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[HeadShot]

4 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

You can disagree with the sentiment in La Binoche's original words; but there is some truth to Ehrlich's tweet. From an economic perspective, Disney is approaching monopoly status in the movie industry. If you have studied economics at all, you would know monopolies are almost never good for consumers.

 

Yes, this is a massive weekend worth celebrating if you're a box office fan or a Marvel fan. There's also room for concern from people who love the industry or movies other than CBMs.

 

um the entire movie industry is a monopoly. Sony Pictures is owned by giant conglomerate Sony. WB is owned by AT&T. Etc. People are only hating on Disney because they are producing decent content and having success. WB could have been 2x bigger than Disney with Harry Potter, DC, LOTR etc. No one is to blame for their failure. 

 

[shruth]

I still can't comprehend what these numbers even mean. My head hurts just looking at them. I've lost all semblance of what is possible at the box office. Pure Insanity

[SofNascimento]

That's a very significant amount of money. Well done. 

[VanillaSkies]

10 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Avengers: Endgame	BV	$350,000,000	-	4,662	-	$75,075	$350,000,000	-	1
2	4	Captain Marvel	BV	$8,051,000	-11.6%	2,435	-218	$3,306	$413,580,047	-	8
3	1	The Curse of La Llorona	WB (NL)	$7,500,000	-71.5%	3,372	-	$2,224	$41,284,301	$9	2
4	3	Breakthrough	Fox	$6,304,000	-44.1%	2,913	+89	$2,164	$26,114,230	-	2
5	2	Shazam!	WB (NL)	$5,520,000	-66.5%	3,631	-552	$1,520	$131,149,727	$100	4
6	5	Little	Uni.	$3,438,000	-58.7%	2,119	-548	$1,622	$35,846,255	$20	3
7	6	Dumbo (2019)	BV	$3,239,000	-51.1%	2,380	-845	$1,361	$107,005,558	$170	5
8	7	Pet Sematary (2019)	Par.	$1,290,000	-73.5%	1,655	-1,491	$779	$52,612,457	$21	4
9	8	Us	Uni.	$1,141,000	-72.6%	1,255	-1,009	$909	$172,844,635	$20	6
10	12	Penguins (Disneynature)	BV	$1,051,000	-54.0%	1,815	-	$579	$5,721,426	-	2
11	9	Missing Link	UAR	$950,885	-77.1%	1,588	-1,849	$599	$15,435,941	-	3
12	16	Amazing Grace (2019)	Neon	$539,900	-10.5%	243	+53	$2,222	$2,165,841	-	21
13	11	After (2019)	Aviron	$425,000	-82.2%	607	-1,531	$700	$11,670,739	$14	3
14	10	Hellboy (2019)	LG/S	$355,000	-91.0%	927	-2,376	$383	$21,533,833	$50	3
15	13	Kalank	FIP	$310,000	-75.7%	283	-37	$1,095	$2,513,885	-	2
16	20	The Mustang	Focus	$292,000	-43.6%	277	-210	$1,054	$4,542,750	-	7
17	14	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Uni.	$240,000	-70.6%	282	-780	$851	$159,691,660	$129	10
18	22	Wonder Park	Par.	$170,000	-63.3%	249	-456	$683	$44,953,992	-	7
19	44	Red Joan	IFC	$165,204	+324.2%	45	+41	$3,671	$222,257	-	2
20	21	Hotel Mumbai	BST	$164,351	-66.7%	170	-144	$967	$9,286,412	-	6
21	23	High Life	A24	$147,500	-45.8%	146	-	$1,010	$947,032	-	4
23	18	Unplanned	PFR	$120,000	-79.7%	251	-588	$478	$17,723,325	$6	5
22	17	The Best of Enemies	STX	$120,000	-79.9%	227	-775	$529	$9,993,456	$10	4

At this point, what are we seeing for Captain Marvel total?
Will Avengers mania result in continued fabulous holds over the next few weeks? Is $450 million a slim possibility?!?!

[TMP]

Disney's upcoming 2019 slate looks pretty bad quality wise, but incredibly good in pure financial terms. The Mouse is unstoppable!

[The Panda]

1 hour ago, #ED said:

There won’t be a bigger opening weekend for another decade or so. This is box office history fellas. Enjoy it.

I faintly remember everyone saying the same thing about TFA in 2015

[TalismanRing]

5 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

You can disagree with the sentiment in La Binoche's original words; but there is some truth to Ehrlich's tweet. From an economic perspective, Disney is approaching monopoly status in the movie industry. If you have studied economics at all, you would know monopolies are almost never good for consumers.

 

Yes, this is a massive weekend worth celebrating if you're a box office fan or a Marvel fan. There's also room for concern from people who love the industry or movies other than CBMs.

It's not anywhere near a monopoly.    Being the most profitable business in the market place is not the same as being monopolistic.  Disney didn't release e new film this year until March 8.  9 free weeks for the rest of the marketplace to do their thing and they didn't stop releasing films after CM came out

[Lordmandeep]

Thanos is the villain of the decade no doubt.

 

 

His plan in Iw and his performance really captured the minds of audiences globally.

[Brainbug]

I think it now as well. I wanted to be more cautious and wait for the 2nd weekend drops around the world, but im now convinced.

 

Avatar WW is toast.

Edited April 28, 2019 by Brainbug

[baumer]

So Disney is projecting a 22% Sunday drop LOL. That has got to be one of the funniest projections I've ever seen. It's going to drop 15% tops. I don't know why they would pick 22% when there's going to be this much spill over.

 

I will be absolutely shocked if I am wrong.

[filmlover]

Some of those massive drops are just beautiful. 91% for Hellboy. I feel like everybody who actually went out and saw it this weekend as either their movie choice or their backup option in case Avengers was sold out deserves a reward or something.

[AJG]

13 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

You can disagree with the sentiment in La Binoche's original words; but there is some truth to Ehrlich's tweet. From an economic perspective, Disney is approaching monopoly status in the movie industry. If you have studied economics at all, you would know monopolies are almost never good for consumers.

 

 

Actually they're not approaching monopoly status at all.

 

Viacoms Paramount, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, and Sony all have resources that matches or exceeds Disney's. They all have the tools available to produce the amount of content that Disney produces (WB and NBCUniversal make way more content than Disney). Audiences also have the choice between watching Disney backed movies or films from their competitors.

 

There isn't any kind of monopoly here. For a monopoly Disney would have to literally restrict access to filmmaking tools (similar to how Music labels bought wax processing factories to make it harder for people that weren't signed to them to release vinyl records). 

Edited April 28, 2019 by AJG

[Krissykins]

9 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

Endgame’s beaten Aquaman. It beat Aquaman’s WW-gross in it’s opening weekend. That’s unbelievable! 

Um... and Civil War, which made even more than Aquaman.

 

Isn't that technically more unbelievable??

 

 

Or are you just trying to start a DC thing? Lol 

[CJohn]

Marvel was fast

 

[ZackM]

3 minutes ago, HeadShot said:

um the entire movie industry is a monopoly. Sony Pictures is owned by giant conglomerate Sony. WB is owned by AT&T. Etc.

[TalismanRing]

 

That top bar is ridiculous :))

 

 

[baumer]

Furthermore Infinity Wars fell 15% on Sunday. So why are they projecting this one to drop more?

[FTF]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

So Disney is projecting a 22% Sunday drop LOL. That has got to be one of the funniest projections I've ever seen. It's going to drop 15% tops. I don't know why they would pick 22% when there's going to be this much spill over.

 

I will be absolutely shocked if I am wrong.

 

lol yeah, for whatever reason they liked the nice round $350m # (as opposed to $360m which it will be tomorrow).  

[PPZVGOS]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

$450M is out of reach for Captain Marvel but it's gonna finish between $430-440M regardless. Fantastic run.

It cannot overtake Age of Ultron then? Still, an incredible run. 

[GOXOG]

Just now, baumer said:

Furthermore Infinity Wars fell 15% on Sunday. So why are they projecting this one to drop more?

maybe GOT effect