Weekend Thread (02.24 - 02.26) | Actuals: 31.96M QUANTUMANIA | 23.26M COCAINE BEAR | 15.80M JESUS REVOLUTION

[Firepower]

Anthony D'Alessandro is a definition of a paid shill. I wonder how much studios pay him to write this nonsense.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

46 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Is 80 for Brady's lower pricing strategy really worked? I feel like the movie didn't attract crowd beyond its target audience with that lower price approach. It is just collecting smaller amount of money from the same level of admission. 

Yeah I thought it'd have better legs and reach 60m

[Issac Newton]

 

 

 

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

 

1st A+ Title of 2023!

[Mr Roark]

Just gimme the biggest drop for a $100M+ opener comic book film.

 

BvS doesn’t deserve this crown.

[Issac Newton]

Saturday AM estimates:

 

1.) Ant-man and the Wasp Quantumania (Dis) 4,345 theaters, Fri $8.3M (-82%) 3-day $30M-$32M (-70% to -72%), Total $165M-$167M/Wk 2

 

2.) Cocaine Bear (Uni) 3,534 theaters, Fri $8.65M, 3-day $21.2M/Wk 1

 

3.) Jesus Revolution (LG) 2,475 theaters, Fri $6.95M (includes $3.3M previews) 3-day $14.5M/Wk 1

 

4.) Avatar: The Way of Water (Dis) 2,495 theaters (-180), Fri $1.1M (-19%) 3-day $4.8M (-27%)Total $665.4M /Wk 11

 

5.) Puss in Boots: Last Wish (Uni) 2,840 theaters (-172), Fri $890K (-27%) 3-day $4M (-24%), Total $173.3M/Wk 10

 

6.) Magic Mike’s Last Dance (WB) 2,918 (-116) theaters,Fri $905K (-46%) 3-day $2.7M (-50%) total $22.98M/Wk 3

 

7.) Knock at the Cabin (Uni) 2,115 (-486) theaters, Fri $510K (-50%) 3-day $1.77M (-55%) Total $33.8M /Wk 4

 

8.) 80 for Brady (Par) 2,397 (-722) theaters, Fri $480K (-52%) 3-day $1.7M (-55%)/Total $36.3M/Wk 4

 

9.) Missing (Sony) 1,006 (-510) theaters, Fri $260K (-39%) 3 day $1M (-41%) Total $31.4M/Wk 6

 

10.) A Man Called Otto (Sony) 1,118 (-607) theaters, Fri $215K (-47%) 3-day $810K (-49%) Total $62.2M/Wk 9

[Eric Prime]

14

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Violent Night

Universal

$46,000

+3,953%

+4,594%

61

$754

$49,850,245

85

 

 

YESSSSSSSS

 

Been a long time since we had a good, high-quality fudging.

[Mr Roark]

At this rate A2 may be able to hit $685M dom.

[YM!]

Honestly the best way to move forward is to scale back on content for Marvel. Probably too late now but they could try readjusting the schedule once more (3 movies and 2 shows):

 

Phase 5 continued:

5/3/2024 - New World Order

7/26/2024 - Thunderbolts

11/8/2024 - Blade

 

(Echo and Ironheart are the 2024 shows, turn Nova into a special)

 

2/14/2025 - Deadpool and Wolverine

5/2/2025 - Spider-Man 4

 

Phase 6:

11/7/2025 - Fantastic Four

 

(Agatha and Daredevil are the 2025 shows)

 

2026 could be a combination of Shang-Chi 2, Armor Wars and Eternals 2

2027 could be Doctor Strange 3, Kang Dynasty and Black Panther 3

2028 - World War Hulk, Secret Wars, Champions

Edited February 25, 2023 by YM!

[SpiderByte]

Well they already have at least 3 other shows in development, Wonder Man, Vision Quest, and Nova, so maybe they'll move stuff back but they aren't cancelling anything. In the same way Eternals reviews did not mean they radically altered all their plans either.

 

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by SpiderByte

[YM!]

3 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

Well they already have at least 3 other shows in development, Wonder Man, Vision Quest, and Nova, so maybe they'll move stuff back but they aren't cancelling anything. In the same way Eternals reviews did not mean they radically altered all their plans either.

 

 

Some stuff I can see being retooled into special presentations if necessary. Looking at Nova, Vision Quest and maybe Agatha for instance (though I think they're filming the latter).

[SpiderByte]

1 minute ago, YM! said:

Some stuff I can see being retooled into special presentations if necessary. Looking at Nova, Vision Quest and maybe Agatha for instance (though I think they're filming the latter).

Agatha is already filming so definitely no. I also don't think they can just turn the plans for these huge miniseries and just make them into 30 minutes specials easily, it's not like Werewolf or the Guardians Holiday special were really breaking the bank budget wise. Plus they probably already had plans for the specials they were already making

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by SpiderByte

[YM!]

2 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

Agatha is already filming so definitely no. I also don't think they can just turn the plans for these huge miniseries and just make them into 30 minutes specials easily, it's not like Werewolf or the Guardians Holiday special were really breaking the bank budget wise. Plus they probably already had plans for the specials they were already making

 

They can always increase the runtime as Werewolf by Night was 53 minutes, can easily see a few getting turned into 90 minute specials.

[WrathOfHan]

 

Ant-Man:

Feb 24: 30.9M (9.3M weekdays, 175.3M Total)

Mar 3: 10.7M (3.8M weekdays, 189.7M Total)

Mar 10: 5.1M (1.6M weekdays, 196.4M Total)

Mar 17: 1.9M (800k weekdays, 199.1M Total)

Mar 24: 800k (300k weekdays, 200.2M Total)

Final Total: 202M (1.9x from 3 day/1.67x from 4 day)

 

Pitiful. 200M isn't even safe anymore, and it's almost guaranteed a sub-2x and total below Ant-Man and the Wasp. I'm assuming the early Creed IMAX shows on Tuesday will dampen any increase for Ant-Man when almost half of the box office is coming from PLF, so poor weekdays will lead into another 55-60%+ drop next weekend. By the time Scream is out, who will care anymore? Another 60% drop that weekend would likely kill 200M. There's no way to spin this as a win for the MCU.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

It's truly disheartening to see Marvel collapse like this for so many reasons. We are seeing capitalism eat itself whole

[SpiderByte]

11 minutes ago, YM! said:

They can always increase the runtime as Werewolf by Night was 53 minutes, can easily see a few getting turned into 90 minute specials.

With the VFX involved there's no way they could condense a 150 plus million dollar series into a single special.

 

Mods punished me for pointing this out but when other franchises do far worse than this has, like Morbius, there is far less sky is falling pandemonium.

Edited February 25, 2023 by SpiderByte

[SpiderByte]

Just now, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

It's truly disheartening to see Marvel collapse like this for so many reasons. We are seeing capitalism eat itself whole

Just gonna earmark this for May when Guardians comes out, or two weeks till the Oscars.

[Krissykins]

28 minutes ago, Eric Bear said:

14

(-)

Violent Night

Universal

$46,000

+3,953%

+4,594%

61

$754

$49,850,245

85

 

 

YESSSSSSSS

 

Been a long time since we had a good, high-quality fudging.

They did this a few weeks ago and it ended up being a typo. Hopefully this time it’s real lol. 
 

 

Puss In Boots holds have been excellent, but imagine if it had a good opening weekend. 

[ringedmortality]

Late stage capitalism is when the marketplace rejects a superhero movie

[SpiderByte]

5 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

Late stage capitalism is when the marketplace rejects a superhero movie

Exactly, nobody was like "this is the downfall of the underpinnings of the economy" when Dune barely cleared 100 DOM