Wednesday numbers: Shazam $2.60M | Pet Sematary $1.36M | Dumbo $936K | US $912K | CM $896K

[narniadis]

When you see people comparing an animated films increases / decreases to a PG13 family friendly superhero film 🤦‍♂️

Translation - it wont happen. (And yes, I know the original poster basically posted it as a joke.)

[Legion Again]

3 minutes ago, cdsacken said:

I would be THRILLED to see that happen. Seems almost impossible. Damn those jumps are crazy! Great comparison considering it opened similar, has same amount in box office as of Thursday.

However, pg vs pg13. 

Yeah, I don’t actually think Shazam is too friendly to the like, 6 to 10 year old demographic, whereas HTTYD3 was. I don’t think the daily jumps will be enough to get it over 32 or so, could be  a fair bit lower. Just wanted to point out that some really big Fri and or Sat jumps exist depending on what sort of movie you choose to comp it as (too early to really know).

[narniadis]

Seems fine / normal for Shazam. This week was always going to be down due to the lack of kids off / universities not on break and the fact that Endgame is still sucking a large $ amount out of the movie going publics pockets. 

 

Hopefully it recovers somewhat this weekend, but a drop like Dumbo is looking much closer without a buffo Friday/ Saturday. 

Next week the week over week dailies should look really good. 

[cdsacken]

5 minutes ago, narniadis said:

When you see people comparing an animated films increases / decreases to a PG13 family friendly superhero film 🤦‍♂️

Translation - it wont happen. (And yes, I know the original poster basically posted it as a joke.)

Well of course hence why I said impossible. My dream impossible scenario was 35 million for the weekend. Now I think 25 would be good.

[cdsacken]

6 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Yeah, I don’t actually think Shazam is too friendly to the like, 6 to 10 year old demographic, whereas HTTYD3 was. I don’t think the daily jumps will be enough to get it over 32 or so, could be  a fair bit lower. Just wanted to point out that some really big Fri and or Sat jumps exist depending on what sort of movie you choose to comp it as (too early to really know).

Agreed very interesting, thanks.

[PenguinHyphy]

Posters are comparing Shazam to animation projects now? That is silly, but it is even more silly when you see that The Boss Baby’s, which opened at about the same time, first Wednesday is bigger than Shazam’s. Shazam is actually playing as your average fanboy superhero movie. 

[terrestrial]

 

Exhibitor Relations Co.‏ @ERCboxoffice 11m11 minutes ago

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Neon's Aretha Franklin performance piece, AMAZING GRACE, belts it out in 60 venues this weekend.

 

Total bummer, dude. Harmony Korine's THE BEACH BUM is nearly homeless as it drops down to just 100 shelters (-955) in its 3rd weekend.

 

[TimmyRiggins]

The-numbers says Shazam ! cost 85 M "This is a great start, especially for a film that “only” cost $85 million to make."

 

Most sites seem to agree on the lower end, I wonder why DL has 100 M. 

[terrestrial]

2 minutes ago, TimmyRiggins said:

The-numbers says Shazam ! cost 85 M "This is a great start, especially for a film that “only” cost $85 million to make."

Most sites seem to agree on the lower end, I wonder why DL has 100 M. 

that is, what I try to get in certain members head since a time (I am pretty sure at least one here kones about this and still quotes DL).

 

2 weeks before the others Deadline wrote $100m. Later Variety, THR, and so on wrote less. Only BOM picked up the $100m, all other BO specialised stay with the lower numbers.

Lower means: $80-$90m (that high is only one source), but mostly I've seen $81-$85m, with the most weight on the high side of that spread = $85m

[MrGlass2]

Three days!

 

[sfran43]

 

[Life goes on]

1 hour ago, Matthew said:

For me Shazam was not better than Captain Marvel. Don't make your opinion a fact. 

 

And please don't start franchise war in this thread. I am continously seeing you doing that 

[terrestrial]

Deadline Hollywood‏Verified account @DEADLINE 15m15 minutes ago

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.@entonegroup has paid $215M to acquire Audio Network, a British firm that handles music for use in film and TV

[sfran43]

 

[ZeeSoh]

1 hour ago, terrestrial said:

 

 

Scott Mendelson‏Verified account @ScottMendelson 52m52 minutes ago

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With Around $180 Million In Worldwide #BoxOffice In A Week (On A $90 Million Budget), #Shazam Has Nothing To Fear From #AvengersEndgame via @forbes by @ScottMendelson https://bit.ly/2Z6HOsr 

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Box Office: If SHAZAM! Is Leggy Enough To Actually Get Hurt By AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Well, Then That Will Be Good News For SHAZAM! via @forbes by @ScottMendelson

That second headline makes no sense. If Shazam gets hurt by Endgame it will be good for Shazam? 

1 hour ago, Matthew said:

For me Shazam was not better than Captain Marvel. Don't make your opinion a fact. 

 

And please don't start franchise war in this thread. I am continously seeing you doing that 

Butthurt fanboy. He does this in pretty much every thread. Just enjoy the ride

43 minutes ago, TimmyRiggins said:

The-numbers says Shazam ! cost 85 M "This is a great start, especially for a film that “only” cost $85 million to make."

 

Most sites seem to agree on the lower end, I wonder why DL has 100 M. 

 

35 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

that is, what I try to get in certain members head since a time (I am pretty sure at least one here kones about this and still quotes DL).

 

2 weeks before the others Deadline wrote $100m. Later Variety, THR, and so on wrote less. Only BOM picked up the $100m, all other BO specialised stay with the lower numbers.

Lower means: $80-$90m (that high is only one source), but mostly I've seen $81-$85m, with the most weight on the high side of that spread = $85m

Variety also has the number at 98m - https://variety.com/2019/film/box-office/shazam-proves-the-power-of-mid-budget-superhero-movies-1203182630/

 

I dont know where The-Numbers gets its info from but generally I would be more inclined to believe what the actual trades like Deadline/Variety/THR are saying over The-Numbers. 

[sfran43]

 

[ZeeSoh]

@terrestrial @TimmyRiggins

I looked at THR and most of their articles are saying 100m too

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/shazam-tracking-45m-bow-pet-semetary-could-unearth-25m-1194842

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/box-office-shazam-zooms-535m-bow-pet-semetary-digs-up-25m-1199992

 

So with all 3 trades saying the same where is this notion that most websites are not following Deadline’s numbers coming from?

[TimmyRiggins]

Variety changed their number, they had it at 80 M mid March and now it's 98 M. Just saying it seems all kinds of different numbers are flying around and no one can agree on a final number. 

[terrestrial]

15 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said:

That second headline makes no sense. If Shazam gets hurt by Endgame it will be good for Shazam?

it makes sense in the meaning that he hopes Shazam! still has high enough dailies that it can cut into it, if the dailies are too low in wont cut into it.

A kind of dark humour

[Nero]

1 minute ago, terrestrial said:

it makes sense in the meaning that he hopes Shazam! still has high enough dailies that it can cut into it, if the dailies are too low in wont cut into it.

A kind of dark humour

I don't get humour. So when AEG releases basically Shazam which will play on less screens or theatres will gross very less so how come it will be good for Shazam. And this is hypothetical when AEG releases Shazam won't be playing at all..