Weekend Thread (3/18-20) | Weekend Actuals: Batman 36.7, Jujutsu Kaisen 17.7, Uncharted 7.8, X 4.4, Dog 4

[snarkmachine]

3 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

I thought Jack Reacher was a hit stateside? Otherwise you'd have to go as far back as Valkyrie when it surprised back in Christmas '08.

 Jack Reacher made 80m domestic and 217m WW.

[Issac Newton]

Jujutsu Kaisen Movie 0 : $17.69M (OW)

[john2000]

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[john2000]

 

[Krissykins]

 

 

 

[Caylu]

Dog 4.09

X 4.40

[ImNotRacistAtAll]

Dog is such a nice surprise. Box Office wise. 

 

Predicting a 30M OW for The Lost City. If the Lost City comes with that 3 at least... it's a big W

[filmnerdjamie]

Anything $25M and up I'd call a win for The Lost City. 

[Tokugennumataka]

Weaker Sat and Sun holds for all pics. Shouldn't have been too unexpected, but it is what it is. 

Edited March 20, 2022 by Tokugennumataka

[ImNotRacistAtAll]

2 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

Anything $25M and up I'd call a win for The Lost City. 

Yeah I agree. I just think it would look much better with that 3. And with the reviews, WOM... I think it could get there nicely. 

[filmnerdjamie]

2 minutes ago, ImNotRacistAtAll said:

Yeah I agree. I just think it would look much better with that 3. And with the reviews, WOM... I think it could get there nicely. 

I think it gets as high as $35M and topples The Batman. But we shall see.

[BadOlCatSylvester]

6 minutes ago, Tokugennumataka said:

Weaker Sat and Sun holds for all pics. Shouldn't have been too unexpected, but it is what it is. 

What, another new variant on the horizon?

[Flopped]

Watching The Lost City, the audience doesnt for a second question Sandra Bullock (57) and Channing Tatum (41) as a couple. She was also 10+ years Ryan Reynolds' senior in The Proposal. 

[john2000]

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2022 by john2000

[Tokugennumataka]

Just now, BadOlCatSylvester said:

What, another new variant on the horizon?

Nah, don't think people care much about that. Low Sat and Sun holds are more of an aftereffect of spring break boosted weekdays. 

[Flopped]

Yikes...although its PTA is not that much lower than X's 

 

 

[ImNotRacistAtAll]

Uncharted 8M. Wow

[druv10]

	Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
-	N	Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie	FUNimation	$17,698,677		2,286		$7,742	$17,698,677	1
-	(2)	Uncharted	Sony Pictures	$8,000,000	-14%	3,700	-25	$2,162	$125,895,357	5
-	N	X	A24	$4,407,750		2,865		$1,538	$4,407,750	1
-	(4)	Dog	United Artists	$4,096,419	-21%	3,307	-100	$1,239	$54,227,992	5
-	(5)	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Sony Pictures	$3,200,000	-21%	2,585	-117	$1,238	$797,543,553	14
-	(6)	Death on the Nile	20th Century…	$1,700,000	-30%	2,050	-380	$829	$43,574,499	6
-	N	Umma	Sony Pictures	$915,000		805		$1,137	$915,000	1
-	(-)	Licorice Pizza	United Artists	$169,794	-3%	507	+91	$335	$16,985,798	17
-	(11)	Cyrano	United Artists	$136,297	-66%	306	-388	$445	$3,702,916	14
-	(-)	The Worst Person in the World	Neon	$110,000	-47%	139	-89	$791	$2,779,730	7
-	(-)	Encanto	Walt Disney	$75,000	-23%	215	-90	$349	$95,921,307	17
-	(-)	Drive My Car	Janus Films	$55,907	-22%	74	-28	$756	$2,124,851	17
-	(-)	West Side Story	20th Century…	$44,000	+2%	450	+180	$98	$38,403,455	15
-	(-)	The Cursed	LD Entertain…	$37,000	-68%	92	-147	$402	$4,586,807	5
-	(-)	Nightmare Alley	Searchlight …	$23,000	+11%	350	+75	$66	$11,289,918	14
-	N	Jane by Charlotte	Utopia	$13,447		7		$1,921	$13,447	1
-	(-)	The Automat	A Slice of P…	$11,036	+41%	9	+5	$1,226	$81,312	5
-	N	Ahed’s Knee	Kino Lorber	$5,738		1		$5,738	$5,738	1
		18		$40,699,065

 

[Eric Lasagna]

4 hours ago, Villain Legion said:

Totally aside from the question of which factors more accurately explain BO performance, the higher star driven success model seems kind of depressing to me. The greater a % of a movie’s performance is explained by a handful of famous people, the less credit goes to, you know, the actual important parts of the movie — premise, characters, plot, so on so on. I know a lot of people lamented the end of the 90s/00s in this regard, but I think it was great. 

Yes, famous actors did sell a movie over other aspects, but that's just how business works. That's like saying it's depressing that a horror movie emphasized the kills and thrills over plot or character. You need to get a hook to bring in people. And those hooks are still true today. The greater of a film's % of a movie's performance these days doesn't come from plot or characters, but how cool and shiny the brand is or just how much nostalgia-pandering there is in the movie. If Twilight wasn't a famous book series, Pattinson wouldn't have become Batman. If Jurassic World was an ordinary dinosaur movie, nobody would show up, even if it had the greatest script in the world. If Shang-Chi or Captain Marvel didn't have the MCU connections, it would tank. People don't care about plot or characters with this stuff, they just want to see something they're familiar with, like how they want to see a movie star they like. Most people did not give a damn about the FFH cliffhanger when going into NWH, they wanted to see it because it had "Marvel" on the title (and also nostalgia pandering).

 

And if I can be blunt here, the actors and famed celebrities do play an important part of the movie, since...well, they're the ones that are front and center, have to make these characters interesting, and have to deliver the plot. And if they don't pull this off, then it's not going to be a good movie. Would Jerry Maguire, Pretty Woman, Hitch, or even A Star is Born make as much as they do if the casting was off or if the famous actors who were chosen just for their starpower didn't do a good job? Probably not.

 

Sorry, but I don't get why one era of starpower was bad, but somehow brandpower, which does the exact same effect on people, is somehow okay.

[Tokugennumataka]

NWH at #17 on all time.