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Well deserved. Congrats to everyone involved.
What a run. It beat expectations for both quality and earnings. Hard to imagine how Disney/Lucasfilm could have had a more successful relaunching of the franchise.
Yup, they did exactly what they wanted to do and then some. They knew they had to make a quality product to get everyone back on board, and they did it.
Here's to hoping for two more even better films.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=starwars7.htm
Another good estimated hold for Friday. 1.7M.
Another good estimated hold for Friday. 1.7M.
Friday Studio Estimates
1) Kung Fu Panda 3 - $5.2M - $53M total
2) Hail, Caesar! - $4.3M
3) The Choice - $2.5M
4) The Revenant - $2.1M - $145M
5) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - $2.0M
6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $1.7M - $901M total
Seems like a pretty big drop for Panda. Star Wars and the Revenant held well yesterday, but both are going to see their Sunday totals annihilated by Superbowl.
I think it is safe to say that people don't really give a shit about zombie spoofs. They seem to be getting tired of Nicolas Sparks films as well.
1) Kung Fu Panda 3 - $5.2M - $53M total
2) Hail, Caesar! - $4.3M
3) The Choice - $2.5M
4) The Revenant - $2.1M - $145M
5) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - $2.0M
6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $1.7M - $901M total
Seems like a pretty big drop for Panda. Star Wars and the Revenant held well yesterday, but both are going to see their Sunday totals annihilated by Superbowl.
I think it is safe to say that people don't really give a shit about zombie spoofs. They seem to be getting tired of Nicolas Sparks films as well.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Kung Fu final domestic tally be like $120M-ish? ;.;
It will depend on how it does during the long weekend next week.
EDIT: Kung Fu Panda 3 passed $100M in China today. It should easily stay ahead of the domestic gross to be the biggest territory for the film WW.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
That's great for China!
Though quite disappointing that Kung Fu's domestic tally will be lower than that godawful Home ugh
It's the Panda. We don't dig on Panda's. Filthy things.
The Force Awakens managed to squeak by $125M in China as of today as well. It's month long run is pretty much up, but that's pretty good given its first 9 days.
The first one did really well here. Especially for a non Shrek/Pixar film at the time. However, the sequels to that and How to Train Your Dragon seemed to have not resonated with people. I have no idea why, since Madagascar films continue to get business.
The first one did really well here. Especially for a non Shrek/Pixar film at the time. However, the sequels to that and How to Train Your Dragon seemed to have not resonated with people. I have no idea why, since Madagascar films continue to get business.
They should have had a special/extended edition of the film to launch into theatres about now (preferably with a trailer for Rogue One or Episode 8). I feel like that would have easily extracted another 200 million from die-hard fans.
Sibersk Esto
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It's the full "Kung fu panda" title that turns people off in my experience.
Bobby Roberts
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That would not only be unprecedented, but kind of ridiculous. Movie still hasn't even crossed the two month mark. It'd be kind of a weird precedent to set. As it is consumers/audiences are a little put off by the idea that their blu-rays/dvds are made obsolete in 1-2 years thanks to the forced-double-dipping strategy that causes many films to have "extended/special editions" that never needed them.
Taking that principle, and applying it to films that are still placing in the top 10 weekend to weekend less than 2 months out from initial release? People would likely react negatively rather than positively. "Why didn't you just release THIS ONE in the first fuckin' place?"
That kinda thing.
I wonder if that sort of move would deflate the box office of Ep 8-9. I have to imagine that a lot of LOTR fans skipped those summer cash-in DVD releases in favour of the December Special editions last decade.
I'm guilty of this. I thought the movie was going to be terrible because the title sounds dumb
Jeffolation
Banned
Learned of the The Choice while browsing Rotten Tomatoes. Figured it was more Christian programming.
Since his movie adaptations seem to on the downturn, will he at some point start pandering towards overtly Christian audiences, or are they already a significant consumer of his current product?
Since his movie adaptations seem to on the downturn, will he at some point start pandering towards overtly Christian audiences, or are they already a significant consumer of his current product?
Goddamn
4 day weekend for most Americans too.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
What about Zoolander?
Based on previous years, that Monday holiday is only inflated by 40-50% for most adult-skewed films.
If they are guessing $81M for the 4-day, the 3-Day estimate would be in the low $70M range.
That would be a #6 of all time opening for an R-rated film.
They have that at $23M for the 4-day.
cj_iwakura
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Half tempted to see Pride & Prejudice, the fact that it plays it straight sounds like maybe, just maybe, they got it right.
Bound to be better than dreck like Fifty Shades of Black.
Bound to be better than dreck like Fifty Shades of Black.
I think the advertising really helped. I've definitely heard people with zero interest in comic book movies asking me about dead pool and what was up with the "weird" ads.
Fellowship of the Ring had a Two Towers trailer attached to it after a month or two, IIRC. Avatar got a relatively quick re-release as well. Those would be the two closest precedents I can think of.
PhoncipleBone
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And attaching that Two Towers trailer gave Fellowship an amazing 11% gain from the previous weekend, for a weekend total of $2.3m. Of course, adding 200 theaters probably helped too.
Attaching a trailer is not going to make any significant impact at all.
LOTR ain't Star Wars!
And while a trailer isn't much these days (it'll be on YouTube within an hour), Disney has held previews in the past. Imagine 15 mins (that will never be officially released on YouTube) of Rogue One or Episode VIII attached to a TFA re-release? I think that could be pretty big at the box office.
Exterminieren
Banned
Dreamworks can't really pack them in for anything any more. It's been a rough couple of years for that studio.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
lol it's been more than a rough couple of years.
The fuck
Butts-a-plenty
Banned
LOTR ain't Star Wars!
And while a trailer isn't much these days (it'll be on YouTube within an hour), Disney has held previews in the past. Imagine 15 mins (that will never be officially released on YouTube) of Rogue One or Episode VIII attached to a TFA re-release? I think that could be pretty big at the box office.
Thinking a trailer is going to generate $200 million is up there in crazy land with $3 billion TFA predictions.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
As Phonciple pointed out, that (and the increase of 200 screens) only led to a 2.3 mil weekend, and the film still didn't re-enter the top 10.
The Avatar Special Edition Re-release (w/ 9 minutes of extra footage re-edited into the film) happened in August of 2010 (8 months after initial release) and took12 weeks in 3D and IMAX 3D theaters to make another 10 million.
Seeing as Abrams doesn't like doing Special Edition cuts of his films, and there's another Star Wars movie opening in December anyway, and a Force Awakens re-release anytime during the summer season is going to suffer pretty steep competition, I'm not seeing a re-release of Force Awakens anytime in 2016 doing much more than 20-30 mil in a limited run at best. I mean, 20-30 is being really optimistic, too. Titanic's highly successful re-release was helped by the fact it was converted to 3D, the Chinese market, and had been off theater screens for 15 years.
If it's going to make a billion domestic at any point, it'll have to happen in a couple years, when the novelty of being able to see it at the theater returns to such a level that it can maybe feel like an event again, much like the Special Editions did 20 years after Star Wars initially opened.
ryutaro's mama
Member
Hope is does well but I'm afraid if it does, there will be a race to land the next obscure, non-Marvel comic movie that some studio will try to me-too into the next Deadpool by giving him a potty mouth.
"See? He's cursing too..that's what you wanted, right? Can we have an $82 million dollar opening weekend, plz?"
DryEyeRelief
Member
Are animated movies not that much of a draw anymore?
Inside out made over 350M domestic just last year. Minions made nearly as much domestic a month later. Frozen made 400M domestic 2 years ago. People are just more choosy at what they see now that there are a half dozen big computer animated films a year. Just releasing a film is no longer enough.
Edit: Even Pixar had to learn that last year with the Good Dinosaur.
You must have had a particularly busy theatre. PTA is down to just over $3k for the weekend, and its 8th weekend was actually under Avengers' 8th weekend (though TFA will probably pull back ahead next weekend).
Except Titanic did 25M on it's 7th weekend.
TFA scored the 25th biggest eighth weekend of all time. A lot of films above it are quite old by this point, but some more recent (non-platform) film examples would include Avatar at $22.9M, Frozen at $11.8M, The first Pirates of the Caribbean at $8.0M, and Avengers at $7.2M in their eighth weekend.
Exterminieren
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Nah, animated films can still be huge. Within the past few years, we've had big-to-enormous hits in Frozen, Minions and Inside Out, and there are still successful films coming out of a variety of production houses.
Dreamworks, though, shot their most successful franchise in the head, and have been scrabbling to pull a similarly sized hit out of the bag ever since. Competition's grown, and Dreamworks simply hasn't been putting out projects that audiences are desperate to see for a while.
Didn't see another thread, so I thought I'd post here.
https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/697861473557680129
So we're at 908M; if we're looking at 4M this weekend (40% drop), looks like we'll be at 912M. I think the final domestic total will be like 918-920M.
Not a bad run.
https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/697861473557680129
So we're at 908M; if we're looking at 4M this weekend (40% drop), looks like we'll be at 912M. I think the final domestic total will be like 918-920M.
Not a bad run.
frankie_baby
Member
Nah it's probably got another 25 million in the tank
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