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Wkd BO 07•07-09•17 - Minions cede dominion over box office, Homecoming KING

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93% Spider-Man: Homecoming
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62% Despicable Me 3
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97% Baby Driver
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92% Wonder Woman
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15% Transformers: The Last Knight

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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming' Slings to Massive $117 Million Domestic Opening

Spider-Man is officially a box office overachiever.

As of Sunday morning, the latest cinematic depiction of the webbed-hero, ”Spider-Man: Homecoming," is looking at a $117 million opening from 4,348 locations. $10.6 million of the domestic total came from 392 Imax screens. That's a huge win for Sony, Columbia Pictures, and Marvel Studios for the film, which cost roughly $175 million to produce. The anticipated opening weekend is higher than industry estimates, which were in the $90 million to $110 million range, while the studio cautiously pegged it at $80 million.

”Everyone at Sony and Marvel are thrilled," said Josh Greenstein, Sony's marketing chief. ”It's safe to say it's a triumphant return for Spider-Man."

”Homecoming" banked on the idea that the summer box office was craving a family-friendly superhero movie — Tom Holland plays a high school version of Peter Parker who, at 15 years old, has to prove that he is worthy of being called an Avenger. And it seems that bet is paying off. The $117 million figure is the second largest in Sony Pictures history, behind ”Spider-Man 3."

Much attention has been paid to the flick's successful marketing campaign, which heavily featured Iron Man (Robert Downy Jr.), who serves as Spider-Man's mentor in the film. Michael Keaton plays the big bad, Vulture, Jon Favreau plays Spidey's guardian, Happy Hogan, and Zendaya stars as Michelle Jones (”MJ"), Parker's brainy classmate. The movie consistently dominated social media in the weeks leading up to its release.

Before ”Homecoming," Jon Watts directed two much lower-budget feature films — the 2014 horror movie ”Clown" and 2015's ”Cop Car" starring Kevin Bacon. He also has a handful of writing and producing credits, and is one of six writers credited on the ”Homecoming" script. Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal share production credit. While the former has proven essentially infallible in the biz, ”Homecoming" serves as a redemption narrative for the latter. After the infamous 2014 Sony hack, Pascal was ousted from her post at the top of the studio, and began to focus on producing. This is her second major release following last summer's ”Ghostbusters" reboot, but she also has a hand in a long list of upcoming projects including Sony's ”Barbie" movie, Steven Spielberg's A-list-studded ”The Papers," and future ”Spider-Man" movies.

”We have incredible partners," said Greenstein, who said that those relationships helped the film to be ”embraced in a big way. It really shows the strength for this beloved character."

Despite the reliability of superhero movies at the box office, ”Homecoming" could have been seen as a big bet for all parties involved. For one, it's the third iteration of the character in the past 15 years — before Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire donned the Spidey suit. The makers had to trust that audiences would be ready to see the character yet again. On top of that, the summer box office has not been particularly kind to the sequels and reboots that have become the industry's summer signature. As audience fatigue has impacted previously reliable franchises like ”Transformers" and even ”Despicable Me," the one thing that this summer has proved is that the domestic audience is not yet burnt out on superheroes.

This is yet another Marvel movie release that has managed to capture the approval of critics and audience members — something the the DC Extended Universe could not claim until this summer with ”Wonder Woman." But Marvel's been there since the beginning. ”Homecoming" currently has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and an A CinemaScore.

”Homecoming" is the only major release this weekend, so the rest of the top five are made up to familiar faces. Starting with ”Despicable Me 3," which is headed for a $34 million second frame, or a 53% drop from last weekend. ”Baby Driver" should sit comfortable in third, as positive word of a mouth is steering to a $12.8 million second weekend, or a 38% drop. ”Wonder Woman" continues to hold on with $10.1 million in its sixth weekend, and ”Transformers: The Last Knight" should round out the top five with $6.3 million.

Kumail Nanjiani's ”The Big Sick" is entering the top ten as it expands toward wide release, starting next Friday. From 326 North American theaters this weekend the movie should make $3.7 million. Sofia Coppola's ”The Beguiled" should stay in the top ten as it, too, expands. This weekend it's expected to make $2.1 million from 941 locations. Meanwhile, A24's ”A Ghost Story" starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck should spook $105,000 from four locations during its opening frame.

Overall, the summer box office stands at about $2.3 billion, or 8% lower than last year. That leaves the year overall about dead even with 2016 after movies like ”Beauty and the Beast," ”Logan," ”Get Out" and ”The Fate of the Furious" laid a strong foundation for the summer during the early part of the calendar year.

”Despite the strength of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,' yet another ‘down' weekend puts us dead even with last year's box office pace as we remain down 8% for the summer," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore. ”The silver lining is the expected continued strength of Spidey, plus ‘War For The Planet of The Apes,' ‘Dunkirk,' and ‘Atomic Blonde' all in rapid succession that could fuel a much-needed late summer renaissance at the multiplex."
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Come on Spider-Man!Come on Spider-Man!Come on Spider-Man!Come on Spider-Man!Come on Spider-Man!Come on Spider-Man!
 
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overcast

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Great hold for Baby Driver. Hoping it can continue and get over 100 million. Gonna be tough.

Wonder Woman not too phased by a new super hero movie apparently, Jesus.
 
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kswiston

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Worldwide Updates:

Spider-Man Homecoming - $257M
Wonder Woman - $746M
Pirates 5 - $734M
Transformers 5 - $495M
Despicable Me 3 - $448M
The Mummy - $385M
 
Certinty

Certinty

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Wonder how much Spider-Man can do now. Guardians 2 got to 850 and this is a great Spider-Man movie, so maybe 900?
 
Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Looks like quality writing is getting rewarded this summer. Hmm. I wonder what lesson Hollywood will take away from this.
Nothing
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NotLiquid

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ZombieFred said:
Story behind this?
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He's the main reason Spidey 3 through TASM2 became corporate vehicles rather than movies and was allegedly against the idea of MCU x Spidey (mainly cause he and everyone else knew he would get no creative control over it).

Granted the Venom thing is still happening under him so,
 
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starchild excalibur

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kswiston said:
Worldwide Updates:

Spider-Man Homecoming - $257M
Wonder Woman - $746M
Pirates 5 - $734M
Transformers 5 - $495M
Despicable Me 3 - $448M
The Mummy - $385M
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LOL at Transformers.

That series can get fucked. Still hoping Travis Knight can do some surprisingly great stuff with the Bumblebee spin-off though.

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Baby Driver is already at $70 mil worldwide. It should pass Edgar Wright's high water mark of Hot Fuzz ($80 mil) pretty easily. Wasn't the biggest fan of Baby Driver, but I'm so happy to see the film doing well + Wright getting more shine in the public's eye.
 
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kurahador

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That Transformers, yikes. Seems like the only successful attempts at cinematic universe this year is Monsterverse with Kong.
 
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RBelong2Us

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117m is a great overall number but pretty weak when you consider how big it's Friday was .

Interested to see how frontloaded it ends up being .
 
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lightskintwin

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overcast said:
Great hold for Baby Driver. Hoping it can continue and get over 100 million. Gonna be tough.

Wonder Woman not too phased by a new super hero movie apparently, Jesus.
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Do you mean domestically? If so, I can't see it make it to 100 million, but globally I think it definitely makes it over that mark.
 
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Principate

Saint Titanfall
Who would of thought Wonder Woman would end having one of the biggest domestic runs for a super hero movie origin ever and though optismitically. in contention for the top spot
 
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hodayathink

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NotLiquid said:
He's the main reason Spidey 3 through TASM2 became corporate vehicles rather than movies and was allegedly against the idea of MCU x Spidey (mainly cause he and everyone else knew he would get no creative control over it).

Granted the Venom thing is still happening under him so,
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IIRC, he was also the person that had Feige's job at Marvel before him.
 
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bananafactory

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RBelong2Us said:
117m is a great overall number but pretty weak when you consider how big it's Friday was .

Interested to see how frontloaded it ends up being .
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Yeah I think a lot of us were seeing 120-130. Seemed pretty flat Saturday so we might be looking at a standard big superhero drop next weekend. Unlike what WW has done
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
broncobuster said:
Obviously can't factor in 3D for the older movies, but a little higher than Spider-Man 1 and way below Spider-Man 3's $155M.
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Spider-Man 3 being the biggest opening is so damn disappointing. So many people came in expecting so much off the second movie.
 
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CaviarMeths

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Lifeline said:
How does this compare to other Spider-Man movies?
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It's 2nd highest behind Spider-Man 3, but Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3 both broke the opening weekend record when they released. So in that context, this is a little mild.

On the other hand, it's also the 2nd reboot of the character in a short time frame and following up the disappointing TASM series. In the context of a Batman Begins style redemption for the character, it's good.
 
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