Weekend Thread 12/28-12/30 AQM 51.5 MPR 28 BB 20.5 ITSV 18.3

[The Panda]

11 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

The hate for Vice on this site is fairly inexplicable. Awesome movie, minus the fact that one scene in the first 30 minutes seems literally spliced in from later in the movie? Anyways, great shit, and something that people NEED to see and understand.

I really did like it, I don’t want it to seem like I hated it or anything from my short review.

 

My complaints aren’t really about the movie’s messaging, more that I found the narration to be a drag on the movie as a whole.

[Manny G]

39 minutes ago, Nova said:

I said it weeks before it came out and I’ll say it again. Bumblebee didn’t need to set the box office on fire. What it needed to do was show audiences that the Transformers franchise is headed in a new/different direction. I won’t trash Bay’s Transformers as he made it into a billion dollar franchise. But when you’ve got a franchise like Transformers, it’s important every now and then to switch things up so audiences stay engaged with the franchise and it doesn’t turn into a sinking ship that can’t be saved. It seems like they were able to reboot the Transformers franchise without much of a hiccup and that’s all that matters in my opinion. We shall see if it pays off for sure with the sequels. 

It’s funny that in a Box Office forum people forget so often the business side of the Industry  and it cutthroat nature for embellished naive words.

 

Bumblebee doing less than $300M Worldwide will be seen as a utter failure. There’s no going around it. Optics are key in the industry and a Transformer movie failing  to reach the $300M  mark is horrible for everyone involved.

Edited December 29, 2018 by Manny G

[ThomasNicole]

$ 10.6M Friday for MPR

 

Yeah, probably $ 31-32M second weekend, excellent jump

[Napoleon]

Big +24% jump for Second Act on Friday. Could come ahead of Vice and Holmes & Watson for the whole weekend. First movie that opened since December 21st that already passed its production budget at the domestic box office. JLo is still Queen.

[filmlover]

I wonder how many theaters Focus plans on taking On the Basis of Sex into next weekend cause it’s opening at a number of theaters around here. It’s supposed to be expanding to 1,200-1,500 theaters on the 11th.

[Nova]

4 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:

As disappointed as I was with Bumblebee, it's still miles and miles better than Bay's movies, so I am hoping they continue in this direction - I just hope Paramount don't take this result badly and revert to Bay shenanigans. 

Yea it’s def a step in the right direction for them. I didn’t want to trash the Bay Transformers films quality wise because I did enjoy the first two a lot and obviously there was an audience for them. Having said that, it was clear the franchise needed to go into a new direction and it feels like Bumblebee did that but let’s hope the folks over at Paramount don’t act like some folks on this forum and take its box office results the wrong way. When it comes to rebooting a franchise, it takes time but if done right, it’ll be worth it. 

[reddevil19]

Just now, Manny G said:

It’s funny that in a Box Office forum people forget so often the business side of the Indy and it cutthroat nature for embellished naive words.

 

Bumblebee doing less than $300M Worldwide will be seen as a utter failure. There’s no going around it. Optics are key in the industry and a Transformer movie failed to reach the $300M  mark is horrible for everyone involved.

Seriously... Shut it.

[titanic2187]

TD	YD	Title (Click to View)	Studio	Daily Gross	% +/- YD / LW		Theaters / Avg		Gross To-Date	Day
1	1	Aquaman	WB	$17,100,000	+17%	-39%	4,125	$4,145	$154,335,000	8
2	2	Mary Poppins Returns	BV	$10,621,000	+6%	+58%	4,090	$2,597	$81,531,758	10
3	4	Bumblebee	Par.	$6,820,000	+19%	-20%	3,550	$1,921	$53,098,020	8
4	3	Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse	Sony	$6,435,000	+9%	+34%	3,813	$1,688	$91,763,730	15
5	6	The Mule	WB	$3,970,000	+27%	+44%	2,787	$1,424	$52,928,465	15
6	8	Vice	Annapurna	$2,730,000	+21%	-	2,442	$1,118	$12,636,116	4
7	7	Holmes and Watson	Sony	$2,670,000	+7%	-	2,776	$962	$15,076,408	4
8	9	Ralph Breaks the Internet	BV	$2,458,000	+14%	+86%	2,343	$1,049	$171,639,583	38
9	10	Second Act	STX	$2,420,000	+24%	-2%	2,607	$928	$16,970,000	8
10	11	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)	Uni.	$1,640,000	-4%	-31%	2,555	$642	$262,975,485	50
11	12	Mary Queen of Scots	Focus	$886,000	+23%	+17%	841	$1,054	$7,237,320	22
12	-	The Favourite	FoxS	$775,000	+16%	+23%	809	$958	$13,596,022	36
-	-	Bohemian Rhapsody	Fox	$765,000	+48%	+50%	868	$881	$187,621,515	57
-	-	Welcome to Marwen	Uni.	$763,000	+17%	-16%	1,911	$399	$6,300,090	8
-	-	Green Book	Uni.	$599,000	+22%	+67%	621	$965	$30,191,816	43
-	-	Creed II	MGM	$540,141	+25%	+19%	1,068	$506	$111,103,787	38
-	-	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	WB	$340,000	+13%	+42%	515	$660	$155,959,713	43
-	-	Mortal Engines	Uni.	$331,000	-7%	-36%	2,995	$111	$13,983,905	15
-	-	Instant Family	Par.	$318,000	+17%	+72%	744	$427	$63,933,775	43
-	-	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna	$228,234	+30%	+587%	65	$3,511	$1,427,044	15
-	-	A Star is Born (2018)	WB	$160,000	+20%	+78%	236	$678	$200,699,727	85
-	-	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	BV	$65,000	+9%	+8%	218	$298	$54,437,150	57
-	-	Destroyer	Annapurna	$12,596	+2%	-	3	$4,199	$69,785	4

[a2k]

BB will be around 75 by 1st Jan Tue after a 28-30 5-day. Could add 45-50 more for 120-125 dom imo.

[maxalcamo]

I never understood the huge expectations for Mary Poppins when the remake of Cinderella, one of the most iconic princess and famous animation classic did "only" 550 M. I think Snow White, Cruelia, Dumbo, Pinocchio, The Lady and the tramp will do around these numbers (550-650 M, maybe a 700 peak). Alice was at the peak of the 3D age, the first live action of the recent series and with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton in their golden age as movie couple (the sequel was a flop!) while The jungle book is more an action movie and it was really an innovation for the special effects. 

 

For the old school disneyan fables people have too much expectations, the children of their time are all almost dead after all 😂.  The 90's classics like the little mermaid, the lion king and aladdin are the ones surely in the 1 Billion+ club. I always seen Mary Poppins with no more than 600 M worldwide. 

[reddevil19]

Just now, Nova said:

Yea it’s def a step in the right direction for them. I didn’t want to trash the Bay Transformers films quality wise because I did enjoy the first two a lot and obviously there was an audience for them. Having said that, it was clear the franchise needed to go into a new direction and it feels like Bumblebee did that but let’s hope the folks over at Paramount don’t act like some folks on this forum and take its box office results the wrong way. When it comes to rebooting a franchise, it takes time but if done right, it’ll be worth it. 

Yeah. I still think the first one is pretty close to what I always wanted from a TF movie - I needed about 25% less shouting and 20% more cohesion in the action, but that's pretty good as far as Bay goes. BB has well-shot action, but there's little of it, small in scale and I think the VFX just don't look right. I also think that while it's nice they spent SO MUCH on the relationship between girl and machine, it still came across as a poor copy of much better movies. As I said, though, it's an improvement, especially compared to the last couple of Bay's movies. I'd be happy for the same team to do an Optimus Prime movie.

[Nova]

10 minutes ago, Manny G said:

It’s funny that in a Box Office forum people forget so often the business side of the Indy and it cutthroat nature for embellished naive words.

 

Bumblebee doing less than $300M Worldwide will be seen as a utter failure. There’s no going around it. Optics are key in the industry and a Transformer movie failed to reach the $300M  mark is horrible for everyone involved.

You do realize that before this super hero craze hit, there were several origin CBM that did like $300M. I’m sure their studios didn’t see them as box office failures as they all got sequels. I’m sure you’ve heard of Batman Begins, right? And Captain America The First Avenger?

 

Its a great thing that the Internet when those films came out isn’t like it is today because those films would be considered bombs/flops by your standards and who knows if we get sequels to them because of overreactions that are unnecessary. 

Edited December 29, 2018 by Nova

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, Manny G said:

It’s funny that in a Box Office forum people forget so often the business side of the Indy and it cutthroat nature for embellished naive words.

Rich coming from someone who has demonstrated no clue about how box office really works.

[titanic2187]

10 minutes ago, fabiopazzo2 said:

Fixed 😊 😃

That is also why I guess Oscar members never actually take superhero film seriously.

 

Because all the good hype, if there is, were all washed away but those annoying fanbase who always angry with anything that go SLIGHTLY against them......

[Manny G]

2 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:

Seriously... Shut it.

WB and Paramount are 2 very different studios. Paramount rebooted the franchise after  TLK pulled in $600M meanwhile WB went ahead with Aquaman after JL pulled $600M. 

 

Also so why are people so emotional on here. Are we supposed to just list numbers and says “everyone is doing fine” without any insight? Jesus.

[CoolioD1]

sorry to say that fast and furious is the only franchise with a cool fanbase. look at this cool guy.

 

 

[MrGlass2]

1 minute ago, Manny G said:

Also so why are people so emotional on here. Are we supposed to just list numbers and says “everyone is doing fine” without any insight? Jesus.

If it is a Disney movie missing tracking by 30%... yes.

[filmlover]

Just now, CoolioD1 said:

sorry to say that fast and furious is the only franchise with a cool fanbase. look at this cool guy.

 

 

Well, yeah. It’s the one active franchise that’s all about “family.”

[AHepBurn]

I just liked crying out "Mary Floppins" because it's a funny natural play on the name and I'm a slut for likes and cheers.

[CoolioD1]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Well, yeah. It’s the one active franchise that’s all about “family.”

also if we wanna talk about inclusion, i can't think of another franchise that puts bald men in the spotlight like those movies do. people like @MrPink need heroes too.