Weekend Thread: Thursday Previews - Spider-Verse $3.5M | Mortal Engines $675K

[CJohn]

3 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

James Wan ready to slay over the holidays.

[RichWS]

This holiday season, I'm grateful there's no Star Wars release. 

[Curtis1986]

31 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

This will probably be the lowest-grossing holiday season since 2014.

I mean when your top two options for Blockbusters are Mary Poppins returns and Aquaman is easy to see what people will choose to spend more time with their families instead of going to the movies. Nothing against those two movies but the reviews so far not screaming must run out and see. 

Edited December 16, 2018 by Curtis1986

[Ezen Baklattan]

Can theaters dump MI as early as the 25th? I imagine it’ll have a sub-1k PTA next weekend.

[grim22]

7 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Looks like it opened higher than WW and JL in most markets. Most of mainland Europe opens this coming week and then Australia, NZ and Italy the week after. Japan in February. 350M OS minus China looks like the floor currently.

[John Marston]

Aquaman could be the first DC movie over a billion. Now that’s funny 

[CJohn]

James Wan da fucking gawd. Everything he touches turns into gold. He is gonna carry the DCEU into the billion territory.

[La Binoche]

Vox Lux 

[raulbalarezo]

7 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Aquaman could be the first DC movie over a billion. Now that’s funny 

Hopefully not another Jumanji finishing at $950M xD

Edited December 16, 2018 by raulbalarezo

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, Spagspiria said:

Can theaters dump MI as early as the 25th? I imagine it’ll have a sub-1k PTA next weekend.

The iPic theater close by has posted their entire Christmas Day schedule and they are dropping it so yeah, they will. Gonna barely cross $20M total at this point. What a flop.

[Brainbug]

5 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Aquaman could be the first DC movie over a billion. Now that’s funny 

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The Dark Knight Rises

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The Dark Knight

WB

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$534.9

53.2%

$469.7

46.8%

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[Krissykins]

6 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Aquaman could be the first DC movie over a billion. Now that’s impressive 

Fixed. 

 

No one expected Black Panther to be the most successful Marvel film either, but here we are! 

 

 

[grim22]

5 minutes ago, CJohn said:

James Wan da fucking gawd. Everything he touches turns into gold. He is gonna carry the DCEU into the billion territory.

It's just so much damn fun it's a perfect movie for the holidays. Sit back and relax for a fun adventure. The underwater scenes are *kisses fingers*

[TMP]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

It's just so much damn fun it's a perfect movie for the holidays. Sit back and relax for a fun adventure. The underwater scenes are *kisses fingers*

The visual effects work is insanely good. Best in the genre outside of maybe Infinity War?

[CJohn]

4 minutes ago, grim22 said:

It's just so much damn fun it's a perfect movie for the holidays. Sit back and relax for a fun adventure. The underwater scenes are *kisses fingers*

I was having the time of my life. Wan directed the shit out of it.

[Zakiyyah6]

I should have just trusted tracking when it came to Spiderverse. My 44mil prediction will screw me in the derby. I think people are waiting for the 21st.Of course the film will have good to great legs because of it's excellent word of mouth. Still this opening along with Lego Batman's shows that people do see the live action iteration of superheroes as more special. 

[Krissykins]

The PTA for Deadpool 2 is dreadful and so is missing the top 10 completely. 

 

 

[Krissykins]

7 minutes ago, TMP said:

The visual effects work is insanely good. Best in the genre outside of maybe Infinity War?

What was so different about Infinity War and it’s special effects from the other Avengers films and Civil War? The cgi villains? 

 

Maybe I need to rewatch Infinity War when it hits Netflix lol cause I totally missed being extra impressed 

[filmnerdjamie]

Just now, CJohn said:

Spider-Verse should have strong legs but lets see if Aquaman doesn't affect it more than we expect.

It opened better than I thought, I'll give it that.

 

But yeah Aquaman and Mary Poppins Returns will definitely eat into it this coming weekend.

[Zakiyyah6]

Mortal Engines is estimated to have a lower opening than The Girl in the Spider's Web. Nobody can even spin such numbers.