4-day Weekend Official| Alita $33.50M, Lego $27.75m, Isn't Romantic $16.64M, WMW $12.21m, HDD2U $11m

[Alli]

5 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Hopefully it can hit 100mil. That won't save it but it will be better than not hitting 100mil. Just goes to show you how much better its marketing was than Mortal Engines. The lesson is, sell the lead character not the magical and strange world. People have seen these world's before, you have to sell them on something else. 

Also it helped they had Jim hyping it up

[Zakiyyah6]

Eh, if Cameron's name meant that much the film would be headed for the billion that his more overzealous fans claimed that it would. His name means everything on films that he actually directs. 

Edited February 17, 2019 by Zakiyyah6

[LordNox]

3 minutes ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

Damn it. Will any other studio than Disney will make $2 Billion film, now that Avatar will be of Disney as well.

I don't see DC pulling off a miracle and take their Justice League, whichever will have Darkseid to that mark.

James Cameron is all Avatar now.

 

Jurassic World don't has it in it now, especially after that terrible Fallen Kingdom.

 

Who else?

Well its in the hands of Warner Bros themselves. Their heroes have as much potential at the box office as the Marvel heroes have. The only difference is that Disney as of yet have made better movies of their superheroes.

 

Now DC have a different leadership. Aquaman was much more an MCU style movie so its clear DC will now like Marvel make more family friendly superhero movies. We have to see if Aquaman was a fluke or a start of DC changing fortunes for the better. If the future DC movies are all successful then nothing would stop a good team up movie to earn 2 billion.

[a2k]

 

WEEKEND FSS

		Movie	Distributor	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Week
1	new	Alita: Battle Angel	20th Century Fox	$27,800,000		3,790	$7,335	$36,516,232	1
2	(1)	The LEGO Movie 2: The Secon…	Warner Bros.	$21,215,000	-38%	4,303	$4,930	$62,690,359	2
3	new	Isn’t it Romantic	Warner Bros.	$14,210,000		3,444	$4,126	$20,455,347	1
4	(2)	What Men Want	Paramount Pictures	$10,920,000	-40%	2,912	$3,750	$36,150,328	2
5	new	Happy Death Day 2U	Universal	$9,816,000		3,207	$3,061	$13,527,500	1
-	(4)	The Upside	STX Entertainment	$5,590,000	-21%	2,781	$2,010	$94,197,031	6
-	(5)	Glass	Universal	$3,859,000	-39%	2,449	$1,576	$104,492,915	5
-	(7)	Green Book	Universal	$2,751,000	-20%	1,618	$1,700	$65,756,401	14
-	(8)	Aquaman	Warner Bros.	$1,885,000	-41%	1,264	$1,491	$331,371,102	9
-	(12)	They Shall Not Grow Old	Warner Bros.	$985,000	-42%	626	$1,573	$15,256,347	9
-	(15)	Bohemian Rhapsody	20th Century Fox	$870,000	-33%	562	$1,548	$211,901,709	16
-	(21)	A Star is Born	Warner Bros.	$810,000	+48%	843	$961	$209,821,688	20
-	(19)	The Favourite	Fox Searchlight	$570,000	-30%	324	$1,759	$31,113,285	13
-	(20)	Vice	Annapurna Pictures	$539,971	-17%	702	$769	$46,060,208	8
-	(17)	Bumblebee	Paramount Pictures	$435,000	-50%	584	$745	$126,476,658	9
-	(22)	Cold War	Amazon Studios	$404,350	-22%	247	$1,637	$3,550,917	9
-	(14)	The Kid Who Would Be King	20th Century Fox	$335,000	-77%	415	$807	$16,280,074	4
-	(23)	On the Basis of Sex	Focus Features	$241,000	-50%	186	$1,296	$24,234,907	8
-	(28)	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna Pictures	$210,006	-23%	165	$1,273	$14,124,663	10
-	(40)	Everybody Knows	Focus Features	$191,000	+168%	23	$8,304	$286,206	2
-	(27)	Free Solo	Greenwich	$180,046	-45%	108	$1,667	$16,238,727	21
-	new	Fighting With My Family	United Artists	$131,624		4	$32,906	$165,898	1
-	(49)	Lords of Chaos	Gunpowder & Sky	$53,654	+94%	25	$2,146	$101,391	2
-	(30)	Ek Ladki Ko Dekah Toh Aisa …	FIP	$47,000	-81%	43	$1,093	$1,159,088	3
-	(45)	The Invisibles	Greenwich	$35,311	-4%	19	$1,858	$171,772	4
-	(39)	Second Act	STX Entertainment	$30,000	-59%	67	$448	$39,266,870	9
-	(54)	Replicas	Entertainment Studi…	$3,000	-66%	12	$250	$4,044,835	6

 

SATURDAY

		Movie	Distributor	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Alita: Battle Angel	20th Century Fox	$11,605,000	+55%	3,790	$3,062	$27,806,232	3
2	(2)	The LEGO Movie 2: The Secon…	Warner Bros.	$9,075,000	+104%	4,303	$2,109	$54,990,359	9
3	(3)	Isn’t it Romantic	Warner Bros.	$5,910,000	+42%	3,444	$1,716	$16,325,347	4
4	(4)	What Men Want	Paramount Pictures	$4,705,000	+61%	2,912	$1,616	$32,865,328	9
5	(5)	Happy Death Day 2U	Universal	$3,984,000	+40%	3,207	$1,242	$10,539,500	4
-	(7)	The Upside	STX Entertainment	$2,430,000	+81%	2,781	$874	$92,377,031	37
-	(8)	Glass	Universal	$1,684,000	+75%	2,449	$688	$103,280,915	30
-	(10)	Green Book	Universal	$1,197,000	+82%	1,618	$740	$64,858,401	93
-	(-)	Aquaman	Warner Bros.	$815,000	+94%	1,264	$645	$330,721,102	58
-	(-)	They Shall Not Grow Old	Warner Bros.	$435,000	+93%	626	$695	$14,931,347	62
-	(-)	Bohemian Rhapsody	20th Century Fox	$372,000	+59%	562	$662	$211,637,709	107
-	(-)	A Star is Born	Warner Bros.	$345,000	+68%	843	$409	$209,561,688	135
-	(-)	Vice	Annapurna Pictures	$249,173	+114%	702	$355	$45,885,787	54
-	(-)	The Favourite	Fox Searchlight	$245,000	+90%	324	$756	$30,917,285	86
-	(-)	Bumblebee	Paramount Pictures	$195,000	+112%	584	$334	$126,328,658	58
-	(-)	Cold War	Amazon Studios	$181,961	+92%	247	$737	$3,423,544	58
-	(-)	The Kid Who Would Be King	20th Century Fox	$145,000	+96%	415	$349	$16,164,074	23
-	(-)	On the Basis of Sex	Focus Features	$109,000	+118%	186	$586	$24,152,907	54
-	(-)	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna Pictures	$97,040	+115%	165	$588	$14,056,735	65
-	(-)	Everybody Knows	Focus Features	$80,000	+74%	23	$3,478	$221,206	9
-	(-)	Fighting With My Family	United Artists	$49,937	+20%	4	$12,484	$125,949	3
-	(-)	Ek Ladki Ko Dekah Toh Aisa …	FIP	$20,000	+82%	43	$465	$1,143,088	16
-	(-)	Second Act	STX Entertainment	$10,000	n/c	67	$149	$39,256,870	58
-	(-)	Replicas	Entertainment Studi…	$1,300	+86%	12	$108	$4,043,835	37

Edited February 17, 2019 by a2k

[Premium George]

7 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Hopefully it can hit 100mil. That won't save it but it will be better than not hitting 100mil. Just goes to show you how much better its marketing was than Mortal Engines. The lesson is, sell the lead character not the magical and strange world. People have seen these world's before, you have to sell them on something else. 

No, it's all Cameron. Put "from the maker of Titanic and Avatar" in front of ME, and it would have done much better too. 

[TimmyRiggins]

16 minutes ago, CJohn said:

It feels like the marketing for Alita turned good a bit too late. Decent 5 day OW. Should end with 90M or so. We will never get a sequel and I certainly wanted one after that ending.

We truly don't know that. I hope it can get to at least 400 M WW, and who knows really, if it sells well on home video and makes some dough on other Alita related things and Jim wants his sequel, he can make it happen. He's really the director in Hollywood with the juice to make an Alita sequel happen and I doubt Disney will tell him no. 

[Litio]

From dhd: Outside film finance sources with knowledge of the Alita‘s budget have informed us that breakeven is anywhere between $500M-$550M

[Zakiyyah6]

It won't do it in ticket sales but happy to see Aquaman past that piece of shit BvS total money wise. 

[a2k]

If it works: produced by Cameron

If it doesn't: directed by Rodriguez

[Krissykins]

Seems as solid as it could be for Alita. It’s just saddled with ridiculously high costs. 

 

This years Ready Player One really, which also probably never saw any money from theatrical (that’s if we use the $170m budget for Alita and not the $237m one Deadline mentioned, yikes).

 

Going to see it this evening in 3D. 

[Krissykins]

3 minutes ago, Litio said:

From dhd: Outside film finance sources with knowledge of the Alita‘s budget have informed us that breakeven is anywhere between $500M-$550M

Surely that depends how much of that comes from China where they’re only getting 22% for this? Also it depends how much of it is from the US. 

[Spidey Freak]

7 minutes ago, LordNox said:

Well its in the hands of Warner Bros themselves. Their heroes have as much potential at the box office as the Marvel heroes have. The only difference is that Disney as of yet have made better movies of their superheroes.

 

Now DC have a different leadership. Aquaman was much more an MCU style movie so its clear DC will now like Marvel make more family friendly superhero movies. We have to see if Aquaman was a fluke or a start of DC changing fortunes for the better. If the future DC movies are all successful then nothing would stop a good team up movie to earn 2 billion.

They should have continued with the Eisenberg recruiting villains in post-credits theme that they had started in Justice League.

[sfran43]

 

[TimmyRiggins]

4 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Seems as solid as it could be for Alita. It’s just saddled with ridiculously high costs. 

 

This years Ready Player One really, which also probably never saw any money from theatrical (that’s if we use the $170m budget for Alita and not the $237m one Deadline mentioned, yikes).

 

Going to see it this evening in 3D. 

"Ridiculously high costs"? How, the money is right there on the screen. Alita is doing well, probably as well as it could possibly have without Jim directing it, it's just reality? I don't know, I'm grateful it exists and let's cross our fingers that a sequel happens down the line. Hell, if Pacific Rim can get a sequel or Fury Road (rumored to get one), why can't this? 

[sfran43]

 

[Litio]

3 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Surely that depends how much of that comes from China where they’re only getting 22% for this? Also it depends how much of it is from the US. 

Pretty sure that's an estimate. You can't have an exact number without knowing the release and marketing costs. And release/marketing costs in China for Fox are virtually zero.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

So it looks like Aquaman has now passed Forrest Gump & BvS, DOM-wise and Transformers 3..WW-wise.

[Eric Furiosa]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Alita: Battle Angel	Fox	$27,800,000	-	3,790	-	$7,335	$36,516,232	$170	1
2	1	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part	WB	$21,215,000	-37.8%	4,303	-	$4,930	$62,690,359	-	2
3	N	Isn't It Romantic	WB (NL)	$14,210,000	-	3,444	-	$4,126	$20,455,347	-	1
4	2	What Men Want	Par.	$10,920,000	-40.1%	2,912	-	$3,750	$36,150,328	$20	2
5	N	Happy Death Day 2U	Uni.	$9,816,000	-	3,207	-	$3,061	$13,527,500	$9	1
6	3	Cold Pursuit	LG/S	$6,000,000	-45.6%	2,630	-	$2,281	$21,122,332	-	2
7	4	The Upside	STX	$5,590,000	-21.1%	2,781	-591	$2,010	$94,197,031	$37.5	6
8	5	Glass	Uni.	$3,859,000	-38.5%	2,449	-805	$1,576	$104,489,915	$20	5
9	6	The Prodigy	Orion	$3,150,065	-46.2%	2,530	-	$1,245	$11,015,539	$6	2
10	7	Green Book	Uni.	$2,751,000	-20.1%	1,618	-531	$1,700	$65,756,401	$23	14
11	9	Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse	Sony	$1,965,000	-35.4%	1,207	-519	$1,628	$182,720,904	$90	10
12	8	Aquaman	WB	$1,885,000	-41.1%	1,264	-938	$1,491	$331,371,102	-	9
13	12	They Shall Not Grow Old	WB	$985,000	-42.3%	626	-201	$1,573	$15,256,347	-	9
14	10	Miss Bala	Sony	$970,000	-64.7%	1,172	-1,031	$828	$13,861,198	$15	3
15	29	Ralph Breaks the Internet	BV	$916,000	+167.9%	1,354	+956	$677	$198,603,244	$175	13
16	11	A Dog's Way Home	Sony	$890,000	-54.6%	880	-1,129	$1,011	$40,341,394	$18	6
17	16	Bohemian Rhapsody	Fox	$870,000	-33.2%	562	-277	$1,548	$211,901,709	$52	16
18	23	A Star is Born (2018)	WB	$810,000	+48.4%	843	+387	$961	$209,821,688	$36	20
19	14	Escape Room	Sony	$620,000	-60.7%	635	-704	$976	$55,720,767	$9	7
20	20	The Favourite	FoxS	$570,000	-30.0%	324	-281	$1,759	$31,113,285	-	13
21	21	Vice	Annapurna	$539,972	-17.1%	702	-5	$769	$46,060,208	-	8
22	24	Cold War (2018)	Amazon	$404,350	-22.3%	247	-23	$1,637	$3,550,917	-	9
23	19	Mary Poppins Returns	BV	$385,000	-53.6%	345	-497	$1,116	$170,413,203	$130	9
24	15	The Kid Who Would be King	Fox	$335,000	-76.9%	415	-1,431	$807	$16,280,074	-	4
25	27	Stan & Ollie	SPC	$260,170	-39.5%	210	-142	$1,239	$4,749,419	-	8
26	42	Arctic	BST	$256,510	+185.3%	63	+48	$4,072	$445,094	-	3
27	31	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna	$210,006	-22.6%	165	-101	$1,273	$14,124,663	-	10
28	36	Capernaum	SPC	$193,301	+35.3%	136	+73	$1,421	$993,350	-	10
29	46	Everybody Knows	Focus	$191,000	+168.2%	23	+19	$8,304	$286,206	-	2
30	30	Free Solo	NGE	$180,046	-44.6%	108	-45	$1,667	$16,238,727	-	21
31	50	Never Look Away	SPC	$135,654	+249.4%	31	+28	$4,376	$259,955	-	9
32	N	Fighting with My Family	MGM	$131,625	-	4	-	$32,906	$165,898	-	1
33	40	The Wife	SPC	$69,657	-26.5%	77	-22	$905	$9,211,223	-	27
34	55	Lords of Chaos	G&S	$53,654	+94.1%	25	+21	$2,146	$101,391	-	2
35	33	Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga	FIP	$47,000	-81.1%	43	-149	$1,093	$1,159,088	-	3
36	51	The Invisibles	Greenwich	$35,311	-4.3%	19	+1	$1,858	$171,772	-	4
37	65	To Dust	Good Deed	$29,243	+244.2%	15	+14	$1,950	$40,134	-	2
38	N	War and Peace (2019 re-release)	Jan.	$22,000	-	1	-	$22,000	$22,000	-	1
39	N	Ruben Brandt, Collector	SPC	$6,394	-	22	-	$291	$7,737	-	1
40	N	Hotel by the River	CGld	$5,870	-	1	-	$5,870	$5,870	-	1
41	63	Replicas	ENTMP	$3,000	-65.8%	12	-17	$250	$4,044,835	-	6
TOTAL (41 MOVIES):				$119,286,828	+3.1%	41,195	-3,427	$2,896

[LordNox]

4 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:

They should have continued with the Eisenberg recruiting villains in post-credits theme that they had started in Justice League.

That would have been optimal but for a future Justice league movie to work they need to wait some years and allow the brand to expand. If they make good movies audiences will eventually clamour for a team up movie.

[Jake Gittes]

Can't wait to see Ralph collapse to like 200k next weekend with a ~199.3 cume and then have crawl to 200 for another month. That kinda shit is reliably funny