My brain read that as "I ended up f'ing a lot of Venom" and I was so confused
It's been a long week
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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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My brain read that as "I ended up f'ing a lot of Venom" and I was so confused
It's been a long week
Why would anyone think that's there's a sexual component to Venom?
That tumblr ban must have hit you hard my dude. ;)
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Tumblr banning adult content meant Venom thirst needed a new outlet.
Spider-Verse dropped 71% on its first Monday
Weekend to 1st Monday
Lego Movie 69.0m / 3.49m -83% 3,775 thtrs
Lego Batman 53.0m / 2.72m -82% 4,088 thtrs
Spider-verse 35.36m / 2.76m -71% 3,813 thtrs
Ferdinand 13.40m / 1.20m -71% 3,621 thtrs
Grinch (2018) 67.57m / 10.66m -50% 4,141 thtrs
Should be noted that Ferdinand blew past all expectations. All the same it is an example of Christmas magic.
Come on Spider-verse! Pull a Ferdinand!
Weekend to 1st Monday
Lego Movie 69.0m / 3.49m -83% 3,775 thtrs
Lego Batman 53.0m / 2.72m -82% 4,088 thtrs
Spider-verse 35.36m / 2.76m -71% 3,813 thtrs
Ferdinand 13.40m / 1.20m -71% 3,621 thtrs
Grinch (2018) 67.57m / 10.66m -50% 4,141 thtrs
Should be noted that Ferdinand blew past all expectations. All the same it is an example of Christmas magic.
Come on Spider-verse! Pull a Ferdinand!
Apparently online sales for Aquaman are super-hot. Like almost as hot as that haka Momoa did on the red carpet. Current tracking is for $110 - $120M for the five day period before Christmas. With holiday legs, AM should easily pass $300M domestic and $800M WW.
https://deadline.com/2018/12/aquama...nnifer-lopez-christmas-box-office-1202522277/
https://deadline.com/2018/12/aquama...nnifer-lopez-christmas-box-office-1202522277/
My revised prediction from when Aquaman numbers started up in China (900m WW 275–300m in China) looks like it's in good hands, but man if it hits Homecoming numbers DOM it's not unlikely to break 1b.
Now watch Captain Marvel and Far From Home not match Aquamans performance in China. Granted considering that low man on the totem poll, ANTMAN 2, performed strongly (in comparison to other MCU Solos) in China, I'm thinking we could see future Solos bumping up by tens of millions on average in their China takes.
Though it's possible that the NEXT avengers movie pushes the solo MCU films there into what might turn out to be the new normal.
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Please god let it do 116 million opening weekend lolNever bet against James Cameron!
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Never bet against James Cameron!
oh my god.
Now can DC keep focusing on the individual movies? All of the team ups have been utter trash and 2 out of 3 of them bombed. The individual movies have all been better and more successful. Stop racing to copy marvel and do your own thing for a bit.
True bomb was the wrong word. Still Batman vs Superman was hardly a huge success and when you consider that individual movies like aqua man and WW can get reasonably close to it that's got to be a significant disappointment.
I dunno, it might not strictly fit the definition but I'd consider Batman v Superman a bomb, it straight up collapsed over its opening weekend and it was really only the upfront raw numbers that allowed it to do well enough.
It wasn't as damaging as Justice League, but it sure paved the way.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=superman2015.htm
It wasn't as damaging as Justice League, but it sure paved the way.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=superman2015.htm
I'm still fucking confused. Since Venom eats people... does that mean the person he hosts is eating them as well?
If that clip were Ant-Man and the Wasp, it would be a good movie instead of a terrible clip from a bad movie.
Seriously, that clip is Catwoman levels of bad.
It's criminal Spider-Verse didn't open stronger. Maybe the very positive reviews and word of mouth will keep it from diminishing over an unusual period of weeks a la Wonder Woman.
It's looking like Aquaman was so strong overseas that it will only need like a $250m domestic box office to justify a sequel, which it will probably blow past.
It's looking like Aquaman was so strong overseas that it will only need like a $250m domestic box office to justify a sequel, which it will probably blow past.
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The goal post moving is amazing. BvS wasn't bomb. No matter what how you try to justify it to yourself.
I literally just said that in my post. BvS wasn't a bomb in the sense that it probably didn't lose money but it doesn't change the point I was making that in general the big team up movies from DC just haven't been all that successful.
The previous 2 Batman movies grossed over 1 billion WW and if anything the international market has grown a lot since then. Even man of steel grossed 668 million WW. Wonder Woman grossed 820 million alone. You can't tell me DC were aiming for just 855 million for the first time those 3 characters were on screen together.
Even motherfucking aquaman could come pretty close to BvS numbers, that should tell you everything really. Their individual movies are performing better at the BO and have been much better received critically so why not keep going with that for a little bit before attempting another big team up?
For as basic as it is, I still feel there was at least a bit of passion behind AM&TW
Venom is made purely out of obligation. It's not terrible, just hollow. Loved how he looked though
BvS wasn't a bomb, but it was a huge disappointment given the significance of the 2 Brands meeting for the first time in cinema of the 2 biggest iconic superheroes of the last 5 decades. 1 billion dollars worldwide Box Office should've been the worst case scenario.
Can't get behind
Ton Hardy passioned the shit out of Venom. Other people might have been doing it for the paycheck, but he was all in. For all the budget and shoot time that AmatW had it never escaped itself. I couldn't consider Antman 2 a more passionate production than Venom by any stretch, and you can see some flourishes from the director (like the yoga bits) where they really do make what would otherwise be a by the numbers film their own as much as they can. It's also why I have a lot of optimism for the sequel, being that Hardy and co will be given better conditions to make the sequel. To me Antman 2 is just more polished, but that's about it.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/8/17951952/venom-movie-lobster-scene-tom-hardy
I have zero problem standing with the general audiences on this one. Venom was awesome and it sits next to the few BRs I own: Blade Runner 2049, Fury Road, Deadpool, The Fountain, Alien, Unbreakable, and Robocop.
Ton Hardy passioned the shit out of Venom. Other people might have been doing it for the paycheck, but he was all in. For all the budget and shoot time that AmatW had it never escaped itself. I couldn't consider Antman 2 a more passionate production than Venom by any stretch, and you can see some flourishes from the director (like the yoga bits) where they really do make what would otherwise be a by the numbers film their own as much as they can. It's also why I have a lot of optimism for the sequel, being that Hardy and co will be given better conditions to make the sequel. To me Antman 2 is just more polished, but that's about it.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/8/17951952/venom-movie-lobster-scene-tom-hardy
I have zero problem standing with the general audiences on this one. Venom was awesome and it sits next to the few BRs I own: Blade Runner 2049, Fury Road, Deadpool, The Fountain, Alien, Unbreakable, and Robocop.
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Closer to 25%. Money is money. Particularly when you're taking home closer to 300m in revenue. What does the margin matter, being lower than the INT average is you're running 3.5 times as much in gross compared to the UK from a market that didn't really exist not too long ago and continues to be the fastest growing in the world. So just imagine what the 25% take will amount to in the near future, not too mention that it was roughly 13% not long ago, and could go up from 25% in time. That and benchmarks are benchmarks which have implications on future releases.
Infinity War UK: 96m x .25 0.40 = 38.4m return
Infinity War China: 359m x 0.25 = 89.75m return
Wikipedia lists Infinity War as having had up to a 400m budget, so nearly 1 quarter of that almost got paid by China (oversimplification but you get the point), lack of strong ancillary markets be damned.
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I just like following the total BO numbers, I don't really care how much money the studios make for the most part. International markets are also less than domestic numbers but I still find them interesting.
China tends to get more attention because it's the only market that can come close to domestic numbers. I do post Australian discussion semi often but nobody cares because the numbers are relatively small. It's only natural that the bigger numbers will get more attention.
Might be due to mobile but I can't see the image or copy the UrlSpeaking of overseas profit sharing and ancillary markets, I found the image that I was looking for a week or two back. It is from a 2014 article, so some of the dvd/bluray pie likely switched to digital, but it largely holds true now:
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Speaking of overseas profit sharing and ancillary markets, I found the image that I was looking for a week or two back. It is from a 2014 article, so some of the dvd/bluray pie likely switched to digital, but it largely holds true now:
Wow I'm shocked that television would bring in that much, where does it come from? I know here in Australia back in the 90s movies would come close to being the highest rated programs of the year.
Now though? They get terrible ratings. I'm amazed that TV would come close to theatre takings or DVD but there you go.
Wrinkle in Time bombed so hard in the US that Disney didn't even bother to release it in a lot of markets. It got cancelled from cinema release here one month in advance and then, to add insult to injury, they also completely cancelled the home release.
It deserved it considering it's an awful movie, but it's still kinda shocking to me that Disney would just try to delete a movie from.existence so thoroughly in 2018.
I finally saw Spiderverse.
Spiderverse >>> any other CBM in 2018.
Spiderverse >>> any Spider-Man film, period.
Spiderverse >>> any other CBM in 2018.
Spiderverse >>> any Spider-Man film, period.
Are you seriously going to bat for AM&TW? That movie is pure mediocrity. Venom is a much more entertaining movie.
He's talking for the 5 days Friday through the Xmas Holiday on Mon and Tues.
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