Weekend Thread: Actuals - Mal2 $19.4M | Joker $19.2M | Adam's Family 12M | Zombieland $11.8M | Countdown $8.9M | Black & Blue $8.4M

[MCKillswitch123]

2 hours ago, Xavier said:

True- but there were already  movies doing over 2B, which was once unthinkable. And of course, Endgame would never beat Avatar without the ultimate fudging its rerelease, and the media’s effort to convince us that it is the best film ever, so Joker had that going for it too.

The fact that Endgame has 94% on RT and Joker has 69% must be some kind of a joke. 

Isn't beating Avatar even more "once unthinkable" than just hitting 2B? Also, Avatar had re-releases as well which only inflated its box office number.... Endgame's original run would have likely topped Avatar's original run. Please don't act like Endgame's accomplishment is nothing, because that's just toying with reality in a really biased way. Finally, the "media's effort" conspiracy theory bullshit can be easily refutted in one way - A+ CinemaScore, verified audience score on RT is 91%. You're acting as if Disney brainwashed the whole world like Mysterio in Far From Home to make everyone think they saw a piece of shit as a masterpiece. Word of mouth was kind of great, y'know? If it weren't, its legs, which weren't already tremendous to begin with (consequence of the gigantic opening and lengthy runtime), would have been easily worse than Civil War's. Case in point: a certain movie called The Last Jedi. If you disliked Endgame and happen to think it's trash yourself, that's totally fine, but don't just do the whiny "it's all the media's fault" because the wom was there for Endgame too.

 

As for the "must be some kind of a joke" tagline... take it up to the people who didn't respond to Joker well for whatever reasons they might've had. It's their opinion. Must I remind that RT is not a quality meter but rather a amount of people who reviewed the film positively meter? Reviews for Joker from foreign critics and the audience were raving anyway, so it's not like the American critics ended up mattering that much to begin with. And who cares about RT anyway? The movie is doing insanely well, everyone is loving it and talking about it, it's blowing up buzz meters, it's getting TOOOOOONS of Oscar hype... get over it, man.

Edited October 28, 2019 by MCKillswitch123

[Valonqar]

Mal 2 may end up on the top but she's still a flop. 

 

To be in a photofinish with an R rated movie that's in its 4th week is embarrassing. 

Edited October 28, 2019 by Valonqar

[Brainbug]

Well well well it seems it comes down to whether Disney or WB is the faster one with asking Paramount how it is done.

 

Spoiler

Ofc we all know the answer

Spoiler

 

 

[Valonqar]

[a2k]

Joker has already won the headlines, and it's gonna win the weekdays. WB doesn't have anything to loose here.

 

To be fair it seems Malef2 has come on top and WB are fudging (May not be the case in the end)

Edited October 28, 2019 by a2k

[Valonqar]

 

[sfran43]

 

[a2k]

Addams Family had a 12.0 weekend (down only 26%) and is 26.9 away from 100 dom. Needs to add 2.24x the 3rd weekend which is not tough at all, especially for it's genre. 

 

2.5-3x more gives,

73.1 + 12.0*2.50 = 103

73.1 + 12.0*2.75 = 106

73.1 + 12.0*3.00 = 109

[sfran43]

 

[a2k]

ABOMINABLE

 

Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office	$56,903,820	Details
International Box Office	$87,799,534	Details
Worldwide Box Office	$144,703,354

 

 

Date	Rank	Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Week
Sep 27, 2019	1	$20,612,100		4,242	$4,859	$20,612,100	1
Oct 4, 2019	2	$11,921,855	-42%	4,248	$2,806	$37,754,970	2
Oct 11, 2019	4	$6,072,235	-49%	3,496	$1,737	$47,873,585	3
Oct 18, 2019	6	$3,510,360	-42%	2,647	$1,326	$53,925,430	4
Oct 25, 2019	10	$2,085,225	-41%	2,196	$950	$56,903,820	5

[xiazhi]

45 minutes ago, nevermore said:

Like hanging chads in the state of Florida during a U.S. presidential election, the battle between Disney’s second weekend of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Warner Bros.’ fourth weekend of Joker during one of the most boring B.O. weekends of the year isn’t over yet. Warner Bros. believes there is a tie between both pics for No. 1 with $19.125M, Disney, while they haven’t reported their figures yet, sees a tie as of this morning as well. Industry calculations show Maleficent 2 ahead of Joker by a smidge, $19.12M to $19.05M. This sounds like the race will boil down to the mom and pop theater grosses which aren’t picked up by Comscore. We’ll see if Disney holds on to No. 1 later this morning, or if they concede.

disney underestimate as always

[sfran43]

 

Edited October 28, 2019 by sfran43

[sfran43]

Maleficent won!!

 

Edited October 28, 2019 by sfran43

[xiazhi]

18 hours ago, narniadis said:

Obviously the point of my post went well over your head. Theatrical income is not the end all be all and hasnt been for 30+ years. 

The massive world wide grosses of super hero films has dramatically screwed the perception of success for films not in that category. 

You know there is ad and propagation cost too right? movies like Mal2 will cost a fortune on that too. DVD and home entertainment income will have to cover that. Mal2 doesn't have to have MCU level success but it seems BO income can't even cover its prod budget which means it's a flop, not just underperforming.

[a2k]

maleficent 2

Oct 25, 2019

1

$19,369,877

-48%

3,790

$5,111

$66,245,035

2

 

Oct 25, 2019	2	$4,914,583	+169%	3,790	$1,297	$51,789,741	8
Oct 26, 2019	1	$8,270,749	+68%	3,790	$2,182	$60,060,490	9
Oct 27, 2019	1	$6,184,545	-25%	3,790	$1,632	$66,245,035	10

Edited October 28, 2019 by a2k

[MCKillswitch123]

Everytime people write "Mal 2", I keep thinking it's an Inception sequel.

[Johnny Tran]

Congrats to Mal 2     ...   the movie needed a W

[a2k]

[DAJK]

26 minutes ago, a2k said:

Addams Family had a 12.0 weekend (down only 26%) and is 26.9 away from 100 dom. Needs to add 2.24x the 3rd weekend which is not tough at all, especially for it's genre. 

 

2.5-3x more gives,

73.1 + 12.0*2.50 = 103

73.1 + 12.0*2.75 = 106

73.1 + 12.0*3.00 = 109

May be tough post-Halloween. But to be fair, there's no real kids content until Frozen. So while I wouldn't rule out 100M, I won't bet on it yet. 

[Legion Again]

Well, still a nice drop even narrowly missing first place.    

Pretty solid for Mal, should pass 100. Maybe as high as 125 or so, but I'm guessing it's yet another victim for the 105-115 pileup.   

TAF I think will pass 100, but just barely.    

 

Downton Abbey is still heading for like 98M, curious whether Focus fudges.  

Abominable is coming in at like 60M. Disappointing legs for an A animated movie. TAF and Mal in weekend 3 and 4 didn't help.