Report: Batman v Superman tracking for big opening weekend; tickets on sale 2/29

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After Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Deadpool sent shock waves through the box office charts, the town is waiting with bated breath for the opening of Warner Bros’ Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice on March 25. Word is already out that tickets will go on sale on Monday at 7 AM PT.

At this point, projections from rival studios and tracking executives have this DC feature adaptation opening with a domestic weekend ranging from $100M-$140M. For some, it won’t be a shocker should Batman v. Superman topple Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games’ March opening record of $152.5M. Disney owns the month’s second-highest FSS with Alice in Wonderland at $116.1M in 2010.
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https://deadline.com/2016/02/batman...-projections-advance-ticket-sales-1201709214/
 
I wonder if BvS will have a bigger opening than Civil War, something tells me Civil War will come out on top.
 
Can't wait. Day 1.

March is going to be a great month. Batman v Superman, Daredevil S2, and Flash/Supergirl crossover.

Edit - I see this doing well above 150 mil domestically.
 
Word of mouth will be a big factor, in my opinion. I haven't been too thrilled by the trailers and some others (anecdotally) I've talked to say the same. I forsee first weekend doing numbers like that. It's how much it drops the second weekend that I'm watching for.
 
It's got batman, and superman. At worst it was going to fail high expectations but this movie was always going to do well. Hopefully well enough to launch the rest of the dc movies successfully.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
I am guessing an opening weekend around Iron Man 3 numbers, so about $175-180m.
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Yeah, that's what I'm expecting too. Maybe even 190-200 if word of mouth is super strong and reviews are positive. This is Batman and fucking Superman in the same movie. Featuring Wonder Woman. This should at least beat Dark Knight Rises' OW ($160m) and approach Avengers numbers imo (again, assuming it is received positively like Avengers was).
 
superdeluxe said:
Those Experts, going out on a limb..tracking between 1 dollar and 300 million!
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Well, I think we can narrow it between a cheese burrito and 90 million snakes.
Anth0ny said:
Yeah, that's what I'm expecting too. Maybe even 190-200 if word of mouth is super strong and reviews are positive. This is Batman and fucking Superman in the same movie. Featuring Wonder Woman. This should at least beat Dark Knight Rises' OW ($160m) and approach Avengers numbers imo (again, assuming it is received positively like Avengers was).
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I think it really depends how the first reviews sound. Batman and Superman are a big draw by themselves, but a lot of people are rooted into the MCU by now (not everyone has the money or the time to get into both and some fans are really split on Man of Steel). It will do reasonable in any case, but if it reaches the bigger Marvel movies? That's an interesting question.
 
170-180 sounds about right

I will burst out laughing if it doesn't beat Deadpool (I'll give Deadpool the 4 day weekend because fuck it)
 
Honestly though, I figured a batman vs superman movie would have crushed the March record of the Hunger games. surprised that most experts are picking it between 100-140 million. It seems..low.
 
Interesting fact. this film is opening on the same day in China and Japan (which doesn't usually happen)

Its going to be one hell of a 24 hours when this film opens
 
superdeluxe said:
Honestly though, I figured a batman vs superman movie would have crushed the March record of the Hunger games. surprised that most experts are picking it between 100-140 million. It seems..low.
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Way too low. Unless reviews demolish it.. it won't be sub $150M. Heck even if it's 10% on RT it will probably do big opening weekend.
 
superdeluxe said:
Honestly though, I figured a batman vs superman movie would have crushed the March record of the Hunger games. surprised that most experts are picking it between 100-140 million. It seems..low.
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The numbers will get readjusted once tickets start going on sale.
 
It's crazy that even if this hits $130M, people will consider it a flop since it was outpaced by Deadpool.

I'll wager on it doing a $150M weekend though. Batman gets asses in seats.
 
It'll be a huge opening for sure and if the movie is legit good and word of mouth is positive it could have massive legs.

This movie's a real wild card, could do MoS numbers at the lowest prob, but I'm expecting something close to Avengers
 
superdeluxe said:
Honestly though, I figured a batman vs superman movie would have crushed the March record of the Hunger games. surprised that most experts are picking it between 100-140 million. It seems..low.
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Keeping expectations in check.

StoopKid said:
If it gets fantastic four reviews I could see it.

Then again transformers always gets shitted on.
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Difference is no one wanted to see that interpretation of the Fantastic 4. If the reviews had been good and it was of good quality, it might have had decent legs. But it was no way going to open huge. Transformers movies, despite the vitriol thrown at them, often give people what they want to see -- robots beating the shit out of other robots.
 
The hype for this seems kinda off especially considering it's the very first batman meets superman flick.

I'm guessing slightly over 100 mill.
 
TuXx said:
The hype for this seems kinda off especially considering it's the very first batman meets superman flick.

I'm guessing slightly over 100 mill.
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I gotta be honest, I was more hyped for MoS than for this. Don't even know when this is coming out here where I live.
 
Anth0ny said:
Yeah, that's what I'm expecting too. Maybe even 190-200 if word of mouth is super strong and reviews are positive. This is Batman and fucking Superman in the same movie. Featuring Wonder Woman. This should at least beat Dark Knight Rises' OW ($160m) and approach Avengers numbers imo (again, assuming it is received positively like Avengers was).
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I am anticipating Man of Steel Numbers but of course that could depend on the critics. I don't think it will be bad though I don't know about it being a hit.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
$140 million with a 60-70% second week dropoff would be a fucking disaster.

The Dark Knight Rises made $160 million.
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Second weekend drop will still probably be high 50s like most big comic book flicks, unless word of mouth is very good. Then it will be around 50%. Above 60% would not be great, but it could stabilize after that like Man of Steel did. That had a pretty high second weekend drop but then normalized back after that.
 
I would love for this not to beat Deadpool.

The universe owes me a favor.

Wonder Woman movie tho, I'm there Day 0.
 
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