Dementeleus Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 What the heck is a bank holiday? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzy Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, Telemachos said: What the heck is a bank holiday? Public hoilday days, 8 over the year in England, Scotland and Wales. 10 (I think? ) in Northern Ireland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, Lizzy said: Public hoilday days, 8 over the year in England, Scotland and Wales. 10 (I think? ) in Northern Ireland. So they're just random holidays, not tied to any particular event? Do they vary from year to year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 8 minutes ago, Telemachos said: What the heck is a bank holiday? Basically public holidays like 4th of July in the US and so on. Looks like India inherited the terminology of bank holidays from the British since banks are mainly Government controlled and adhere to government sanctioned holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Telemachos said: What the heck is a bank holiday? Bank holiday = national holiday. There are 8 bank holidays per year I think - Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day, plus 3 Mondays scattered throughout the year. One of which is next week. Edited May 24, 2016 by Treetrunk Special Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 4 minutes ago, Telemachos said: So they're just random holidays, not tied to any particular event? Do they vary from year to year? Other than the 5 for Easter/Christmas, no they are not in celebration of anything. They don't vary - there is one at the start of May, one at the end of May, and one at the end of August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Since it's covered under the UK movie market: In the Republic of Ireland there are 4 Monday Bank Holidays spread through the year, one in May, June, August and October each, since we only have 5 public holidays: New Year's (Jan 1), St. Patrick's (Mar 17), Easter Monday (first Monday after Easter, in March or April), Christmas and St. Stephen's Day (Dec 25). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 When Alice in Wonderland came out, you couldn't get a seat for love nor money in IMAX. I just left an IMAX screening that had less than 40 people. This is falling. Hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 3 hours ago, SchumacherFTW said: When Alice in Wonderland came out, you couldn't get a seat for love nor money in IMAX. I just left an IMAX screening that had less than 40 people. This is falling. Hard. Less than half of the original's OW wouldn't surprise me and it's only going to fall harder with Warcraft and Turtles on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 15 minutes ago, Jonwo said: Less than half of the original's OW wouldn't surprise me and it's only going to fall harder with Warcraft and Turtles on Monday. That and the fact it's kinda naff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildphantom Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Just got back from Alice (which was way better than the first). 4 people in the 10:20 show. Admittedly the weather is amazing, but I'm feeling this isn't going to take off in the UK at all, just as it isn't in America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 Yeah, the weather has been really nice this weekend, might impact boxoffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 It'll be interesting who comes out on top between TMNT2 and Warcraft, I think TMNT2 might edge Warcraft due to being a sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 Don't see either doing particularly well. Warcraft might win because it will probably be very frontloaded, fans of the game will see it, but it won't break into the mainstream audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 £2.2m opening for Alice. Horrendous. Didn't think it'd be that bad. First opened to £10.6m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanaMovie Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 10 minutes ago, Heretic said: £2.2m opening for Alice. Horrendous. Didn't think it'd be that bad. First opened to £10.6m. So around the same drop in the US...Flop I don't think 300M OS is possible even with China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildphantom Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 32 minutes ago, Heretic said: £2.2m opening for Alice. Horrendous. Didn't think it'd be that bad. First opened to £10.6m. It's the sequel nobody asked for. We all knew it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 7 hours ago, Heretic said: £2.2m opening for Alice. Horrendous. Didn't think it'd be that bad. First opened to £10.6m. That is a what? 80% drop for the first one's OW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted May 30, 2016 Author Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Should be a big bank holiday Monday. TMNT2 and Warcraft both open today, and from what I'm seeing it looks like both of them are doing pretty well. Don't know which one will win today, maybe Warcraft due to some IMAX shows (which it's doing very well in), as well as it being more adult skewing too. X-Men could top both of them though, will be interesting to see. Alice will probably end up in 4th. So bad. Just a final note, TJB is still doing amazingly, I can't believe it. It's still selling out this afternoon, 6 weeks after release. If it wasn't for so much competition, it likely would have hit £50m. Edited May 30, 2016 by Heretic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Me Before You and The Nice Guys come out on Friday so I imagine Jungle Book, Civil War and Bad Neighbours 2 will see show times cut due to being the oldest films still on release. Will be interesting how Money Monster did, it's a good alternative to the big blockbusters so I reckon it's done okay. Edited May 30, 2016 by Jonwo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...