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[BumRush]

Never saw the original GitS film. Worth watching?

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Never saw the original GitS film. Worth watching?

Yes. Just be prepared for long monologues on existence and personhood and hard nipples.

 

[kswiston]

$15M for GitS in China after 2 days. The weekend will be around $20M.

Kong is at $148M without service fees and $156M with fees. The domestic and Chinese totals will be pretty close.

 

[Schlorgan]

I'm more excited for Fate of the Furious than I am for most movies this year. FF, Guardians and Star Wars. Whatever the Cloverfield anthology movie is too.

 

[BumRush]

Excited Kong is doing well. It definitely needs a universe expansion.

 

[kswiston]

We're still waiting on a couple films, but here's what I have for the weekend estimates so far. I will update as numbers come in.

Weekend Studio Estimates:

1) The Boss Baby - $26.3M (-48%) - $89M total
2) Beauty and the Beast - $25M - $432M total
3) Smurfs: Lost Village - $14M
4) Going in Style - $12.5M
5) Ghost in the Shell - $7.3M (--61%) - $31M total
6) Power Rangers - $6.0M (-56%) - $75M total
7) The Case for Christ - ???
8) Kong: Skull Island - $5.8M (-32%) - $157M total
9) Get Out - $4.0M (-29%) - $163M total


Beauty and the Beast is at $977M Worldwide.

 

[BronsonLee]

I don't understand Boss Baby at all.

 

[Branduil]

I don't understand Boss Baby at all.

What if a baby... was also a boss.

 

[shintoki]

What if a baby... was also a boss.

Boss Baby!

Brilliant!

 

[kswiston]

I don't understand Boss Baby at all.

Someone at Dreamworks saw this on Facebook while they were watching 30 Rock

 

[Boke1879]

Boss Baby is a movie aimed at kids. It's about a talking baby. That's really all there is to it.

 

[kswiston]

Boss Baby is a movie aimed at kids. It's about a talking baby. That's really all there is to it.

The visual gags are mostly for kids, but most of the stuff Alec Baldwin is saying will go right over their heads.


EDIT:

$123M worldwide for GitS. China (including service fees) was $21M of that. Yet another Chinese opening above the domestic opening.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Someone at Dreamworks saw this on Facebook while they were watching 30 Rock

It was a children's picture book from 2010.

 

[kswiston]

It was a children's picture book from 2010.

I wonder how faithful this version is to the children's book on a scale of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to Dinotrux.

 

[Slayven]

Yes. Just be prepared for long monologues on existence and personhood and hard nipples.

a lot like the anime, hell a lot of 90s anime. Fuck EVA

 

[bachikarn]

I saw Get Out yesterday, and the theater was sold out. Granted it was a small one, but still.

 

[Vectorman]

Fuck EVA

This statement makes me sad.

 

[kswiston]

Here's the full Top 13

Weekend Studio Estimates:

1) The Boss Baby - $26.3M (-48%) - $89M total
2) Beauty and the Beast - $25M - $432M total
3) Smurfs: Lost Village - $14M
4) Going in Style - $12.5M
5) Ghost in the Shell - $7.3M (--61%) - $31M total
6) Power Rangers - $6.0M (-56%) - $75M total
7) Kong: Skull Island - $5.8M (-32%) - $157M total
8) Logan - $4.1M (-34%) - $218M total
9) Get Out - $4.0M (-29%) - $163M total
10) The Case for Christ - $3.9M
11) The Zookeeper's Wife - $2.9M (-12%) - $8M total
12) Life - $2.4M (-56%) - $27M
13) Your Name - $1.6M (from 303 screens)


Worldwide Updates:

Beauty and the Beast - $977M
Kong: Skull Island - $534M
Logan - $597M
The Boss Baby - $200M
Ghost in the Shell - $123M

 

[MANUELF]

Will B&B be able to reach 500 million, is slowing down quickly

 

[BronsonLee]

I was gonna watch Your Name today but the last few times I've watched anime movies in the theater it's always been fuckin' empty and I felt like a flop

 

[Busaiku]

I was gonna watch Your Name today but the last few times I've watched anime movies in the theater it's always been fuckin' empty and I felt like a flop

Both times I saw it, the theater was around 1/2.

 

[BronsonLee]

Both times I saw it, the theater was around 1/2.

If I can watch it Easter Weekend along with Fate of the Furious because what a fun double feature that is, that'd be good

 

[Ridley327]

That actually seems like a surprisingly good performance for an anime that's not tied to a popular series. I guess the good reviews convinced potential fence sitters.

 

[Slayven]

I was gonna watch Your Name today but the last few times I've watched anime movies in the theater it's always been fuckin' empty and I felt like a flop

Maybe you smell

 

[kswiston]

I was gonna watch Your Name today but the last few times I've watched anime movies in the theater it's always been fuckin' empty and I felt like a flop

The PTA for this one was pretty good. Already the 15th biggest anime film ever domestically

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

I was gonna watch Your Name today but the last few times I've watched anime movies in the theater it's always been fuckin' empty and I felt like a flop

Your Name might be but damn Sword Art was absolutely packed and it was way outside of Birmingham, AL.
Expected it to be nearly empty.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Your Name might be but damn Sword Art was absolutely packed and it was way outside of Birmingham, AL.
Expected it to be nearly empty.

Even my friends who liked SOA hated the movie.

Your Name deserves the success.