Heretic Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 MJ is on fire tonight! So many sold out shows. OD was 10% above CF, so around £2.3m. Today should be over £3m. Tomorrow could top £4m. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzy Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Just got back from my local Cineworld where MJ2 was crazy busy. There was a showing starting every half hour and there seemed to be lots of sell outs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 Including midnight screenings, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 took around £2.3m on its first day in the UK, up 12% on Catching Fire. — Ian Sandwell (@ian_sandwell) November 21, 2014 If Mockingjay carries on that trajectory, could be looking at a debut of potentially £13.5m-£14m, which would be biggest opening of year. — Ian Sandwell (@ian_sandwell) November 21, 2014 That would be an enormous opening. I see more around £12.5-13m, but we'll see how it fares tomorrow... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 MJ is KILLING. CF managed above £4m on its Saturday, I say £4.5m+ for MJ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCS Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Should finish as the lowest total though as the 'part 1' effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 It'll beat THG easily. Actually, I see a similar gross to CF in the end if it opens higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 That would be an enormous opening. I see more around £12.5-13m, but we'll see how it fares tomorrow... Fri was up 3% on cf 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Alfred Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 IS was down only by 29% in my cinema, but then again we're an IMAX site, but it bodes well to have a better drop than Gravity had. Hoping around 40%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 MJ is KILLING. CF managed above £4m on its Saturday, I say £4.5m+ for MJ. not quite about 4.2-3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) Still huge. So I'd say this is looking at around £12.5-12.7m, depending on Sunday hold. However in dollars, it could even fall just short of CF's $19.8m as pound to dollar is weak right now. Edited November 23, 2014 by Heretic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 $19.9m. Bit above CF. Excellent opening! CF managed over $55m, MJ1 legs may not be so good but $50m+ should still happen. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Ian Sandwell @ian_sandwell · 4h4 hours ago Interstellar drops around 50% in third weekend of release in the UK to add £1.9m for £15.8m to date. The Imitation Game added $3.4m to reach $10.7m in the UK after two sessions. Huge for IG. Not much of a drop, it'll cruise by $20m. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Ian Sandwell @ian_sandwell · 4h4 hours ago Interstellar drops around 50% in third weekend of release in the UK to add £1.9m for £15.8m to date. The Imitation Game added $3.4m to reach $10.7m in the UK after two sessions. Huge for IG. Not much of a drop, it'll cruise by $20m. only -34 from Imax screens 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Lionsgate’s adaptation flew to a non-final $19.8m (£12.64m) from its 565 sites (the distributor’s widest ever release), including $3.7m (£2.34m) taken on Thursday [Nov 20], surpassing The Inbetweeners 2’s $19.6m (£12.54m) bow from 509 sites. Discounting previews, Mockingjay also recorded the biggest Fri-Sun tally of 2014 with a stunning $16.1m (£10.3m), over £2m ahead of the year’s previous best which also belonged to The Inbetweeners 2’s $12.6m (£8.05m). Mockingjay achieved the highest opening of the series to date, topping The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s $19.1m (£12.2m) from 554 sites in November 2013, which included $3.2m (£2.07m) in previews. Catching Fire went on to take $53.5m (£34.2m) in the UK and if Mockingjay betters Catching Fire’s second week holdover, where it dropped 54% excluding previews, then it will be in a great position to become the series’ strongest performer. The first overall target though will be The Hunger Games’ $37.5m (£24m) UK result from March 2012. www.screendaily.com/news/mockingjay-scores-record-uk-debut/5080314.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS-HEADLINES&contentID=42422 Ben Roberts @bfiben 2h2 hours ago W'End B/O Brit Top 3: #2 IMITATION GAME (£2.12m/£6.75m), #4 NATIVITY 3 (£1.54m/£3.64m), #5 MR TURNER (£353k/£5.4m) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Top thr Engagements UK 21-23/11 1-Vue Westfield 17, London (MJ1) 2-Imax Southbank (IS) 3-Odeon Leicster Square (MJ1) 4-CW Glasgow 18 (MJ1) 5-Vue Westfield Stratford 20 (MJ1) 6-NAC Showcase Bluewater 12 (MJ1) 7-Cw Sheffield 20 (MJ1) 8-Odeon Liverpool 14 (MJ1) Top IS 1-Imax Southbank, 2-vue Westfield 17, 3-Odeon Manchester 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 Lionsgate’s adaptation records biggest opening of 2014 to date with non-final $19.8m (£12.64m), including previews. Having recorded the seventh biggest Thursday opening of all time, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 has gone on to record the biggest debut of the year at the UK box office. Lionsgate’s adaptation flew to a non-final $19.8m (£12.64m) from its 565 sites (the distributor’s widest ever release), including $3.7m (£2.34m) taken on Thursday [Nov 20], surpassing The Inbetweeners 2’s $19.6m (£12.54m) bow from 509 sites. Discounting previews, Mockingjay also recorded the biggest Fri-Sun tally of 2014 with a stunning $16.1m (£10.3m), over £2m ahead of the year’s previous best which also belonged to The Inbetweeners 2’s $12.6m (£8.05m). Mockingjay achieved the highest opening of the series to date, topping The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s $19.1m (£12.2m) from 554 sites in November 2013, which included $3.2m (£2.07m) in previews. Catching Fire went on to take $53.5m (£34.2m) in the UK and if Mockingjay betters Catching Fire’s second week holdover, where it dropped 54% excluding previews, then it will be in a great position to become the series’ strongest performer. The first overall target though will be The Hunger Games’ $37.5m (£24m) UK result from March 2012. STUDIOCANAL The Imitation Game enjoyed a superb second weekend at the UK box office, falling just over 20% for $3.3m (£2.12m) as it remained in second. StudioCanal’s drama is now up to a healthy $10.6m (£6.75m), having added almost $3.1m (£2m) during Mon-Thurs of its first week. This coming week should also see it prosper as counter-programming to the likes ofMockingjay Part 1, with a possibility of it hitting £10m by the end of this coming weekend. WARNER BROS Dropping 50% in its third weekend with the arrival ofMockingjay Part 1, Interstellar fell to third with $3m (£1.9m). Warner Bros’ sci-fi has now amassed $24.9m (£15.9m) in the UK and will shortly overtake Batman Begins’ $25.7m (£16.42m) to become Christopher Nolan’s fourth-best UK performer of all time. Inception had already hit £20m by the same stage in its run so its final tally of $56.1m (£35.81m) will prove a step too far for Interstellar, but it still has an outside shot at £25m if it manages to level off this coming weekend. EONE Falling just 14% in its second weekend, eOne’s Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?! added $2.4m (£1.5m) for $5.7m (£3.6m). The comedy threequel is taken the majority of its gross over Sat-Sun, and faces stiff competition this coming weekend with the arrival ofPaddington. Also for eOne, Mr. Turner rounded off this week’s top five with $553,000 (£353,082) after its first big drop of 53% in its fourth weekend. Mike Leigh’s biopic is now up to an excellent $8.5m (£5.4m). Nightcrawler is up to $4.7m (£3m) after four weeks in play, while The Homesman could only manage a $97,000 (£62,118) UK bow from its 63 sites - a debut lower than that of Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which opened with $129,000 (£82,586) from 29 sites. FOX With a respectable 27% drop in its fifth weekend, Fox’sThe Book of Life grossed an additional $466,000 (£296,943) for a sturdy $9m (£5.7m) to date. Also for Fox, The Drop fell over 50% in its second weekend to add $360,000 (£229,496) for a ten-day tally of $2m (£1.3m), while Gone Girl reached $34.43m (£21.94m) with a $271,000 (£172,705) weekend. In the quest to be the UK’s highest grossing 18-rated film of all time, The Wolf of Wall Street has edged ahead ofGone Girl with $34.47m (£21.97m) at the same stage in its run. PARAMOUNT Now in its sixth week, Paramount’s reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took a further $280,000 (£179,000) for $21.5m (£13.8m) to date. METRODOME What We Do in the Shadows recorded a terrific UK debut of $200,000 (£127,765) from its 33 sites through Metrodome, including $98,000 (£62,849) in previews. Strong word-of-mouth and critical acclaim could see the vampire mockumentary enjoy a lengthy run. UNIVERSAL Get On Up is unlikely to feel good about its UK bow having taken just $172,000 (£110,000) at a soft average of $759 (£484) per-site. Even discounting previews, that’s considerably less than the $980,000 (£625,261) opening from 294 sites of Tate Taylor’s previous UK outing, The Help. Also for Universal, Ouija and The Boxtrolls have grossed $5.3m (£3.4m) and $13.4m (£8.6m), respectively. CURZON FILM WORLD / ARTIFICIAL EYE Israel Horovitz’s feature directorial debut My Old Ladygot off to a solid start in the UK with a $170,000 (£108,611) bow from its 87 sites through Curzon Film World. Meanwhile, Artificial Eye’s release of Russia’s official Foreign Language submission Leviathan has grossed $200,000 (£127,769) after a $25,000 (£16,020) third weekend from its eight sites. SONY Fury has rolled past the £8m mark in the UK, adding $141,000 (£90,000) for $12.7m (£8.1m) through Sony. Also for Sony, No Good Deed failed to repeat its chart-topping US heroics as it posted a UK debut of $64,000 (£41,000) from its 99 sites. DISNEY Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has now taken $4.9m (£3.14m) following a $110,000 (£70,000) weekend through Disney. Also for Disney, Frozen is being re-released in cinemas from today [Nov 24] following its sing-along screenings at London’s Royal Albert Hall last week. NEW WAVE FILMS With figures still to come from one site, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep posted a non-final $30,000 (£19,181) from its 14 sites through New Wave Films. That’s down on the $55,000 (£35,117) bow of Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, also from 14 sites. KOCH MEDIA Following its strong opening last week, Koch Media’sRedirected enjoyed a $14,000 (£8,688) second weekend from its four sites for $105,000 (£67,328) so far. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for StudioCanal’sPaddington and Warner Bros’ Horrible Bosses 2. BFI’s re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal’sI Am Ali and Alchemy Releasing’s Kajaki: The True Story all receive wide releases, while Arrow Films’Stations of the Cross and Dogwoof’s Concerning Violence are among the films receiving a limited release. MJ1 will probably fall a little steeper than CF in its 2nd weekend. I'd say high 50s, for a 2nd weekend around £5-5.5m, and a total around £21-22m, on par with CF. Okay for Interstellar, I'd say it still has a good chance at $35m. Paddington will do well over the Christmas period. Wouldn't rule out over £20m, but I think a small start of £2-3m, with good legs. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 Orange Wednesday, should be huge for MJ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 There hasn't really been a big family film since TMNT. Paddington, given the source material, actually has really strong pre-sales, especially for tomorrow. This could be a big break-out hit, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipJ2001 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 yeah Paddington is looking HUGE here. Can't remember the last family film to have this many advance sales. probably Toy Story 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 yeah Paddington is looking HUGE here. Can't remember the last family film to have this many advance sales. probably Toy Story 3 Seriously!?! Damn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...