Weekend Numbers | actuals | 58.40M KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 13.70M THE FALL GUY | 4.38M CHALLENGERS | TAROT

[titanic2187]

3 hours ago, Borobudur said:

Local movie seem doing alright but Hollywood take a big dive after Covid. Now Hollywood is no longer that of a baseline provider for cinema as local shift away their taste from Hollywood fare. 

You can say the same to Malaysia. Hollywood has been dominating in the past 20-30 years and they take yearly top 1 all the time. But local movie has made big progress here post-Covid and 3-years in a row, local movie won the top place of the year. Hollywood appeal to local masses is declining here and sometime they even struggle to compete with regional movie from Korea, India, China and Indonesia. If Hollywood remain actionless to their demising international appeal, US dominant soft power influence will truly be gone.   

[efialtes76]

50 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

It is scorching hot in Europe and honestly the hype for this movie wasn't no where close to the last 2 films. This feels more like a Rise situation. A 400+ WW total would be decent result. I hope it manages that much. Furiosa will bomb hard, so this has a solid chance of developing some legs in overseas markets.

 

 

War did 490M with 112M from China.

Kingdom won't do 400M.

Edited May 11 by efialtes76

[babz06]

1 hour ago, toutvabien said:

Challengers holding great. Too bad it's not gonna get to $50m tho

It still can get there or very close. It will be at 38m after this weekend. 

[efialtes76]

2 hours ago, filmlover said:

Maybe, if WB decides to give it the double feature treatment with Furiosa or The Watchers over the next few weeks. 

Furiosa is R.

Maybe with The Watchers but i doubt it.

[JohnnyGossamer]

3 hours ago, ringedmortality said:

 

 

Sweeney Todd is one of his best movies and everyone always forgets about it smh

Hmm. I don't know. The kills are fun for sure. It's a very ugly looking movie and not in a good way.

[Firepower]

So 2 of the highest grossing movies are gonna be comic book movies? And the only big budget movies this year that won't flop or underperform? Superhero fatigue is defeated!

Edited May 11 by Firepower

[thajdikt]

How Much do you guys think Kingdom have to make to get a sequel green light? Is 450M enough?

[thajdikt]

1 minute ago, Firepower said:

So 2 of the highest grossing movies are gonna be comic book movies? And the only big budget movies this year that won't flop or underperform? Superhero fatigue is defeated!

I think Despicable Me will beat Deadpool and maybe even Joker

[ringedmortality]

4 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Hmm. I don't know. The kills are fun for sure. It's a very ugly looking movie and not in a good way.

 

I actually think it's a pretty looking movie, with a dark gothic aesthetic which Burton hadn't done in a while and hasn't really done since (Wednesday is too bright imo). I also like the white make-up they use on the actors which give is a silent film star, or theatrical, feel to them and they're always lit with soft lights.

 

I also like how the songs for it are softened and quieted down, Depp and Carter are the weakest vocalists to take on the roles but I think it works with how intimately everything is shot.

[JohnnyGossamer]

6 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

 

I actually think it's a pretty looking movie, with a dark gothic aesthetic which Burton hadn't done in a while and hasn't really done since (Wednesday is too bright imo). I also like the white make-up they use on the actors which give is a silent film star, or theatrical, feel to them and they're always lit with soft lights.

 

I also like how the songs for it are softened and quieted down, Depp and Carter are the weakest vocalists to take on the roles but I think it works with how intimately everything is shot.

Agree to disagree.

 

I will agree that Wednesday looks awful. And, is generally awful. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

18 minutes ago, thajdikt said:

How Much do you guys think Kingdom have to make to get a sequel green light? Is 450M enough?

I expect a sequel regardless. 

[Killimano3]

I love the apes movies and have no problems with them but honestly I do wish they'd add some more action just so the GA would actually turn out for them. Dawn had enough action to get people interested and still had the more quiet emotional stuff the rest of us like

[emoviefan]

1 minute ago, Killimano3 said:

I love the apes movies and have no problems with them but honestly I do wish they'd add some more action just so the GA would actually turn out for them. Dawn had enough action to get people interested and still had the more quiet emotional stuff the rest of us like

There is enough action in this movie. If the mouth breathing short attention span pea brains can not see that than that's a them problem.

[John Marston]

Next Apes movies will have to change things up. Maybe some more human focus and  different looking locales 

[JohnnyGossamer]

5 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

There is enough action in this movie. If the mouth breathing short attention span pea brains can not see that than that's a them problem.

Eh. Meh. I'm somewhat of a snob with films and even I disagree. It's not nearly smart enough to lack more action umph. Maybe if the pacing was better? It's good overall don't get me wrong. The human female character's story kinda falls apart when you examine with even a magnifying glass from a Cracker Jack box.

 

The action that's there is really great early and really bland, dull late too. I can see why people are kinda bored with it.

[Squire]

44 minutes ago, thajdikt said:

How Much do you guys think Kingdom have to make to get a sequel green light? Is 450M enough?

Breaking even may be enough if Disney is reasonably confident the sequel can do better. 

Edited May 11 by Squire

[emoviefan]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Eh. Meh. I'm somewhat of a snob with films and even I disagree. It's not nearly smart enough to lack more action umph. Maybe if the pacing was better? It's good overall don't get me wrong. The human female character's story kinda falls apart when you examine with even a magnifying glass from a Cracker Jack box.

 

The action that's there is really great early and really bland, dull late too. I can see why people are kinda bored with it.

I don''t know I don't agree.For me the pacing was just fine and the action was exciting and there was enough throughout the movie to satisfy. I can not believe this movie of all movies is getting a divided reaction. But these are the times we live in I guess.

[AJG]

13 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Next Apes movies will have to change things up. Maybe some more human focus and  different looking locales 

I’m pretty sure the movies are all leading up to a remake of the first Apes movie. So I’d guess that will be where the next film takes us.

[emoviefan]

2 minutes ago, AJG said:

I’m pretty sure the movies are all leading up to a remake of the first Apes movie. So I’d guess that will be where the next film takes us.

Yep they did set it up in Rise .  In the background on the news about a space mission that went bad and the crew and shuttle went missing.

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, emoviefan said:

I don''t know I don't agree.For me the pacing was just fine and the action was exciting and there was enough throughout the movie to satisfy. I can not believe this movie of all movies is getting a divided reaction. But these are the times we live in I guess.

Ya know, we all watch a ton of movies here. We're all gonna be confused by something we loved getting a divisive reaction from time to time. I'm glad you loved it and hope you get to catch it again when it's still on premium screen!

 

It did setup future movies very well (to the point that I wished the ending was actually the beginning of the last act). I think I'll like the next one better. I can't imagine the creatives involved not getting a shot at least at one sequel. They did enough right and the reaction is overall positive. OW DOM is solid too.