Weekend Thread: Weekend estimates pg 38...BP 41.14....WIT 33.31

[PPZVGOS]

3 hours ago, aabattery said:

 

I think it can get that 5th weekend win. I'm not expecting much from Tomb Raider. We'll see!

 

Might even gun for six if Pacific Rim megabombs and Gnomes does low teens.

Wait! 

 

You expect Tomb Raider to open below $30M? 

[titanic2187]

12 minutes ago, Treetanic said:

This is the opening sentence for Deadline's weekend report. I'm no trump fan but this is pretty pathetic and lazy and unprofessional...

 

At a time when our U.S. President cultivates division in society, Hollywood and moviegoers counter that by supporting pics with positive messages of inclusivity.

when the darkness raise, the light to meet it.....

[Alexiswills12]

5 minutes ago, Ledmonkey96 said:

But Black Panther wasn't diverse....

 

Not only was it diverse behind the scenes (white male composer, white female cinematographer, black director, black female costume designer and production designer), it was diverse in front of it as well.

Black, asian and white people from all over the globe were cast (UK, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Korea, the US, etc).

Most of the diverse cast just happened to have black skin.

[Alexiswills12]

2 minutes ago, Treetanic said:

I just don't see how the writer's personal political opinion has anything to do with box office numbers. 

Its his personal blog about box office numbers. The man updates the things lots of times during the weekend. Plus it’s like 1 line.

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, PPZVGOS said:

Wait! 

 

You expect Tomb Raider to open below $30M? 

I don't think it's even guaranteed to open above $20M.

Edited March 10, 2018 by filmlover

[sfran43]

 

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, Alexiswills12 said:

 

Not only was it diverse behind the scenes (white male composer, white female cinematographer, black director, black female costume designer and production designer), it was diverse in front of it as well.

Black, asian and white people from all over the globe were cast (UK, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Korea, the US, etc).

Most of the diverse cast just happened to have black skin.

You could just as well say that Thor Ragnarok was a diverse movie. It has Australia, English, Welsh, Irish, American, New Zealand, Japanese actors. Two of the main cast are black.

It's very diverse, it's just most of the diverse cast just happened to be white.

[sfran43]

 

[Alexiswills12]

1 minute ago, Treetanic said:

You could just as well say that Thor Ragnarok was a diverse movie. It has Australia, English, Welsh, Irish, American, New Zealand, Japanese actors. Two of the main cast are black.

It's very diverse, it's just most of the diverse cast just happened to be white.

Yes, you can say that, so what’s your point?

Edited March 10, 2018 by Alexiswills12

[PPZVGOS]

4 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I don't think it's even guaranteed to open above $20M.

Really? Is it tracking that abysmally? 

[Avatree]

Just now, Alexiswills12 said:

Yes, you can say, so what’s your point?

Exactly....

[Alexiswills12]

Just now, Treetanic said:

Exactly....

You don’t make any sense. That just means that Thor Ragnarok was also a diverse movie, shit Kevin Feige talked about casting a black Valkerie because he wanted a diverse movie. Just like Black Panther is. BP is a movie that’s getting so much attention because not only is it diverse (different nationality, different skincolors, different sexes), it is also a lot of “firsts”; first black director, first 200 budget movie in which the majority of the films diverse cast has black skin, etc, etc, etc, ETCETERA.

 

 

[LonePirate]

4 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

 

Peter Rabbit continues to hop its way to $100M even if the hops are shorter now. Easter should help it clear that big milestone.

[fabiopazzo2]

Saturday AM writethru following Friday midday update: Disney will own the box office with two films touting diverse casts, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther now at No. 1 with an estimated $41M and Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time with $32.7M.

[Avatree]

3 minutes ago, Alexiswills12 said:

You don’t make any sense. That just means that Thor Ragnarok was also a diverse movie, shit Kevin Feige talked about casting a black Valkerie because he wanted a diverse movie. Just like Black Panther is. BP is a movie that’s getting so much attention because not only is it diverse (different nationality, different skincolors, different sexes), it is also a lot of “firsts”; first black director, first 200 budget movie in which the majority of the films diverse cast has black skin, etc, etc, etc, ETCETERA.

 

 

I just don't see how Black Panther is any more "diverse" than most other blockbuster movies by any meaningful definition that isn't just "diverse = black"

 

Also, first black director to do what exactly?

[Ledmonkey96]

14 minutes ago, Alexiswills12 said:

 

Not only was it diverse behind the scenes (white male composer, white female cinematographer, black director, black female costume designer and production designer), it was diverse in front of it as well.

Black, asian and white people from all over the globe were cast (UK, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Korea, the US, etc).

Most of the diverse cast just happened to have black skin.

This argument can be made for basically any movie in this day and age. Just White instead of Black.

[Avatree]

1 minute ago, fabiopazzo2 said:

Saturday AM writethru following Friday midday update: Disney will own the box office with two films touting diverse casts, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther now at No. 1 with an estimated $41M and Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time with $32.7M.

It keeps dropping and dropping. It will reach my 29M prediction. It will.

[La Binoche]

3 minutes ago, fabiopazzo2 said:

Saturday AM writethru following Friday midday update: Disney will own the box office with two films touting diverse casts, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther now at No. 1 with an estimated $41M and Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time with $32.7M.

 

Yikes, I bet "visionary" director Ava DuVernay could not have envisioned this. 

[sfran43]

 

[Alli]

I think the estimated weekend drop for Red Sparrow is too severe. Friday it did the same number as American Made and that made 8.4M second weekend.

Edited March 10, 2018 by Alli