MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT WEEKEND THREAD | 23 Friday...MM2 4.8...TT 4.25 EQ2 4.0

[Lordmandeep]

Looks like IW will finish over 680 million. 

[Blaze Heatnix]

Mission Impossible movies are performing well, but they have to keep the budgets under control. 

 

I mean, you can't keep increasing the budget and then performing like previous movies ( with smaller budgets ). Oh, and Cruise will probably have less control around his "stunts". Producers won't be happy to keep delaying productions for months ( and inflating the budgets ) just because the star wants to show it's really him performing the moves. That'll definitely change, I think.

Edited July 29, 2018 by Blaze Heatnix

[ZeeSoh]

Disney again giving high drops for its movies on Sunday. The numbers should increase for Incredibles, Ant Man and Infinity War. 

[Blaze Heatnix]

5 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Equalizer got destroyed by MI. I don't understand what goes through studios minds when they make dumb scheduling decisions like this. If it had been an August movie it would made over 100m 

 

The Equalizer will be fine, given its budget.

 

At least it managed to avoid Mission Impossible overseas. 

[MrGlass2]

4 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

Mission Impossible movies are performing well, but they have to keep the budgets under control. 

 

I mean, you can't keep increasing the budget and then performing like previous movies ( with smaller budgets ).

Great advice... But have you checked the budgets for this series?

MI3 (2006): $150M

MI5 (2015): $150M

Edited July 29, 2018 by MrGlass2

[filmlover]

Mission: Impossible opened great. The franchise will never get much higher than this considering how long it's been going at it and how old it skews for the most part. Legs are gonna be great too.

 

Some rough drops across the board, although Incredibles and Jurassic World held great. And no, I'm not gonna blame the collapse of MoviePass. I think we're just seeing the end of summer coming up.

 

Blindspotting had a fine expansion though it'll likely stall at less than $5M. Eighth Grade is doing great, though: $12-13M is likely where it will land in the end depending on its expansion next weekend.

[Nova]

21 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

Ouch!! Poor Teen Titans!

 

Superhero fatigue has officially kicked in. 

 

RIP to Venom and Aquaman. Should just follow in Fox's foot steps and not release them like they're doing with Dark Phoenix and New Mutants 

[sfran43]

 

[IronJimbo]

More interesed in how MI fallout does next weekend

[Blaze Heatnix]

2 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

Great advice... But have you checked the budgets for this series?

MI3 (2006): $150M

MI5 (2015): $150M

 

Yeah, third one really underperformed ( flopped ). I'm glad they didn't give up and kept going.

 

 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, sfran43 said:

 

 

1.3 billion is still possible.  

[sfran43]

 

[TalismanRing]

15 minutes ago, baumer said:

The Saturday bumps are pretty soft all around.

Deep in the heart of summer.

 

The Sunday estimated drops are on the high end for most films especially compared to last weekend where 22% was on the high not low end.

[Nova]

The First Purge making 10x its budget and most likely going over Election Year to become the highest grossing film of the franchise WW. What a flop movie. 

[Rebeccas]

The insurance on Cruise will surely go up since they had to pay a $70m claim this time. Not sure how long they’ll be able to this up. If this was making F&F money then surely a $250m budget would be justified but nope 

[Steele131]

12 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

Mission Impossible movies are performing well, but they have to keep the budgets under control. 

 

I mean, you can't keep increasing the budget and then performing like previous movies ( with smaller budgets ). Oh, and Cruise will probably have less control around his "stunts". Producers won't be happy to keep delaying productions for months ( and inflating the budgets ) just because the star wants to show it's really him performing the movies. That'll definitely change, I think.

180M isn’t bad

[poweranimals]

I don't get why Ant-Man and the Wasp keeps having big drops.

[MrPink]

4 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

 

That seems good? I know Deadline was projecting 80m+ OS opening earlier. Someone take me to school

[Jonwo]

29 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I'm guessing it played to the show's niche fanbase and nobody else. Not unexpected.

I wouldn't be surprised if WB expected it be niche hence the low budget and low marketing spend. It's making a profit either way and it'll play on Cartoon Network endlessly. 

 

It does prove that for a film adapted from a TV series to be successful, you've got to make it special rather than just an extended episode. 

 

Mamma Mia! is doing well OS but it's clear the UK is doing most of the legwork

Edited July 29, 2018 by Jonwo

[WrathOfHan]

Predictions for next weekend:

 

Christopher Robin: 35M
Mission: Impossible - Fallout: 30.7M

The Spy Who Dumped Me: 15M

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: 8.2M

The Equalizer 2: 7.7M

The Darkest Minds: 7M

Hotel Transylvania 3: 6.8M

Ant-Man and the Wasp: 5M

Incredibles 2: 4.8M

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: 4.7M

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: 4.4M

Death of a Nation: 4.2M

 

Incredibles over Teen Titans is gonna happen, especially with Christopher Robin double features  

The Darkest Minds can open as low as 7th depending how hard HT3 falls.