Most of that came the first weekend. It has been a complete nosedive worldwide after that.
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That wasn't very evenly split though. The rate at which it dropped off this weekend is pretty fucking damning.
BvS also had a wide open weekend pretty much everywhere other than China. The biggest worldwide competition continued to be Zootopia.
Next week is also light, but after that there are big films every week.
BvS making more overseas on Wednesday than it did on Friday was not a great sign.
Next week is also light, but after that there are big films every week.
BvS making more overseas on Wednesday than it did on Friday was not a great sign.
superdeluxe
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Original opening weekend the official numbers were 4 million less than estimate. I see the same thing happening here
It won't be off $4M. Getting something closer to $50M wouldn't be a surprise though.
So anyone want to lay down their over/under prediction on BvS versus Zootopia in 2 weekends? Will BvS' fourth weekend dip under Zootopia's seventh?
Dunno about the weekend, but I can see the weekdays crossing before then. That weekend will be close, though, and if it's not crossed then, it will the one after.
The long range forecast is around $60M OW
that's a optimistic estimation, right?
Oz, Maleficent, and Cinderella all opened over that, so probably not.
MrToughPants
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Deadpool WW almost reached GotG without China...
RastaMentality
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Wow @ Zootopia about to have one of the largest fifth weekends. Need to see it again.
Still has to open in Japan. Probablh come a bit short unless it performs better in Japan than all the xmen films.
brickarts295
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MHWilliams
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superdeluxe
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Yeah I misspoke, i didn't mean it would be 4 million less, just that it would be less
Triggerhappytel
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Remember that not all of the box office take goes back to Warner Bros. The cinema would take a cut, and I guess maybe some other companies involved in the production and distribution of the film? I think the general rule for most films is that the box office takings have to at least double the budget before the film starts to actually make a profit.
AdventureRacing
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I'm not sure I like movies being split into separate parts but I'm not convinced by the examples used against it. Twilight, hunger games and divergent were all terrible movies and the marketing made that quite clear. Even with the hobbit (which is a different scenario) the quality just wasn't there and that's why the box office suffered.
Harry porter was actually good and that's why it performed well. I think if infinity war part 1 is really good and the quality of MCU films doesn't dip I don't think part 2 will suffer.
Having now seen BvS I'm still convicted they should have kept the franchises separate. Man of steel 2 could have performed as well as BvS and then they could have relaunched batman without tainting him with this bullshit movie. I think it was good getting wonder woman out there but again I think it might have been better to have her first movie first. I just don't know if the DCU will work as well as marvels universe in the same way. Even if it could WB haven't shown they're capable of actually achieving it.
Harry porter was actually good and that's why it performed well. I think if infinity war part 1 is really good and the quality of MCU films doesn't dip I don't think part 2 will suffer.
Having now seen BvS I'm still convicted they should have kept the franchises separate. Man of steel 2 could have performed as well as BvS and then they could have relaunched batman without tainting him with this bullshit movie. I think it was good getting wonder woman out there but again I think it might have been better to have her first movie first. I just don't know if the DCU will work as well as marvels universe in the same way. Even if it could WB haven't shown they're capable of actually achieving it.
John Dunbar
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i'm under the impression that the studio gets a higher share from the opening weekend gross, and their share gets smaller after every subsequent week. at least i remember reading something like that on the old box office mojo forums. also, the studio's share from the international gross might usually be smaller than their share of the domestic gross, so domestic is probably still the most important thing for a movie's success.
Yes, I agree. And as for Avengers 3, I think most people want it to be two films since AoU was already too dense and since then we are only getting more prominent characters they want to feature. And I assume they will write the films around being a two parter, rather than cutting a single story straight in half (or worse, like the Hobbit).
There are even Solomovies in between. Very curious how this is going to work.
Most of the Harry Potter series is really no better than Hunger Games tbh. Deathly Hollows was a borefest which had no business being split into two films.
I think Part 1 will be Thanos origins/adventures in the first half, some build ups with Avengers investigating infinity gem stuffs in the 2nd half and ends with Thanos murdering almost everyone to get the gems.
Part 2 will be shorter and just be full blown fights in different parts --- space, Asgard & earth.
At least I hope so.
So, we still don't know when the actuals are coming?
Eh, at least DH being split in 2 was reasonable, unlike pretty much every other movie that followed it. If it remained a single movie it would have ended like GoF which barely qualifies as cliff's notes version.
Eh, at least DH being split in 2 was reasonable, unlike pretty much every other movie that followed it. If it remained a single movie it would have ended like GoF which barely qualifies as cliff's notes version.
Team Filler
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I hope not, that sounds like something that could be just as unbelievably boring as the third Hobbit movie.
Diprosalic
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that's usually how it goes if it didn't change in the last few years. theaters have to bid for the limited amount of copies available and to get it they almost give up 100% of the first week but they get more and more each week it runs. so high grossing frontloaded flicks are basically the best thing for studios.
David Yates is a slightly better version of Zack Snyder, instead of all style and no substance, he's all style and just a tiny bit substance
Yes this has changed. First of there are no limited copies anymore since it's all digital on hard drives and as you mentioned most movies are front loaded and have short turn around times until they come out on Bluray which is why theater owners negotiated new terms.
I take that you mean just the films and not the source material? The novels and the world were a lot richer and that is what elevate the films ultimately. Yates only had to be competent.
Yates only has substance because of the books. He fucked up Snape's story in the last three films, and is lucky that Rickman acted so hard that it worked in spite of the direction.
His visuals are bland as Hell, too. Just that HP had a far better spine than BvS, so it holds together in spite of the directing.
Damn Duck, does liquid nitrogen run through your veins?
I agree, the best parts of his movies were those parts that he lifted straight from the source material. His own additions were garbage.
Course, the flip side is Yates doesn't rock the boat. Snyder blows the boat up then asks for a nuclear submarine.
Pai Pai Master
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I saw the movie yesterday. That's about all I can say about it. It was a movie. Pictures moved on a screen for two and a half hours.
Can Crusher
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Movies being split will be bad if reception o the first half is bad. If reception is great, it will be home run.
Fantastic beasts could be just as big as HP, but it has to be really good.
Fantastic beasts could be just as big as HP, but it has to be really good.
The quality of the novels heavily declines after GoF too, tbh. Rowling is a much better writer when she's being lighthearted and whimsical than when she tries to write tragedy and epic battles.
I can't even say he has any style. Everything I've seen from him just looks generic.
You know in your heart it's still better than Spectre though.
No lies detected.
You know in your heart it's still better than Spectre though.
I'd say it's a wash between them. Both were spectacularly mediocre. Spectre did have more humour though!
Titanic had great legs....Oh.
He didn't say cunt though!
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