Mexico Box Office | Planet of the Apes is king with $6.4M OW; good holds for Garfield and Challengers

[Purple Minion]

Official weekend numbers

 

 

Dory repeats at #1 but with a smaller lead than expected to NYSM2, and it's slowing down compared with MU. It may be able to reach 500M lc and become Pixar's #2, although SLOP is generating a lot of buzz and will impact it with a vengeance.  Interestingly, IA5 had the lowest drop in the Top 10! NYSM2 opened way higher than the first one as per the post above. None of the other openers made any impact.

 

Top 15 Highest Grossing animated movies in lc, with all-time position.
01 04  777,482,842  Toy Story 3 (2010)
02 06  724,790,000  Minions (2015)
03 09  618,218,437  Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
04 15  539,541,637  Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
05 16  491,293,348  Monsters University (2014)
06 17  485,870,000  Inside Out (2015)

07 25  403,403,954  Rio 2 (2014)
08 26  400,160,000  Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

09 27  398,182,361  Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
10 33  371,784,856  Shrek Forever (2010)

11 36  354,637,128  Finding Dory (2016)
12 37  348,372,103  Madagascar 3 (2012)
13 40  338,030,253  The Croods (2013)
14 43  337,010,907  Frozen (2013)
15 47  322,114,790  Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

 

[Cinefilo]

Today all tickets (including 3D) in Cinemex will cost only 29 MXN ~1.55 USD so it could be very positive for SLOP in terms of audience.

[Purple Minion]

Weekly figures. IA5 and FD become the 27th and 28th movie to reach the blockbuster level of 400M lc. FD had a very good Mon-Thu hold, but SLOP is coming with a vengeance (see post above) this weekend, along with When The Lights Go Out (which should do relatively well) and The Wave. Batman: The Killing Joke was the only opener on Thu. NYSM2 already earned 2/3 (lc) of NYSM full gross in just 10 days.

 

 

 

 

 

[Purple Minion]

Early weekend numbers (Screendaily, to be updated):

• SLOP biggest opening ever for an original animated film in lc with $7.7M, surpassing Inside Out.
• Lights Out $1.8M OW at #2, higher debuts thanThe Boy and Poltergeist
• FD had another big drop (over 50%). May not reach $30M.

Edited July 31, 2016 by Purple Minion

[Fullbuster]

On 31/07/2016 at 5:35 PM, Purple Minion said:

Early weekend numbers (Screendaily, to be updated):

• SLOP biggest opening ever for an original animated film in lc with $7.7M, surpassing Inside Out.
• Lights Out $1.8M OW at #2, higher debuts thanThe Boy and Poltergeist
• FD had another big drop (over 50%). May not reach $30M.

Dory under $30m is a disappointment As a result it will be bigger in Brazil than in Mexico, something never seen for a Pixar movie!!

[Purple Minion]

Here be weekend numbers. SLOP opened to 140.4M lc, biggest opening for an original animated movie, beating IO's 131.2M lc. It should be able to reach 350M with ease, even more if it breaks the animated curse!  In the meantime, it totally annihilated Dory and Scrat, both with drops over 70% FD will be lucky to reach MU figures. So far this has been a very disappointing summer in terms of big hits.

 

 

 

Edited August 1, 2016 by Purple Minion

[titanic2187]

47 minutes ago, Purple Minion said:

Here be weekend numbers. SLOP opened to 140.1M lc, biggest opening for an original animated movie, beating IO's 131.2M lc. It should be able to reach 350M with ease, even more if it breaks the animated curse!  In the meantime, it totally annihilated Dory and Scrat, both with drops over 70% FD will be lucky to reach MU figures. So far this has been a very disappointing summer in terms of big hits.

 

dory's legs here is humiliating.............sad~ 

[Quigley]

Poor Dory

[Purple Minion]

Boom. Cinemex (#2 movie theatre chain in the country) won't show SS in the country due to disagreements with last minute terms and conditions imposed by Universal Pictures Mexico. That's at least $10M wiped out from the total gross ... not good.

A todos nuestros invitados les informamos que en Cinemex no proyectaremos la película Escuadrón Suicida. pic.twitter.com/7Jka4u9S9v

— Cinemex (@Cinemex) 4 August 2016

http://www.tomatazos.com/noticias/196275/Cinemex-no-proyectara-Escuadron-Suicida

[MinaTakla]

5 minutes ago, Purple Minion said:

Boom. Cinemex (#2 movie theatre chain in the country) won't show SS in the country due to disagreements with last minute terms and conditions imposed by Universal Pictures Mexico. That's at least $10M wiped out from the total gross ... not good.

 

http://www.tomatazos.com/noticias/196275/Cinemex-no-proyectara-Escuadron-Suicida

Do we know what these terms are? Cuz isn't Uni Mexico distributing other films like Pets and Bourne and these didn't face issues?

[Purple Minion]

Cinemex' press release only mentions this:

 

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"We had to take this decision because this movie's distributor, Universal Pictures Mexico, made a last minute change in the terms and conditions that had already been agreed upon. These new conditions leave Cinemex at a disadvantage against the competition."

 

That competition is most probably Cinépolis, the #1 chain.

[Cinefilo]

This will damage severely SS, Mexico is basically a market of 2 chains, Cinepolis and Cinemex, even I am not sure if I will watch SS now because I prefer Cinemex over Cinepolis all the time.

[Fullbuster]

Because of that Suicide Squad is sure to be more successful in Brazil than Mexico instead of being tight.

[Purple Minion]

19 minutes ago, Cinefilo said:

This will damage severely SS, Mexico is basically a market of 2 chains, Cinepolis and Cinemex, even I am not sure if I will watch SS now because I prefer Cinemex over Cinepolis all the time.

 

It's also going to help SLOP a lot by losing less screens.

[Rthmessiah]

5 hours ago, Cinefilo said:

This will damage severely SS, Mexico is basically a market of 2 chains, Cinepolis and Cinemex, even I am not sure if I will watch SS now because I prefer Cinemex over Cinepolis all the time.

Yeah they hold well over 90% of Business with Cinepolis having the lion share

[Purple Minion]

Weekly numbers.  Strong Mon-Thu for SLOP; Dory is no longer freefalling and it's this close to enter the all-time Top 20 in admissions. Lights Out becoming a sleeper semi-hit by reaching $3M.

SS had everything in its favour for a massive OW, but alas, see posts above. It should still lead the weekend and who knows, maybe even without Cinemex it will manage to open over $10M.

 

 

Top Movies in Audience since 2004
01  16,075,304  Minions (2015)
02  15,943,208  The Avengers (2012)
03  15,731,247  Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
04  15,530,417  Furious 7 (2015)
05  15,201,188  No se Aceptan Devoluciones* (2013)
 

Spoiler

 

06  14,826,134  Toy Story 3 (2010)

07  14,468,012  Captain America 3: Civil War (2016)
08  13,783,464  Jurassic World (2015)
09  13,402,742  Despicable Me 2 (2013)

10  13,230,713  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
11  13,175,872  Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

12  12,095,324  Maleficent (2014)
13  11,806,033  Iron Man 3 (2013)
14  11,698,768  Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
15  10,770,468  Inside Out (2015)
16  10,608,951  Monsters University (2014)
17  10,301,212  Shrek 2 (2004)
18  10,211,791  Avatar (2009)
19  10,172,239  Spider Man 3 (2007)
20  10,160,858  Fast and Furious 6 (2013)
21    9,729,348  Hotel Transilvania 2 (2015)

22    9,579,095 Finding Dory (2016)
23    9,512,009  San Andreas (2015)

24    9,441,593 The Jungle Book (2016)

2x    9,268,215 Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

 

 

Edited August 5, 2016 by Purple Minion

[Purple Minion]

Even without Cinemex, a good $3.9M OD for SS, probably in the all time Top 20 in lc. OW should be around $11-12M, maybe more - BVS was immune to bad reviews.

Dory, IA5 and SLOP are being impacted in their gross because tickets are so cheap for kids this summer due to promotions!

Edited August 6, 2016 by Purple Minion

[Rthmessiah]

11 hours ago, Purple Minion said:

Even without Cinemex, a good $3.9M OD for SS, probably in the all time Top 20 in lc. OW should be around $11-12M, maybe more - BVS was immune to bad reviews.

Dory, IA5 and SLOP are being impacted in their gross because tickets are so cheap for kids this summer due to promotions!

be looking at around lc177m for WE so more like us9-10m

[TalismanRing]

14 minutes ago, Rth said:

be looking at around lc177m for WE so more like us9-10m

 

 

Damn.  Is there a market where it wasn't heavily front loaded?

[titanic2187]

On 02/08/2016 at 1:17 AM, Purple Minion said:

Here be weekend numbers. SLOP opened to 140.1M lc, biggest opening for an original animated movie, beating IO's 131.2M lc. It should be able to reach 350M with ease, even more if it breaks the animated curse!  In the meantime, it totally annihilated Dory and Scrat, both with drops over 70% FD will be lucky to reach MU figures. So far this has been a very disappointing summer in terms of big hits.

 

I was surprised that toy story 3 wasn't in the top 5 all time, didn't it perform phenomenal in mexico?