That One Girl Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 1 minute ago, Apollo2xx said: Why is The Greatest Showman having its worse drop this weekend when there was Superbowl last weekend? Lost 200 theaters and has competition from 3 new releases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Okay for Fifty Shades, I guess. $40 million will be a close call and it will need a lot of help from Valentine's Day on Wednesday to reach $100 million. Not great, but as we saw from Allegiant's epic collapse two years ago, it could have been so much worse. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 11 minutes ago, Webslinger said: Okay for Fifty Shades, I guess. $40 million will be a close call and it will need a lot of help from Valentine's Day on Wednesday to reach $100 million. Not great, but as we saw from Allegiant's epic collapse two years ago, it could have been so much worse. Isn't projected to open at just 5% of the previous one with a 100m opening ? Hard to imagine a better scenario than that, look like a complete success to me: http://deadline.com/2018/02/fifty-shades-freed-opening-weekend-box-office-international-1202282101/ Even domestic the drop is pretty much as good as it get for sequels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakiyyah6 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Fifty Shades is useless trash that nobody will remember in 5 years but it sure did make a lot of money for the studio. I think it would have been nice to have a GOOD or even OKAY erotic franchise but unfortunately that wasn't meant to be. The opening is good. The audience that likes it keep showing up. Good for them I guess. I'm just thrilled that the series is over and that Dakota Johnson can move on to projects worthy of her talents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxAggressor Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 BoxOfficePro estimates has Jumanji 2 doing 10 million for the weekend. 1 Fifty Shades Freed $39,000,000 — 3,768 — $10,350 $39,000,000 1 Universal 2 Peter Rabbit $22,000,000 — 3,725 — $5,906 $22,000,000 1 Sony / Columbia 3 The 15:17 to Paris $12,900,000 — 3,042 — $4,241 $12,900,000 1 Warner Bros. 4 Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle $10,000,000 -9% 3,136 -216 $3,189 $365,831,871 8 Sony / Columbia 5 The Greatest Showman $6,200,000 -19% 2,373 -215 $2,613 $146,335,870 8 Fox J2 has a reasonable chance of snagging #8 in the list of highest grossing 8th weekend of all time Rank Title (click to view) Studio Weeknd Gross* % of Total Theaters / Avg. Total Gross^ Date** 1 Titanic Par. $23,027,838 3.8% 2,956 $7,790 $600,788,188 12/19/97 2 Avatar Fox $22,850,881 3.0% 3,000 $7,617 $749,766,139 12/18/09 3 Home Alone Fox $12,626,851 4.4% 2,173 $5,810 $285,761,243 11/16/90 4 Frozen BV $11,771,854 2.9% 2,979 $3,952 $400,738,009 11/27/13 5 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $10,425,071 2.9% 1,555 $6,704 $359,197,037 6/11/82 6 Forrest Gump Par. $9,897,242 3.0% 2,237 $4,424 $329,694,499 7/6/94 7 My Big Fat Greek Wedding IFC $9,748,969 4.0% 1,853 $5,261 $241,438,208 8/2/02 8 There's Something About Mary Fox $8,810,209 5.0% 2,545 $3,461 $176,484,651 7/15/98 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Morieris said: Ferdinand's estimated budget was 111m$? I haven't seen it, but I am extremely tempted to say....for what. That is not out of line for studio movie 3D animation Net cost Cloudy 1: 116.84m Cloudy 2: 79.85m Smurf: 124m Smurf 2: 114m Hotel Trans: 103.95m Pirate band of misfit: 59.1m Arthur Christmas: 102.47m Surf Up: 97.3m Open Season: 99m A bit of an extreme example but at Pixar there is over 1200 employee working full time making only 1-1.3 movie a year, that start the price for any movie above 100m just in direct pixar employee expense. Blue Sky studio is around 500 employee, never turning out more than one movie a year. They take a long time and lot of people to do and that voice cast was probably above 10m. Edited February 10, 2018 by Barnack 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 36 minutes ago, Webslinger said: Okay for Fifty Shades, I guess. $40 million will be a close call and it will need a lot of help from Valentine's Day on Wednesday to reach $100 million. Not great, but as we saw from Allegiant's epic collapse two years ago, it could have been so much worse. It's going to have made almost 3x its budget in only a few days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 The 50 SHADES trilogy has to be one of the most lucrative in recent years. Good for them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Apollo2xx said: Why is The Greatest Showman having its worse drop this weekend when there was Superbowl last weekend? Sizable competition for the female demo with 50 Shades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 4 Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle $10,000,000 -9% 3,136 -216 $3,189 $365,831,871 8 Sony / Columbia This can't miss the 34 odd it needs for 400 imo. Even if it's looking at a couple short of that it will get a push for the epic milestone. Could target Wonder Woman, needs 47 more. If it gets 25-30 from rest of the weekends combined and 35% of that from rest of weekdays combined is looking at 25-30 + 16-20 = 41-50 more dom for 407-416. At least the low-end of that range looks very likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Just now, a2knet said: 4 Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle $10,000,000 -9% 3,136 -216 $3,189 $365,831,871 8 Sony / Columbia This can't miss the 34 odd it needs for 400 imo. Even if it's looking at a couple short of that it will get a push for the epic milestone. Could target Wonder Woman, needs 47 more. If it gets 25-30 from rest of the weekends combined and 35% of that from rest of weekdays combined is looking at 25-30 + 16-20 = 41-50 more dom for 407-416. At least the low-end of that range looks very likely. The Bluray release in March might hurt its legs hard. We’ll have to see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 16 minutes ago, ddddeeee said: It's going to have made almost 3x its budget in only a few days... True, but it's still a far cry from the fervor the first film generated domestically in its opening weekend. This movie's a big success against its budget, no doubt, but it's tough to ignore the slip in grosses between installments. Really, the varying drops between smash hit book adaptations just put Twilight's consistency into perspective. All the sequels posted huge opening days within a range of just over $4 million (New Moon's 72.7 on the high end, Eclipse's 68.5 on the low end) and finished between $280-300 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Seems a bit odd to speak of perspective when a R-rated, erotic romance is going to make over $300M WW. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Webslinger said: True, but it's still a far cry from the fervor the first film generated domestically in its opening weekend. This movie's a big success against its budget, no doubt, but it's tough to ignore the slip in grosses between installments. Will see, but it does not seem to have a bad slip yet between the 2nd to the 3rd, but rather a really good retention rate. It is true the movie didn't not cash in on the first movie, that was one of those rare movie that achieved to make regular media news/hype and not just the movie world and did not retain the people curious of the phenomenon, but it achieved to keep is fans happy and they were more than enough for that franchise to work, and by how much they saved for not trying to make more than that (in talent getting involved, production quality but also marketing), financially it is one of the best possible scenarios. Edited February 10, 2018 by Barnack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, ddddeeee said: Seems a bit odd to speak of perspective when a R-rated, erotic romance is going to make over $300M WW. If it was a non-sequel, sure. But we're talking about a third installment in a franchise whose first entry made $571 million worldwide. Like I said, it's still a huge success against its budget and the franchise as a whole has made money hand over fist for Universal. But perspective does matter when discussing a franchise's trajectory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 38 minutes ago, ddddeeee said: It's going to have made almost 3x its budget in only a few days... The budget is reportedly $55m as was Darker (each not combined) , which makes sense since they were both filmed on location and the actors got raises. Reports that they were made for less than the first never made any sense. Still, a very good return WW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Has the Venom teaser been added to 50 Shades? I feel the Hard(y) fan-girls were targeted with that Venom-less teaser and Sony just wanted to put an R-rated movie's trailer in front of another R-rated movie's audience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REC Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Just now, a2knet said: Has the Venom teaser been added to 50 Shades? I feel the Hard(y) fan-girls were targeted with that Venom-less teaser and Sony just wanted to put an R-rated movie's trailer in front of another R-rated movie's audience. Is it R rated tho? Strong chance Venom is some kind of neutered PG thing I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeFangrl Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 The first book is the most popular in the Fifty Shades series as well, it's the one the most people have heard of, it's really like the Narnia series in that way (and probably only that way, LOL). The studio was pretty smart about the budget and the expectations, which is why they didn't split the last book into two movies. The only way the movie series was ever going to sustain the general moviegoer interest from the first is if they radically departed from the books, but then you upset the book people so that might have backfired too. Also, E.L. James, who was on the set every day and given an incredible amount of veto power for an author whose book is being adapted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REC Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 ... And TLJ is down to 830 theaters. When TFA was at a roughly comparable point, it had earned 6m more before it petered out. Not only is it not going to get another 6m, but it's not likely not going to last past Feb. When I said this movie was going to get 600m domestic lots of people thought I was crazy, but I was way more right than wrong. Might get about 619 total. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
