THE JUSTICE LEAGUE (and The Star and Wonder) WEEKEND THREAD | PREMIUM ACCOUNT SALE NOW LIVE | Weekend Actuals ~ JL 93.84M, W 27.54M, T:R 21.66M, DH2 14.43M, MOTOE 13.80M, TS 9.81M

[Chewy]

So let's say this opens to 90

 

BvS's opening day was 81

 

OW 11% higher than its predecessor's OD!

[HenryjRhetorics]

4 minutes ago, Blakexyz said:

Is it now possible this may miss $200M DOM???!!!

Even a below 90 OW won't make this a probable scenario. 

[eXtacy]

Just now, Chewy said:

 

Nah it's still on track for like 320

 

You think it can do 75m more off a 21m weekend?

[TalismanRing]

48 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

Here's some shit that blows my mind.  LOGAN opened up to $88M.   Fucking Logan.  Yes,  excellent movie and Wolverine's farewell but still.  Justice League will barely crack Logan. 

 

Here's another one.   X2.   Opened to $85M.  14 fucking years ago. 

 

Here's another.   X-Men: The Last Stand.  A total piece of shit.  Ratner is a complete hack. Damn near ruined the X-franchise.  THAT movie opened to $102M 11 years ago.  

 

Justice League will open under X-Men: The Last Stand. 

The Last Stand's huge opening came off the popularity of X-Men and X-Men II.      Like BvS it poisoned the well for the next film   

 

The combination of it and Wolverine Origins  is what caused harm to the X-Men franchise that resulted in opening in the $50s for both First Class in Wolverine. 

 

Even DOFP  eight years after Last Stand couldn't make more domestic unadjusted - and then without the returning old cast the series fell again.

 

 

Row	Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Gross / Theaters		Opening / Theaters		Date
1	7	X-Men	Fox	$157,299,717	3,112	$54,471,475	3,025	7/14/00
2	5	X2: X-Men United	Fox	$214,949,694	3,749	$85,558,731	3,741	5/2/03
3	2	X-Men: The Last Stand	Fox	$234,362,462	3,714	$102,750,665	3,690	5/26/06
4	6	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Fox	$179,883,157	4,102	$85,058,003	4,099	5/1/09
5	9	X-Men: First Class	Fox	$146,408,305	3,692	$55,101,604	3,641	6/3/11
6	10	The Wolverine	Fox	$132,556,852	3,924	$53,113,752	3,924	7/26/13
7	3	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Fox	$233,921,534	4,001	$90,823,660	3,996	5/23/14
8	1	Deadpool	Fox	$363,070,709	3,856	$132,434,639	3,558	2/12/16
9	8	X-Men: Apocalypse	Fox	$155,442,489	4,153	$65,769,562	4,150	5/27/16
10	4	Logan	Fox	$226,277,068	4,071	$88,411,916	4,071	3/3/17

[Chewy]

Just now, eXtacy said:

 

You think it can do 75m more off a 21m weekend?

 

With Thanksgiving next weekend, yes

[eXtacy]

Just now, Chewy said:

 

With Thanksgiving next weekend, yes

 

I hope so!

[XO21]

1 minute ago, eXtacy said:

 

You think it can do 75m more off a 21m weekend?

Strange did $51m from 3rd week onwards..if Thor adds that it's $298m -at least-

Edited November 18, 2017 by XO21

[Noctis]

5 minutes ago, eXtacy said:

The most disappointing thing this weekend is Justice League may bring Thor 3 below a 300m domestic finish. That would suck.

How?

 

It'll be at $246m-$247m by the end of the weekend. By the end of next weekend, it'll likely be around $280m with Thanksgiving. It's definitely hitting $300m.

[AJ2k]

2 minutes ago, somebody85 said:

Man if this number holds I could see the hardcore DC fans making a gif of a certain scene from this movie and replacing a face with the RT logo. They are going to be even more furious with critics and completely blame them for this. 

This goes way beyond the critics. Absolutely terrible movies (hi Transformers franchise) have still banked big $$$ even when critics took those films behind the barn and shot'em dead.  I think BvS used up all of the goodwill of the general audience and JL's marketing and trailers looked to be no different than what came before. When I saw JL's trailers I still saw the same filtered, dark, murky action scenes that plagued BvS and gave me the harsh flashbacks of sitting through that film. I think even if this film scored a 70+ percentage of RT we'd still be looking at roughly the same box office result.

[eXtacy]

Just now, XO21 said:

Strange did $51m from 3rd week onwards..if Thor adds that it's $298m

 

I guess it is still ahead of Dr Strange 3rd weekend

[The Stingray]

Man, that's an embarrassing number and worthy of derision. WB/DC should be ashamed of themselves.
 

[a2k]

2 minutes ago, Noctis said:

If it does $90m-$93m...I'm expecting no more than $225m at best. I think $210m is where it'll land.

 

This movie is gonna end up doing no more than $650m worldwide. It won't crack the top 100 worldwide. Let that sink in for a moment.

that's getting uncomfortably close to TA's ow. if ow comes down to 90, then 2.3x takes it to that territory (207.5).

[Noctis]

@EmpireCity I see you...anything you can tell us?

[Firepower]

Maybe the audience didn't like WW much and it was success because it was released in the right time and circumstances? Any popular character adds bucks to crossover, it's not possible that it didn't add anything, but also dropped hard with other popular characters.

Edited November 18, 2017 by Firepower

[Noctis]

2 minutes ago, a2knet said:

that's getting uncomfortably close to TA's ow. if ow comes down to 90, then 2.3x takes it to that territory (207.5).

The fact that this has a chance (albeit small) at missing $200m with a $90m OW is insane. 

[Biggestgeekever]

21 minutes ago, Chewy said:

I'm trying to think of one that equals this and I'm drawing a blank

Matrix Revolutions was a pretty brutal disappointment at the time. And its situation is very similar to JL.

[somebody85]

18 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Honestly, I hope this can save some face until Star Wars. Having this open the week before thanksgiving makes me pretty confident that this could do close to a 2.5 multiplier. 220-240M is where it should end up... I hope.

But now you have the story of Wonder. That's bound to have great WOM and legs if that A+ CS is any indication. And then you have Coco which doesn't look like it's another Good Dinosaur for Pixar.

Via Deadline the number for under 25 demo is pretty low.....and that's some major competition coming in (since Wonder isn't going to be a rush out and see thing). Are families really going to choose JL over those? And as far as women, who gave WW such strong legs....I can't see that happening again here.

The news about the change in costumes and shots seems to have already left a bad tastes in their mouths.

But maybe Saturday will be much stronger this weekend. But I think this is in trouble as far as legs.

Edited November 18, 2017 by somebody85

[Heretic]

With a reported $300m budget this is looking like a very expensive disaster. Zack Snyder has ruined the DC universe 

[somebody85]

16 minutes ago, Brainiac5 said:

China is also doing well.

Yeah I heard it's doing good there too but not anything huge.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Could JL have a negative effect on Wonder Woman 2?