Wkd BO 03•25-27•16 - Batman vs Superman (or Grindr hookup gone sideways) bests Bunny

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Bobby Roberts said:
A weekend-to-weekend drop of 69.8% would be 50mil. 70% flat would be 40.8

Hulk's record is 69.7% (would be 50.29 for BvS)

Add 1.6 mil for every percentage point up the ladder.

People seem to be predicting 55mil, which would be a 67% drop.
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The boxoffice stuff is really more exciting than the movie itself
 
jett said:
I think the Hulk will be keeping that record for life. In this day an age it seems no matter how critically reviled or how disliked by audiences a comic book movie might be, they're safe from crashing that bad. BvS would have to gross less than $50.1 million to get that record.
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What about after comic book fatigue sets in?
 
PBY said:
HB2 was not that? Also it was better than 1
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Better than the first in pretty much every way.

(we did this earlier in the thread, right? Also, since we're concerned with numbers, how is this doing in comparison to some of the Force Awakens box-office threads?)
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Better than the first in pretty much every way.

(we did this earlier in the thread, right? Also, since we're concerned with numbers, how is this doing in comparison to some of the Force Awakens box-office threads?)
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I think that the first two Force Awakens threads were longer (first one was over 3k posts), but this one might top the Avengers OW thread.
 
Speaking of Superhero fatigue, Domestic and Worldwide grosses for Major Superhero films in 2016 will pass the 2015 annual total by the end of Civil War's opening weekend.
 
inky said:
Yup. Sent to die.
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Speaking of being sent out to die, I bet WB is glad they balked and moved BvS as far from the Cap 3 date as they did.

I can't see a scenario where BvS wouldn't have taken a king-sized L in light of the reception and B.O. thus far.

Even coming off a strong sequel (before we knew it was Civil War), I couldn't have thought a Batman/Superman movie would be looking this shaky in the face of a Captain America movie. At this point though, Civil War seems positioned to steamroll it.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Not even Fantastic Four broke the Hulk record last year. It came damn close though.
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To be fair, not a lot of people saw it the first week, thus it would have been really hard for it to have a significant drop. Going from "bad" to "REALLY bad" isn't as steep as going from "record-breaking" to "decent".
 
Cuburt said:
Speaking of being sent out to die, I bet WB is glad they balked and moved BvS as far from the Cap 3 date as they did.

I can't see a scenario where BvS doesn't take a king-sized L in light of the reception and B.O. thus far.
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That would have been bad for both films.

That said, I think Disney pretty much owns that weekend now. Since 2002 there's only been two years where that weekend wasn't a Marvel-based film, and since Marvel went solo, they've claimed that weekend every year they had a film out except 2014. I think that Disney would have claimed 2014 as well if they knew that every superhero film they put out that year (including Big Hero 6) was going to top Amazing Spider-man 2

WB still has the third weekend in July
 
Zack Snyder already holds the record for worst legs of all time for a film that opened over $50M domestic, so he at least doesn't have to chase that one.
 
I thought the film was great; will be taking my parents this weekend.

I love the characters, and I'm really digging where they're taking them.
 
jett said:
At this rate I'm not sure that is happening for the foreseeable future... :P
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Depending on how Civil War, X-Men Apocalpyse, and Doc Strange (to a lesser extent) do, superhero films hitting $4B worldwide this year is a pretty plausible scenario.

Assuming:

$775M for Deadpool (Holdovers + Japan in June should get it close even if Japan treats it like they do most superhero films)
$950M for BvS
$700M for X-men Apocalypse
$450M for Doc Strange

Civil war would have to do $1.125B, which is close to $100M less than Iron Man 3.
 
I saw this mentioned over at the boxoffice.com forums and just checked it myself - Deadpool actually made more on its first Mon-Thurs ($48m) than BvS ($43m). It had the benefit of President's day on Monday, while BvS had Easter Monday and spring break.

Deadpool ending with a higher gross is going to be amazing.
 
kswiston said:
People went in expecting something like Spider-Man or X2 and they got an Ang Lee film instead.
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i hated it as a kid but now i think it's easily one of the most daring (and well-acted) superhero movies in existence.

also that danny elfman theme will always hold up, excellent vertigo rip.
 
Pai Pai Master said:
Will finally see BvS on Sunday and will see what the fuss is about. I'm guessing most of the reviews have been a bit overzealous and hoping at least for a decent action flick even if it was fucked in the editing room.
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The problem is most of the good action sequences 1.don't happen till the end 2.are already spoiled by the trailers.
 
richiek said:
The problem is all the good action sequences 1.don't happen till the end 2.are already spoiled by the trailers.
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if you count the metropolis scene as an action sequence that's at the beginning and for my money one of the best comic book action scenes of all time. he pulled a cloverfield on this superhero city destruction shit.

but yeah after that there's a huge lull in the action. probably the reason why he shoehorned that awfully placed knightmare sequence.
 
richiek said:
The problem is all the good action sequences 1.don't happen till the end 2.are already spoiled by the trailers.
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Disagree with 2 strongly. I'll say some of the best action beats aren't in the trailers at all. But I don't think action is really the emphasis of the movie at all. Compared to MoS, it's just not a very significant part of the film.
 
jett said:
At this rate I'm not sure that is happening for the foreseeable future... :P
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It might die down a bit after Infinity War/Justice League 2/X-Men10/Deadpool 3 is my guess ;P Core roster changes, wads blown, etc. etc.

But seriously, They will just keep doing comic book movies forever like Disney does animated stuff, with varying degrees of success. Heck, in the meantime some other studio might even figure it out and launch the "next big comic book thing". Doesn't even have to be the above.
 
Discotheque said:
if you count the metropolis scene as an action sequence that's at the beginning and for my money one of the best comic book action scenes of all time. he pulled a cloverfield on this superhero city destruction shit.
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Ok, I'll give you that. Bruce's Metropolis scene in the beginning was pretty impressive.
 
they should drop this capestuff one day and start adapting image comics instead. that's where a lot of the subversive stuff is coming from now.

imagine a deadly class movie by oliver stone...god damn.
 
I'm kind of mad they spoiled like half the Batman warehouse scene. If they hadn't I probably would have audibly gasped in the theater.
 
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