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Wkd Box Office - 12•12-16•18 - Spider-verse buries Mortal Engines domestically. Clint does fine. Aquaman rules the world with $262M overseas.
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Just came out of Aquaman and I enjoyed it and I felt that the rest of the audience did as well. It has some corny scenes but overall it's a good time. Reminded me a bit of Thor Ragnarok, not as good but same vibe. The main characters are likeable enough and it has a ton of action sequences. The part in
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lol seriously...7 fluke movies that grossed $6.5 billion ww
Also, Jackson didn't direct ME.
ME was supposed to launch a new franchise for Universal. It's definitely worse than Solo.
Long-term, it should at least beat Bumblebee, I'd think.
Peter Jackson needs to go back to his roots and make some horror/comedies again. His fantasy stuff has been such a bore.
Non-heavily family oriented/appeal animated movies just never do very well unfortunately. Even Star Wars (with The Clone Wars) only did $35m total domestic. Spider-verse will be one of the more successful ones at least though.
Have you seen it? The visuals are ground breaking and feature some pretty amazing stuff.
Unfortunately the choppy visual style (which is not related to how fluid the animation can be ... parts of it are amazingly fluid) seems to be bothering some viewers, and make some people think this is a TV- level production ala Teen Titans the movie.
Spider-Verse is fantastic, and deserves a ton of BO. With a bit of luck it will be carried by word of mouth during the Holidays and repeat viewing.
I can't figure out if I should go see spider-verse in cinemas or not. I really want it to do well but finding the time is difficult, and no cinemas in my entire country is showing it in 3d (which i love) so I might get more out of just waiting. Its a shame to see it isn't doing better though. Everything I've heard is very positive. Although I think the choppy framerate might have prevented this from being as big as it could. Hope it has legs !
God damn, that Mortal Engines bomb, haha. Welp, I was thinking about going to see that today, but I think I'll got see Spiderman again instead.
My Friday night screening (which was half empty) was 100% adults. I didn't see a single child.
No? He's had plenty of successes and he didn't even direct Mortal Engines. Although I do wonder what kind of health Weta is in if this is an enormous bomb.
I mean, compared to anything from Disney Animation Studios, Pixar or Dreamworks, 90 million is an extremely modest budget. And the film looks terrific so you can definitely see the money on screen.
I'm shocked it only cost that much. When you watch it, it looks expensive.
Saw both Spider-Verse and Aquaman over the weekend. Spider-Verse was amazing and might be my favorite movie this year. Aquaman...was certainly not that.
Deadline put put a (not great) article detailing how much money Mortal Engines is gonna lose (spoiler: it's a lot)
'Mortal Engines' Conks Out At The B.O. And Is Poised To Lose At Least $100M+: Here's Why
'Mortal Engines' Conks Out At The B.O. And Is Poised To Lose At Least $100M+: Here's Why
$120M is a very generous prediction.
There's not much more analysis to the article but a lot more words on the how and hopes for it. But it does give us P&A estimates and exposure for the financial partners on it:
Do you mean in total take or per-theatre-average? Because Beale Street is in 4 theatres, so there's a pretty hard cap on how much it can make from that. That there hasn't been that many Awards Season films that have taken off on a PTA level might be a commodity issue (i.e. the films are just too niche, but lawd if The Favourite managed to break the PTA record for the year "too niche" seems like a misnomer), maybe the audience is too busy with Netflix/HBO/whatever, maybe A Star is Born ate up all the Awards season attention. idk.
Spidey better have some good legs. I want it to be so successful. :/
And DAMN at Mortal Engine lol.
And DAMN at Mortal Engine lol.
Does a shock wave after it spectacularly bombs qualify?
(I'm not actually suggesting it will bomb, but I can resist)
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I have a 5 year old, and I would say that Spider-verse isn't really appropriate for younger kids. Not because anything in it is objectionable (at least beyond the network cartoons that we used to watch), but because it is not written in a way that will appeal to children. There is a long ramp up to action, a lot of the plot focuses on interpersonal stuff that is not going to interest them. Basically a recipe for bored little kids.
It's more likely everyone is waiting till next week or Christmas to see movies, you'll be shocked how many people see movies on Christmas
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Hong Kong 20 December 2018
Japan 21 December 2018
Australia 26 December 2018
Italy 1 January 2019
Argentina 3 January 2019
Brazil 3 January 2019
Serbia 3 January 2019
Bulgaria 4 January 2019
Czech Republic 10 January 2019
Hungary 10 January 2019
Slovakia 10 January 2019
Lithuania 11 January 2019
Poland 11 January 2019
Romania 11 January 2019
Turkey 11 January 2019
Germany 24 January 2019
Norway 1 February 2019
Sweden 1 February 2019
Denmark 7 February 2019
France 13 February 2019
Ralph will do alright, but it is still the bottom rung of popularity for post-Tangled Disney Animation
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Mortal Engines flopping was long predicted, but the level of its flopping is amusing.
Disney/Pixar has huge name recognition and more importantly, recognition of quality. Not so with SPA, which leads people who don't know better to think it's not that good. Combine that with a superhero movie being animated causing people to think it's somehow "lesser" than live action counterparts (because animated movies can't adapt superhero properties, duh). Add that onto a crowded winter release and it makes sense actually.
In short, people suck.
Is The Grinch gonna make more money DOM than Ralph?
If so than it's freaky how good illumination is at counterprogramming Disney films
If so than it's freaky how good illumination is at counterprogramming Disney films
It kind of sucks that all of these big movies are hitting all at once. There was a long dry spell earlier in the month that could have used some of these releases. Now I'm going to have to skip certain movies for at least a week (sorry, Aquaman) because of other priorities.
Why would a visual effects studio be impacted by how well a film performs at the box office?
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The Grinch is going to end up pretty close to 300M. If Ralph passes 200M, it will be by crawling there.
Completely anecdotal, but I asked some of my students (2nd and 3rd grade) if they were going to go see it. They either didn't know what it was or weren't interested.
So at least in my little pocket of the world, the movie seems to have mostly missed the kids. Which is definitely odd for a Spider-Man movie.
It certainly feels like the marketing for Spider-Verse has been quite muted until only recently =/
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