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rottenwatch box office:

40% Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D

74% The Amazing Spider-Man

69% Ted

76% Brave

78% Magic Mike

metacritic box office:





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'Ice Age' tops domestic B.O. with $46 mil. Stateside totals still down roughly 40% from last year's 'Harry Potter' weekend

"Ice Age: Continental Drift" easily nabbed the domestic B.O.'s No. 1 spot, estimating $46 million in three days.
The fourth installment in Fox's mega-grossing toon installment had the weekend to itself and landed in line -- if not slightly below -- industrywide expectations for the toon. "Drift" made roughly the same as the first "Ice Age," which debuted with $46.3 million in 2002. That pic didn't have 3D, however.

Budgeted at around $95 million, "Drift" already as cumed more than $250 million internationally; pic's worldwide tally stands at $385 million through Sunday.

Domestically, support from holdovers such as "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Ted" couldn't keep Stateside totals from sinking below this time last year by roughly 40%, when the "Harry Potter" finale smashed opening three-day records with $169 million Stateside.​

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[strafer]

Can people please forget about Lincoln the hunter so Spielberg's Lincoln can make an appearance.

 

[Prince of Space]

Nicki Minaj and Drake are in the new Ice Age movie? wut.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Real talk, I had NO idea an Ice Age movie was coming out, much less this week.

 

[MIMIC]

Nicki Minaj and Drake are in the new Ice Age movie? wut.

And they're the featured "singers" in the movie, too.

*snickers*

 

[James Woods]

jesus fuck at those international numbers

 

[kswiston]

Madagascar took a big hit this weekend, but it is already the highest grossing movie in the series domestically, so I doubt Paramount and Dreamworks cares.

Ice Age has been out for a couple of weeks overseas, so those international numbers aren't that good. Especially when compared to Ice Age 3 which finished with $690M internationally and close to $900M total.

 

[NomarTyme]

Can people please forget about Lincoln the hunter so Spielberg's Lincoln can make an appearance.

Already forgot it.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

"mammoth intl"... nice touch as always xao lol

 

[Nemesis121]

WoW drift Budget is only $95m I am shock it wasn't in the Pixar budget range....

 

[johnsmith]

That is an amazing hold on Ted. Only a 31% drop? Madness.

 

[dmshaposv]

I havent seen a single ice age movie, except the first one.

Whats the appeal? They look like horrid turds.

 

[kswiston]

WoW drift Budget is only $95m I am shock it wasn't in the Pixar budget range....

All of Blue Sky's movies have been under $100M. They have made the Ice Age films, Robots, Rio, and Horton Hears a Who.

 

[artist]

Moving up Ted's release date was such a good move.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

WoW drift Budget is only $95m I am shock it wasn't in the Pixar budget range....

they are reusing assets while Pixar continues to change and evolve I think

I don't like Ice Age doing major numbers though I've seen a few of them they are decent but never epic

 

[JB1981]

Brave has done much better than I thought it would

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Looking like The Amazing Spider-Man will be Sony's forth biggest movie in the US... behind Spidey 1, 2 and 3 in that order. Kinda funny.

 

[Wafflecakes]

God why do internationals love Ice Age. First film was good....franchise is trash -.-


The very idea that this is going to probably outgross Madagascar 3, and Brave sickens me.

 

[johnsmith]

Anybody know what happened to Brave's international numbers? It's at 195m domestic but only 46m international. That's not normal for a pixar movie. Did they hate it overseas?

 

[RukusProvider]

Thunderbuddies!!! Go Ted!

 

[ezekial45]

I'm expecting a HUUUUUGE drop for all of these because of TDKR next week.

I wonder if BOM will crash again, like it did for TDK 4 years ago.

 

[Jacob]

jesus fuck at those international numbers

Ice Age 3 made $690M internationally and Ice Age 4 stands a decent chance of breaking $1 billion WW, though the domestic end is going to have to hold up. It's OW is actually a little better than 3, which is the highest-grossing entry domestically, but I don't know how good the legs will be. It might be a nice bit of children's counter-programming to TDKR next week though.

I'm happy to see Magic Mike doing well. It looks like Tatum has his third $100 million movie of the year in the bag at this point.

 

[GoingGreen]

they are reusing assets while Pixar continues to change and evolve I think

Cars 2!?!?

 

[artist]

Ice Age 3 made $690M internationally and Ice Age 4 stands a very real chance of breaking $1 billion WW, though the domestic end is going to have to hold up. It's OW is actually a little better than 3, which is the highest-grossing entry domestically, but I don't know how good the legs will be. It might be a nice bit of children's counter-programming to TDKR next week though.

I'm happy to see Magic Mike doing well. It looks like Tatum has his third $100 million movie of the year in the bag at this point.

 

[kswiston]

Anybody know what happened to Brave's international numbers? It's at 195m domestic but only 46m international. That's not normal for a pixar movie. Did they hate it overseas?

Brave is not out in most international markets. It has a staggered release with a lot of openings in Jul-Sept. It's not even in the UK for another month. I think it will be fine overall. It may not do as well as Up or Ratatouille overseas, but it will have a solid gross. Brave did bomb in China though.

Ice Age 3 made $690M internationally and Ice Age 4 stands a decent chance of breaking $1 billion WW, though the domestic end is going to have to hold up. It's OW is actually a little better than 3, which is the highest-grossing entry domestically, but I don't know how good the legs will be. It might be a nice bit of children's counter-programming to TDKR next week though.

Ice Age 4 is way down compared to Ice Age 3 in many territories. It won't get anywhere near $1b. I think international grosses will end up closer to $500M than $700M this time around. Still stellar, but a big step down from Ice Age 3.

 

[johnsmith]

Cars 2!?!?

Hated Cars 2, but visually it was a big upgrade from the original.

 

[Brian Fellows]

That is an amazing hold on Ted. Only a 31% drop? Madness.

Word of mouth around my way has been very good. I know like 10-12 people who said it was really funny while I know 1 person who said it sucked. My oldest brother being the one dissenting vote and he hates everything anyway.

 

[Jacob]

Ice Age 4 is way down compared to Ice Age 3 in many territories. It won't get anywhere near $1b. I think international grosses will end up closer to $500M than $700M this time around. Still stellar, but a big step down from Ice Age 3.

Fair enough; for some reason I thought IA4 had only been out for a week or so internationally. Not sure why. :/ Is there any information to suggest if it's legs will be good or bad over the rest of its domestic run?

 

[Dany]

Next weekend will be monstrous.

 

[Takao]

Madagascar took a big hit this weekend, but it is already the highest grossing movie in the series domestically, so I doubt Paramount and Dreamworks cares.

Ice Age has been out for a couple of weeks overseas, so those international numbers aren't that good. Especially when compared to Ice Age 3 which finished with $690M internationally and close to $900M total.

Worst performing internationally though.

 

[vicissitudes]

This is one of your better thread titles.

 

[kswiston]

Worst performing internationally though.

Like Brave, it has a ton of territories left to open in, so probably not. Still needs to open in the UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain and a bunch of smaller markets. Those can easily generate over $100M. It may not surpass Madagascar 2, but it will be close if it doesn't.

Ice Age 4 has opened basically everywhere in the past 3 weekends (China, Italy, and South Korea are the only notable markets left for the movie to open in), and the other animated films scheduled their international releases around it.

 

[deadhorse32]

Anybody know what happened to Brave's international numbers? It's at 195m domestic but only 46m international. That's not normal for a pixar movie. Did they hate it overseas?

A tale of 2 movies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217209/releaseinfo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667889/releaseinfo

 

[Wafflecakes]

Worst performing internationally though.

Not really. Mad 3 has a very messed up international roll out Many territories will not open till after the Olympics. Will get 600-700 million total WW easily. Possibly higher. Its outperforming #2 overall.

 

[DrStiles]

I'm glad to see Ted doing such great numbers. One of the funnier movies of the summer.

 

[suaveric]

I'm expecting a HUUUUUGE drop for all of these because of TDKR next week.

I wonder if BOM will crash again, like it did for TDK 4 years ago.

The theater I'm going to for Rises was on it's 9th midnight show last I checked.

 

[ollin]

The theater I'm going to for Rises was on it's 9th midnight show last I checked.

Just checked mine, 11 midnight showings. Wow.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I wonder why the discrepancy in dom vs. intl for the Ice Age franchise. What do non-US movie-goers see in it that we don't

 

[Wafflecakes]

I wonder why the discrepancy in dom vs. intl for the Ice Age franchise. What do non-US movie-goers see in it that we don't

They just trolling us imo.

No one can actually like Ice Age can they?

 

[Diprosalic]

They just trolling us imo.

No one can actually like Ice Age can they?

and it's not just kids, a huge number of adults i know went to see that trash.

 

[suaveric]

Just checked mine, 11 midnight showings. Wow.

I wish I had the foresight to have checked how many midnight showings there were for Avengers. That might have given a good idea of how the two are going to stack up for their opening weekends.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Can people please forget about Lincoln the hunter so Spielberg's Lincoln can make an appearance.

That's in no way a concern.

 

[Weenerz]

Spider-man close to hitting budget stateside.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Glad to see MiB3 underperforming, and Lincoln Vampire failing. Less of this crap please.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

One more week until shit gets crazy.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Glad to see MiB3 underperforming, and Lincoln Vampire failing. Less of this crap please.

MIB3 has made slightly less than MIB2 do domestically. internationally, Will still reigns supreme.

 

[Busty]

A good second week hold for ASM. Much better than I thought actually as I hated the film but there we are.....,

Also I thought Ice Age would have done better. I know it's always done better with the Int. audiences but even still. I'm sure Fox will be happy with the numbers either way considering the summer they've been having.

Looking like The Amazing Spider-Man will be Sony's forth biggest movie in the US... behind Spidey 1, 2 and 3 in that order. Kinda funny.

Not really, Sony Pictures doesn't have a creative bone in it's body. Just look at their top ten grosses and it's filled with Will Smith movies and Spider-Man films.

Of course the real question is where will ASM2 sit on that list? I suspect that ASM is a film that time will not treat well (I don't see it as having 'quality legs' but I didn't like the film to be fair) so by the time the sequel rolls around will there be a bigger audience for it ala Batman Begins/TDK?

And as if to prove my point about Sony Pictures...,

Glad to see MiB3 underperforming, and Lincoln Vampire failing. Less of this crap please.

Agreed. But apparently Sony are keen to 'pursue more MIB' which just seems like flogging a dead horse and the most creatively bankrupt thing you could do with this franchise at this point. Just leave it be mang.

Whether that's a fourth film (urgh) or the inevitable reboot I don't know but it just seems like a studio creatively clutching at straws. Especially as Sony waaaay over spent on MIB3 and will be lucky to ever see a profit from it.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Not really, Sony Pictures doesn't have a creative bone in it's body. Just look at their top ten grosses and it's filled with Will Smith movies and Spider-Man films.

Of course the real question is where will ASM2 sit on that list? I suspect that ASM is a film that time will not treat well (I don't see it as having 'quality legs' but I didn't like the film to be fair) so by the time the sequel rolls around will there be a bigger audience for it ala Batman Begins/TDK?

And as if to prove my point about Sony Pictures...,

That sounds like an issue you should be taking up with all of the major studios.

 

[Lebron]

Next Sunday GAF will be ashes in one way or another

 

[Busty]

That sounds like an issue you should be taking up with all of the major studios.

To a certain extent this is true of all the studios but when you look at a something like Disney their 'top ten' is filled POTC movies but also The Sixth Sense and Pixar efforts like UP. And especially Universal (the studio that has fallen the furthest if you ask me) has Spielberg titles like Jaws, Jurassic Park and ET in it's all time top ten.

And again while Warners' top ten is filled with Harry Potter movies it also features both Inception and The Hangover so at least that points to some diversity and risk taking.

What film of 'merit' does Sony have in their top ten? Ghostbusters. Any while Terminator 2 is also in there it was not actually produced/financed by them but distributed in the US only.

Sony have (well 'had' given recent events) some of the deepest pockets of the big studios and never once did they ever do anything special or brave with those assets at their disposal.