Weekend Thread: Weekend Actuals - Godzilla KOTM $47.77M | Aladdin $42.84M | Rocketman $25.72M | MA $18.09M

[nguyenkhoi282]

6 minutes ago, tawasal said:

R/boxoffice get the numbers from us and our insiders. So I don’t why you will look for numbers there first. 

Back and forth. Just looking for sth interesting to read.

[cax16]

Does WB actually have any creative input on these monsterverse movies or they just distribute them? 

[Blaze Heatnix]

If Zilla 2019 gets the Zilla 2014s legs, then it might get to finish with 108 million domestic.

[ScoobyDoo21]

8 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Pikachu is demonic confirmed.

 

 

This guy was right all along 😛

Edited June 2, 2019 by ScoobyDoo21

[sfran43]

 

[Bishop54]

1 minute ago, sfran43 said:

 

Terrible! 

[sfran43]

 

Edited June 2, 2019 by sfran43

[Sunny Max]

13 minutes ago, RamblinRed said:

I don't even think this is it. Godzilla 2014 was not really a well received picture. The audience ratings are not high and its multiple is just over 2.

Without MD weekend it wouldn't have made it to 200M. it dropped 66% on a holiday weekend.

 

I think the bigger issue is there simply isn't that big of an audience for these monster movies. I think the interested population is smaller than people think - I don't have any friends that had any interest at all in seeing this movie. 

 

I'd also argue that Kong is a bigger monster in the DOM market than Godzilla. None of the Godzilla movies have ever really played that well here and most of them make about 1/2 their money the opening week and die off quickly (usually with 60%+ drops the 2nd weekend).

 

If WB wants to continue to make the monster movies it likely needs to cut the budgets by 25-30% to have a chance to make any money off of them.

 

I think it is probably highly satisfying for those who like monster movies, but that is not the general GA.

The marketing was aimed almost exclusively at the fanbase and really did nothing to try to pull anything other than that into the theaters. There was absolutely nothing in the marketing for the GA to grab onto. Just a bunch of monsters that they don't know fighting in dark lighting and destroying cities.

 

 

Only Asian Markets Saving Those Films ... 

[sfran43]

 

Edited June 2, 2019 by sfran43

[ScoobyDoo21]

1 minute ago, Sunny Max said:

Only Asian Markets Saving Those Films ... 

Not this one this time.

[Valonqar]

there's no way to spin it, Zilla OW is terrible even if it goes over 50M with actual. 

[TwoMisfits]

2 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

So, will it be next week's The Sun Is Also a Star with its own 95% theater drop in week 3?  As the magic 8 ball says, "signs point to yes."

[filmlover]

$115-120M total feels like Godzilla's best hope at this point. Definitely not good.

[Sunny Max]

1 minute ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:

Not this one this time.

China & Japan Doing This ...  But Monsterverse is Going To Dead 

[Cookson]

2 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:

Not this one this time.

China and Japan aren’t SAVING the film, but it speaks volumes that it’s doing GREAT in Japan. It shows to me that they, and fans loved the film... in that case a good GODZILLA film...nothing more.

[sfran43]

 

[Bishop54]

After GvKK it'll be RIP Monsterverse. 

[sfran43]

 

Edited June 2, 2019 by sfran43

[narniadis]

That under 50m is just an ouch, expectations have been coming into check but had hoped we might get a good 50+ stretch going. Even then 50m is not a good opening for the long term of this film. 

[sfran43]