Weekend Thread | Estimates: AQP 50M, RP1 25M, CKBLK 21.4M, BP 8.4M,

[MovieMan89]

Not a perfect comparison since the expansion pattern has been a little different, but Isle of Dogs continues to look like it will do a little better than Moonrise Kingdom, or at least on par. Outpacing it's 5th weekend cume when that was in 400 theaters. 

Edited April 8, 2018 by MovieMan89

[That One Girl]

btw Blockers > Isle of Dogs was an opinion I did not expect to have at the beginning of the year, yet here we are

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

 

[Eric Furiosa]

2 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

 

Alicia vs. The Undertaker's gonna be LIT

P.S. In the sequel, Mr. Student Body President replaced Shia LaBeouf as the main character. @Trolltastic Tele @That Ambitious Guy

 

At last, we're finally going to get the male Tomb Raider we've all wanted.

[harrycaul]

14 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Pacific Rim fans treated domestic like it didn't matter either. It matters. Pacific Rim fans ignored that the word of mouth for the film was okay at best, nothing special and nothing good enough to start a great franchise on. Tomb Raider fans are saying the exact same things and are ignoring that we have the results of making a sequel to a movie that only had an okay reception and flopped domestically. 

The main reason I believe there will be another TR is that while PR was competing for mindshare for its "giant robot" concept with a very well established juggernaut franchise, TR is the queen of "female Indiana Jones" as a concept. Any other take on it will be considered a Tomb Raider knockoff, which is the reverse of the PR situation.

 

I do think Vikander as Lara is in serious doubt. She didn't establish herself as Lara in the mind of the public, so she's still very easy to replace as Lara Croft 3.0

[That One Girl]

@Critically Acclaimed Panda don't you WTF me

[MovieMan89]

Just now, That Ambitious Guy said:

@Critically Acclaimed Panda don't you WTF me

I honestly haven’t seen either yet, so I’ll refrain from a WTF, but that still gets at least an Oscar from moi.

[The Panda]

1 minute ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

@Critically Acclaimed Panda don't you WTF me

Blockers doesn’t have a 100% on RT, but guess which movie does...

[That One Girl]

Just now, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

Blockers doesn’t have a 100% on RT, but guess which movie does...

 

Paddington 2?

[The Panda]

1 minute ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

 

Paddington 2?

You’re thinking of the inferior bear movie

[That One Girl]

Just now, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

You’re thinking of the inferior bear movie

 

Bears (2014) only has an 89%

[svenson]

8 minutes ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

 

Could you please name a film that cost more than $90M, made less than $60M domestic, and got a sequel?  The only example I can find is Chronicles of Riddick, and that came out 9 years later and had a third of the last film’s budget

Can you name a movie that set everything up for a franchise that made practically 3x its budget that didn't get a sequel ? America is not the world and yeah it could do better in another release window.

1 minute ago, harrycaul said:

The main reason I believe there will be another TR is that while PR was competing for mindshare for its "giant robot" concept with a very well established juggernaut franchise, TR is the queen of "female Indiana Jones" as a concept. Any other take on it will be considered a Tomb Raider knockoff, which is the reverse of the PR situation.

 

I do think Vikander as Lara is in serious doubt. She didn't establish herself as Lara in the mind of the public, so she's still very easy to replace as Lara Croft 3.0

Vikander is staying for sure she was the core thing that was praised about this movie. Suddenly changing her would be right back to square one and a serious gamble not worth taking with the first practically making 3x its budget.

[That One Girl]

Just now, svenson said:

Can you name a movie that set everything up for a franchise that made practically 3x its budget that didn't get a sequel ?

 

The Mummy

[Fancyarcher]

3 minutes ago, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

You’re thinking of the inferior bear movie

Two Lovers and a Bear just has an 86% on RT. 

[That One Girl]

me trying to find Tomb Raider's chances of a sequel

 

[Maxmoser3]

A Quiet Place breaking out is awesome! $155 million domestic looks likely.

 

Ready Player One’s second weekend hold is awesome! And if nearly $400 million WW & $100 million domestic. So north of $150 million, maybe even $160 million domestic. With possibly over $500 million WW.

 

Blockers having a decent start for a comedy that doesn’t have a big cast. and should hold fine and do between $50-$60 million. 

 

Black Panther and I Can Only Imagine still having strong holds in the top 5. As Panther is now the 3rd highest grossing movie domestic and should finish near $700 million possibly. And I Can Only Imagine between $80-$90 million.

 

Overall this weekend was pretty interesting.

 

[Barnack]

1 minute ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

 

The Mummy

Who ever knew that movie budget too... rumors goes from $125m to $195m from 3.2x to only 2.1x it's rumored budget.

[Maxmoser3]

1 minute ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

me trying to find Tomb Raider's chances of a sequel

 

[svenson]

3 minutes ago, That Ambitious Guy said:

 

The Mummy

Actually no. Its unclear what the budget for that one was some are saying it was close to 200 million.

[That One Girl]

Just now, svenson said:

Actually no. Its unclear what the budget for that one was some are saying it was close to 200 million.

 

Okay, cool.  And for all we know, Tomb Raider had a bigger budget than it did.  It's all speculation, so I'm going with what the studio's reported budget is.

 

Another one: Rings.