Fri: SW 20.3m; MIB 8.3m; TA 5.65m/Sat DHD: SW 21.5m; MIB 12m; TA 9m

[Totem]

Good number for MIB, SW and TA. Overall a good weekend.

[The Futurist]

How is the possibility of 180M domestically excellent for MIB3?The budget plus marketing is like 375-400M or something.

I am getting a little tired by these remarks.YOu understand that studios are not stupid enough to expect that every 200m+ blockbuster they produce will do 600-700-800m ww at the box office ???It is a little more complex than that.

[YoursTruly]

Those are impressive numbers for the top three. MIB3 held on quite well.

[Magic]

I am getting a little tired by these remarks.YOu understand that studios are not stupid enough to expect that every 200m+ blockbuster they produce will do 600-700-800m ww at the box office ???It is a little more complex than that.

So they expect to take all that time and effort and resources to make a movie so it can barely break even way down the track? Sony didn't set out making MIB3 in the hope that it would make 180M domestically.Hancock made 620M WW four years ago without 3D, of course they were expecting something like 800M WW or they wouldn't have thrown so much money at it. Edited June 3, 2012 by Magic

[Shawn Robbins]

So THG definitely made it into the top 10 again? Wasn't there some other movie that might have supplanted it?

For Greater Glory's number just came in 300k higher. Edited June 3, 2012 by ShawnMR

[John Marston]

did The Dictator just have an 85% drop?:

[rb02]

For Greater Glory's number just came in 300k higher.

I'm definitely checking that one out sometime, either at the theater or on DVD at some point. On a lot of weekends, just not this one, for obvious reasons, I would have been there opening day.

[lab276]

For Greater Glory's number just came in. It supplanted it after all.

Damn.

[Moviefanatic]

did The Dictator just have an 85% drop?:

lol Damn that's big.

[rockNrollaDIM]

I can answer that question

It's because a disproportionate numbers of posters here have a shit-negative agenda for this movie.

As to why they have that agenda? That, I can't answer. Perhaps because they don't like the genre, perhaps they don't like Stewart. Some may have actually even disliked the movie, though that wouldn't explain the pre-release negativity by a few posters

The pitchforks almost always come out for movies (more) geared towards women on this site. It's amazing THG had as much support as it got.

[Totem]

So they expect to take all that time and effort and resources to make a movie so it can barely break even way down the track? Sony didn't set out making MIB3 in the hope that it would make 180M domestically.

I'm sure people much smarter than us at Sony new it was very likely to finish beneath MIB/MIB2 especially 10 years after the last film which is never a winning formula, it will make money for the studio.

[rockNrollaDIM]

"Here’s why the cost of MIB3 soared: The time travel elements of Etan Cohen’s script had to be re-worked by Jeff Nathanson who needed more time to pull off the tricky plot device while Cohen worked on another project. So the film shut down for about six weeks, which is a rarity for a major tentpole, and then Cohen came back to finish the movie. That caused the cost to skyrocket from a range of $225M (which is what Sony claims as the budget) to $300M (which is what rival studios say it really was)."

http://www.deadline....ts/#more-277999

I don't get that... I see that a lot, time = money, but if nobody's working why does a delay cause the cost to increase so much?

[lab276]

I don't get that... I see that a lot, time = money, but if nobody's working why does a delay cause the cost to increase so much?

Have to work overtime later to make the release date?

[Moviefanatic]

did The Dictator just have an 85% drop?:

Actually it didn't. BOM has it at a 49% drop. Boxoffice.com numbers are incomplete.

[Olive]

Snow White wasn't a cheap proposition, costing at least $170 million to produce, excluding a nine-figure marketing spend.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-snow-white-huntsman-kristen-stewart-charlize-theron-chris-hemsworth-prometheus-332425

[Shawn Robbins]

did The Dictator just have an 85% drop?:

Nah, it was a typo in the system. Drop was 49%

[Jack Nevada]

The Dictator grossed 100M this weekend. Another Great success for Cohen.

[rockNrollaDIM]

For Greater Glory's number just came in 300k higher.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[lab276]

http://www.hollywood...ometheus-332425

That was silly, $100m+ on marketing.

[Magic]

I'm sure people much smarter than us at Sony new it was very likely to finish beneath MIB/MIB2 especially 10 years after the last film which is never a winning formula, it will make money for the studio.

Exactly, which must be why they decided to do it in the first place.

Whether it makes much money at all for the studio depends on whether the budget is 225M like Sony is saying or whether it's nearly 300M like rival studios are saying.

Edited June 3, 2012 by Magic