Flop Weekend Thread: Top 5 Weekend Actuals - TSLOP2 $46.65M | Dark Phoenix $32.83M | Aladdin $24.68M | Godzilla KOTM $15.45M | Rocketman $13.82M

[MCKillswitch123]

54 minutes ago, jj99 said:

Just for shits and Giggles.

 

Aladdin is about to have its biggest day yet attendance wise in South Korea (+400k today) on its 3rd weekend.

 

Lol

.....is there still anyone who still wants to argue that this wouldn't blow past a billion if 1) it wasn't released around so many other huge Disney releases, and 2) had a better marketing campaign? Put it out in July 2020 and it would hit BATB numbers. As is, with terrible marketing and a crowded market, it's still gonna potentially make a play for 900M WW.

 

Depressing that the most villified (for good reason) of the three big May releases will do more than Pikachu and KOTM combined.

Edited June 8, 2019 by MCKillswitch123

[sfran43]

 

[cannastop]

8 minutes ago, a2k said:

If Japan explodes how likely is 1b ww for ALADDIN?

The most Japan could do is $100m. So I'm guessing it's almost impossible for Aladdin?

 

edit: Not that I know anything.

Edited June 8, 2019 by cannastop

[Deja23]

3 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

Depressing that the most villified (for good reason) of the three big May releases will do more than Pikachu and KOTM combined.

Vilified? It has better WOM among the GA than the other May releases. 

[Darth Lehnsherr]

5 minutes ago, Deja23 said:

Vilified? It has better WOM among the GA than the other May releases. 

Pre-release buzz is what was meant. WoM for this film has been fantastic and I suspect it may have even surprised Disney.

[UserHN]

5 minutes ago, Deja23 said:

Vilified? It has better WOM among the GA than the other May releases. 

I think he meant before the movie opened. The marketing is just atrocious.

[TMP]

12 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

Depressing that the most villified (for good reason) of the three big May releases will do more than Pikachu and KOTM combined.

Not really all that depressing that one bad movie made more money than two others. Disney seems to be making the only bad movies that audiences want to see though, so maybe other studios should try making good movies to fill that gap in the market

[john2000]

1 minute ago, TMP said:

Not really all that depressing that one bad movie made more money than two others. Disney seems to be making the only bad movies that audiences want to see though, so maybe other studios should try making good movies to fill that gap in the market

or maybe, aladdin is a good movie for most people ? just saying

[sfran43]

 

[cookie]

16 minutes ago, filmlover said:

It's most easy for stuff to hold well when nothing of note comes out tbh.

But that's my point. It's not like people are just abandoning theaters around that time. A big tentpole release there would have all the room in the world to run loose.

[CJohn]

Just now, sfran43 said:

 

Lmao WB is gonna have to drag this one to 100M G14 style.

[sfran43]

 

[ZeeSoh]

2 hours ago, Litio said:

Article says $28m till friday only in China and $28m OS till thursday. Total OS till friday should be about $60m

Thanks for catching that, fixed it now

13 minutes ago, Deja23 said:

Vilified? It has better WOM among the GA than the other May releases. 

He is talking about on this board and social media which tends to be an echo chamber

[Jonwo]

I think if Minions 2 and Sing 2 see declines then Illumination might reevaluate but TBH their model of under $80m for movies means they still break even at the very least. 

 

It does show studios goes through slumps  from time to time. SPA were seen as a laughing stock with Emoji Movie and Smurfs the Lost Village but bounced back with Peter Rabbit, HT3 and Spider-Verse, WAG is lickings its wounds with Lego Movie 2 but could make a comeback with Scoob. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[danhtruong5]

2 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Thu 695k, Fri 835k....

 +17% ???

[titanic2187]

2 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Only 20% up from Thursday?? so much for 150m hope.....

[vafrow]

8 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

.....is there still anyone who still wants to argue that this wouldn't blow past a billion if 1) it wasn't released around so many other huge Disney releases, and 2) had a better marketing campaign? Put it out in July 2020 and it would hit BATB numbers. As is, with terrible marketing and a crowded market, it's still gonna potentially make a play for 900M WW.

 

Depressing that the most villified (for good reason) of the three big May releases will do more than Pikachu and KOTM combined.

 

I definitely think Aladdin could have performed better, but to be fair to Disney, there was always a high risk levels with this property. The original was so driven by Robin Williams personality, that they probably knew that fans were going to be apprehensive of his replacement. 

 

As for marketing, it definitely could have been better, but perhaps the lack of attention is due to how low Aladdin ranks for Disney this year. When a studio has a half dozen billion dollar films, it's hard to optimize the marketing on eacj of them. 

 

From a box office perspective, I'm kinda happy this took peole by surprise. There's been few positive surprises at the box office this year, as so may films have disappointed. 

[MovieMan89]

This has to be one of the worst summer weekends where two tentpoles opened.  Box office completely died this weekend 

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[titanic2187]

BOX OFFICE FOR JUNE 7-9

THUMB RANK FILM DIS. SCREENS (CHG) FRIDAY 3-DAY TOTAL WK 1 Secret Life Of Pets 2 Uni/Ill 4,561 $16.3M $46.2M $46.2M 1 2 Dark Phoenix Dis/Fox 3,721 $14.3M $35M $35M 1 3 Aladdin Dis 3,805 (-671) $6.7M (-43%) $24.6M (-43%) $210.1M 3 4 Godzilla..Monsters WB/Leg 4,108 $4.2M (-78%) $14.4M (-70%) $77.4M 2 5 Rocketman Par 3,610 $3.9M (-57%) $13.3M (-48%) $49.8M 2 6 John Wick 3 LG 2,776 (-828) $2M (-32%) $7.4M (-33%) $138.7M 4 7 Ma Uni/Blum 2,816 (+8) $2.2M (-69%) $7.1M (-61%) $32M 2 8 Avengers: Endgame Dis 2,121 (-984) $1.4M (-33%) $5.5M (-31%) $825.1M 7 9 Pokemon… WB/Leg 2,161 (-986) $887K (-52%) $3.3M (-52%) $137.7M 5 10 Booksmart UA/ANNP 1,134 (1,384) $451K (-54%) $1.6M (-53%) $17.8M 3

[sfran43]