Weekend Thread: Equalizer 2 pulls off an upset win over Mamma Mia 2 - 35.83M to 34.44M

[filmlover]

Wow.

[baumer]

Domestic:	$383,904,505	32.1%
+ Foreign:	$813,000,000	67.9%
= Worldwide:	$1,196,904,505

[Jonwo]

1 minute ago, sfran43 said:

 

That seems low for Mamma Mia! I assume most of that came from the UK

[WrathOfHan]

Predictions for next weekend:

 

Mission: Impossible - Fallout: 60M

The Equalizer 2: 16.5M

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: 16M

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: 14.5M

Hotel Transylvania 3: 11.5M

Ant-Man and the Wasp: 9M

Incredibles 2: 7.5M

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: 7.1M

Skyscraper: 4.5M

Blindspotting: 2M

 

Blindspotting had a gigantic drop on Saturday. IDK how wide Lionsgate plans on bringing it, but anything over 2M would be a win at this point.

Edited July 22, 2018 by WrathOfHan

[sfran43]

 

[Krissykins]

$13.1m from the U.K. for Mamma Mia 2. 

[Jonwo]

If Denzel can sing or rap, he should be cast as George Washington in the eventual adaptation of Hamilton. 

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, Jonwo said:

If Denzel can sing or rap, he should be cast as George Washington in the eventual adaptation of Hamilton. 

This is the only way I would be interested in a Hamilton movie.

[Alli]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Predictions for next weekend:

 

Mission: Impossible - Fallout: 60M

 

damn. that would be disappointing. i trust your prediction tho

[Jonwo]

2 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

$13.1m from the U.K. for Mamma Mia 2. 

Looks like the UK once again is Mamma Mia! crazy. The other OS totals seem a bit low in comparison

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

This is the only way I would be interested in a Hamilton movie.

I think it'd be difficult to adapt as a movie anyway, it's very theatrical in its storytelling

[filmscholar]

So Sat was the deal breaker for Denzel to take this win.  "MM2" fell about 23% Sat and Sequelizer basically stayed flat at 5% drop.  Also don't lose track that it was R-rated too.

Edited July 22, 2018 by filmscholar

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Jonwo said:

Looks like the UK once again is Mamma Mia! crazy. The other OS totals seem a bit low in comparison

I think it'd be difficult to adapt as a movie anyway, it's very theatrical in its storytelling

Maybe the movie will make people realize the play isn't all that  

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Alli said:

damn. that would be disappointing. i trust your prediction tho

That would be higher than Rogue Nation and you would consider it disappointing? Most franchises up to their sixth installment would kill for those kinds of numbers.

[IronJimbo]

14 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

MRAs are alt-right nutjobs.

Only Sith deal with absolute Han...

[Krissykins]

That international total seems low for Skyscraper, didn’t it open in China? 

 

BOM has $85m, it had $40m last weekend. 

[Nova]

5 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

At this rate, will MM2 even make what half the original did 

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, IronJimbo said:

Only Sith deal with absolute Han...

[MikeQ]

Fallen Kingdom is going to easily glide past 400M, being at 383.9M total after an $11M weekend.

 

Incredibles 2 has now been outpacing Finding Dory for four weekends in a row, having better legs since the harder drop in the second weekend:

 

Weekend Drops:

 

——— FD ——— I2

W2: 46.0% — 56.0%

W3: 42.7% — 42.2%

W4: 50.2% — 38.8%

W5: 45.8% — 42.7%

W6: 35.9% — 29.2%

 

The same legs as Finding Dory from here on out gets Incredibles 2 to ~600M total domestic. 

 

Peace,

Mike

 

[Alli]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

That would be higher than Rogue Nation and you would consider it disappointing? Most franchises up to their sixth installment would kill for those kinds of numbers.

yeah, but it's coming after two well received movies and reviews say this one is great too. I expected a bigger jump.

[sfran43]

3 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

If Denzel can sing or rap, he should be cast as George Washington in the eventual adaptation of Hamilton. 

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