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

[filmlover]

Just now, slambros said:

Bold prediction:

 

Wonder, which is holding extremely well, will eventually climb above Justice League on the box office weekend charts.

Gonna happen this weekend. 

[MrGamer]

5 minutes ago, Lor San Tele said:

 

Some of us were.  

Dude, you’re so old, you were alive during Gone With the Wind’s original BO run. 

[titanic2187]

I like to think that the timing for coco, a movie about death, to release now is just nice to symbolize and honour the death of JL......

 

I assume this is what some of us need in this thread......

Edited December 4, 2017 by titanic2187

[RandomCat]

Titanic. Avatar. Don't really care. I'm just here for my

[75Live]

13 minutes ago, Sand-omJC said:

Titanic. Avatar. Don't really care. I'm just here for my

 

tiny marshmallows and China?

[SLAM!]

36 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Gonna happen this weekend. 

 

You know what? You might be right.

[RandomCat]

11 minutes ago, 75Live said:

 

tiny marshmallows and China?

...no...

Spoiler

yes...

 

[cookie]

Battle Angel sounds like a bomb waiting to happen tbh

Edited December 4, 2017 by cookie

[Cmasterclay]

 

[That One Girl]

5 minutes ago, cookie said:

Battle Angel sounds like a bomb waiting to happen tbh

 

you sound like a bomb waiting to happen

[MrGamer]

2 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

 

[grey ghost]

11 minutes ago, cookie said:

Battle Angel sounds like a bomb waiting to happen tbh

Anime adaptations actually have a worse track record than video game adaptations.

 

And this time the success is riding Robert Rodriguez. 

 

(Who's way past his prime)

 

 

Edited December 4, 2017 by grey ghost

[cannastop]

39 minutes ago, Sand-omJC said:

Titanic. Avatar. Don't really care. I'm just here for my

It was funny the first three times.

[RandomCat]

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

It was funny the first three times.

Glad this was my third time doing it!

[efialtes76]

1 hour ago, slambros said:

Bold prediction:

 

Wonder, which is holding extremely well, will eventually climb above Justice League on the box office weekend charts. This could potentially happen as soon as Star Wars weekend, where the bulk of Justice League's big-budget-blockbuster audience charges into the Star Wars auditoriums- this will cause a bigger percentage drop than Ferdinand would for either Coco or Wonder, at least in a just society.

 

What do you think? Is this plausible?

Who cares at this point?

JL performance won't be poorer for that.

Edited December 4, 2017 by efialtes76

[SLAM!]

11 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Who cares at this point?

JL performance won't be poorer for that.

 

I was just thinking that it would be good for films like Wonder in the near future.

[Subzero]

I was so wrong about coco .. this thing is a beast.

I thought it would only cater to a specific group, but man it's slaying .....

 

For JL , at first I thought this time slot might be good ...but after thought it's not at all.

Thor took all the Superhero thunder ...and having two Superhero one after another is one too many..especially around the holidays people tend to look for more family movies ...like coco/wonder etc...

Also folks are  forward looking to StarWar as well ..... so that pretty much leave JL in the dust.

Edited December 4, 2017 by Subzero

[SteveJaros]

12 minutes ago, Subzero said:

I was so wrong about coco .. this thing is a beast.

I thought it would only cater to a specific group, but man it's slaying .....

 

For JL , at first I thought this time slot might be good ...but after thought it's not at all.

Thor took all the Superhero thunder ...and having two Superhero one after another is one too many..especially around the holidays people tend to look for more family movies ...like coco/wonder etc...

Also folks are  forward looking to StarWar as well ..... so that pretty much leave JL in the dust.

 

Well despite all that, JL is going to cross $200m DOM and $600m WW pretty soon. Not bad for being "left in the dust". 

[baumer]

5 hours ago, tribefan695 said:

I'd sure rather baumer be gushing about Titanic than bashing Pixar again

 

#FTSBF

[Harpospoke]

4 hours ago, Mrwick said:

If its 'technically' creative then its creative. Its visually a creative masterpiece and belive it or not, visuals make up a big portion of filmmaking.

 

With hundreds of films being made a year, there will always be other films that did an aspect of their story first. Technically Inception is just a copy of matrix meets nighmare on elm street and therefore is not creative going by your theory.

 

As for less interesting characters, there was a very good reason cameron decided to make Jake Sully paralysed. It made audiences connect with him, far more than they did in the films you mentioned. 

Not a bad point.   We often point to the "novelty" aspect of Avatar to help explain its box office run.   Doesn't "novelty" suggest "original"?

2 hours ago, Lor San Tele said:

Why are we re-fighting 20-year-old box-office battles?

 

 

It's probably because Titanic is actually in theaters at the moment?     That's the part Empire missed I think.   It's a relevant topic in the weekend thread.