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Wkd Box Office - 12•21-23•18 - X-mas 5-day updates: Aquaman $105M, Mary Poppins $41M, Bumblebee $34M, Spider-verse $25M
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That Aquaman number doesn't seem to be that good, or am I missing something? I mean its doing ok, but opened with less than Suicide Squad, BvS and WW by far and even less than Justice League.. So the least of any of the new DC movies?
Apart from being released in December holiday period , it has way more competition than of those previous movies
Won the Xmas movie battle easily amidst tough competition and gave Disney a rare poor December. More importantly gave the DCEU a much needed lifeline.
I suppose it's the time of year. January is typically a quiet month, and I think the only viable competition is Glass? I wouldn't expect December to do huge numbers, but i would expect decent legs rather than falling off a cliff like other DC films.
The talk of Bumblee being this great reinvention of Transformers is hilarious when the trailers look like the same old garbage from before. The marketing does not reflect perceived film quality, and that's the it's is dying a slow death. People have better things to do than watch a poorly marketed film over Christmas.
Movie houses might have a bit of patience with Poppins but Bee? Seems to be a good movie and I wish it well.
He pretty much WB guy as is with his Conjuring Universe and such.
Aquaman was visually stunning but some of the dialogue was really rough. If Wan staid on as an active producer and brought in another director, like he's done with the Conjuring films, that'd be okay with me.
That sounds like a writing/script issue. You can keep Wan and just get better writers.
jesus, fifty shade thoughAquaman seems to be pretty big in the Netherlands.
aquaman monday #, good hold
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Momo's stock is gonna go up like Gal's did
Which is awesome and well deserved. Dude has been grinding hard to break into the industry and had nothing but bad luck after GoT.
Yeah, Wan just being a producer doesn't mean shit lol. His direction was one of the highlights of Aquaman
When you gotta go you gotta go*
3 day.
Looks like Aquaman actuals are already out and a smudge higher than the estimates.
Spider-verse is keeping us in suspense, but Rth leaked approx sat actuals. Spider-verse was estimated at 6.2-6.3 SAT for BOM but Rths Sat # for it is 6.9m.
That's high enough over the Saturday estimates that Spider-verse should beat 16.6m weekend tracking. It could end up coming in closer to the 19m that BOP estimated for it a week ago.
Merry Christmas kswiston, thankyou for all of your hard work, consistency, passion, and tolerance of our bafoonery, both in general fanboy clashing and (sometimes uniformed) hot takes :p
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Pirates #2 and #4 both cracked a billion at the box office, and the last one (#5) still managed close to $800M. That's not running it into the ground.
I wouldn't really count Narnia as being "run into the ground". Disney only released two, then Fox did one and that was it.
which is kind which is kind of sad I actually really liked the movie and the universe would love to see what they did with it
Not really. Spidey might be great, but it's not what people want. If it was it's be number one.
Part of the 'issue' is that there is a against animated film in China. It has gotten review bombed by idiot who feel threatened by it.
That said, Aquaman out grossing Spider-man this soon isn't unexpected. Verse is bouncing like a SH film that opened like an animated film in China.
Aquaman opened close to Venom and has done slightly better from there.
With Aquaman beasting there's still room for a number 2 movie to flourish (look at A Cool Fish and Venom from earlier as both films did extremely well).
+2 OWx is still likely, probably closer to 60-70m end of run unless the review bombing caps it. This is, quite good for a toon in China. It could unthrone the 14th highest grossing animated feature there, and near unanimously positive WOM the world over should bode well for a sequel.
And the local films are all of poorer quality + Totorro doing well may be helping by osmosis to give Spiderverse a shot.
But the bigger concern is Z master taking showings from the other side, imo. Currently holds the second best PTA ahead of Spiderverse with half the showings.
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/
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Guess the message about family got Mexico and China alike
Spider-verse
I haven't checked where it is now, but a few days ago It got review bombed to 9.0 with an influx of takes that are the worst scores, just calling people who like it stupid because it's animated, and not a real movie.
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Aquaman isn't done it's run, so putting it in the pool with Antman isn't fair. I'm thinking it will be higher than Suicide Squad in the end.Wow, was not expecting Poppins to flop. I thought the Beauty and the Beast/Into the Woods crowd would save it.
And holy shit, DC made Aquaman work. Impressive, granted they needed to lose the Synder stink.
Aquaman and Antman are half a billion dollar IPs now.
I can only imagine the mental gymnastics they engaged in when Zootopia made 235.5m*
Zootopia is the highest grossing animated film in China by far.
Right? Coco did very well in a lot of markets, it has numerous markets where the opening was < 10% of its total run.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=pixar1117.htm
Edit: sorry about the double post I meant to edit this in to my old post.
Deadline reported 6.1M for Poppins, which is well over the 4.85M using my 40% typical drop from yesterday's sample projection. Tomorrow will give us a clear idea of how things will go with it.
Poppins barely dropped on Sunday (-5.5%!). While not opening to expectations (realistic or otherwise) it is finding its holiday audience. People saying 'Mary floppins' may have spoken too soon. (Duh :p)
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Nearly everyone is premature with their takes during the holidays. I'd blame all the yearly Christmas StarWars releases. People were too used to Monstrous openings, ignored less nerd core films legging and thought that SW legs were just because 'its StarWars'. Other films (Jumanji, Showman) were seen as total exceptions instead of exceptional standouts proving the rule
Edit: Spider-verse is having some great holds INT
"Overall, the webslinger snared $38Mthis weekend from 29,000+ screens in 53 markets. The international cume is now $64.8M. The Bob Persichetti/Peter Ramsey/Rodney Rothman-helmed pic that's co-scripted by Phil Lord saw some great holds heading into the holidays including: the Philippines (+21%), Portugal (+6%), Israel (-11%), Australia (-20%), Malaysia (-24%), the UK (-25%), Switzerland (-29%), Germany (-32%) and Vietnam (-32%)"
— Deadline
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How many more territories does Ralph have to open in?
Also, is Mortal Engines confirmed bomb of the year? $12m domestic so far with a $100m budget and already out of the top 10 is really bad.
Also, is Mortal Engines confirmed bomb of the year? $12m domestic so far with a $100m budget and already out of the top 10 is really bad.
I meant more like THAT GUY HAS A MOVIE?
Like telling yourself that a decade ago that Antman and Aquaman would have movies that would be Smash hits would be insane.
Also, imagine informing someone a decade ago that a film series (GotG 1-2) with a talking tree, a badass raccoon, and a WWE super star, would out gross two movies (BvS, JL) with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman in them. You'd be institutionalised lol.
well you really cant replace julie andrews as mary poppins. that and the movie saving mr. banks probably didnt do much favors to the movie.
A (sub 100m dom) film from 5 years ago that, in place of holding onto the past in all it's ugly specificity, argues it's better to give up those parts of yourself to be reinterpreted in service of a positive message, to be given to others, isn't going to have much of an effect on this film imo.
If anything the film appealed to MP/Disney stans for reinforcing the magic of Disney.
If anything the film appealed to MP/Disney stans for reinforcing the magic of Disney.
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