4-day Weekend Thread: 5-day numbers per BOM - TLJ 99.0M, J:WTTJ 55.4M, PP3 26.4M, TGS 14.4M, F 10.1M, C 8.2M, D 7.7M and an incredible $5,480,000 for Father Figures

[straggler]

It is impossible to recreate the TFA. That was the first Star Wars movie in a decade, had original cast members and was a continuation of the original trilogy. Plus the trailer was really good. So the numbers were going to be massive and subsequent films were not going to make as much. TFA made almost a billion dollars in the US alone. I don't think the release of films in successive years is a major issue. It is just that the box office is returning to something more normal. But if the current film makes $650-$700 US that is still a huge number.  

[JonathanLB]

8 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

The big fat green part might indicate that there are some trees and stuff.

What?! That's grass, those aren't trees. Maybe fungus even. Could be a large accumulation of ferns for all we know.

[MovieMan89]

2 hours ago, The Last Panda said:

Because he hated TLJ and RO was NOT AN EVENT!!

Only one of those statements is true. And it's not the former. 

[Lestranger]

1 hour ago, La Binoche said:

Jumanji is a lot of fun but it's an African-themed game and there are no jungles in Africa...no one did any research? 

 

Anyway Jack Black and the redhead girl steal the movie while The Rock continues to be a worthless waste of space reminiscent of Will Smith.  

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

How tomorrow looks at my theater:

 

Spoiler

Star Wars: 

 

9:00 3D: 24/78

10:00: 43/78

11:00: 76/124

12:30 3D: 42/78

1:30: 62/78

2:30 3D: 34/124

4:00 3D: 26/78

5:00: 48/78

6:15: 77/124

7:30 3D: 23/78

8:30: 30/78

9:45 3D: 0/124

10:30 3D: 0/113

 

Jumanji:

 

10:45: 54/78

11:00: 37/60

1:45 3D: 29/78

4:45: 64/78

6:50: 39/60

7:45 3D: 4/78

9:45: 13/60

10:45: 0/78

 

Showman:

 

9:20: 22/113

12:00: 37/113

2:35: 54/113

5:10: 9/113

7:50: 4/113

11:00: 0/78

 

Money:

 

9:45: 11/78

12:55: 38/78

4:05: 13/78

7:10: 0/78

10:20: 0/78

 

Ferdinand:

 

10:15: 16/69

1:05 3D: 9/69

3:50: 10/69

6:35 3D: 0/69

9:15: 0/69

 

PP3:

 

11:30: 9/78

2:00: 9/78

4:30: 3/78

7:00: 0/78

9:30: 0/78

 

DH2:

 

10:30: 2/63

4:05: 17/63

9:35: 0/63

 

Downsizing:

 

9:30: 0/78

12:35: 10/78

3:40: 8/78

6:50: 0/78

10:00: 0/78

 

FF:

 

10:15: 0/67

1:00: 4/67

3:45: 13/67

6:30: 0/67

9:15: 0/67

 

Thor:

 

1:05: 2/63

6:35: 0/63

 

Star Wars: 485/1,233

Jumanji: 240/570

Showman: 126/643

Money: 62/390

Ferdinand: 35/345

PP3: 21/390

DH2: 19/189

Downsizing: 18/390

FF: 17/335

Thor: 2/134

Coco has sold nothing.

 

Money comps (Everything is for OD):

 

60% of Wonder (5.8M)

70% of Dunkirk (13.8M)

80% of OE (8.6M)

95% of AA (5.5M) (Note: this comp is from AA's total on Friday morning)

105% of THB (8.4M)

115% of Kingsman (17.6M)

165% of BR (20.8M)

230% of AM (14.3M)

280% of Foreigner (13.4M)

345% of TYFYS (5.2M)

 

[JonathanLB]

Someone on here really nailed it, but I still can't understand why they're right. They were saying the estimates for TLJ have often been high because of empty 10 p.m. screenings. Seeing what you just posted, and what I've observed myself, that's completely true. I went to a 10:30 IMAX for TLJ a few days ago and there were like 40 people there tops, which isn't very good. The noon yesterday was nearly full, largest IMAX in Oregon, maybe 350 people or so were there. Front 3 rows seemed pretty empty but otherwise full. I checked tomorrow and there is ONE ticket sold to the 10:30 IMAX even though the rest of the IMAX screenings are a solid half full each, with the busiest appearing to be the noon and currently least busy is actually 7 p.m. I suspect there will be plenty of walk up business, though.

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, La Binoche said:

Jumanji is a lot of fun but it's an African-themed game and there are no jungles in Africa...no one did any research? 

 

Anyway Jack Black and the redhead girl steal the movie while The Rock continues to be a worthless waste of space reminiscent of Will Smith.  

 

 

It is not African themed.

Jaguars don't live in Africa.

[JonathanLB]

Exactly, everyone knows Jaguars typically live in garages, then roam on open roads. Duh!

[RandomCat]

3 minutes ago, TigerPaw said:

It is not African themed.

Jaguars don't live in Africa.

It's African themed. Just the video game didn't do it's research.

[La Binoche]

1 hour ago, ReyReyBattery said:

 

But... there are jungles in Africa 🤔

As with everything else, it's Disney fault I got confused. I read that The Lion was originally titled King of the Jungle but Disney changed the title bc there are no jungles in Africa...I always assumed it was rainforests or whatever. 

 

Anyway, the real point of my post was that Jumanji was fun and that The Rock sucks but luckily it's an ensemble and he's surrounded by talented actors. 

[grim22]

I'm wondering if TLJ will see a bump on the 27th due to it being Carrie Fisher's death anniversary. Fans might want to pay their tributes by watching it in theaters that day.

[TwoMisfits]

43 minutes ago, JonathanLB said:

Someone on here really nailed it, but I still can't understand why they're right. They were saying the estimates for TLJ have often been high because of empty 10 p.m. screenings. Seeing what you just posted, and what I've observed myself, that's completely true. I went to a 10:30 IMAX for TLJ a few days ago and there were like 40 people there tops, which isn't very good. The noon yesterday was nearly full, largest IMAX in Oregon, maybe 350 people or so were there. Front 3 rows seemed pretty empty but otherwise full. I checked tomorrow and there is ONE ticket sold to the 10:30 IMAX even though the rest of the IMAX screenings are a solid half full each, with the busiest appearing to be the noon and currently least busy is actually 7 p.m. I suspect there will be plenty of walk up business, though.

That was me:)...I'm betting b/c for the most part, the audience skews out of the normal late night goers range...

Edited December 25, 2017 by TwoMisfits

[grey ghost]

Africa has jungles but lions don't live there.

 

Lions live in the savanna.

[DMan7]

Anyone else think this reception to TLJ might affect Episode 9 OW. Over / Under 200M OW?

[JonathanLB]

27 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

That was me:)...I'm betting b/c for the most part, the audience skews out of the normal late night goers range...

Oh ok, well you seem to be definitely right at least from my observations. I used to hit up the 10 pm TFA mostly because the time worked best for me to avoid all traffic (I lived downtown then), and the theater was always pretty busy then. Nothing crazy but it was solid. Suddenly with TLJ nobody sees the movie at 10 haha it’s so weird. I’m a late night guy though so I’m not gonna lie a noon movie is pushing it. I usually wake up at noon or 1

[a2k]

2 hours ago, La Binoche said:

Anyway Jack Black and the redhead girl steal the movie while The Rock continues to be a worthless waste of space reminiscent of Will Smith.  

We didn't know you were part of the forums Tyrese!

[cannastop]

8 minutes ago, DMan7 said:

Anyone else think this reception to TLJ might affect Episode 9 OW. Over / Under 200M OW?

I say over. TLJ did $220m on its OW, after all.

[JonathanLB]

7 minutes ago, cannastop said:

I say over. TLJ did $220m on its OW, after all.

Yeah, over. Mixed fan reaction or not it’ll be (correctly) marketed as the final episode of the trilogy and people are going to be curious to see what happens. Less incentive to wait for home video among the GA too because it finishes the trilogy so if you caught TLJ at home and ended up liking it after all, you’ll be more curious to see things off properly.

 

The calendar is awesome for IX, and it opens late enough that it’ll have a monster day every day for two weeks basically. What constitutes monster, well, that’ll be decided by the OW I suppose but I see that movie making a killing in its first two weeks and three weekends, then it’ll have pretty much played out. Not to say that in a negative way but it’ll crush for those 17 days and then do what most movies do in the early part of a year, play out to smaller numbers while the stragglers see it.

[Porthos]

20 minutes ago, DMan7 said:

Anyone else think this reception to TLJ might affect Episode 9 OW. Over / Under 200M OW?

'Anyone'?  I'm sure there's at least one other person on this board.

 

But no, not me.  In retrospect AotC is viewed by many as the worst of the prequels (I don't hold that view, but I know it's out there) and yet RotS did just fine.

 

Yeah, yeah.  LAST. STAR WARS. EVER!  Whatever.

 

It'll be fine. More than fine. Since we're talking about Dec 2019 prices and even more PLF screens out there, I think 225 OW is a nice juicy target. If not more.

[Lordmandeep]

I think unlike TLJ, Episode 9 will have to sell itself to 220 million opening weekend then go on autopilot. 

 

 

I am also sure JJ will make a film that people will mostly Unlike Rian Hack Johnson. 

 

Edited December 25, 2017 by Lordmandeep