Weekend Thread - Insidious 29.6M, Jumanji 37.2M, TLJ 23.7M, TGS 13.8M, PP3 10.3

[Cookson]

Sony making a comeback! I hope Venom does well for them... That Animated Spider Man film looks 

[Ethan Hunt]

On ‎1‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 11:19 AM, Tree Billboards said:

Fantastic drop for Greatest Showman. It's well on its way to 100M which I don't think anyone saw coming.

I did

[Ethan Hunt]

1 minute ago, Cookson said:

That Animated Spider Man film looks...

good. it looks good

[The Panda]

2 minutes ago, Cookson said:

Sony making a comeback! I hope Venom does well for them... That Animated Spider Man film looks 

These things are cyclical, but Sony has had a good year (especially compared to have their previous years have gone).  I’m a bit worried that they can only milk Spidey so much though.

[Scubasteve716]

I realize Jumanji opened on a Wednesday but when was the last time a movie opened wide and had a 3rd weekend gross more than its opening weekend?

[boxofficeth]

We had such an incredible weekend. Strong numbers all around. 

 

When was the last time two films in their third weekend are in top 5 and gross more than their opening weekend? Purely incredible!

[titanic2187]

Ironically, jumanji + TLJ could break 1b Dom, TLJ could be 1b zone if it wasn't for jumanji!!!

[Barnack]

18 minutes ago, Scubasteve716 said:

I realize Jumanji opened on a Wednesday but when was the last time a movie opened wide and had a 3rd weekend gross more than its opening weekend?

Avatar was not too far with 68 vs 77, 6th sense 23.95 vs 26.68.

 

Looking at that list:

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/moreweekends.htm?page=3&p=.htm

 

It could be The Ring in 2002 (18.11 vs 15m) but it gained a lot of theater even if it openned wide, from 1,981 to 2,808 TC.

 

Titanic in 1996 (33m vs 28m) among those who had big numbers at least and without gaining much theater.

[jimisawesome]

6 hours ago, DAR said:

Jumanji's run is really incredible no denying that.

 

But it was mentioned earlier that it's kicking the Last Jedi's ass.   It's akin to a basketball game where the team that's winning was up by 50 and then the losing team went on a run and made it a more "respectable" score.

If you are going to use this at least mention that the refs tied Jumanjis shoes together by taking away Premium and large houses.  Jumanji would be close or over 300 million already if it had those houses and TLJ would be a lot closer to 525-530 than 572 if it lost the houses when the theaters would have liked to do the change over.  

[a2k]

1 hour ago, Scubasteve716 said:

I realize Jumanji opened on a Wednesday but when was the last time a movie opened wide and had a 3rd weekend gross more than its opening weekend?

yes, it's very creditable despite a wed od. even FotR didn't do that.

 

Spoiler

Date (click to view chart)	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Dec 21–23	1	$47,211,490	-	3,359	-	$14,055	$75,129,468	1

Date (click to view chart)	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Dec 21–25	1	$66,114,741	-	3,359	-	$19,683	$94,032,719	1
Dec 28–30	1	$38,695,582	-18.0%	3,359	-	$11,520	$155,862,412	2
Dec 28–Jan 1	1	$56,952,669	-	3,359	-	$16,955	$174,119,499	2

 

Date (click to view chart)	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Jan 4–6	1	$23,006,447	-40.5%	3,381	+22	$6,805	$205,509,869	3

 

[MovieMan89]

1 hour ago, titanic2187 said:

Ironically, jumanji + TLJ could break 1b Dom, TLJ could be 1b zone if it wasn't for jumanji!!!

Ikr? It's like summer 2016 all over again when Dory would have grossed 900m if it wasn't for Secret Life of Pets! Dammit all to hell!!

[a2k]

35 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Ikr? It's like summer 2016 all over again when Dory would have grossed 900m if it wasn't for Secret Life of Pets! Dammit all to hell!!

the one time i recently thought about a movie eating into another one (before Jum vs TLJ) was when smh was showing good legs and apes3 wasn't. apes3 was more skewed toward adults but surely it the 'smh demographics' played an important role in apes1 and apes2. their contrasting tones also made things tough for apes3 but my (non-scientific, not backed by data) thought was that folks are rather preferring to re-watch smh than watch apes3 even once.

Edited January 9, 2018 by a2knet

[Killimano3]

Jumanjis 3rd weekend > OW? Damn I always thought it would break out but never thought by this much! A really crazy run going on.

 

Obviously Jumanji's OW did have christmas eve on sunday that it had to deal with but that certainly doesn't take away it's downright incredible performance

[MovieMan89]

It's insane that both Jumanji and TGS beat their OW gross in their third weekends. The only other saturated release (2500+) I'm aware of that has ever done that would be Titanic. 

[a2k]

J should be 2-2.5x TLJ next weekend. I know it released a week later so the weekend count is not in sync (to be fair to TLJ) but still, one was a 220 opener. J's 4th weekend will also beat TLJ's 4th as it is.

[MovieMan89]

I think 350+ is happening for J after now realizing that it did what only Titanic has done before, and next weekend being a holiday weekend to boot. Hell, 400 may not even be entirely out at the rate it's going. 

 

If it beats Spider-man to claim Sony’s top grosser...

Edited January 9, 2018 by MovieMan89

[Fancyarcher]

9 hours ago, FantasticBeasts said:

How is Del Toro my man doing guys??

I am useless at evaluating those awards stuff. Where do you see SoW heading to?

It's looking like it'll make over or around 50m at this point, which isn't bad. The Oscar nominees should help too.

[DAJK]

39 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

I think 350+ is happening for J after now realizing that it did what only Titanic has done before, and next weekend being a holiday weekend to boot. Hell, 400 may not even be entirely out at the rate it's going. 

 

If it beats Spider-man to claim Sony’s top grosser...

400 for Jumanji I think would have it challenge It and Get Out for box office story of the year.

[a2k]

Rooting for Jumanji to beat GOTG2 dom and SMH ww. Both still very tough (dom more so) but that's what's fun to track.

[aabattery]

If Jumanji can pass 800M WW, 2017 will be the first year where all 10 of the top films of the year (worldwide) got over that benchmark.

 

Highest-grossing films of 2017

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Beauty and the Beast	Disney	$1,263,521,126
2	The Fate of the Furious	Universal	$1,235,761,498
3	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Disney	$1,206,728,146
4	Despicable Me 3	Universal	$1,033,508,147
5	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Sony Pictures	$880,166,924
6	Wolf Warrior 2	United Entertainment	$870,325,439
7	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Disney	$863,732,512
8	Thor: Ragnarok		$850,272,569
9	Wonder Woman	Warner Bros.	$821,847,012
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Disney	$794,861,794

 

That POTC5 gross has been killing me. It got so close! 2016 was the first year where all 10 got over 700M, so it's jumped up pretty quick here. Could the top 10 next year all be above 850M?