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Wkd Box Office - 12•7-9•18 - China loves Aquaman with $94M OW. Domestic box office is hibernating.
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Right but people were getting the wrong idea from your earlier post and assuming apocalyptic numbers. Coming close to Lego Batman lifetime gross over the weekend isn't so bad.
South Korea's weekend gross for Lego Batman was $208,189.
You said Spider-verse was around 600k (2 days +sneaks?)
It sounded like you were speaking to the 400-500m WW crowd as oppose to the 600-800m crowd. Unless you do mean that the movie will, in your opinion, miss 400m.
Do you have any other regions we can compare?
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So two days ago, Variety put out an article with 2019 predictions and of course it had the yearly 'Sony Pictures is totally getting sold! This time it's real, trust me!' nonsense in a short paragraph that predicts Apple is going to buy Sony Pictures
This already spawned multiple reddit threads and videos by trash channels like ComicBookCast2 who still has his ego hurt by Venom's success spewing bullshit stating that Sony is doing poorly outside of Playstation and is totally going to sell because they can't survive
This already spawned multiple reddit threads and videos by trash channels like ComicBookCast2 who still has his ego hurt by Venom's success spewing bullshit stating that Sony is doing poorly outside of Playstation and is totally going to sell because they can't survive
I just saw Spiderverse, it's so good. I hope it make a tons of money. What's the chance of making homecoming and venom level of money?
I love when shit like this spouted by publications even after the new head of Sony said that they are switching to an IP company. So clearly....that means sell your IP. I can't even can't even sometimes
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It's too early to throw out worldwide grosses because I still have no real idea how Spider-verse will do domestically. Plus December complicates things. However, things don't look very good at the moment.
In the UK:
It opened to second behind Aquaman yesterday, but is now behind Creed 2 (which opened 2 weeks ago) and Bohemian Rhapsody (which opened Oct 26th). The gap between it and Aquaman is apparently huge, but I can't find numbers yet.
Lego Batman made around 35M in the UK, which was more than what Wonder Woman or Justice League made there last year.
Edit: Last weekend, Ralph and Grinch were the top 2 movies in the UK, but were not the top 2 in the previous dailies. So it does seem like Animation gets a bigger weekend bump. However nothing made much more than 3M last weekend, and presumably Creed 2 is another 40% or so weaker this week (maybe more with Aquaman. No major openers last weekend). So that sort of caps how well Spider-verse could be doing.
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That would be great if it was just Thursday and does not include last week's sneaks.
675k for Mortal Engines. Bombs Away!
The only joy I'll take is that it'll be easy to get in this weekend and I won't have to deal with crowds.
Otherwise, we failed. Each and every one of us.
Otherwise, we failed. Each and every one of us.
Spider-Man Intoverse is not a movie for everyone . Those LSD colors and cringe comic things like "WOAHHHHHH" or 15 minute purple fight dimension fight in the end bored most of people in theater. (Which was 1/3 full) IMAX screen.
It is good it exist but not gonna be huge.
It is good it exist but not gonna be huge.
We shall see but most every reaction I've read highly disagrees with this. I'll also add that people also love the comic book presentation and cringe is not the word I would ever associated with that kind of visual flair.
I am expert on WW threads believe me.(that famous Solo 400M prediction)
Predicting box office numbers has nothing to do with general audience reactions.
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You can't sacrifice yourself twice, so everyone else still has a chance.
No, I want to say their avatar was predominantly red IIRC. Not worth looking up.
Anyway, man the IMAX near me has to be unhappy giving Mortal Engines the evening showtimes, and 3d no less.
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About $8M of that was China, so around $11.5M or so for the openers. Justice League's first Thursday was $18M, but JL opened in over 25 more territories, including Australia, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Spain.
Yes, Aquaman's release schedule is fragmented, this is an excellent result for a Holiday release when you take that in consideration.
Oh also learned that THR helps break it down a bit more.
i was buying my dragon ball ticket yesterday (i'm in the UK), and i asked the dude behind the counter if spider-man was doing well... and he simply replied 'nah mate, it's dead on arrival'
Well if you're going to blow up somewhere, the US is probably the best place to do it thanks to the higher revenue share studios get
Unfortunately, "blow up domestically" probably isn't gonna happen either.
Less than $217m WW?
That'd be quite a flop, but I find it hard to believe it could go that low
It'd need to make like sub-50m internationally for that to even be possible
I do think Spider-verse would have done better in a less crowded release window. But honestly the art/animation style was never very appealing to general audiences. It's kind of a tough sell too with the whole multiverse thing.
maybe $300-350 million if they got smart on marketing after justice league woes
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The multi-verse thing keeps part of me from wanting to see it. I don't love those kinds of stories.
So much good news on the bus a article that is being unread
....2nd UPDATE 9:47AM Sony Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swung into Thursday grossing $3.5 million from showtimes starting at 5 PM from 3,321 locations, a solid number for this time of year....
....with this type of Thursday for the Bob Persichetti-, Peter Ramsey- and Rodney Rothman-directed film, Spider-Verse has to overindex (in which case many believe that could be in the $40M range)....
....pre-sales for Spider-Verse were far ahead of Lego Ninjago at the same point in time; that Warner Bros. pic opened to $20.4M in September 2017...
....Spider-Verse's Thursday number is higher than Universal/Illumination's Tuesday night $1.7M previews for Sing two years ago when it launched before Christmas, turning in an opening day of $11M...
....Spider-Verse beat the Thursday $2.2M previews of that film, which posted a $14.4M opening day and $53M opening....
Jackson needs to go back to small budget horror movies before he tries to make something big again. It worked for M Night...
12m Friday would be a good start.
CHINA Friday Estimates (Yuan)
Aquaman 86M/1017M,+57%
(That's better than Venoms +37 bounce on its 2nd Friday, and beats Venom in raw numbers)
My Neighbor Totoro 18.8M/19.4M OD
Padman 10.2M/10.6M OD (a better start than some were fearing)
Searching 5.2M/5.56M OD
Grinch 2.8M OD
Venom 0.48m/1864m (doh! That's what I get for forgetting to input the upcoming releases :p)
CHINA Friday Estimates (Yuan)
Aquaman 86M/1017M,+57%
(That's better than Venoms +37 bounce on its 2nd Friday, and beats Venom in raw numbers)
My Neighbor Totoro 18.8M/19.4M OD
Padman 10.2M/10.6M OD (a better start than some were fearing)
Searching 5.2M/5.56M OD
Grinch 2.8M OD
Venom 0.48m/1864m (doh! That's what I get for forgetting to input the upcoming releases :p)
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