide/wide over Thanksgiving.

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, babz06 said:

I think Last Flag Flying, Lady Bird and Roman Isreal Esq are all going semiwide/wide over Thanksgiving.

Three Billboards might be getting a sizeable expansion that weekend as well (it's opening here on the 22nd).

[WrathOfHan]

3 minutes ago, babz06 said:

I think Last Flag Flying, Lady Bird and Roman Isreal Esq are all going semiwide/wide over Thanksgiving.

Roman Israel is going wide on the 17th and Lady Bird on the 22, but who knows how wide they go (hopefully 2,000). I don't think LFF is getting into much more than 600-700 theaters with the mixed reviews

[a2k]

Boo2 could be the first Madea film to do below 50m dom. If ow comes to 20m like Pro.BO is projecting, then needs 2.5x for 50m which could be tough as the previous one did 2.57x and sequelitis could take this closer to 2.4x multi.

[WrathOfHan]

Jesus, Boo 2!'s audience score is at 61% now  Double Toasted said it's literally the same movie as the first Boo!, which they somewhat enjoyed. Maybe that's playing into WOM?

[AJG]

5 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Boo2 could be the first Madea film to do below 50m dom. If ow comes to 20m like Pro.BO is projecting, then needs 2.5x for 50m which could be tough as the previous one did 2.57x and sequelitis could take this closer to 2.4x multi.

 

Time for "Madea Goes Back To Church." I've missed classic Perry.

[Rman823]

10 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Jesus, Boo 2!'s audience score is at 61% now  Double Toasted said it's literally the same movie as the first Boo!, which they somewhat enjoyed. Maybe that's playing into WOM?

It really is. The so called twist (which I figured out pretty easily) is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen in a movie.

 

[B D Joe]

I forgot Taika Waititi was in Green Lantern.

[babz06]

17 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Three Billboards might be getting a sizeable expansion that weekend as well (it's opening here on the 22nd).

Is there anything else that we’re missing which may be expanding? Darkest Hour and Call Me By Your Name are gonna be in select theaters but not semi-wide/wide until December.