BronsonLee
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BUT YOU INVENTED TWO DOLLAR TUESDAYS
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BUT YOU INVENTED TWO DOLLAR TUESDAYS
ryutaro's mama
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War has changed.
PhoncipleBone
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Will BatB get the BronsonBump?
BronsonLee
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PhoncipleBone
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Or Emma Watson laughed off the bump.
But in the end, only WB money is clean to you, right?
BronsonLee
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WB knows where their bread is buttered
Disney got cute so I scuttled Civil War and Dory early
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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How much for the BronsonBump, anyway? 2 pesos?
Bobby Roberts
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Do elves even believe in money?
Flick this dude some Lembas, see what happeens.
Flick this dude some Lembas, see what happeens.
PhoncipleBone
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Stop trying to make this thread about you, Bobby!
Bobby Roberts
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PhantomX1313
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Beauty Beast Heading towards 177M+ http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-weekend-box-office-selling-out-1202045224/
Omg
Omg
Bobby Roberts
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Oh, that funny ol' Mr. SOME BELIEVE with his $177 forecast.
The actual headline:
Beauty And The Beast Dazzling With $169M+ Opening; Bound To Set Records For Pre-Summer, Bill Condon & Emma Watson
Beauty Beast Heading towards 177M+ http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-weekend-box-office-selling-out-1202045224/
Omg
Deserved.
Better than BvS.
Not exactly a high bar
Bobby Roberts
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Still better tho. Batb is actually a fun time at the movies.
PhoncipleBone
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What if we derive "fun" from watching the world burn?
Then you're the joker from The Dark Knight?
BronsonLee
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MY PRICE IS HIGH
Bobby's such a glory hound
Anecdotal but the cinema I work (in the UK) at had BatB sold out for 2D screens whilst 3D screens were at most 60% full. Also Get Out was incredibly popular with both screenings last night selling out.
Disney estimate is $63.8m for Friday, pretty much in line with the Deadline article.
hmm, enough lower than the $68m that was thrown around last night to make it now a toss up to beat BvS for March record. Thinking Disney's estimate tomorrow will be over so it gets the March record headlines.
Gentleman Jack
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Friday studio estimates
1) Beauty and the Beast - $63.8M
2) Kong: Skull Island - $7.3M (-64%) - $89M total
3) Logan - $4.7M (-55%) - $171M total
4) Get Out - $3.8M (-38%) - $124M total
5) The Shack - $1.6M (-40%) - $38M total
6) The Belko Experiment - $1.5M
Beauty and the Beast is at $104M worldwide after Friday
1) Beauty and the Beast - $63.8M
2) Kong: Skull Island - $7.3M (-64%) - $89M total
3) Logan - $4.7M (-55%) - $171M total
4) Get Out - $3.8M (-38%) - $124M total
5) The Shack - $1.6M (-40%) - $38M total
6) The Belko Experiment - $1.5M
Beauty and the Beast is at $104M worldwide after Friday
Actually, Gitesh is saying that the $40.3M OS total listed on BOM is just for Friday and that the actual total should be $50.8M OS, and $115M worldwide. That makes more sense given China and the UK's take on Friday ($19M combined).
The Worldwide total for Beauty and the Beast should pass $300M this weekend.
The Worldwide total for Beauty and the Beast should pass $300M this weekend.
Bobby Roberts
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Get Out's gonna cross 150, right?
How close can it get to 175?
How close can it get to 175?
Get Out will be about $20M ahead of Split after 4 weekends, coming off a fourth weekend that's about 40% higher than Split's.
Split is heading to around $138M. The same drops would leave Get Out at nearly $170M. Get out has been dropping better than Split so far.
That's an amazing one two punch to start the year. Wow!
broncobuster
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Guess every year Disney will have one live action remake of an old animated movie, at least two Marvel movies, and a Star Wars movie. Not exactly shocking before this weekend.
And seems March is a good time to open big movies nowadays. Looking at other months, the post-summer/winter break months are barely over $55mil, with only American Sniper way past it in January.
On Beauty and the Best taking March, I am curious if Thor 3 or Justice League can top Hunger Games (again if JL) for November. I don't see any other movie leading a month. Maybe Kingsman 2 in October, but opening the same day as Blade Runner might split things.
And seems March is a good time to open big movies nowadays. Looking at other months, the post-summer/winter break months are barely over $55mil, with only American Sniper way past it in January.
On Beauty and the Best taking March, I am curious if Thor 3 or Justice League can top Hunger Games (again if JL) for November. I don't see any other movie leading a month. Maybe Kingsman 2 in October, but opening the same day as Blade Runner might split things.
April was September-tier until just a few years ago. Anger Management was the record holder with $42M before Clash of the Titans broke the $60M mark on the back of the 3D novelty wave. Even now, the Top 20 opening weekend cut off in April isn't much better than the cutoff in September.
The Fast and Furious films have since driven that April opening record way up, and it looks like we will be getting at least 1 huge April release a year for the foreseeable future. It's only a matter of time before someone does the same thing in Late September and in October.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Boooo!
With $60M Sat, the March record will be close, so the actuals this weekend could be very exciting. Regardless, Beast should be the biggest opener until Star Wars.
PhoncipleBone
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Meanwhile, September and October can't even crack $60m openings.
I don't think September has had a film that has cracked 200M DOM.
Bobby Roberts
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AVATAR 2 TO THE RESCUE
I think it got a couple posts in the last thread?
PhoncipleBone
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So nobody gave a shit in the end, because nobody even heard of the film. Makes sense.
Only reason I saw it was double checking the records for each month.
It actually has an impressive cast.
December will join the 3 over $150M club this year.
It's been pretty rough for those last couple of Felicity Jones films post-Rogue One
Discotheque
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What's out then other than star wars?
Nothing, but Star Wars broke $150M the past two years, so this year will make #3.
Discotheque
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Oh I thought you meant 3 movies over 150 in a month. I was thinking that sounds nuts
We're probably some time away from that happening. 2012, 2015, 2016 each had three $150M+ openers for the entire year.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, and Pirates 3 opening weekends adjust to $190M, $152M, and $144M respectively, so it's certainly possible for three films to open over $150M in a month.
It'd just require studios to go as batshit crazy as they did in 2007.
It'd just require studios to go as batshit crazy as they did in 2007.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, but adjusted numbers ain't shit
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Fight me.
I mean, those adjusted numbers are probably underselling how big those openings would have been, since large format screens provide a much bigger boost to the openings of blockbusters nowadays.
Following May 2007 was fucking bonkers; those 3 were the biggest franchises Hollywood had at the time. It would be like if Universal for some reason decided to move up Jurassic World 2 to the same month as Avengers 3 and the Han Solo flick. Which, at the very least, would make for some very entertaining GAF threads.
Obliterator
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It'll be interesting to watch Beauty and the Beast. I think word of mouth might be quite a bit better than some of the reviews indicate. My wife and her cousin just got back from the movie and they both loved it, and were saying Disney did an amazing job.
Film is gonna do some crazy business that's for sure.
Film is gonna do some crazy business that's for sure.
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