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[Nova]

Some of the hot takes in this thread…..yikes. 

 

I'll be honest I haven't been following box office lately because of my busy schedule but also because Ive found it absolutely boring. Every big movie this year has been a Disney one and there haven't really been any surprises (except for Aladdin…which is a Disney movie so yea again with Disney owning the box office this year). So I just haven't found the box office all that interesting. But the reality is that Disney has found a way to make a boat load of money by just releasing live action remakes of their Disney classics. Nothing disappointing about The Lion King's numbers. Our expectations on this forum lead people (myself included in this) to call an opening weekend of $190M as "disappointing." I'm sorry but I have to laugh. 

Edited July 20, 2019 by Nova

[Bagatelle31]

15 minutes ago, john2000 said:

yes however, thats a great drop in the face of a 185-200 opener , hc dropped 50% on its third weekend without no competition at all

Dunkirk, girls trip and valerian isn't what I call no competition at all.

[sfran43]

 

[a2k]

^^^ 

got beat by @sfran43 ... why did i bother 

 

Edited July 20, 2019 by a2k

[Yandereprime101189]

8 minutes ago, Nova said:

Some of the hot takes in this thread…..yikes. 

 

I'll be honest I haven't been following box office lately because of my busy schedule but also because Ive found it absolutely boring. Every big movie this year has been a Disney one and there haven't really been any surprises (except for Aladdin…which is a Disney movie so yea again with Disney owning the box office this year). So I just haven't found the box office all that interesting. But the reality is that Disney has found a way to make a boat load of money by just releasing live action remakes of their Disney classics. Nothing disappointing about The Lion King's numbers. Our expectations on this forum lead people (myself included in this) to call an opening weekend of $190M as "disappointing." I'm sorry but I have to laugh. 

 

I believe this forum has no idea what they're talking about half the time these days. Some need meds for all the doom and gloom they spew.

 

Like in what goddamn universe is 180-190 million bad. That's huge money. But but, tracking suggested. . .just stop.

 

The Lion King is not going to flop, it's going to do well over a billion worldwide, and be one of the biggest films of the year. And, as nature always intended, Disney will be top dog of the year.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Yandereprime101189

[Permanent Magnet]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Every studio does this with Double Features.  Sony just did it with MIBI when SM opened.

 

Fudging is Paramount pretending Transformers 4 opened to $100m when every B.O. expert was saying $97m.

 

Fudging is when Paramount in reporting O/S grosses kept pretending Venezuela's currency and exchange rates were what they were before the biggest latest collapse (before this last one) while every other studio was reporting a fraction of the revenue with far better performing films.

 

Venezuela Yearly Box Office 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

Rank	Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	Release
1	Office Christmas Party	PPI	$19,131,685	12/9
2	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	PPI	$7,306,069	6/3
3	Moana	Disney	$6,271,997	11/25
4	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back	PPI	$5,570,780	11/25
5	Star Trek Beyond	PPI	$4,874,184	9/2
6	Point Break (2015)	WB	$4,539,227	1/8
7	Finding Dory	Disney	$3,319,862	6/17
8	Ben-Hur (2016)	PPI	$2,533,605	8/19
9	Doctor Strange	Disney	$1,680,938	11/4
10	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Disney	$1,635,844	12/16
11	Zootopia	Disney	$1,628,000	2/19
12	The Jungle Book (2016)	Disney	$1,517,326	4/15
13	The Secret Life of Pets	UPI	$994,212	8/5
14	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	WB	$950,317	3/25

Thank you really

 

Finally someone brought out Paramount obvious fudging for transformers cause I hear all the time that Disney is fudging their numbers, now some say EG numbers are fudged by Disney lol.

[sfran43]

5 minutes ago, a2k said:

^^^ 

got beat by @sfran43 ... why did i bother 

 

[Alli]

This result is good. It was tracking for 150M+.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Alli

[That One Girl]

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Edited March 2, 2022 by That One Guy

[john2000]

12 minutes ago, Bagatelle31 said:

Dunkirk, girls trip and valerian isn't what I call no competition at all.

valerian flopped hard, i forgot about dunkirk still that had a 50 ow not a 180+

[Sunny Max]

14 hours ago, cdsacken said:

Which is crazy because DH1 did 61m opening day. OW for DH2 is dead though. What a wonderful movie DH2 was. 

Amazing film DH2 was ... even the whole franchise ...

[JohnnyGossamer]

Hold for TS4 is awesome. Definitely looking to finish over TS3 DOM now.

[75Live]

Ah the  normal flip flopping, hypocrisy and mental gymnastics on both sides when a blockbuster movie comes out.  BOT, never change 😛

 

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, Sunny Max said:

Amazing film DH2 was ... even the whole franchise ...

 

1 minute ago, Sunny Max said:

Amazing film DH2 was ... even the whole franchise ...

Final Potter film, 3D and summer being a summer weeknight all helped inflate the OW number. Remarkable number but there were very real signifiers that it would jump enormously.

[Yandereprime101189]

5 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Yeah this isn't a bad number sadly.  I was definitely hoping for it to come in a lot lower before the weekend.  Oh well, at least it had a pretty weak Thursday to Friday increase.

 

It's going to make so much money, just like Aladdin.

[Thrylos 7]

11 minutes ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

 

I believe this forum has no idea what they're talking about half the time these days. Some need meds for all the doom and gloom they spew.

 

Like in what goddamn universe is 180-190 million bad. That's huge money. But but, tracking suggested. . .just stop.

 

The Lion King is not going to flop, it's going to do well over a billion worldwide, and be one of the biggest films of the year. And, as nature always intended, Disney will be top dog of the year.

People have been going crazy for this lion king thing for years in this forum writing essay after essay about why it would break every record imaginable. So yeah it is not going to “flop” but everything is compared to expectations esp. expectations from 2018. Bragging about how it will do “over a billion” is silly.

[XXR vs XXR]

33 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

A  2.86 (140/400) multi for an animated movie behemoth opening the week before Thanksgiving?    No way.

 

 

 

A 2.82 multi for a SW saga film opening the week before Christmas? No way..

 

and yet it happened  

[sfran43]

 

Edited July 20, 2019 by sfran43

[sfran43]

 

 

[Sunny Max]

8 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

 

Final Potter film, 3D and summer being a summer weeknight all helped inflate the OW number. Remarkable number but there were very real signifiers that it would jump enormously.

Extra-ordinary Buzz & Hype as well ...