UK Box Office Thread

[The Toymaker]

Yes, Variety always report weird dates. They reported that Mexico it made $6 upto the 30th too, when in fact it made that upto the 26th.

[Heretic]

Ted at a massive $44.1m. Apart from TDKR, I think it's had the most impressive run of the year, and it could hit $50m.

[The Dark Alfred]

Brave won Saturday and Sunday, but TR will claim the top spot due to it's 5-day opening. Poor start with roughly £2.8m. Possession 3-day £1m. Brave £18m tally so far. Keith Lemmon had an epic collapse, Ted is still doing good business, Bourne nearly at £10m. TDKR 42% drop from last weekend, not too bad considering the loss of IMAX, tally £54.5m. Will give Skyfall a run for its money.

Edited September 3, 2012 by The Dark Alfred

[CJohn]

What about The Watch?

[The Dark Alfred]

Poor weekend. Finished below Ted. Tally is £2.2m

[CJohn]

Fantastic for both Total Recall and The Watch Expected.

[Heretic]

That's not too bad for both the openers...TDKR will end probably end around £57m. Brave could get pretty near £25m, which is actually very good, compared to other markets.

[The Dark Alfred]

It's okay for Possession, awful start for TR.

[Heretic]

Near £3m. Not too bad really. I don't think anyone was really expecting much more than that....

[CJohn]

That is because everyone was expecting it to flop, which it did.

[baumer]

So is TDKR at 85 mill?

[The Dark Alfred]

The studio was hoping for at least Bourne Legacy numbers with IMAX engagement. It won't happen. Might finish below Wimpy Kid.

[The Dark Alfred]

So is TDKR at 85 mill?

Yep, it reached 85m even before the weekend. Should be above 86m. Edited September 3, 2012 by The Dark Alfred

[Heretic]

It's probably going to hit 90m. Fucking amazing.

[Rthmessiah]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/foreign-box-office-expendables-2-365484

In Spain, Expendables 2 opened via Aurum at some 315 situations, drawing an estimated $2.5 million. In the U.K. via Lionsgate, the film’s distributor in the U.S. and Canada, the sequel pulled in its No. 6 second round an estimated $1.8 million from some 465 sites, down 33% from the opening weekend. U.K. cume stands at about $7 million.

That was upto and including Aug 26th.

Now, Variety is indicating that it has only grossed $6.7m upto and including the 30th Aug. Four more days and it has decreased in gross?

I understand that the THR $7m gross could have been off, but off by 300k PLUS 4 more days of grosses? No chance it was off by that much.

Variety always have weird totals and dates for those totals. What was the date on the Screen Daily $6.8m?

THR's report was from the weekend, so they estimated roughly $7m in total, up to the 26th. With actuals, it actually came down to $6.8m, as screen-daily reported. Or $6.7m, but they fluctuate due to the time posted, and the exchnage rate at the time it was converted.

Variety must have meant up to the 26th too, not the 30th.

Yes it was to the 26th, also see below a one of the posts Ive done in the past about currecy conversion

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JCS, on 06 August 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

There should be a standard exchange rate that BO sites should use every week to keep the figures the same.

I thought BOM was reliable, will scrutinise their conversions more now.

Thanks for the info RTH!

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6-Aug-12

Without going to far into it, its a total mishmash and yes I haven't looked at it closly in a while but when I was BOM coversions were bad.

Internally studios/distributors generally convert based on a intercompany weighted average exchange rate for each financial month(so if a film plays jul/aug/sep it will have calculations based on three rates, these rates are also adjusted a month later due to initially they are done in advance), when they give all the INTL numbers in $us its converted from $lc using the intercompany rate, now various sites may convert those numbers in $us to $lc but it may not match the $lc depending on how they chose to do it (some use the latest daily rate even on cume figures)

Now when each territory releases they weekend/week official top 10/20/50 etc its released in $lc from the various territories, then sites convert to $us(once again varies)

So if hyperthetically you looked at say TDKR in UK and say you look at what BOM has under its INTL total and you look at what they have it listed as in GBP then you go to say the weekend actuals report which is given in GBP(there maybe some territories where the data is given as $us) and look at TDKR that total may/may not match what say BOM or others have converted from $us or converted to $us

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Edited September 3, 2012 by Rth

[Jonwo]

The Watch had a seven day opening so £2.2m isn't great. Total Recall did okay for its five day opening. Brave is killing it at the moment but it'll have weaker weekdays due to schools going back.Next week, three openers in Anna Karenina, Dredd and That's My Boy. Not sure if any will open big. The week after, The Sweeney is released which may get interest due to the title.

[ecstasy]

The Watch had a seven day opening so £2.2m isn't great. Total Recall did okay for its five day opening. Brave is killing it at the moment but it'll have weaker weekdays due to schools going back.

Next week, three openers in Anna Karenina, Dredd and That's My Boy. Not sure if any will open big. The week after, The Sweeney is released which may get interest due to the title.

Out so soon!

[Fake]

So is TDKR at 85 mill?

We should have confirmation after the actuals are released. It was at 82.1M after last weekend. So if it made 1.9M GBP, it is safe to say that it crossed 85m.

[CJohn]

UK having movies before everyone else strikes again! Dredd and Anna Karenina!

[lab276]

UK having movies before everyone else strikes again! Dredd and Anna Karenina!

Well, they are British films. Edited September 3, 2012 by lab276