Weekend Thread (3/25-27) | Asgard 2 says 11.75 Sat for Lost City

[ACSlater]

Saw TLC yesterday. It was pretty good. I am just enjoy these adventure movies and it's cool to have Uncharted and TLC release so close to one another. 

 

Man I could use a Mummy again with Brendan Frasier back. With James Bond's wife of course as the lead actress and not the other chick.

[Krissykins]

Depressing. Will lose a huge amount of locations next week. Such a great film.  

[Brainbug]

 

[Krissykins]

Great for The Lost City, glad it went over $30m like I was hoping. 

[Eric the Minion]

 

[Brainbug]

31M OW is a great starting point for a final DOM gross of 100-120M, should the WOM be good enough. Since that seems to be the case i see no reason why Lost City should fail to get there.

[Flopped]

5 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

31M OW is a great starting point for a final DOM gross of 100-120M, should the WOM be good enough. Since that seems to be the case i see no reason why Lost City should fail to get there.

Competition and screens could get in the way. 

[Maggie]

I'm just happy TLC made over 30M

[Krissykins]

$20m for The Batman. 
 

-70%+ for the anime film from last weekend. 

[excel1]

Always surprised we do not get more big-budget jungle adventure films. Long track record of them being extremely popular escapist entertainment settings. 

[john2000]

The Lost City	Paramount Pi…	$31,000,000		4,253		$7,289	$31,000,000	1
-	(2)	Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie	FUNimation	$4,575,435	-75%	2,418	+132	$1,892	$27,719,156	2
-	(4)	X	A24	$2,229,531	-48%	2,920	+55	$764	$8,298,028	2
-	N	Infinite Storm	Bleecker Street	$751,296		1,525		$493	$751,296	1
-	N	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$509,659		10		$50,966	$509,659	1
-	(-)	jackass forever	Paramount Pi…	$170,000	-67%	568	-331	$299	$57,663,732	8
-	(-)	Scream	Paramount Pi…	$145,000	-39%	213	-195	$681	$81,621,102

[Flopped]

It's now fair to say that Sandra Bullock is the biggest female box office star of the last 30+ years. Julia Roberts' peak from 1990-2000 is unmatched but Sandra's longevity gives her the edge. And obviously no one today compares. 

 

[Maggie]

TLC is Paramount's biggest opening this year. It's great and kinda sad that it's only 31M. Sonic will hopefully at least double it.

[Brainbug]

7 minutes ago, excel1 said:

Always surprised we do not get more big-budget jungle adventure films. Long track record of them being extremely popular escapist entertainment settings. 

 

Im actually expecting big things from National Treasure 3 when it will come out. Adventure movies, when beeing well-made, are more often then not winners at the box office.

 

Btw, all National Treasure 3 has to do to earn 1 Billion in the US alone is having Jon Travolta as the villain.

[Coneilg93]

Awesome for TLC! The Batman is really attached to the hip of Captain Marvel with $20M. 

[XXR & Friends]

10 hours ago, Movies4Life said:

Hell Yeah!

Paramount should be blessed that 2022 is their comeback year. Can't wait to see if Sonic the Hedgehog 2 does open to $100M as some people here in BOT have suggested it could.

 

It won't. If it even hits $75M I'd be surprised. 

[Flopped]

4 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Im actually expecting big things from National Treasure 3 when it will come out. Adventure movies, when beeing well-made, are more often then not winners at the box office.

 

Btw, all National Treasure 3 has to do to earn 1 Billion in the US alone is having Jon Travolta as the villain.

 

Is NT3 happening? I am here for it, and getting everyone back. 

Also here for a new Brenda Fraiser / Rachel Weisz Mummy. 

[filmlover]

I did a Channing double feature of both Dog and The Lost City yesterday and the theater was slammed. The audience for the latter laughed consistently throughout the movie. It's going to have good legs and cross $100M+, quite easily too.

[Krissykins]

14 minutes ago, Maggie said:

TLC is Paramount's biggest opening this year. It's great and kinda sad that it's only 31M. Sonic will hopefully at least double it.

Not bad at all when everything they’ve opened has been around $30m. Lost City, Scream and Jackass. With the former two covering their budgets opening weekend. Three #1 hits in a row. 
 

 

Sandra Bullock opening #1 films in 4 different decades. Amazing. 

Edited March 27, 2022 by Krissykins

[BadOlCatSylvester]

17 minutes ago, Flopped said:

 

Is NT3 happening? I am here for it, and getting everyone back. 

It's in stasis right now. The last major development regarding that one was in January of 2020... And then two months later we all know what happened.

 

They're now making a Disney+ reboot series starring a young, fresh-faced PoC, which is far more sensible (and no doubt cheaper) to me than trying to get Cage back when he's just going to decline anyway. Also, non-CBM blockbusters have been largely inconsistent as far as returns go as of late, and Disney's original live-action efforts have been failing miserably this past decade. It wouldn't have been financially feasible.

 

Oh, and I almost forgot: the Capitol raid. Some of the imagery coming out of that would have no doubt made a third National Treasure seem insensitive.

Edited March 27, 2022 by BadOlCatSylvester