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[filmlover]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

Underperformer and flop are two very different things.

I'd struggle to call a movie that has just joined the list of top 10 biggest openings of all-time an underperformer but whatever fits your narrative I guess.

[Eric Duncan]

Sunday and Disney lowballing estimates. Goes together like chocolate and peanut butter.

[sfran43]

 

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

I'd struggle to call a movie that has just joined the list of top 10 biggest openings of all-time an underperformer but whatever fits your narrative I guess.

Iron Man 2 and Age of Ultron were underperformers. And those entered higher on the top 10 biggest OWs of all time list.

[sfran43]

 

[LawrenceBrolivier]

4 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Underperformer and flop are two very different things.

So far as the industry is concerned, it exceeded projections. 

 

 

Sure, it underperformed if the yardstick you're using are amateur predictions by hobbyists on niche message boards.... but otherwise, it appears the industry itself thinks it did very well.... mostly because it did do very well.

[sfran43]

 

[THUNDER BIRD]

So Jurassic World still holds biggest summer opening weekend. 

 

Let's see about lifetime.

Edited July 21, 2019 by THUNDER BIRD

[meriodejaneiro]

Hail the new king

 

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide	Domestic / %		Overseas / %		Year^
2	Avengers: Endgame	BV	$2,790.2	$854.2	30.6%	$1,936.0	69.4%	2019
1	Avatar	Fox	$2,789.7	$760.5	27.3%	$2,029.2	72.7%	2009^
3	Titanic	Par.	$2,187.5	$659.4	30.1%	$1,528.1	69.9%	1997^
4	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	BV	$2,068.2	$936.7	45.3%	$1,131.6	54.7%	2015
5	Avengers: Infinity War	BV	$2,048.4	$678.8	33.1%	$1,369.5	66.9%	2018
6	Jurassic World	Uni.	$1,671.7	$652.3	39.0%	$1,019.4	61.0%	2015
7	Marvel's The Avengers	BV	$1,518.8	$623.4	41.0%	$895.5	59.0%	2012
8	Furious 7	Uni.	$1,516.0	$353.0	23.3%	$1,163.0	76.7%	2015
9	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$1,405.4	$459.0	32.7%	$946.4	67.3%	2015
10	Black Panther	BV	$1,346.9	$700.1	52.0%	$646.9	48.0%	2018

[Valonqar]

TLK is not an underpefromer and actual is likely going to be closer to 190M. Still they don't have bragging rights to 200M OW despite record number of theaters. if they didn't release it so wide than failing to make 200M would be easier to swallow. But they were clearly aiming for that milestone. No shame in missing it, the market is crowded with movies targeting the same audience (TS4, Aladdin) and similar (FFH). 

 

Aladdin should cross 1B sometime next week. 

 

can EG get 10M more from staggered re-release? 2.8B would look really nice.  But either way, congrats! 

Edited July 21, 2019 by Valonqar

[sfran43]

 

[Waffles]

Excellent hold for Toy Story 4, truly dismal performance for Dark Phoenix... 

July 19-21, 2019 Weekend

<<Last Weekend <Last Year	View Index: By Year | By Weekend
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 N The Lion King (2019) BV $185,000,000 - 4,725 - $39,153 $185,000,000 - 1 2 1 Spider-Man: Far from Home Sony $21,000,000 -53.7% 4,415 -219 $4,757 $319,659,412 $160 3 3 2 Toy Story 4 BV $14,600,000 -30.3% 3,750 -460 $3,893 $375,533,349 - 5 4 3 Crawl Par. $6,000,000 -50.0% 3,170 - $1,893 $23,834,810 $13.5 2 5 5 Yesterday Uni. $5,100,000 -24.0% 2,662 -93 $1,916 $57,596,465 $26 4 6 4 Stuber Fox $4,000,000 -51.4% 3,050 - $1,311 $16,081,864 - 2 7 6 Aladdin (2019) BV $3,800,000 -38.4% 2,105 -452 $1,805 $340,040,714 $183 9 8 7 Annabelle Comes Home WB (NL) $2,660,000 -52.7% 1,981 -1,228 $1,343 $66,582,201 - 4 9 8 Midsommar A24 $1,599,155 -56.4% 1,105 -1,602 $1,447 $22,482,183 - 3 10 9 The Secret Life of Pets 2 Uni. $1,530,000 -52.3% 1,380 -940 $1,109 $151,551,165 $80 7 11 11 Avengers: Endgame BV $1,199,000 -43.0% 985 -458 $1,217 $854,216,193 $356 13 12 19 The Farewell A24 $1,171,570 +229.4% 35 +31 $33,473 $1,674,997 - 2 13 33 The Art of Self-Defense BST $1,055,658 +823.0% 550 +543 $1,919 $1,214,947 - 2 14 12 Rocketman  Par. $980,000 -41.8% 720 -612 $1,361 $93,997,371 $40 8 15 13 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum LG/S $660,000 -50.5% 584 -561 $1,130 $168,891,227 - 10 16 10 Men in Black International Sony $505,000 -77.2% 554 -1,058 $912 $78,129,108 $110 6 17 14 Super 30 Relbig. $445,674 -48.8% 189 -128 $2,358 $1,735,375 - 2 18 27 Maiden SPC $255,715 +17.1% 84 +16 $3,044 $850,195 - 4 19 23 Wild Rose Neon $255,000 -13.9% 195 +34 $1,308 $1,169,663 - 5 20 18 The Last Black Man in San Francisco A24 $249,918 -30.6% 149 -58 $1,677 $3,829,483 - 7 21 24 Pavarotti CBS $230,000 -17.3% 143 -53 $1,608 $3,956,192 - 7 22 28 Echo in the Canyon Greenwich $207,459 +0.2% 133 -14 $1,560 $2,684,024 - 9 23 29 Dark Phoenix Fox $183,000 -7.6% 185 -15 $989 $65,359,540 - 7 24 22 Late Night Amazon $153,544 -53.3% 146 -184 $1,052 $15,152,075 - 7 25 60 Apollo 11 Neon $75,000 +1,460.9% 107 +92 $701 $9,033,165 - 21

[Eric Duncan]

FWIW, I've been predicting around 185M OW way back when the summer started. I would really only consider an opening below Beauty and the Beast as a disappointment all things considered.

[Daxtreme]

Just now, meriodejaneiro said:

Hail the new king

 

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide	Domestic / %		Overseas / %		Year^
2	Avengers: Endgame	BV	$2,790.2	$854.2	30.6%	$1,936.0	69.4%	2019
1	Avatar	Fox	$2,789.7	$760.5	27.3%	$2,029.2	72.7%	2009^
3	Titanic	Par.	$2,187.5	$659.4	30.1%	$1,528.1	69.9%	1997^
4	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	BV	$2,068.2	$936.7	45.3%	$1,131.6	54.7%	2015
5	Avengers: Infinity War	BV	$2,048.4	$678.8	33.1%	$1,369.5	66.9%	2018
6	Jurassic World	Uni.	$1,671.7	$652.3	39.0%	$1,019.4	61.0%	2015
7	Marvel's The Avengers	BV	$1,518.8	$623.4	41.0%	$895.5	59.0%	2012
8	Furious 7	Uni.	$1,516.0	$353.0	23.3%	$1,163.0	76.7%	2015
9	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$1,405.4	$459.0	32.7%	$946.4	67.3%	2015
10	Black Panther	BV	$1,346.9	$700.1	52.0%	$646.9	48.0%	2018

 

Unbelievable.... I was following box office during Avatar's mind-blowing run. Still remember the articles when it broke 2 billion

 

And now it's #2 

[La Binoche]

A bright spot this weekend is Awkwafina. I hope they start taking roles away from Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence (the two worst BA winners this decade and the worst since Gwyneth Paltrow...another basic overhyped white girl...see the pattern?) and giving them to Awkwafina. 

[sfran43]

 

[NCsoft]

21 minutes ago, La Binoche said:

 Decades from now this will be seen and analyzed as such a dark time in film history. 

Recently I have finally turned my attention back to video games, and TV shows now  that mainstream films are in such dire state.

I'm not sure about this period being analyzed as a dark time in film history though, I found the lack of awareness by the industry, critics and audiences concerning, there is a collective lack of self-reflection, which might suggest that even darker times are yet to come. We might not have seen the worst of it yet.

[filmlover]

Lion King will also comfortably be #1 again next weekend. Much as I would love to see it breakout, I don't see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood faring much better than $35M.

[sfran43]

 

[sfran43]