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

[CJohn]

All the new characters were great and strong additions to the SW Universe.

 

Simple as that.

[mredman]

17 minutes ago, The Last Panda said:

I don't know if 300m is on the table, but 250m+ certainly is.

come on man that a 3.47 multipiler even with the 72 million

[Eric the Marxist]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

All the new characters were great and strong additions to the SW Universe.

 

Simple as that.

[mredman]

Just now, CJohn said:

All the new characters were great and strong additions to the SW Universe.

 

Simple as that.

i only like Carrie's daughter hope her role is bigger in ep 9

[Fancyarcher]

1 hour ago, LonePirate said:

 

But the rest of the movie is being largely ignored and presumably has not changed much since the Plummer reshoots. The studio seemed focused on eliminating any damage from Spacey rather than generating awards buzz for a performance that had not even happened yet. Some contractual obligation harmed the movie more than any benefit it stands to gain from Plummer being nominated.

It got good reviews though, so Sony probably saw potential it in as an Oscar contender. Not the first time a studio's done that for a film that didn't so well awards-wise after all. It didn't work out as well as they had hoped though.

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

 

Not really. That’s a $3700 PTA on perhaps the biggest movie going day of the year. Granted, I don’t think the release was widely marketed so the number is decent in that regard. Still, unless WOM is good, rough seas lie ahead for it.

Screen space was limited and most of the marketing focus has been touting its wide release on January 5. It did great.

[Poseidon]

8 minutes ago, mredman said:

come on man that a 3.47 multipiler even with the 72 million

 

Night at a Museum did 5,94 of its 4D. 
If Jumanji did that, it would end with 345m.

I think $250m is pretty much a done deal by now. This should be at $175m, maybe even more,  by Jan 1st and January is incredibly weak. 

Edited December 26, 2017 by Poseidon

[LonePirate]

8 minutes ago, CJohn said:

All the new characters were great and strong additions to the SW Universe.

 

Simple as that.

 

I beg to differ about BDT’s character. All of his scenes could have been rewritten without him and no one would have noticed any difference in the movie. Dern and Tran served purposes. BDT did not.

[Fancyarcher]

33 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

To be fair to Sony, they did have Homecoming, Baby Driver and even The Emoji Movie this year (people forget that Emoji actually did very well for its budget). Compared to Paramount, which only had one real hit this year (Daddy's Home 2) and one other mild performer accounting for WW numbers (Transformers 5), Sony had a Disney-worthy year.

 

Lionsgate was the true breakout of 2017, though. Wonder, John Wick 2, The Shack, The Big Sick, The Hitman's Bodyguard, How To Be A Latin Lover, Jigsaw (if you account WW and not just DOM)... even La La Land made the majority of its money in 2017. Sure, they still had a few bombs (Power Rangers, All Eyez On Me, Patriots Day), but their year was shockingly solid for the most part.

And even those "bombs" weren't that significant or that bad. 

[wildphantom]

6.6 IMDb user score for The Post. Conspiracy? All the Presidents Men fans downvoting it maybe? Lol. 

[cannastop]

Damn, looks like I missed some meltdowns.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, wildphantom said:

6.6 IMDb user score for The Post. Conspiracy? All the Presidents Men fans downvoting it maybe? Lol. 

This is completely unsurprising. Just because IMDB did away with the forums doesn't mean they've done away with the trolls.

[FantasticBeasts]

I am fully rooting for the shape of water to win best picture.

That being said, I am happy The Post doesn't seem to do crazy business.

[grim22]

http://deadline.com/2017/12/last-jedi-dwayne-johnson-jumanji-zac-efron-greatest-showman-box-office-1202230784/

 

Tuesday AM update: We’ll have finals later in the day, but according to industry estimates this morning, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in with much less cash than anticipated from what was projected yesterday. Granted, the entire weekend was a hard one for analysts to call with Christmas Eve on Sunday, but at $99M this morning Last Jedi only made $2.9M more than Rogue One did a year ago over the four-day Christmas holiday. Disney has been a digit up or down from industry estimates so it’s quite conceivable the four-day holiday for Last Jedi gets called at $100M. Yes, sequelitis is a factor here, but when a movie is posting between $17M-$25M+ days, it’s just a matter of when people want to see this movie at this time of the year. Moviegoers spent an estimated $27.5M to watch Last Jedi on Christmas, a figure that’s 44% less than Force Awakens’ $49.3M on the holiday (when it fell on a Thursday) and just 6% higher than a Rogue One‘s $25.9M Christmas (when it fell on a Sunday). Force Awakens ended its year at $651.9M, Rogue One accumulated $408M by Dec. 31 and the projection is that Last Jedi gets to at least $506M before 2018 rings in.

[Truckasaurus]

Deadline reporting 27.5M for TLJ on XMas.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/last-jedi-dwayne-johnson-jumanji-zac-efron-greatest-showman-box-office-1202230784/

[John Marston]

Jumanji won't have the January holds NATM did I feel. Still it will make over 200m which is fantastic

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

http://deadline.com/2017/12/last-jedi-dwayne-johnson-jumanji-zac-efron-greatest-showman-box-office-1202230784/

 

Tuesday AM update: We’ll have finals later in the day, but according to industry estimates this morning, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in with much less cash than anticipated from what was projected yesterday. Granted, the entire weekend was a hard one for analysts to call with Christmas Eve on Sunday, but at $99M this morning Last Jedi only made $2.9M more than Rogue One did a year ago over the four-day Christmas holiday. Disney has been a digit up or down from industry estimates so it’s quite conceivable the four-day holiday for Last Jedi gets called at $100M. Yes, sequelitis is a factor here, but when a movie is posting between $17M-$25M+ days, it’s just a matter of when people want to see this movie at this time of the year. Moviegoers spent an estimated $27.5M to watch Last Jedi on Christmas, a figure that’s 44% less than Force Awakens’ $49.3M on the holiday (when it fell on a Thursday) and just 6% higher than a Rogue One‘s $25.9M Christmas (when it fell on a Sunday). Force Awakens ended its year at $651.9M, Rogue One accumulated $408M by Dec. 31 and the projection is that Last Jedi gets to at least $506M before 2018 rings in.

Christmas Day was on a Friday for TFA, not Thursday.

[WrathOfHan]

That's ok for Molly's Game, but not particularly encouraging for its wide expansion:

 

750k (-25%)

600k (-20%)

600k (-)

 

900k (+50%)
1.1M (+30%)

700k (-35%)

2.7M Weekend, $9,963 PTA (Another movie to be over Father Figures this week  )

 

850k (+21%)

420k (-51%)

335k (-20%)

335k (-)

 

1.8M (+550%) (This is what The Big Sick increased when it went wide)

2.3M (+30%)

1.3M (-44%)

5.4M Weekend, $3,600 PTA

 

If STX gets the TC up to 2k, that could get the weekend to 6M (or 7.2M in a best case scenario)

 

[redfirebird2008]

Let’s hope for a 10% increase for $30m Tuesday. 

[titanic2187]

6 minutes ago, FantasticBeasts said:

I am fully rooting for the shape of water to win best picture.

That being said, I am happy The Post doesn't seem to do crazy business.

It will be the 1st fantasy film to win BP since LOTR finale.....