Weekend Thread 11/16 - 11/18 - Grindelwald $25.7M Friday, Instant Family at $4.5M Friday

[wildphantom]

1 hour ago, Christmas baumer said:

Okay for those of you who are saying that it's a bad number, what exactly were you expecting? 60 million seems right where most prognosticators were predicting. So I don't know why everyone is starting off doom and gloom.

Baumer have you seen it yet? In work so haven’t time to look through the thread. I’m seeing it in two hours 

[Valonqar]

37 minutes ago, a2k said:

FB2 under CRA possible too if it does 63-64 ow and multi close to 2.7x.

 

@SMmadrid90 Oh I agree. OS is the key though it seems that it's losing steam in Asia.

[a2k]

17 minutes ago, Pinacolada said:

It's gonna do better than the OW of Fantastic Beasts 1 tho..... What's up with everyone saying China is rejecting it? It's not doing A LOT better, but still on par

around 55 lifetime is the optimistic scenario in China, down 36% from FB1's 86 despite a growing market.

[stripe]

I will wait for definitive previews before pressing panic button... Usually early preview estimates are low against oficial numbers.

[MCKillswitch123]

8 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

No, it isn't the same thing at all? FB1 made a very nice profit, and worldwide more than Solo and Alice 2 combined.

Last year Pirates 5 also made a nice profit. And I said 'underperformances', not 'flops' (FB1 could be argued that it didn't underperform, sure, but its domestic OW was seen as such at the time).

[Jonwo]

I wonder if WB will change things for the next FB movie, I suspect Yates will be replaced and JK Rowling will be kept as story writer but no longer write the scripts  

[RealLyre]

3 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

I wonder if WB will change things for the next FB movie, I suspect Yates will be replaced and JK Rowling will be kept as story writer but no longer write the scripts  

Yates directing was fine in this one though.. 

all the issues originate from the messy script imo.

Edited November 16, 2018 by RealLyre
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[Nova]

It’s almost 10:30 AM on the east. Where are the damn preview numbers? Isn’t Warner Bros typically early with their numbers...

[Valonqar]

1 minute ago, Nova said:

It’s almost 10:30 AM on the east. Where are the damn preview numbers? Isn’t Warner Bros typically early with their numbers...

Puerto Rico 

[filmnerdjamie]

While I do think flesh blood is needed, Yates isn't the issue. 

 

Hell his Tarzan did shockingly decent, remember?

[Napoleon]

I remember when millions of Harry Potter fans went on JK Rowling's Twitter asking her to fire Johnny Depp. She treated them like they didn't matter. She will now miss their support. She won't be able to make all the 5 planned Fantastic Beasts movies. It's what she deserves.

 

WB didn't learn a thing from Justice League. The diehard fans may be just a small portion of the audience, but their loud and committed support is what make these movies open so big. The fans talk about the movie with other people, they share things on social media, and they get people to the theater with them. Studios and filmmakers shouldn't underestimate the importance of the fans.

[Alli]

any minute now.  i predict 10M

[sfran43]

 

[Premium George]

Are you sure, there were millions? Last year, pirates 5 did close to $800m. Give kevin spacey a cameo in IW2 amd it will still do $1.5 bilion. I wonder what will be the drop in IW2 dom, if bill cosby is featured. $300m? 

[Jonwo]

3 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

Yates directing was fine in this one though.. 

all the issues originate from the messy script imo.

It does seem no one was ballsy enough to say to Rowling that the script wasn’t  working.

 

[Premium George]

1 minute ago, sfran43 said:

 

Lol, deadline and bot.

[Alli]

1 minute ago, sfran43 said:

 

not bad i guess

[KP1025]

1 hour ago, Pinacolada said:

It's gonna do better than the OW of Fantastic Beasts 1 tho..... What's up with everyone saying China is rejecting it? It's not doing A LOT better, but still on par

 

OD number is slightly higher than the first film, but poor reception online could lead to a worse weekend multiplier and a lower OW.

Edited November 16, 2018 by KP1025

[RealLyre]

2 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I remember when millions of Harry Potter fans went on JK Rowling's Twitter asking her to fire Johnny Depp. She treated them like they didn't matter. She will now miss their support. She won't be able to make all the 5 planned Fantastic Beasts movies. It's what she deserves.

  

WB didn't learn a thing from Justice League. The diehard fans may be just a small portion of the audience, but their loud and committed support is what make these movies open so big. The fans talk about the movie with other people, they share things on social media, and they get people to the theater with them. Studios and filmmakers shouldn't underestimate the importance of the fans.

blaming Depp for FB2 underperformance is like blaming Ben Affleck for BvS's shortcomings.

 

[MrGlass2]

Just now, sfran43 said:

 

Who could have suspected Deadline's early preview estimates would be slightly incorrect?