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rottenwatch box office:

73% The Amazing Spider-Man

69% Ted

77% Brave

53% Savages

78% Magic Mike
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75% Katy Perry: Part of Me

metacritic box office:





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'Spider-Man' spins $140 mil web Stateside. Sony reboot cumes stellar $341 mil globally; U scores $32 mil with 'Ted'

With six days of holiday playtime, Sony's "The Amazing Spider-Man" kickstarted its high-flying domestic run -- until "The Dark Knight Rises" bows in two weeks, that is -- with a $140 million gross through Sunday.

Globally, the Spidey reboot has collected a whopping $341.2 million since its $50 million overseas bow last weekend.

Serving up adult counterprogramming over the Fourth of July frame, Universal scored with its one-two punch, led by R-rated laffer "Ted," which grossing $32.6 million in its second outing (down just 40%) for a cume of $120.2 million. Oliver Stone's drug cartel thriller "Savages" did better than expected, estimating $16.2 million through Sunday.

Paramount's low-budget music docu "Katy Perry: Part of Me" managed to just crack the $10 million mark in four days (pic bowed Thursday), though its three-day gross was $7.2 million.​

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[jett]

Who is this Piderman

 

[Weenerz]

Nevermind.

 

[DR3AM]

ted was awesome, going to see spidey tonight

 

[Discotheque]

I'm watching Savages tonight. I hope it's good, seeing it for the director and some of the cast, plus the action looks cool.

Hell, I semi-enjoyed Money Never Sleeps from Stone so I think I'll like this.

 

[Htown]

IS MAHVEL BAYBEE

 

[kswiston]

From the last thread:

- $342M worldwide for Amazing Spider-man
- Snow White broke $350M worldwide
- This is the first weekend where TDK was higher than the Avengers. TDK made about $11M more after this weekend. Avengers will do around the same.

 

[Tucah]

Good hold for Ted, glad it's doing well.

Avengers out of the top 10, bomba confirmed.

 

[A Human Becoming]

How did Amazing fair against the 2002 Spiderman?

 

[Manmademan]

Nevermind.

not sure what you're expecting, with the holiday on a wednesday. Someone in the previous BO thread had it tracking in line with Transformers, which also released on a tuesday holiday week.

edit: looks like you edited before I could finish typing.

 

[jett]

Ted's numbers are really impressive, maybe will crawl past 200 mill.

 

[TheMan]

i'll be adding to the BO total of brave tonight...definitely not my first choice but such is life when your wife refuses to get a fucking babysitter

 

[Dahbomb]

Obligatory post brought to you straight from EVO

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Budget on spiderman?
Great opening for the movie
Could not care less about the movie but glad it did great.

 

[BatDan]

Who is this Piderman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7-TQdN40Dk Enjoy

 

[Biff]

Savages bombed pretty hard. Movie may only be $45M but the marketing for this film was crazy. I've seen more ads for this than Spiderman or DKR.

 

[Meier]

There is no one who would consider Savages a bomba. Nice result for it -- analysts expected 12-13.

 

[Escape Goat]

Katy Perry movie. Oh dear. If its not Hilary Duff or Miley Cyrus its something else I guess.

 

[Mr.Swag]

Savages bombed pretty hard. Movie may only be $45M but the marketing for this film was crazy. I've seen more ads for this than Spiderman or DKR.

It did better than expected actually. Might end up around $40 or $50 mil.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Aw i was wishing that xaosslug would have used Spider-man has bitten the box office. That was a great line.

 

[James Woods]

Savages didn't bomb. It's an R-rated crime film in July. It won't do Road To Perdition type business though due to mixed word of mouth.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I feel like Snow White is a bit of a disappointment. I'm not talking about losing money or anything, but I just mean I feel like it was going for the same audience as Alice in Wonderland. I feel like it was greenlit with the hope of being a 600mln+ breakout.

 

[kswiston]

Budget on spiderman?
Great opening for the movie
Could not care less about the movie but glad it did great.

Rumors are around $200M production budget on Amazing, which would be around the same or a little less than the last two films. Marketing campaign would have been pricey, but the film also had a lot of product placement. Sony said they were hoping for $700M worldwide to break even on just theatre returns.

 

[Ridley327]

Savages didn't bomb. It's an R-rated crime film in July. It won't do Road To Perdition type business though due to mixed word of mouth.

I wonder what the WOM would have been if they kept to the book's ending instead of how the film ends. I greatly prefer how the movie concludes, but I get the feeling that a lot people aren't going to like the bait-and-switch nature of it.

 

[ezekial45]

Did anyone see Savages? I was thinking about catching it after Spiderman yesterday, but I changed my mind at the last minute.

 

[Manmademan]

Budget on spiderman?
Great opening for the movie
Could not care less about the movie but glad it did great.

I don't know exact numbers on ASM, but it was definitely less than Spiderman 3 (about 250 million). Sony is certainly happy with the numbers here so far.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

I feel like Snow White is a bit of a disappointment. I'm not talking about losing money or anything, but I just mean I feel like it was going for the same audience as Alice in Wonderland. I feel like it was greenlit with the hope of being a 600mln+ breakout.

I read that Universal wanted to make a franchise out of this movie.

 

[Biff]

There is no one who would consider Savages a bomba. Nice result for it -- analysts expected 12-13.

All that shows me is that analysts expected it to bomb too, it just bombed slightly less than expected.

I have a hard time believing Universal execs are okay with just making back their $45M budget from gross box office proceeds. Again, marketing was way more for this movie than a $16M opening would infer.

Just my two cents.

 

[Jb]

Sony said they were hoping for $700M worldwide to break even on just theatre returns.

$700M for a movie to make its money back seems insane to me.

Also, I thought Columbia wanted the reboot to cost around $120M after Spider-Man 3's budget exploded. No real stars in the cast, relatively unproven director and general lack of ambition in the CGI make me question why this movie was so expensive to make.

 

[Ridley327]

Did anyone see Savages? I was thinking about catching it after Spiderman yesterday, but I changed my mind at the last minute.

It's a solid crime thriller. It starts off slow, but it picks up in a big way and Oliver Stone definitely has a lot of fun with the material. Add in some wonderfuly hammy performances from del Toro, Hayek, Hirsch, and Travolta and you've got yourself a fun way to spend 2 hours in a theater. Do not expect any of Stone's usual soapboxing, since that's (mercifully) absent.

 

[Discotheque]

Hirsch is totally absent in the promotional material glad to see he does something memorable in here though since you pointed him out.

Mostly going for Del Toro and Stone though.

 

[shintoki]

Rumors are around $200M production budget on Amazing, which would be around the same or a little less than the last two films. Marketing campaign would have been pricey, but the film also had a lot of product placement. Sony said they were hoping for $700M worldwide to break even on just theatre returns.

Probably means MIBIII didn't break even then.

 

[Manmademan]

$700M for a movie to make its money back seems insane to me.

Also, I thought Columbia wanted the reboot to cost around $120M after Spider-Man 3's budget exploded. No real stars in the cast, relatively unproven director and general lack of ambition in the CGI make me question why this movie was so expensive to make.

Agreed. Wiki pegs the budget at $220 million (which seems about right to me) and $700 million WW to "break even" even by Hollywood Accounting measures just doesn't sound right.

 

[Ridley327]

Hirsch is totally absent in the promotional material glad to see he does something memorable in here though since you pointed him out.

Mostly going for Del Toro and Stone though.

He doesn't have a lot of screen time, but he's basically a pothead accountant who more or less plays it like he was high on cocaine instead.

 

[Meier]

All that shows me is that analysts expected it to bomb too, it just bombed slightly less than expected.

I have a hard time believing Universal execs are okay with just making back their $45M budget from gross box office proceeds. Again, marketing was way more for this movie than a $16M opening would infer.

Just my two cents.

Movies like this are not expected to make much more than their budget in theatres. They make the majority of their profit in foreign markets, home video, selling the rights to FX/HBO, etc. It's a catalog film.

 

[zomgbbqftw]

Agreed. Wiki pegs the budget at $220 million (which seems about right to me) and $700 million WW to "break even" even by Hollywood Accounting measures just doesn't sound right.

Marketing and distribution costs will push the costs up to $300m.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Ted seems to be the next Hangover. Seth McFarlane is going to have so much clout in Hollywood now.

 

[kswiston]

$700M for a movie to make its money back seems insane to me.

Also, I thought Columbia wanted the reboot to cost around $120M after Spider-Man 3's budget exploded. No real stars in the cast, relatively unproven director and general lack of ambition in the CGI make me question why this movie was so expensive to make.

A lot of blockbuster tentpole films are costing $300-350M when you add together production, distribution and marketing. They need to hit it big to be profitable. Not sure what happened with Amazing Spider-man as I heard the same thing regarding the budget. There was a report that Sony raised a third of the budget with product placement though.

 

[artist]

$700M for a movie to make its money back seems insane to me.

Only a percentage of the gross goes back to the studio, all of 700M will not.

 

[outunderthestars]

Ted seems to be the next Hangover. Seth McFarlane is going to have so much clout in Hollywood now.

 

[twinturbo2]

Okay, I'm turning in my man card and will add to Part of Me's box office total. Not today, though- maybe tomorrow.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Rumors are around $200M production budget on Amazing, which would be around the same or a little less than the last two films. Marketing campaign would have been pricey, but the film also had a lot of product placement. Sony said they were hoping for $700M worldwide to break even on just theatre returns.

Product placement is very evident and represent a chunk of the movies budget.

A lot of blockbuster tentpole films are costing $300-350M when you add together production, distribution and marketing. They need to hit it big to be profitable. Not sure what happened with Amazing Spider-man as I heard the same thing regarding the budget. There was a report that Sony raised a third of the budget with product placement though.

I read some time ago that product placement will represent a third of the movies budget on all of Sony´s films. The laughable part is those products are Sony products. So Sony is paying to advertise Sony

Just for reference

Sony
Sony is everywhere: you can spot Sony’s TV, Vaio laptop, Sony Experia mobile phones and Sony Playstation. All placements are obvious and expected, since the move has been distributed by Screen Gems, which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It looks like Sony went into product placement business seriously and Friends With Benefits is just one of the many Sony movies which is full of Sony’s product. It’s clever and efficient movie by the entertainment giant.

http://brandsandfilms.com/2011/09/product-placement-in-pictures-friends-with-benefits/

 

[3N16MA]

$201,600,000 OS for TASM. Brings the WW total to $341,600,000.

 

[Manmademan]

Only a percentage of the gross goes back to the studio, all of 700M will not.

Obviously. but (ignoring marketing and distribution, and the bonus from product placement for a second) at $700 million worldwide, Sony would need to be taking less than 35% of the total gross to "break even" on that budget, which is ludicrous.

I read some time ago that product placement will represent a third of the movies budget on all of Sony´s films. The laughable part is those products are Sony products. So Sony is paying to advertise Sony

this is the way hollywood accounting works. A lot of the marketing budget is spent with the company billing ITSELF or partners, and doesn't represent the actual cost. There are famous examples of blockbusters like Forrest Gump and Harry Potter making zero profit, because the studio managed to hide all of the money this way to avoid paying taxes and bonuses.

 

[zomgbbqftw]

There was a report that Sony raised a third of the budget with product placement though.

That sweet Bing money.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

http://www.gossipcop.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery/lindsay-lohan-shoot-for-terry-richardson/lindsay-lohan-terry-richardson-gun-0626-05-600x400.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
Hah!

I wouldn't say that, but it's definitely an odd time. I actually liked some of his early stuff. Seem to like earlier experimental works as they try to find their footing more than the focus tested end results.

 

[3N16MA]

$198,100,000 OS for Ice Age: Continental Drift.

 

[kswiston]

$201,600,000 OS for TASM. Brings the WW total to $341,600,000.

For reference, Spider-man 3 made over $380M in its first weekend worldwide. ASM was a staggered release (with China and some smaller countries still waiting for the film), and Spider-man 3 was Day and date though. Subtracting holdover business from markets that opened last weekend, it is more like $290M + whatever China opens to for ASM vs Spider-man 3's $380M.

A bit of a disappointment actually. European grosses must be way down.

EDIT: And the $290M includes 6-day openings in a bunch of countries this week.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

That sweet Bing money.

Bing? All the products that are advertised in Sony movies are Sony products. Except Bond movies.

 

[Weenerz]

not sure what you're expecting, with the holiday on a wednesday. Someone in the previous BO thread had it tracking in line with Transformers, which also released on a tuesday holiday week.

edit: looks like you edited before I could finish typing.

Didn't realize the $65 was for the weekend, thought it was since release.