THE LAST JEDI (and Ferdinand) WEEKEND THREAD | JEDI 220m, FERDINAND 13.3m, COCO 10m (official estimates) | ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS ALLOWED | SALE ON GOLD & PREMIUM ACCOUNTS IN FIRST POST

[JonathanLB]

4 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Imagine the Top 3 Domestic in early 2020:

 

01. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
02. Star Wars: Episode IX
03. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

 

Haha yes, that would be amazing! I don’t think a trilogy has ever occupied the top 3 slots though the OT came close - ET came out and ruined some of the party in 82 and I can’t recall where Raiders landed in 81.

[DAR]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

The hell is up with those character designs?  #NotMyBobtheBuilder

We're now at the point were the new Bob the Builder is ruining childhoods.

[Fancyarcher]

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

I love blockbusters but I can't watch them all the times so when we have success with lower budget films, it's a good thing. Everybody needs to have a balance of the big and the small films. 

 

TBH although I liked JL, I'm glad that it was Wonder Woman became the huge success for WB/DC and not JL.

Wonder Woman's success was neat because it was a good film, and it was good to see a non Batman / Superman DC film be so successful. Plus it was Wonder Woman's first live-action movie and that I liked that it was so successful. 

[Dark 33Legend of the Sith]

5 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Imagine the Top 3 Domestic in early 2020:

 

01. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
02. Star Wars: Episode IX
03. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

 

I think this will happen.  That would be mindblowing.  Not to mention, by the time TLJ's run finishes, that and TFA will combine to have a bigger gross than any TRIOLOGY ever made domestically. 

[Brainbug]

Is this now the Bob the Builder Meme thread?

 

[redfirebird2008]

3 minutes ago, SpiritComix said:

Future Paramount's flops:

 

 

Paramount just announced release dates for 4 franchise titles, and it ain't pretty, folks! Not looking forward to ANY of these..

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS - July 23, 2021
GI JOE (part 3?) - March 27, 2020
MICRONAUTS - Oct. 16, 2020
UNTITLED HASBRO - Oct. 1, 2021

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) December 18, 2017

 

Paramount needs to give up on the big budget franchise approach. They should try to go after low budget horror stuff instead and maybe put some money into populist Oscar bait.

[YM!]

5 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I had quite a lot of Bob the Builder stuff when I was little. Good to see it's still going strong, but....... WHAT DID THEY DO???????  

I was a Thomas The Tank Engine boy. But the changes to my boi Bob 

[mredman]

46 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong

[Eric the Fall Guy]

6 minutes ago, SpiritComix said:

Future Paramount's flops:

 

 

Again, why would they make a Dungeons and Dragons movie when we already have one that's the pinnacle of cinema?

 

[Jonwo]

3 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

Wonder Woman's success was neat because it was a good film, and it was good to see a non Batman / Superman DC film be so successful. Plus it was Wonder Woman's first live-action movie and that I liked that it was so successful. 

Who'd thought that not only would Wonder Wonder outgross Justice League but that it would be the third highest domestic film of the year. 

 

I am looking forward to Aquaman, I know people are skeptical but I think James Wan will deliver.

[dxmatrixdt]

1 hour ago, a2knet said:

DAY	Rogue One	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Star Wars: The Last Jedi
WEEK 1
Fri	$71,094,394 - / - $71,094,394 / 1	$119,119,282 - / - $119,119,282 / 1	$104,684,491 - / - $104,684,491 / 1
Sat	$46,308,115 -34.9% / - $117,402,509 / 2	$68,294,204 -42.7% / - $187,413,486 / 2	$63,993,205 -38.9% / - $168,677,696 / 2
Sun	$37,679,172 -18.6% / - $155,081,681 / 3	$60,553,189 -11.3% / - $247,966,675 / 3	$51,331,888 -19.8% / - $220,009,584 / 3
ADVERTISEMENT (scroll to continue with chart)
Mon	$17,596,150 -53.3% / - $172,677,831 / 4	$40,109,742 -33.8% / - $288,076,417 / 4	-
Tue	$17,582,978 -0.1% / - $190,260,809 / 5	$37,361,729 -6.9% / - $325,438,146 / 5	-
Wed	$14,965,790 -14.9% / - $205,226,599 / 6	$38,022,183 +1.8% / - $363,460,329 / 6	-
Thu	$16,773,075 +12.1% / - $221,999,674 / 7	$27,395,725 -27.9% / - $390,856,054 / 7	-
WK 1	$221,999,674	$390,856,054	-

 

It seems like an average of 25 + 25 + 25 + 25 seems fair for Mon-Thurs.  That would give it a 320 7.5 day total.  Give 100M weekend, and 150 for the weekdays.

[DAR]

Paramount's slate looks so bad even Disney won't buy them

[CJohn]

14 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

The hell is up with those character designs?  #NotMyBobtheBuilder

It is the characters from the rebooted TV show. Absolute trash.

 

#NotMyBobTheBuilder

[Jonwo]

3 minutes ago, DARth DAR said:

Paramount's slate looks so bad even Disney won't buy them

Paramount don't have decent IP and they don't have much of a television library as the original library went to CBS when Viacom and CBS split

[Dark 33Legend of the Sith]

Like redfirebird said, people need to caution that Monday will fall much more due to the calendar with kids still in school.

 

Though it evens out and the Monday payoffs will be returned when Christmas Day and New Year's day lands on Mondays.

[George Parr]

6 minutes ago, JonathanLB said:

Haha yes, that would be amazing! I don’t think a trilogy has ever occupied the top 3 slots though the OT came close - ET came out and ruined some of the party in 82 and I can’t recall where Raiders landed in 81.

Jaws also got in the way. ANH and ESB sat at 1st and 3rd up until Raiders went past Empire in 1982.

 

In 1984, there was ANH at 2, ROTJ at 4 and ESB at 6. ROTJ passed Jaws in 1985, but before that happened Ghostbusters got past ESB, so the three movies sat at 2nd, 3rd and 7th.

 

There aren't really any highly successful sequels before ESB, at least none that I can think of, so that's probably the best a trilogy has fared so far.

[Barnack]

4 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Paramount needs to give up on the big budget franchise approach. They should try to go after low budget horror stuff instead and maybe put some money into populist Oscar bait.

Maybe, but that is close to saying that they need to give up being a major studio, sell the world asset and become like Liongates, if you are not doing big budget affair, it will be hard to make the overhead cost of having that giant world infrastructure amortized among your title.

 

Say running a world movie distribution studio cost 150m in a year, if you distribute that cost among an annual movie budget of around 1 billion dollar, it is not so bad, you have a 15% of the production cost overhead, the 100m movie is a 115m one, the 20 million a 23 million and so on.

 

If you have a 400m annual production budget of a slate of 15-20 small movies, now that 150m become a rather big portion of those budget, you have a 37.5% overhead (that difference is higher than non-Disney studio gross profit margin, it is more than eating all of it), the 20m movie become a 27.5m one and much harder to make it work at that price point.

 

I could be wrong, but I have the impression you either do big budget movie every year or you decide to be out of the being a full fledged movie studio game and join the Weinstein/Liongates/others mini major group.

[MCKillswitch123]

21 minutes ago, CJohn said:

TLJ should win in the end in tickets sold as well since the difference is very small between both's OW. Fun fact: the same happened with the first Fifty Shades and The Force Awakens. Fifty Shades of Grey sold more tickets on OW but lost in €€€. In the end, TFA also beat it in total tickets sold.

 

Bob the Builder fans > Bronies

 

Like the song for FSD goes, JUST WANNA KEEP CALLING YO NAME TILL YOU COME BACK HOME WOAH OH...... home as in behind Star Wars in the box office charts. Damn right, SW is making you its bitch, Fifty Shades. Who's the kinky one now? (Yup, I just talked to a movie. I'm sane, believe me.)

 

I wouldn't be surprised by Bobbers (that's what I'm calling them) were genuinely pissed about those designs #NotMyBobTheBuilder

 

And WTF is Sing doing in the charts again???

Edited December 18, 2017 by MCKillswitch123

[That One Girl]

[Brainiac5]

44 minutes ago, Lor San Tele said:

The obvious but overlooked thing about IMDB and RT votes is that no one cares except the obsessive diehards (and even then, only a subset of that group). It's not even a tempest in a teapot. 

 

It is literally pointless. Has anyone ever cared about this stuff unless they're trying to win some argument on the internet?

Edited December 18, 2017 by Brainiac5