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[MrFanaticGuy34]

Any ideas what the OS-numbers for SM: FFH are now?

Edited July 21, 2019 by MrFanaticGuy34

[NoLegMan]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

If you don't set records, you're an underperformer, apparently.

It broke a July OW record haha

[Valonqar]

5 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

Spider-Man held pretty damn well in the face of Lion King. 

Yes, the talk of collapse was  as expected. 

[ScoobyDoo21]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

If you don't set records, you're an underperformer, apparently.

It technically did set records though.

[wildphantom]

27 minutes ago, Sindreee said:

Disagree. That Top Gun trailer was bad. It followed beat for beat the original one, such a blatant non creative cash grap.

A sequel to a much loved film having its trailer full of nostalgia beats? What a terrible idea. Just like that awful Force Awakens teaser. Man what were they thinking!!?

 

Especially on a weekend where the no.1 movie in the world is a shot for shot cash grab to end all cash grabs. 

 

The Top Gun trailer felt like Top Gun for everybody that loves that movie and wanted to see it return. It was awesome. What did you want? A trailer with no fighter jets, and no Maverick? Are you in marketing for sequels? 

[CJohn]

4 minutes ago, Geo1500 said:

Aladdin 990-991M with actuals needs about 9M to pass the 1B mark. Could do it before the weekend comes. Wednesday or Thursday

 

WE ALL LAUGHED.

We forgot we aren't the target audience, the GA is.

 

[Krissykins]

1 minute ago, cdsacken said:

Lol underperformed. Not a chance.

I didn’t say it underperformed 

 

 

I just said it performed how a live action Aladdin always should have. 

[Ozymandias]

56 minutes ago, 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

[Mekanos]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/07/21/avengers-endgame-avatar-spider-man-far-from-home-jumanji-skyfall-james-bond-star-wars-force-awakens-wolf-warrior-wandering-earth-box-office/#5ce1766af38a

 

First, if you missed it, yes, Avengers: Endgame passed the $2.888 billion global gross of James Cameron’s Titanic.

 

Scott...

[cdsacken]

1 minute ago, Krissykins said:

I didn’t say it underperformed 

 

 

I just said it performed how a live action Aladdin always should have. 

Ah I misread. Performed is about right. Not the best and not bad. Even above average would be fair.

[Thrylos 7]

4 minutes ago, filmlover said:

If you don't set records, you're an underperformer, apparently.

Or if you have fanboys not being able to shut up for over a year about it in this forum. 

[Molek]

1 minute ago, NoLegMan said:

I find it wild that this is being considered an under performance lol. Tracking was near this like 2 weeks ago.

I would call 190-210 "on par" for The Lion King, but 175-189 would be a slight underperformance and under BatB would've been a definite underperformance. I don't care if tracking said 150-170, Boxoffice tracking originally had it right at 200 with 180-230 range.

[TwoMisfits]

For laughs...it wasn't just our site with wildly inflated expectations for TLK...many "experts" thought it would win the year, and I don't see $850M+ DOM off this OW:)...

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/this-years-biggest-blockbuster-wont-be-star-wars-or-avengers.html

Edited July 21, 2019 by TwoMisfits

[LawrenceBrolivier]

3 minutes ago, wildphantom said:

A sequel to a much loved film having its trailer full of nostalgia beats? What a terrible idea. Just like that awful Force Awakens teaser. Man what were they thinking!!?

 

Especially on a weekend where the no.1 movie in the world is a shot for shot cash grab to end all cash grabs. 

 

The Top Gun trailer felt like Top Gun for everybody that loves that movie and wanted to see it return. It was awesome. What did you want? A trailer with no fighter jets, and no Maverick? Are you in marketing for sequels? 

It really was like The Force Awakens for Top Gun, wasn't it. 

[filmlover]

Just now, Molek said:

I would call 190-210 "on par" for The Lion King, but 175-189 would be a slight underperformance and under BatB would've been a definite underperformance. I don't care if tracking said 150-170, Boxoffice tracking originally had it right at 200 with 180-230 range.

Box Office Pro isn't actual tracking.

[Geo1500]

9 minutes ago, CJohn said:

WE ALL LAUGHED.

We forgot we aren't the target audience, the GA is.

 

 

1.1M is where it should be at imo and it slightly underperformed despite having a huge brand but 1B+ is acceptable and it has lived up to it's brand value and expectations

Edited July 21, 2019 by Geo1500

[NoLegMan]

 

3 minutes ago, Molek said:

I would call 190-210 "on par" for The Lion King, but 175-189 would be a slight underperformance and under BatB would've been a definite underperformance. I don't care if tracking said 150-170, Boxoffice tracking originally had it right at 200 with 180-230 range.

That's not actually true, this was three weeks out. that's all I'm going to say not really wanting to debate.

https://variety.com/2019/film/box-office/lion-king-box-office-tracking-opening-weekend-disney-jon-favreau-1203253369/

[wildphantom]

6 minutes ago, LawrenceBrolivier said:

It really was like The Force Awakens for Top Gun, wasn't it. 

A-Men it was!! 

 

Took me back to my childhood and I loved every second of it.  Plus those flying sequences look insane. 

[TalismanRing]

7 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/07/21/avengers-endgame-avatar-spider-man-far-from-home-jumanji-skyfall-james-bond-star-wars-force-awakens-wolf-warrior-wandering-earth-box-office/#5ce1766af38a

 

 

 

 

Scott...

.... and he's also giving us his SM B.O. takes (hah) with the usual attendant tons of shade

 

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So, yes, Far from Home is probably going to clear $1 billion and it may well pass the James Bond epic to become the biggest Sony movie ever. Again, some of this is due to essentially Chinese box office inflation, from a territory that usually only gives back 25% of the ticket price to the studios, but money is money.

 

In terms of domestic prospects, it’s not exactly legging out, having dropped 52% its first weekend (not bad, even with the notion that it opened on a Tuesday) and dropping 53% this weekend. Still, when you open that high, legs are more of a bonus. Presuming nothing changes over the next month, we can expect a final domestic cume of $360 million, or just below the $373 million gross (in 2004 and sans 3-D) of Spider-Man 2. Far from Home may be the biggest Spidey flick worldwide, but in North America it’s not even the biggest “Spider-Man part 2.”

 

 

[Molek]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Box Office Pro isn't actual tracking.

I know, I'm talking about tracking initial expectations for what this could or should make, not "actual" tracking. Disney was clearly targeting 200 themselves with this wide release so their 150 expectation (or even below BatB) was always BS. Anyway 185-190 is a fuzzy line and I'd say it's still on par as a performance, just at the lower end of what people expected.

 

Still an #event no matter what, and beating out Incredibles 2 is fantastic.