Weekend Thread (3/15-3/17): Captain Marvel 68, Wonder Park 15.8, Five Feet Apart 13.2, Dragon 9.3, Madea 7.8

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Is anyone really saying WoM is amazing though? Kinda feels like another strawman argument 

[terrestrial]

6 minutes ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:

If this weren't an MCU-centric weekend, there would not be all these excuses to justify the decreasing numbers. The narrative would be "Look, the WOM is not as amazing as we all believed."

Its not the first year ppl discuss the possible effect on certain days. Not the only 'event' neither. No matter if there was a MCU or another franchise movie out at that time or not.

[XO21]

It's heading for $395-400m anyway so...it went from 29% drop on Sunday to 33-34%. 

 

Also...last year BP fell only 4% aganist Infinity War opening so CM might get a little boost too.

Edited March 18, 2019 by XO21

[charlie Jatinder]

https://www.telugu360.com/march-15th-to-march-17th-top-10-indian-films-at-north-america-box-office

 

Rank	Title	Weekend Gross	Change	Theatres	PTA	Total Gross	WIR
1	Badla	$468,000	-22%	115	$4,070	$1,317,000	2
2	Guddiyan Patole	$196,000	-15%	36	$5,444	$586,000	2
3	Band Vaaje	$145,000		43	$3,372	$145,000`	1
4	Gully Boy	$107,000	-46%	61	$1,754	$5,452,000	5
5	Luka Chuppi	$69,000	-63%	55	$1,255	$990,000	3
6	Total Dhamaal	$60,000	-62%	53	$1,132	$2,153,000	4
7	Chaal Jeevi Laiye	$44,000		23	$1,913	$44,000	1
8	Kala Shah Kala	$8,500	-58%	4	$2,125	$797,000	5
9	Thadam	$7,200	-54%	11	$655	$46,000	3
10	Uri: The Surgical Strike	$6,590	-49%	5	$1,318	$4,178,000	10

Edited March 18, 2019 by Charlie Jatinder

[UserHN]

17 minutes ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:

LOL

If this weren't an MCU-centric weekend, there would not be all these excuses to justify the decreasing numbers. The narrative would be "Look, the WOM is not as amazing as we all believed."

What? A thought-to-be 54.8% drop which is in fact a 56% drop is still a good drop. I don't know why you're making it a big deal. And who ever thought that WOM is amazing? No one even expected BP-like drops here.

Edited March 18, 2019 by UserHN

[MyMovieCanBeatUpYourMovie]

"Captain Marvel Suffers HUGE Drop From Estimates!  What Is Disney Hiding?!?"

 

207 videos on YouTube to discuss topic heading our way...

[Valonqar]

3 hours ago, Krissykins said:

I wonder what weekend Captain Marvel will pass Wonder Woman.

 

The fact that the two superhero films lead by female characters are doing over $400m in America anyway is incredible.

 

I don't know why it's surprising that they are doing over 400M in America. Katniss was the first female lead since the Exorcist that had #1 movie of the year domestically. Now, one can argue that Rose in Titanic was the lead but I guess they went with the billing and she was billed together with Leo, while The Exorcist leading lady got the top billing alone. And THG had 2 movies cross 400M back to back which is very rare. it would have been 3 times had they not split Mockingjay and diluted interest in it. 

 

Franchises with female leads have been very big in the last 10 years going by BOM database. Twilight, Star Wars, THG, now WW and CM. Also, Sandra Bullock opened that monster Gravity.

[AndyK]

30 minutes ago, XO21 said:

It's heading for $395-400m anyway so...it went from 29% drop on Sunday to 33-34%. 

 

Also...last year BP fell only 4% aganist Infinity War opening so CM might get a little boost too.

Only in the release weekend. Subsequent weeks suffered bigger than normal drops indicating that late legs did get curtailed.

 

If the same happens with CM then it would affect the total worse because it would be into only it's 6th week as opposed to the 11th week of BPs run.

[Jake Gittes]

1 minute ago, AndyK said:

Only in the release weekend. Subsequent weeks suffered bigger than normal drops indicating that late legs did get curtailed.

 

If the same happens with CM then it would affect the total worse because it would be into only it's 6th week as opposed to the 11th week of BPs run.

I don't think CM is getting a home video release after 6 weeks in theaters.

[Ms Lady Hawk]

Almost all the movies in the top ten expected drops in the low to mid 30s. Disney for some reason did not account for St. Patrick’s Day. They know what they’re doing over at Disney and if they expected St. Patrick’s Day to affect the box office, they would have accounted for that in their estimate. 

 

Having said all that, the drop is negligible when we’re talking about such huge numbers. Is it really that big of a difference to gross 69.3 v 67.5? Not really. 

[jc-bartleby]

9 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

I don't think CM is getting a home video release after 6 weeks in theaters.

read it somewhere that it will be released in June

[TwoMisfits]

+96, +52, - 33 - Seems like Wrinkle in Time's 2nd weekend daily % changes last year were a good floor for the weekend, starting from Thursday numbers...heck, they were actually not too far off, save for missing a little bigger Friday kick up:)...

[LexJoker]

1 hour ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:

Is anyone really saying WoM is amazing though? Kinda feels like another strawman argument 

Looks like its similar to other MCU phase-III solo movies, except BP.

[TalismanRing]

20 minutes ago, AndyK said:

Only in the release weekend. Subsequent weeks suffered bigger than normal drops indicating that late legs did get curtailed.

 

If the same happens with CM then it would affect the total worse because it would be into only it's 6th week as opposed to the 11th week of BPs run.

No it didn't. The next two weeks had drops as per usual even with the Digital release.  Only after the BR/DVD release with DP2 opening did it have a larger than normal drop

 

[AndyK]

15 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

No it didn't. The next two weeks had drops as per usual even with the Digital release.  Only after the BR/DVD release with DP2 opening did it have a larger than normal drop

 

and yet we see very little effect on other movies on digital release, Thorag showed a small drop, SMH small drops, Wonder Woman 53% increase (although there was a theatre expansion at the time).

[Claudio]

Some people try to make the movie's box office performance looks worse.

 

 

But Not us.

 

 

Not us.

[TalismanRing]

12 minutes ago, AndyK said:

and yet we see very little effect on other movies on digital release, Thorag showed a small drop, SMH small drops, Wonder Woman 53% increase (although there was a theatre expansion at the time).

And.... it didn't drop bigger on digital release.  It dropped big when it came out on BR/DVD and DP2 opened and it lost 31% of it's theaters.

 

Not only did BP get a mere 4 drop when AIW opened the week before had it second best drop of 14.6% in anticipation of AIW.  If it had it's normal drops  those weekend it would have done about 3.8m and 2.5m and so on.  AIW gave it a late legs boost and added at least $5m to it's B.O.,

 

Apr 13–15	6	$5,777,896	-33.6%	2,180	-567	$2,650	$674,233,418	9
Apr 20–22	8	$4,932,627	-14.6%	1,930	-250	$2,556	$681,374,736	10
Apr 27–29	5	$4,736,428	-4.0%	1,650	-280	$2,871	$688,364,917	11
May 4–6	7	$3,254,977	-31.3%	1,641	-9	$1,984	$693,235,592	12
May 11–13	9	$2,077,207	-36.2%	1,370	-271	$1,516	$696,331,818	13
May 18–20	13	$860,442	-58.6%	935	-435	$920	$697,822,227	14
May 25–27	14	$481,106	-44.1%	440	-495	$1,093	$698,617,348	15

Edited March 18, 2019 by TalismanRing

[Deep Wang]

1 hour ago, MyMovieCanBeatUpYourMovie said:

"Captain Marvel Suffers HUGE Drop From Estimates!  What Is Disney Hiding?!?"

 

207 videos on YouTube to discuss topic heading our way...

 

You joke, but I fully expect at least a couple.

 

[Ent]

6 hours ago, MrGlass2 said:

CM remains between the two Hunger Games. (Catching Fire had surprisingly strong late legs.)

 

Should finish somewhere between $408M and $425M.

It benefitted from the Christmas hollidays !

[MrGlass2]

7 minutes ago, Ent said:

It benefitted from the Christmas hollidays !

Well actually I read it wrong, it is The Hunger Games that had (unsurprisingly) stronger late legs.