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

[Brainbug]

If Lone Ranger would be 30 Minutes shorter, id watch it again.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Any way too early Friday numbers for Last Jedi yet?

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, ReyReyBattery said:

 

The first ever film to cost 700 million dollars!

Every single cent would be well spent.

[Fancyarcher]

1 minute ago, ReyReyBattery said:

 

The first ever film to cost 700 million dollars!

At least 150m of the budget will go to the amazing 30 minute "wacky" action climax set on a spaceship. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

About to use all likes on Verbinski comments. Like well used if that's the case...

[JonathanLB]

2 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

I'm trying to get a clear psychological profile from this and drawing a blank.

 

Can't get a solid read.

 

Probably shouldn't have dropped outta CIA psychological forensics school. 

 

Can you give me a hot take on Shape of Water and Disaster Artist? 

I thought Shape of Water was really weird, I mean it wasn’t bad at all, it was even pretty good. But dang what a weird movie. I liked the atmosphere created and the way it was shot. I didn’t care as much for the characters. I haven’t seen Disaster Artist (they didn’t send it), but I want to! It sounds funny. 

 

For me, I have to find a story interesting, so you will know it’s a complete failure to me if it ever checks the box “ordinary people doing ordinary things.” Dramatically I believe that’s unforgivable and violates a basic principle of scripting. The Post, Molly’s Game, and Darkest Hour are all

about very interesting people and circumstances in some cases historic. Lady Bird... about a teenage girl who is actually extremely annoying and not in any way whatsoever special. It’s amazing it gets 99%, I would give it an F flat out. Worst movie I saw this year.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

10 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Sure...

IMO of course. Feel free to disagree. Of course, I would say it hasn't been an incredible decade for blockbusters so far. Lots of bad, plenty of good, a few great.

Edited December 22, 2017 by Reyhawk

[Webslinger]

The Lone Ranger is visually stunning and ambitious enough that I really, really wanted to at least like it, but I feel like Johnny Depp's nails-on-a-chalkboard-annoying performance and Disney's (understandable) decision to rein in Gore Verbinski's weirder instincts ultimately hold it back. Now that Disney makes only a handful of very specific types of films, I'm kinda stunned that The Lone Ranger ever got greenlit.

 

Looking at this weekend's releases, I'm still taken aback that a lightly re-branded January dump is now a major studio's sole Christmas offering. I know Warner Bros had some huge hits this year and undoubtedly didn't want to risk sacrificing too appealing of a film against The Last Jedi, but... Bastards? Father Figures? That's your Christmas movie?

[redfirebird2008]

7 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Any way too early Friday numbers for Last Jedi yet?

 

Maybe in 30 minutes or so. Other days this week it seemed Deadline gave us updates around 4 PM Central.

[aabattery]

Johnny Depp in the Lone Ranger is one of the few performances from him that I've liked this decade.

[Brainbug]

 

[Brainbug]

Industry estimates as of midday Friday:

Star Wars: The Last Jedi  (DIS), 4,232 theaters / $28.3M Fri (73%)/3-day cume: $83.6M (-62%)/4-day: $118M/Total:$414.4M/ Wk 2

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  (SONY), 3,765 theaters / $10M-$11M Fri /3-day cume: $26M-$28M/4-day: $34M-$40M/Total: $53M-$55M/ Wk 1

Pitch Perfect 3  (UNI), 3,447 theaters / $9.5M Fri /3-day cume: $23M-$25M/4-day: $31M-$35M/ Wk 1

Ferdinand  (FOX), 3,630 theaters (+9) / $3.2M Fri (-11%)/3-day cume: $8.6M (-%)/4-day: $11.4M/Total: $30.8M/ Wk 2

The Greatest Showman  (FOX), 3,006 theaters / $3.2M Fri /3-day cume: $8.3M/4-day: $10.7M-$11M/Total: $15M-$19M/Wk 1

Coco(DIS), 2,111 theaters (-1,044) / Fri: $2.9M / 3-day cume: $8.2M (-18%)/4-day: $10.5M/Total: $166.M / Wk 5

 

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

Edited December 22, 2017 by Brainbug

[a2k]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi  (DIS), 4,232 theaters / $28.3M Fri (73%)/3-day cume: $83.6M (-62%)/4-day: $118M/Total:$414.4M/ Wk 2

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  (SONY), 3,765 theaters / $10M-$11M Fri /3-day cume: $26M-$28M/4-day: $34M-$40M/Total: $53M-$55M/ Wk 1

Pitch Perfect 3  (UNI), 3,447 theaters / $9.5M Fri /3-day cume: $23M-$25M/4-day: $31M-$35M/ Wk 1

Ferdinand  (FOX), 3,630 theaters (+9) / $3.2M Fri (-11%)/3-day cume: $8.6M (-%)/4-day: $11.4M/Total: $30.8M/ Wk 2

The Greatest Showman  (FOX), 3,006 theaters / $3.2M Fri /3-day cume: $8.3M/4-day: $10.7M-$11M/Total: $15M-$19M/Wk 1

Coco(DIS), 2,111 theaters (-1,044) / Fri: $2.9M / 3-day cume: $8.2M (-18%)/4-day: $10.5M/Total: $166.M / Wk 5

 

OUTSIDE TOP 6

Downsizing  (PAR), 2,668 theaters / $2.3M Fri /3-day cume: $5.75M/4-day: $8.2M/ Wk 1

Father Figures (ALC/WB), 2,902 theaters / $1.7M Fri /3-day cume: $4M/4-day: $5.9M/ Wk 1

The Post  (FOX), 9 theaters / $230K Fri/3-day cume: $715k /PTA: $79K /4-day: $1M/ Wk 1

 

EDIT: @Brainbug downsized me

 

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

Edited December 22, 2017 by a2knet

[Brainbug]

@a2knet i was faster!

[DeeCee]

Porgs in a tree. 

[WrathOfHan]

Thank God I was right on 4M for Father Figures:hahaha: 

[JonathanLB]

“There’s no way Last Jedi will increase anywhere near 50%.”

 

I will wait until late tonight but trust me when I say I will be back to say I told you so. I’ve waited all week - and some people will be paying up for their shitty predictions. 

[George Parr]

Well, that pretty much destroys the idea of using any 2006 jumps for TLJ

The only movie that got remotely close to such a Friday increase was Pursuit of Happyness.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Seems like that would be a very solid jump for TLJ, the school calendar affected it more than I would have expected it during the week.

[CJohn]

That is impressive for The Last Jedi. Fantastic Friday jump if true.

 

Jumanji is the hit Sony needed. Now, to spin-off it into a cinematic Universe...

 

Greatest Showman imploded, as expected.

 

@WrathOfHan Queen looking good as well. It will end well above 100M.