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Just now, Barnack said:

 

Well Lord of the rings would be a giant success, the 3 movie did over 6 billion from theater and home entertainment alone I think.

 

Big not giant type of success but still really big Ocean 11, Fast five, Great Escape, Dirty Dozen, Italian Job, Magnificant 7 to really big like the first 2 Ghostbuster (and I imagine long list I cannot think of), Armageddon, Inception teaming up is such a common movie trope.

I'd call those ensemble movies more than team up movies which would be uniting leads from different films and franchises.  Like Frankenstein Meets Dracula and Abbott & Costello Meet  Frankenstein.

 

But then under those terms X-Men would be an ensemble and not a team up movie as well and there haven't been many team up movies.

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Taking a look back at how movies performed through the week in 2012, the last time July 4th fell on a Wednesday, Incredibles 2 could potentially hit $500M, or close to it, by the end of this coming weekend. And 2012 had The Amazing Spider-Man opening on the Tuesday (a big $35M Tuesday).

 

It will definitely pass Dory this weekend to become the highest grossing animated film of all time domestically.

 

Peace,

Mike

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3 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Well, not only does it have his name on it he's certainly a more proactive lead in his film than BP is in BP. :ph34r:

 

 

theres one superhero in BP's film. CA: civil war has many.

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5 minutes ago, YLF said:

theres one superhero in BP's film. CA: civil war has many.

 I'd say Okoye, Nakia, Shuri & M'Baku are more super in that film than BP.   It's a very ensemble heavy movie which is one of it's greatest strengths.

 

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2 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

I'm not even really fanboying, I just thought Holdo had plenty of haters as well as people who were lukewarm about her? Dern in general is widely liked sure but that's always been the case. 

I guess I'm the only one who gets annoyed with the weird way her mouth moves?

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13 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 I'd say Okoye, Nakia, Shuri & M'Baku are more super in that film than BP.   It's a very ensemble heavy movie which is one of it's greatest strengths.

 

Totally agree. Great characters all around.

 

Also worth noting, if M’Baku had won the fight at the start, none of it would have happened. Killmonger would have been like “Oh, you’re in charge? You know what? I’m good.”

 

 

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7 hours ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

 Of course early numbers are cool, but again, rules are rules and you can't think you're better than everyone else just because you have access to fun but ultimately useless to our real world life information (unless you care so much that it actually makes your life better/worse, which is entering obsessiveness territory and that's dangerous).

It could be dangerous, but then that opens up an excuse of what isn't?  Sports for example.  Lots of games/year + stats.  I think there is an obsessiveness to it that compares with keeping up with everyday life and finding things to neutralize the chaos in their lives.  Eating should provide a chemical balance for the body, but that is essential.  If you have kids, that should be a choice but it is a responsibility that likely owns ones life.  If everything is dangerous and obsessive around us, then I feel like it comes down to picking your poison.  That way maybe you are sort of free while still trapped.  Birdman flying and letting the ego roam?

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3 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

 I'd say Okoye, Nakia, Shuri & M'Baku are more super in that film than BP.   It's a very ensemble heavy movie which is one of it's greatest strengths.

  

Yeesh if we are counting those low hanging fruit as super heroes we may as well count Black Widow as one:Venom:

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I'm late to this one, but whatever.

 

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom held up about as expected. Audience enthusiasm seems relatively muted this time out, so dropping under 60% has to be seen as a small victory. It's going to need strong weekdays and some generous holds to get to $400 million domestically.

 

Incredibles 2 had a solid hold. If it follows Finding Dory's patterns from here on out, it will wrap up with a domestic total around $576 million; that may not be quite up to the bullish forecasts when the preview numbers rolled in, but massive nonetheless.

 

Sicario 2 opened really well. I questioned the financial wisdom of doing a sequel, but the first film clearly picked up a following on home video and this one did a good job of selling its action to audiences. I don't expect great legs in the face of heavy competition and middling word-of-mouth, but it should be a tidy winner against its budget.

 

Uncle Drew did decent business. I don't imagine it had a big budget, so it should go down as a winner.

 

Ocean's 8 has put together some really good legs between its weekday performance and increasingly stellar weekend holds. It could make a play at something in the $135-140 million vicinity.

 

Tag also held up very nicely. It should be able to pass $50 million with ease at this rate.

 

Really, it ended up being a very strong weekend for holdovers overall. I guess that's just what happens when the combination of a Pixar sequel and a Jurassic sequel scares everyone else off from releasing a heavy hitter or even a couple of films with breakout potential, as we saw when this weekend's days and dates last aligned in 2012 with the massive over-performances of Ted and Magic Mike.

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5 hours ago, MikeQ said:

Taking a look back at how movies performed through the week in 2012, the last time July 4th fell on a Wednesday, Incredibles 2 could potentially hit $500M, or close to it, by the end of this coming weekend. And 2012 had The Amazing Spider-Man opening on the Tuesday (a big $35M Tuesday).

 

It will definitely pass Dory this weekend to become the highest grossing animated film of all time domestically.

 

Peace,

Mike

 

I agree with Tom here.

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22 hours ago, mathemetrics said:

all time second weekends.  it will be interesting to see where Ant-Man places in two weeks time.

 

20 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story BV $64,033,768 12.0% 4,157 $15,404 $532,177,324 12/16/16
21 Alice in Wonderland (2010) BV $62,714,076 18.8% 3,728 $16,822 $334,191,110 3/5/10
22 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $62,345,264 14.7% 4,133 $15,084 $423,315,812 7/7/06
23 The Dark Knight Rises WB $62,101,451 13.9% 4,404 $14,101 $448,139,099 7/20/12
24 The Jungle Book (2016) BV $61,538,821 16.9% 4,028 $15,278 $364,001,123 4/15/16
25 It WB (NL) $60,103,110 18.4% 4,148 $14,490 $327,481,748 9/8/17
26 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Uni. $60,000,000 22.7% 4,485 $13,378 $264,787,335 6/22/18
27 Furious 7 Uni. $59,585,930 16.9% 4,022 $14,815 $353,007,020 4/3/15
28 Toy Story 3 BV $59,337,669 14.3% 4,028 $14,731 $415,004,880 6/18/10
29 The Hunger Games LGF $58,551,063 14.4% 4,137 $14,153 $408,010,692 3/23/12
30 Wonder Woman WB $58,520,672 14.2% 4,165 $14,051 $412,563,408 6/2/17
31 Spider-Man 3 Sony $58,166,256 17.3% 4,252 $13,679 $336,530,303 5/4/07
32 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone WB $57,487,755 18.1% 3,672 $15,655 $317,575,550 11/16/01
33 Thor: Ragnarok BV $57,078,306 18.1% 4,080 $13,990 $315,058,289 11/3/17

 

 

big Sunday slides Jurassic World up. 

 

 

23 The Dark Knight Rises WB $62,101,451 13.9% 4,404 $14,101 $448,139,099 7/20/12
24 The Jungle Book (2016) BV $61,538,821 16.9% 4,028 $15,278 $364,001,123 4/15/16
25 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Uni. $60,912,195 22.9% 4,485 $13,581 $265,699,530 6/22/18
26 It WB (NL) $60,103,110 18.4% 4,148 $14,490 $327,481,748 9/8/17
27 Furious 7 Uni. $59,585,930 16.9% 4,022 $14,815 $353,007,020 4/3/15
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16 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

There were no sure things this year so I think it did as well as can be expected so far. Of course they need bigger blockbusters. We will see what the end of the year brings on that front. 

 

It's difficult to know what some people on here consider blockbusters though. It seems if a film makes under a billion it's considered a disappointment no matter what the actual expectations and budget were. 

 

Yes, that's always a squishy concept, and a changing one. E.g., five years ago, I thought any film that did $200m + DOM was a Big Movie, arguably a blockbuster. Now? At least $250m DOM, I guess, maybe $300m?

 

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22 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

WB are not having a bad year so far.  Sure nothing has broken out but they have had many films that will be profitable. A lot of people were predicting both Ready Player One and Rampage to be flops and they weren't. Both will be more successful than Solo which we all deemed a guaranteed hit because of the Star Wars name. It did okay here in the States but dire numbers overseas. 

WB's in an odd situation where the tentpoles were at the start of the year or at the end of year so summer's been a bit lean. Ocean's 8 has been successful enough and is looking to be the second highest of the franchise domestically which will be enough for a sequel. 

 

Still think The Meg will be their bomb this year. 

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