Wkd BO 08•18-20•17 - Dolled up Deadpool & Nick Fury team up, get Logan (not that one)

One of the ways IMAX are trying to get people to go to Inhumans, the tickets:
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I don't know... think Inhumans may be a hit!

This is Lincoln Square IMAX (NYC's premiere IMAX) for Friday evening showing

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Hollywood movies are back in release in China.

First day tallies in China:

Valerian - $9.9M
Baby Driver - $4.5M
Cars 3 - $3M
 
I don't know about a history but I believe UFC/Boxing has depressed (slightly, but noticeably) box-office receipts for the night at least once or twice before.
 
I am getting surprise villain vibes in Kingsman from:

Pedro Pascal
Colin Firth
Jeff Bridges
Channing Tatum

Or watch it be that Julianne Moore's character is actually Roxy in a disguise



I rope-a-dope'd
I'm still waiting on a superhero movie doing a "The villain was one of the heroes from the future!" thing or bring in the Space Phantoms.
 
I am getting surprise villain vibes in Kingsman from:

Pedro Pascal
Colin Firth
Jeff Bridges
Channing Tatum

Or watch it be that Julianne Moore's character is actually Roxy in a disguise

Ironically, I feel like the marketing is tipping their hat by how little they've shown of them outside of those two fight scenes.
 
Anyone have any idea of the tracked/predicted openings?

Early first day numbers suggest a $3-4M opening. Standard superhero stuff. Possibly enough to pass Spider-Man 1's worldwide total when combined with the domestic expansion. Anyone expecting much more than $825M is going to be disappointed though.
 
Small handful of people in that thread. More like 2 or 3, I think?

It's not even playing in the Portland area this week. The rollout is apparently pretty small, and I don't think theaters are putting it in their bigger rooms, either.
 
So some red hot preview numbers took place last night for the 3 openers.

Leap - $210k
Birth of the Dragon - $200k
All Saints - $70k

All three are expected to end up in the $3-4.5M range this weekend.


Variety is saying that, between the Texas hurricane and the boxing match, both The Hitman's Bodyguard and Annabelle Creation are expected to make $7M.

If we get a #1 finish that is lower than $7.75M, it will be the lowest #1 film since 2003. In the past 20 years, GI Jane is the only film to win an August weekend with less than $10M (it made around $8.2M)
 
I'm pretty curious to see how bad this weekend craters, honestly. We almost never really get a look at something that desolate on the b.o. charts.
 
I'm pretty curious to see how bad this weekend craters, honestly. We almost never really get a look at something that desolate on the b.o. charts.

Ya.

The Top 10 cutoff is going to be about $3M this weekend. That in itself isn't super unusual, but the fact that the #1 film is only going to be 2-3x higher than that is pretty uncommon. 3 weekends in the past 10 years have been won with less than $10M. The last one was War Room a couple of years back. And the top 12 made $65M that weekend. I think this weekend's top 12 has a shot at going under $50M combined.
 
Small handful of people in that thread. More like 2 or 3, I think?

It's not even playing in the Portland area this week. The rollout is apparently pretty small, and I don't think theaters are putting it in their bigger rooms, either.

Doesn't help that it's AMC only for the first week. Especially where I am, given that they don't have much of a presence here in AZ. The regional chain Harkins has more than twice as many locations in the state, and 4 of them, plus a Regal and an Alamo Drafthouse, are all closer than the nearest AMC.
 
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