Weekend Thread: Thursday Night Preview - 1917 $3.25M | Like a Boss $1M | Just Mercy $800K | Underwater $500K

[Legion Again]

BOP F2 estimate seems crazy. Fingers crossed though

 

[Krissykins]

The Grudge out of the top 10 and down 71%. 

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

LW had a bigger than expected drop. Wolf of Wall Street had a 2.7m Friday. I guess the crowded weekend set it back some

[a2k]

49 minutes ago, Arendelle Legion said:

BOP F2 estimate seems crazy. Fingers crossed though

 

Even an unrealistic 150% Sat bump followed by strong 27% Sun drop takes it to "only" 6.55. 

6.9 is a typo for 5.9 IMO.

 

Edit: Not a typo I guess as even Spies is estimated at 6.2 after 1m Friday. They are just going with huge Sats I guess.

Edited January 11, 2020 by a2k

[Jonwo]

I bet WB are kicking themselves for not releasing JM a bit wider, only 0.5m between it and LAB

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

1917 is doing great, it's about WWI and doesn't have a box office draw in front of or behind the camera. I felt kinda bad when Sam Mendes went on about the movie having no stars with them right there but George MacKay agrees: 

 

 

 

Just Mercy wasn't doing the greatest in limited release, but sometimes a drama is just not made for the NY/LA arthouse crowd but flourishes with a slightly broader prestige audience outside of those two cities.

 

Hopefully the Oscar nominations are kind to Little Women and it rebounds next week.

 

Somewhat movie related, but has an award show host ever been announced this far in advance? Someone high up at NBC really must have haaaaaated Gervais!

 

 

[Eric Lasagna]

5 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:

Somewhat movie related, but has an award show host ever been announced this far in advance? Someone high up at NBC really must have haaaaaated Gervais!

 

 

I feel like Fey and Poehler got announced to return hosting like a couple days after they hosted another Golden Globes ceremony a few years ago, though I might be misremembering

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

14 minutes ago, Eric Dolittle said:

I feel like Fey and Poehler got announced to return hosting like a couple days after they hosted another Golden Globes ceremony a few years ago, though I might be misremembering

If they just hosted and it went over well and the network says right away that they're coming back again next year, that makes sense, it's continuity. But this time it's been a bit of a hiatus since they hosted, and the most recent Globes ceremony wasn't even a week ago. It's just funny how quickly NBC and/or the HFPA seemingly want to move on from Ricky.

[Boxofficerules]

Has Black Christmas been removed from theatres?

[Nova]

Random question but what the hell is an AMC Artisan film? I found about this when I went to go by The Gentleman tickets off its website and that film was listed as an Artisan film. I tried to look it up and look at past movies that fit into that category but most of them range in budgets and content. Apparently it was a way to help mid budget movies but like I’m trying to figure out what the criteria is for an “Artisan” film at AMC. It’s def not indies that’s for sure. 

Edited January 11, 2020 by Nova

[MagnarTheGreat]

4 hours ago, grim22 said:

Good numbers for 1917 and Just Mercy.

 

Rise of Skywalker running total will likely fall behind Rogue One on Sunday. Still headed for a 500-510M finish unless it crashes next week with theater loss.

Speaking of which, made this chart yesterday:

 

 

The Top 10 did well (especially Disney) even if the overall domestic BO went down for 2019, accounting for a larger % share

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/us-box-office-2019-revenue-falls-4-percent-sharpest-decline-5-years-1264724

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by MagnarTheGreat

[TalismanRing]

3 hours ago, Krissykins said:

The Grudge out of the top 10 and down 71%. 

Least surprising numbers of the weekend.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

28 minutes ago, Nova said:

Random question but what the hell is an AMC Artisan film? I found about this when I went to go by The Gentleman tickets off its website and that film was listed as an Artisan film. I tried to look it up and look at past movies that fit into that category but most of them range in budgets and content. Apparently it was a way to help mid budget movies but like I’m trying to figure out what the criteria is for an “Artisan” film at AMC. It’s def not indies that’s for sure. 

https://www.amctheatres.com/artisan-films

 

According to the website: "Any movie with the AMC Artisan Films seal is an artist-driven film that advances the art of making movies."

 

Seems a bit nebulous but I guess anything that's "cinema" and not a franchise thing.

Edited January 11, 2020 by BoxOfficeFangrl

[cdsacken]

4 hours ago, a2k said:

@john2000 much smaller bump for F2 that I guessed. ~5.5 weekend probably for 459.1 cume.

Yep as I thought. 7m sounded way too high. Hoping for 5+

[lorddemaxus]

8 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:

Seems a bit nebulous but I guess anything that's "cinema" and not a franchise thing.

Lol, I think they had Joker as an Artisan film but not The Farewell, Little Women, or Hustlers. They sure as hell are doing what they said they would.

Edited January 11, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

What a bomb The Grudge is, why the hell they turned it into Rated R? 

 

If it were PG13, at least teens girls would show up and it would've performed on par with other January Horror bad movies, that's what you get for selling yourself for a R rating.

[Nova]

9 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:

https://www.amctheatres.com/artisan-films

 

According to the website: "Any movie with the AMC Artisan Films seal is an artist-driven film that advances the art of making movies."

 

Seems a bit nebulous but I guess anything that's "cinema" and not a franchise thing.

I guess my question then becomes is why do some films get the artisan tags and some don’t? There are some non-franchise films that aren’t listed on there. I thought it was related to budget but films from very low budgets to as high as $90M are there. Then I started to think that maybe they were trying to promote critically well received films or films they presume to be well received since a lot of the films on their list have good to really good reviews but I saw CATs got the approval so clearly that’s not the case 😝
 

I appreciate what they’re doing I suppose but wish they’d be more clear as to how they decide their films. 

[Nova]

13 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Lol, I think they had Joker as an Artisan film but not The Farewell, Little Women, or Hustlers. They sure as hell are doing what they said they would.

The Joker was on there! So I guess it throws away the non-franchise theory. Farewell was listed though as I went back through their films that they had on their list. 
 

Not sure about Hustlers or Little Women. 
*Edited: yea those weren’t on there. The list they have on their website right now is a bunch of films with good reviews (except for CATS) and then some films that haven’t come out yet but that they included on their list. Wonder why Hustlers and Little Woman got left off but Joker got included 🤣🤣🤣

Edited January 11, 2020 by Nova

[Legion Again]

5 minutes ago, Nova said:

The Joker was on there! So I guess it throws away the non-franchise theory. Farewell was listed though as I went back through their films that they had on their list. 
 

Not sure about Hustlers or Little Women. 

Well, Joker was a non-franchise film, technically speaking. At least until its sequel.

[MrGlass2]

16 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Lol, I think they had Joker as an Artisan film but not The Farewell, Little Women, or Hustlers. They sure as hell are doing what they said they would.

Well it makes sense, Joker will win more awards than all those other movies combined.