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Wkd BO 0325-2716 - Batman vs Superman (or Grindr hookup gone sideways) bests Bunny
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vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I agree; I liked how Disney tackled the many important struggles/themes today's society live in - it's subtle and yet very prominent in the film's story arc.
I totally forgot about this theme. It's like I forgot everything about the movie already ;P
Not his best work, although it is understandable considering there's a base theme and bits and pieces he has to keep to in there.
AmaterasuOni
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I agree 100 %. BvS wants to be serious and deep, but it just isn't. It's superficial and shallow. Zootopia is beautiful and intelligent.
Chiming in on Zootopia. Loved it. And I'm shocked how bold it was at addressing some seriously weighty social issues in the context of a cutesy animated animal cartoon.
"Maturity" doesn't have to be violent, or vulgar, or dark, or cynical. Zootopia was intelligent and wonderfully clever in how mature it was about its subject matter.
whatsinaname
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David Yates fucked up the finale battle in Harry Potter. Everyone should have witnessed that shit, but no. I hate him for that. Also Half-Blood Prince was pretty bad. Whyyy
I actually disagree. I think the movie version worked better. It should have just been Harry and Voldemort by themselves. Harry didn't need a cheering squad. One of the few book-to-movie changes I really liked.
Overseas take is going to have to climb to ~65% for BvS to hit $1B. Looks like that could happen if legs are better overseas.
$69M in 6 days sounds better when you don't mention the fact that the 3 day weekend take was estimated at $57M.
BvS is losing 70% of its screens this weekend in China.
EDIT: Also, Star Wars made 42% of its Chinese total in the first two days.
$69M in 6 days sounds better when you don't mention the fact that the 3 day weekend take was estimated at $57M.
BvS is losing 70% of its screens this weekend in China.
EDIT: Also, Star Wars made 42% of its Chinese total in the first two days.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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So weekend looking to be down about 80% then?
Olive over on the BOT China board is projecting around $10.5M for the entire weekend. So basically.
I think our worst case domestic drop is going to be around their best case.
China moves on fast.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It kinda seems like Gitesh is all about accentuating the positive. Never noticed it before. Does he tend to put a sunshiny spin on the numbers coming in with every pic?
He's usually pretty conservative.
Seriously. What's up with that? You'd think these mega blockbusters would keep their screens for a bit longer than that.
He tends to look on the bright side, until reality comes to be and it's something else. In this case he seems more fixated on the totals to date, encompassing the strong debut, rather than the trending. If it crashes this weekend I'm guessing he'll call it like it is. He's already started, at least a bit:
1st week TUE-WED drops: #Avengers 23%, #Deadpool 26%, #Ultron 28%, #IronMan3 28%, #Furious7 31%, #BatmanvSuperman 33%.
https://twitter.com/GiteshPandya/status/715549350332657664Maybe it's a third world country kind of thing. In my country (Peru) movies stay aproximately for three weeks with few more or less days. Even freaking Star wars stayed just that time. Not to mention that in the last week there are only three showings per day
Yes, but I would like to see what he'd do on his own (Bryan Tyler helps out on AoU).
Anything to bring back more melodies the superhero themes.
Looks odd to me big Hollywood actors not voice actors doing voices for hyper realistic animals, haven't liked any of Disneys live action stuff yet so most likely will give this a watch when its available for cheap.
There is another Chinese holiday next week and a Sammo Hung movie with Andy Lau coming out this today, the competition over there is higher.
BronsonLee
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China don't care. They got Stephen Chow transforming into Cameron right now.
China is 30 days for foreign films. That's the rule except they just lest Zootopia stay for another two weeks
They can grant extensions whenever they feel like it. I'm pretty sure that Transformers 4 also had 6 weeks. I don't remember if Furious 7 got an extension. Most of the time films are making next to nothing by 30 days due to loss of screens anyhow.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
No, Furious 7 didn't get an extension. At that point in 2015, foreign movies were outgrossing domestic movies, and the regulators maybe were afraid of that being the case for the rest of 2015, so that is one of the protectionist tools in their playbook to help domestic grosses.
Maybe this is a good sign for foreign movies, since 2015 (and 2016 so far) are showing that domestic movies are starting to need less help.
They are leaving money on the table whenever they restrict foreign movies like so, as 75% stays in China. But I guess maybe their logic doesn't work that way, and they think that cutting a foreign movies legs would just mean that the audience migrates to a domestic movie that replaces the foreign movie, so that is actually a net gain following such logic (100% of the money from domestic movies stay in China).
Really not sure. He did during the early stages of TFA's run, and every day so far for BvS, but I only know because the posts got carried over to here for those films. If he does it would pop up on the box office theory forum.
MrPink93485
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He usually does for the big films (like 150m + OW) for the first week but will probably transition over to only on the weekends after
Bobby Roberts
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We prognosticating on the friday-to-friday drop yet? Or the weekend to weekend?
Is mid-60s still WBs best case?
Is mid-60s still WBs best case?
I want to see the Thursday figure, but I see no path to more than mid 60s. Mid 50s are probably more likely
Yep.
NealMcCauley
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Another comparison, Deadpool was $8.02 million Thursday, and had a $56.47 million 2nd weekend.
Bobby Roberts
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Sorry, I meant mid-60s as in the percentage down, not millions in gross.
So this film is already getting beat by Furious 7 and Deadpool?
So this film is already getting beat by Furious 7 and Deadpool?
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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If other films increased yesterday, then I would say it's not a good hold and the best case would be to follow GI Joe's increases and hit $54M. If other films fell, then it's a solid hold compared to F7.
IAmAnAgnostic
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Wasn't Deadpool considered a big success? So BvS is at least moderately successful, even with the bigger budget?
Wow.
No. Because Batman and Superman are
were
Also Deadpool was R rated
Differing expectations matter here. Deadpool was an R-rated film featuring a relatively minor character that only really needed to recoup its development costs. Batman v Superman isn't R-rated, and features three of DC's biggest franchise characters in an attempt attempt to springboard a slate of films for the next four or five years!
Down mid 60's seems to be what it's tracking to. A $55m weekend is down 67%. I think it will end in spitting distance of that.
There's doing okay, and setting up Justice League the way WB wanted. IIRC Deadpool cost < $60m to make, and BvS cost > $200m.
It might end with a lower gross than Deadpool.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Looking at some of the reporting on BOT, it seems to be holding just as poorly overseas as well. In particular, Olive posted the Friday estimates for China and it's down 86% from last week.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Even domestic feels optimistic there, no? ~$270m after this weekend, maybe $315m after next? There's $60m worth of juice left after that?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
If BvS has a Man of Steel drop, it will be $58m or so. That had a mid 60s weekend drop, but the weekdays were stronger due to summer, and the rest of the weekend drops were a bit more normal.
That seems about right, perhaps a touch high. F7 made another $161m after its first week, which would end BvS at $370m including today's take. Since BvS has been tracking worse, it might miss that total. I'm guessing closer to $350m.
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