HAN SOLO MEMORIAL (day weekend) THREAD | Solo Flops Domestically with 83M/101M weekend. Spectacularly Bombs Overseas with 65M weekend.

[Hunch]

1 minute ago, Valonqar said:

Old Republic, Jedi/Sith War are basically LOTR in space. Beyond epic. Some AIW reviews favorably commented on AIW's LOTR feel. So it's MCU that has capitalized on it while SW, that has that material, is still stirring clear. I don't get it. 

 

 

LOTR is always the standard 

 

Seeing how Star Wars is imploding, it makes the Hobbit movies look much more impressive. The book fans were not happy, the film fans were not happy, the buzz was bad, and yet people still showed up to the theatre and they grossed $970m average.

 

 

[nevermore]

1 minute ago, miketheavenger said:

So, how low can Solo actually go with these early numbers? Is sub-400m WW actually a possibility?

SoLow

[Valonqar]

Just now, Hunch said:

LOTR is always the standard 

 

Seeing how Star Wars is imploding, it makes the Hobbit movies look much more impressive. The book fans were not happy, the film fans were not happy, the buzz was bad, and yet people still showed up to the theatre and they grossed $970m average.

 

 

Agreed, LOTR is the standard and whatever next approaches that level of epicness is going to blow the lid off the boxoffice. Epicness and quality. 

[Cooper Legion]

1 minute ago, Pandamia! said:

Lol, I wouldn’t even put AMAWs chances of going under 200m close to 0%.  I’d think conservatively 35-40% or so chance of that.

In that case, we should both be very happy betting on it at 9:1 odds. Isn’t there some kind of casino as a part of these forums? How exactly does that work?

[MovieMan89]

32 now? Holy shit, the 69m ow I joked about may be happening.

[Barnack]

2 hours ago, harrycaul said:

Fired from a movie that's going to be a high profile underperformer is the kind of justice that doesn't exactly help your career.

 

No but if you listen to Jodorowsky relating is experience to go see the Lynch version of the Dune movie he never did, it can feel really good.

[Mekanos]

Marvel is helped by branding. Black Panther wasn’t “An Avengers Story: Black Panther.” It was just “Black Panther.” It’s more comparable to Pixar than Star Wars.

[John Marston]

4 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/box-office-solo-a-star-wars-story-memorial-day-weekend-1202822710/

 

 

 

So Noctid was right 

[dudalb]

12 minutes ago, Nova said:

Spider-man>>>>>>>>most CBM released today 

I 100% agree; Sam Raimi pretty much nailed it with the first Two Spidey movies;I miss Spidey being a wise ass but that is forgiveable compared to what Raimi got right.

(The two AMS movies got the wisecracking  Spdey right but so much more wrong).

And the single most faithful transalation of a Comic Book Character to the screen is J.Jonah Jameson in the Raimi films.

But then, Hell, I argue that if you can handle that the SFX are not up to today's standrads, I think that first two of the Christopher Reeves Superman movies,from a writing and acting standpoint  can pretty much stand up to the best of what is being done today.

[FlashMaster659]

1 hour ago, FlashMaster659 said:

10:30 AM RPX 29/736

12:45 IMAX 3D 55(+11)/532

10:30 AM RPX 29/736

12:45 PM IMAX 3D 55/532

1:45 PM RPX 25(+14)/736

Edited May 25, 2018 by FlashMaster659

[eddyxx]

FLOP:A Star Wars Story

[Nova]

Just now, John Marston said:

 

 

So Noctid was right 

He wasn't actually trolling for once 

[The Panda]

1 minute ago, Thanos Legion said:

In that case, we should both be very happy betting on it at 9:1 odds. Isn’t there some kind of casino as a part of these forums? How exactly does that work?

I’m not going to bet money, sorry.  I was just pointing out the under 200m stuff wasn’t 0%.

[sfran43]

 

[XO21]

17.9 true Friday. oh my gawd 

[Ithil]

Half-Witted Scruffy Looking Nerf Herder: A Star Wars Story

[junkshop36]

I really think LF needs to stop treating SW like a CBM property and stop trying to pump out a movie every year. The only thing I liked about them leaving Solo in May was it allowed for there to be a little more time between it and EP9. By the end of the year Solo will pretty much be out of most people’s minds and we’ll still have a whole year to go till 9 comes out. 

 

The problem is that they’re clearly not taking what’s happening with this movie to badly as they’ve got A LOT of movies being worked on over the next few years between the recently announced Mangold directed Boba Fett movie, a possible Obi-Wan movie, the RJ trilogy and the series of movies from the GoT guys. 

 

I’m seeing Solo in about an hour from now. Most of the comments I’ve seen about it on IG, Twitter and such have been mostly positive. Not glowing or anything but positive. 

[MrGamer]

Flopo

[a2k]

Just now, sfran43 said:

 

that's a deadline like range.

[Alli]

9 minutes ago, Pandamia! said:

How is that so?  

 

Im going to be generous and use a Ragnarok to Dark World comparison (which Ant-Man’s tracking and buzz looks nothing like Ragnarok.  It’s looking to be about on par with the first).

 

Ragnarok had a 43% increase in OW (with considerable buzz, it’s trailer views were second to IT I believe as one comp)

 

A Ragnarok type increase for Ant-Man’s OW gives AMAW an 81m OW.  At that point it’d need a 2.5x multi to hit 200m, which isn’t a lock by any means in the summer.

 

A Ragnarok kind of increase from the first is also no guarantee either.  He’s never been a major buzz character and he hasn’t really had much exposure outside the first movie.

 

Granted it could also go over 200m, but I wouldn’t place it anywhere close to a lock.

hmmm... you make some good points. But AM2 is after IW.  The second trailer released after IW has more likes than the first one which never happens. I think we need to take the aftermath after IW into consideration.

Edited May 25, 2018 by Alli