Weekend Thread | Weekend Estimates - Coco 26.11M, JL 16.58M, Wonder 12.5M, T:R 9.65M, MOTOE 6.7M, LB 4.54M, 3BOEM 4.53M, TDA 1.22M

[MCKillswitch123]

13 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

The thing it, it’s not overly surprising when a superhero movie makes that amount of money. An R rated horror movie making $100 + opening weekend and over $300 million in general is very surprising, especially when people keep saying R rated horror movies don’t make money.

I mean, Get Out made 175M, every Conjuring movie made 100M+ (except Annabelle 1), Jigsaw is on its way to 100M WW.... if someone says that, that's a bit of a stretch.

 

THIS kind of money, however, is pretty much unheard of for horror in general, nevermind R-rated. Those are superhero tentpole numbers. Unbelievable. It has to be the #1 story of the year. Wonder Woman was madness too, but it comes behind It. Probably on par with Get Out too.

[That One Girl]

1 hour ago, JonathanLB said:

Lol you guys crack me up. The horrible lust story, 2D antagonist, stereotypical rich people, and just bad dialogue do not a perfect film make. Titanic blows. 

 

This is one of the worst opinions I’ve heard in quite some time.

[Thrylos 7]

Titanic is cinematic trash of the lowest kind.

[RandomCat]

I just started the weekend Thread...Anything interesting in here or...

 

Also, if we're doing hot takes on titanic. Still haven't seen it. Don't really want to either. 

 

P.S. Yay Coco!

[a2k]

IT crossing 700 ww without China along with 120+ ow and 325+ dom is the BO story of the year imo : beating Get Out and WONDR in shock value.

#random #hottake

Edited December 3, 2017 by a2knet

[Krissykins]

23 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

The thing it, it’s not overly surprising when a superhero movie makes that amount of money. An R rated horror movie making $100 + opening weekend and over $300 million in general is very surprising, especially when people keep saying R rated horror movies don’t make money.

It is when it’s a solo film, obviously. Plus the reviews, 4x multiplier, $100m opening weekend. The whole story, it’s perfect.

[Krissykins]

23 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

The thing it, it’s not overly surprising when a superhero movie makes that amount of money. An R rated horror movie making $100 + opening weekend and over $300 million in general is very surprising, especially when people keep saying R rated horror movies don’t make money.

It is when it’s a solo film, obviously. Plus the reviews, 4x multiplier, $100m opening weekend. The whole story, it’s perfect.

[Mrwick]

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Edited December 3, 2017 by Mrwick

[Mrwick]

15 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

All this Justice League carry on made me forget for a second that Wonder Woman is the 20th biggest of any film unadjusted domestically. 

 

Only other solo movies in the top 20 are the two Dark Knight films. Incredible achievement. 

 

Wonder Woman is definitely the box office success story of the year for me, along with IT. 

WW really is the surprise hit of the year but lets not ignore the fact that top 20 domestic doesn't give the credit to other solo movies which were bigger hits in their respective market. Im talking spiderman 1-3, Iron man (2d), IM3, CW, Deadpool, Superman and original Batman

 

WW arguably being the 4th most iconic/well known Superhero ever (behind batman, supes and spidey) kind of had to have a place on the list at some point.

Edited December 3, 2017 by Mrwick

[The Futurist]

Titanic was the swan song of old fashion Hollywood, The David Lean kind, those historical epic dramas a la Ben Hur.

It symbolically closed the 20th Century regarding the History of cinema.

 

A new age was looming ...

 

The next year, you had Blade.

1999 : Star Wars was Back. Matrix was released.

2000 : X-Men

2001 : LOTR & Potter 1

2002 : LOTR 2, Potter 2, Star Wars 2 & Spiderman 

 

Game Over.

Edited December 3, 2017 by The Futurist

[That One Girl]

The backlash Titanic has received is fucking hilarious.  It’s a movie that’s so confident in itself, so assured, and it completely shows throughout its runtime.  The pacing is perfect.  It’s amazing how Cameron makes 3 hours feel so short and brisk.  The entire sinking scene is flawless. It feels like you’re there, sinking with the passengers, nearly drowning, etc.  Fuck alternate reality because Cameron actually makes you feel like you’re sinking on the Titanic without it.  And fuck me I always get shivers when they’re floating in the water and on the painting.  No matter how many flaws people say it has, it’s a true epic.  One that makes you feel about every character, one that makes you want the two leads to be with each other, one that makes you feel nearly every emotion during the sinking scene, and one that makes you bawl your eyes out at the end.

 

You can call it cinematic trash all you want, it’s just that you’re wrong.

[Boxofficerules]

4 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

It is when it’s a solo film, obviously. Plus the reviews, 4x multiplier, $100m opening weekend. The whole story, it’s perfect.

I think there is something up with your account, you keep posting the exact same post about 3 times.

[Mrwick]

6 minutes ago, a2knet said:

IT crossing 700 ww without China along with 120+ ow and 325+ dom is the BO story of the year imo : beating Get Out and WONDR in shock value.

#random #hottake

Actually yeah IT's performance is much more impressive than WW's

[Ragnar]

GET OUT is THE box office success story of the year.

 

REASONS

 

1 - Original IP

2 - R-rated Horror Movie (with some satire/comedy) 

3 - Budget:  $4.5 million

4 - Domestic BO: $175,5 (37 times its budget)  

5 - Dropped just 15% in its second weekend

6 - The first eight weekends with lower drops than 36.1% 

7 - First black writer-director with a $100-million film debut

8 - Highest-grossing original debut ever

 

 

[Mrwick]

2 minutes ago, Ragnar said:

GET OUT is THE box office success story of the year.

 

REASONS

 

1 - Original IP

2 - R-rated Horror Movie (with some satire/comedy) 

3 - Budget:  $4.5 million

4 - Domestic BO: $175,5 (37 times its budget)  

5 - Dropped just 15% in its second weekend

6 - The first eight weekends with lower drops than 36.1% 

7 - First black writer-director with a $100-million film debut

8 - Highest-grossing original debut ever

 

 

What has the writer being black got to do with it being the success story of the year?

[Boxofficerules]

 

[La Binoche]

15 minutes ago, Thrylos 7 said:

Titanic is cinematic trash of the lowest kind.

It's good but it's no English Patient. 

[Mrwick]

Titanic only has backlash by a select few on the internet though it is the biggest film of all time so its unsurprising. Talk to anyone else though and its a masterpiece. Its just so epic

[Ragnar]

4 minutes ago, Mrwick said:

What has the writer being black got to do with it being the success story of the year?

There are lots of reasons, but yeah, funny thing you just pointed one especific thing.

 

 

[a2k]

12 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

Titanic was the swan song of old fashion Hollywood, The David Lean kind, those historical epic dramas a la Ben Hur.

It symbolically closed that chapter forever.

 

The next year, you had Blade.

1999 : Star Wars was Back. Matrix was released.

2000 : X-Men

2001 : LOTR & Potter 1

2002 : LOTR 2, Potter 2, Star Wars 2 & Spiderman 

 

Game Over.

Would also like to point out computer animation doing something similar to traditional animations around the same time period with increasing frequency.

 

1995 TS1

---3 year gap---

1998-1999 Antz, Bug's Life, TS2

2001-2004  Shrek1, Monsters Inc, Ice Age1, Nemo, Shrek2

Edited December 3, 2017 by a2knet