Weekend Thread: DHD Friday #'s (p.14) ~ The Megalogross 17M, Slenderman 4-5M, BlacKkKlansman 3.8-4M

[Cap]

2 minutes ago, AJG said:

 

I laughed out loud when they acknowledged The Incredible Hulk’s existence.

 

 

I squeal/gasped at the thought of Chris Evans emerging from that pod in IMAX. 

 

[Alli]

6 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Box Long Range posted for the weekend of Venom!

 

Venom: $40M opening/$85M total

A Star is Born: $30M opening/$117M total

 

https://pro.boxoffice.com/long-range-tracking-star-born-venom/

 

Guess they're betting on Venom being a very bad movie like everyone else is.

Low balling Venom. Venom has much more going for it to open about the same as The Meg

[MrGlass2]

MEG!!!

[KeepItU25071906]

2 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

 she’s had a lot of $100m hits. 

 

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true

[Curtis1986]

2 minutes ago, Rebeccas said:

YIKES @ Venom. How did that happen?

 the film looks awful and based on the director in most likely will be

[Webslinger]

Really solid preview number for The Meg. At the very least, it won't have any trouble landing at #1 for the weekend.

[IronJimbo]

14 minutes ago, AJG said:

Well this is happening. 

 

 

uhmmm sweetie, I'm not watching anything promoted by a pedofile

[filmlover]

At least their A Star is Born prediction is looking like it could be right on money. That's definitely starting to feel like another "surprise" hit coming up.

[Krissykins]

Why are they saying 10 years of Marvel and IMAX if the first 4 films weren’t even released on IMAX. 

 

 

[KeepItU25071906]

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Box Long Range posted for the weekend of Venom!

 

Venom: $40M opening

 

 

 

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Guess they're betting on Venom being a very bad movie like everyone else is.

 

 

yes, but it doesn't hurt OW too much. It's more about multiplier (as I've said many times).

[TalismanRing]

6 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

I think considering (as per Deadline) WB only have a $52m stake in Meg’s production budget, they’d still be happy with much less. 

Depends on the territory split and how much of the P&A they're in for.

[Jonwo]

20 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

In the end oddly similar to MM:FR in budget and B.O.

Fury Road had a troubled production so I imagine WB was expecting to take a hit on it but it ended doing better than expected. 

 

24 minutes ago, a2k said:

Tarzan barely doubled it's prod budget (180) globally (356). It didn't become one of those bombs that people were fearing it would be (Pan, John Carter, Tomorrowland, or King Arthur a year after Tarzan) and saved face by surprising. A still big prod budget of 140 odd would have been great but they overspent. Doubt if it broke even.

They definetly overspent on LoT. RPO this year cost $5m less but you can see every penny on screen. 

[Lestranger]

42 minutes ago, baumer said:

I'm still interested in Slender Man and hoping it will be good.

 

It's not from what I hear.

[KeepItU25071906]

5 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

 

They definetly overspent on LoT

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Reshoots, that's all about reshoots.

[TalismanRing]

12 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

I squeal/gasped at the thought of Chris Evans emerging from that pod in IMAX. 

 

Might just be more than IMAX can handle

 

 

[MovieMan89]

Nice start for Meg, though I disagree about 100 being any safe bet yet. We'll see how frontloaded it is. I don't suspect it would hit 100 even with a 40m OW. Either way, this is definitely the biggest shark movie since Deep Blue Sea. If they had gotten control of the budget to something fitting, WB could have had a huge success here. 

[baumer]

8 minutes ago, Lestranger said:

 

It's not from what I hear.

 

Cool. 

 

Still going to see it.

[a2k]

Meg's aud score on RT is rotten at 59%. Did not expect that so early into the release. And expected the critic's score to be lesser than 51%.

Edited August 10, 2018 by a2k

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Nice start for Meg, though I disagree about 100 being any safe bet yet. We'll see how frontloaded it is. I don't suspect it would hit 100 even with a 40m OW. Either way, this is definitely the biggest shark movie since Deep Blue Sea. If they had gotten control of the budget to something fitting, WB could have had a huge success here. 

This is a production mostly made for China (a Chinese studio even put up most of the budget). The fact it won't completely flop here is a miracle on its own.

Edited August 10, 2018 by filmlover

[Godzilla]

2 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Nice start for Meg, though I disagree about 100 being any safe bet yet. We'll see how frontloaded it is. I don't suspect it would hit 100 even with a 40m OW. Either way, this is definitely the biggest shark movie since Deep Blue Sea. If they had gotten control of the budget to something fitting, WB could have had a huge success here. 

Should hit $100M with $40M OW considering no competition from the rest of August and Labor Day weekend.