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90% Straight Outta Compton

47% A Walk in the Woods

93% Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

18% The Transporter: Refueled
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‘Jurassic World’ Tops $1 Billion in International Box Office

Underlining Universal’s stellar year, the studio’s “Jurassic World” has crossed the $1 billion milestone at the international box office.

The dinosaur action movie has become only the fourth title to reach the 10-figure mark, joining Fox’s “Avatar” ($2.027 billion) and “Titanic” ($1.528 billion) and Universal’s “Furious 7” ($1.162 billion), which crossed the threshold in April.

“Jurassic World,” with $647.5 million in North America and $1.64 billion worldwide, ranks as the third-biggest film as measured by worldwide grosses, trailing only “Avatar” at $2.79 billion and “Titanic” at $2.19 billion.

Universal noted Sunday that the studio had crossed $6 billion in box office receipts with an estimated total of $3.886 billion internationally and $2.157 billion in North America. It smashed the industry record last month for worldwide grosses in a year, topping Fox’s 2014 year-end total of $5.53 billion.

“Jurassic World” had the biggest opening weekend at the international ($315 million), domestic ($208.7 million) and worldwide box office, grossing $523.7 million globally. It also holds the record for the fastest any film has crossed $1 billion worldwide, needing only 13 days.

Box Office: ‘War Room’ Edging ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Over Slow Weekend

Sony’s faith-based drama “War Room” has the edge on N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” with $9.3 million to lead the modest U.S. box office over the Friday-Sunday weekend.

“Straight Outta Compton” took in $8.9 million at 3,094 locations in its fourth weekend, ending its impressive three-week winning streak at domestic multiplexes. The title should add another $2.3 million on Monday to cross the $150 million milestone, representing another triumph for Universal in a stellar 2015.

Sony/Affirm’s “War Room” has continued to exceed projections following its surprisingly robust opening weekend, when it took in $11.4 million. The film, playing at 1,526 sites, is on track for a four-day Labor Day weekend haul of $12.3 million, bringing its 11-day total to $27.6 million.

“War Room” stars Priscilla Shirer, T.C. Stallings and Karen Abercrombie and was directed by Alex Kendrick. It carries a low-budget price tag of $3.5 million and is the best performer in the genre since Sony’s “Heaven Is for Real” took in $91 million in the U.S. last year.

“It’s clearly a movie that’s resonating with under-served audiences that are usually left out of the conversation,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with Rentrak.

The holiday weekend appears to be the quietest of the year, which will be first of 2015 without a title topping the $10 million mark over the three-day period.

Robert Redford’s comedy “A Walk in the Woods” led the rest of the pack with $8.1 million at 1,960 sites and was projected to tack on $2.2 million on Monday. That’s a decent performance for the first wide release from year-old Broad Green Pictures, the ambitious studio launched by brothers Gabriel and Daniel Hammond.

Paramount’s sixth weekend of “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and EuropaCorp’s launch of “The Transporter Refueled” were battling for fourth place. The fifth “Mission: Impossible” took in $7.2 million at 2,849 locations for the three days and was projected to add $2.1 million on Labor Day to boost its domestic total to $182.5 million.

The fourth “Transporter” brought in $7.1 million in 3,494 locations for Friday-Sunday and was projected to wind up the four days with $8.7 million.

The Weinstein Co.’s second weekend of Owen Wilson thriller “No Escape” came in sixth with $5.3 million at 3,425 sites.

Pantelion’s opening of Mexican animated comedy “Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos” (A Rooster with Many Eggs) turned in a solid $3.4 million at 395 theaters.

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[ViewtifulJC]

"No no, audience don't like Jason Statham. They just REALLY like transporting. Seriously."

 

[mreddie]

 

[FZZ]

Lol at the War Room

And Jurassic World just has me shocked because now I can only imagine what nostalgia overload Disney will pull with Star Wars

 

[Ahasverus]

Yuck those evangelist movies

 

[Snaku]

And Jurassic World just has me shocked because now I can only imagine what nostalgia overload Disney will pull with Star Wars

I'm almost looking more forward to the box office numbers as I am the film itself. I truly believe TFA has a shot at Avatar.

 

[kswiston]

From the last thread

Worldwide Updates:

Inside Out - $734M
Ant-Man - $384M
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - $512M
Terminator Genisys - $436M
Jurassic World - $1.651B
Minions - $1.044B
Ted 2 - $201M
Straight Outta Compton - $165M ($18M overseas)
Fantastic Four - $155M
Hitman: Agent 47 - $63M
Man From UNCLE - $84M

Inside Out passed Up to become the 4th highest grossing Pixar film. It should end up passing Monsters University to settle at #3.

Mission Impossible will probably need at least $140M in China to pass MI4. That seems fairly likely given the performance of the last film, but September doesn't have much breathing room for big releases.

Ant-man opened to $9.2M in South Korea. I think that is the 4th highest opening for MCU films behind the two Avengers and Iron Man 3.

Minions is about $20M behind Toy Story 3. It will easily pass that mark to become the second highest grossing animated film of all time. It will also likely crack the worldwide Top 10 unless it performs poorly in China.

 

[xaosslug]

w/ Jurassic World's tremendous success I hope this means we'll get a Dinobots Transformers spin off!

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Yuck those evangelist movies

These people are real desperate.

 

[Jonm1010]

1.) Jurassic World just reminds me the sort of beast that Titanic was. A film approcahing twenty years old(god I'm getting old) that is still in a lonely spot over the 2 billion mark.

3.) With the crap coming out I really think Mad Max should of positioned itself toward the end of summer. Could of probably got the public attention it deserves and made a little bit more money overall with less tough competition to go up against.

 

[alfredofroylan]

Yup, that looks like September's box office.

 

[jett]

I don't understand Jurassic World's success. It's even more baffling than Furious 7's.

Anyway, MI is having amazing drops, will reach 200 mill easy it seems.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Whatever, I'm just happy to see Straight Outta Compton still doing well. Bring on Tupac and Biggie.

 

[Sanjuro]

A Walk in the Woods proves that old white people still matter.

 

[Finaika]

Worldwide Updates:

Inside Out - $734M
Ant-Man - $384M
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - $512M
Terminator Genisys - $436M
Jurassic World - $1.651B
Minions - $1.044B
Ted 2 - $201M
Straight Outta Compton - $165M ($18M overseas)
Fantastic Four - $155M

Why is Terminator beating Ant-Man?

 

[Neoxon]

So after this week, Fant4stic is gonna drop off the face of the Earth

Spoiler

until Fox pushes it for their 4K Blu-Ray launch line-up.

That being said, congrats to Jurassic World for its massive success.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

It's kind of hard to believe something like Jurassic World has that high of a gross at the box office. Anybody want to tell me why?

 

[nrvalleytime]

These people are real desperate.

Let's not group all of us into one category. Does a disservice to the very real differences that exist in this community.

Beyond that, we can agree that War Room doesn't need to exist.

 

[kswiston]

Why is Terminator beating Ant-Man?

China.

Ant-man still has its Chinese release in the future though. It probably won't do as well there as Terminator, but it will only need to gross $35-40M to pass Genisys again worldwide. That should happen easily.

 

[mreddie]

Why is Terminator beating Ant-Man?

China.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Yuck those evangelist movies

eh they're cheap to make and Sony Pictures is just filling in blank spots on the lineup. it's not taking anything away from larger releases.

same deal with sce and ps4 remakes

 

[ItIsOkBro]

War Room making 800% of its budget already. Christian cinema at the top of the box office. One of the best 2nd week drops in the history of cinema. God bless America.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Fuck those evangelist movies

Fixed.

I don't understand Jurassic World's success. It's even more baffling than Furious 7's.

People like dinosaurs. People like nostalgia. It's more broadly appealing than any superhero movie in the sense that dinosaurs were actually once a thing...AND ARE AWESOME!

 

[Sanjuro]

Why is Terminator beating Ant-Man?

Eh. Arguably a more enjoyable film.

Same tier anyways.

 

[Jonm1010]

It's kind of hard to believe something like Jurassic World has that high of a gross at the box office. Anybody want to tell me why?

Chris Pratt.

Spoiler

dinosaurs, good marketing, appeals to nostalgia and kids. plus a popcorn flick that audiences didn't find revolting. So it had re-watchability

 

[mreddie]

A Mexican movie about talking eggs beat out We Are Your Friends in it's first weekend.

Holy shit, that Agent 47 theatre drop.

 

[kswiston]

Anyway, MI is having amazing drops, will reach 200 mill easy it seems.

Labour Day is extremely inflated for holdovers. It has a pretty good shot at $200M now, but it will likely crawl there.

War Room making 800% of its budget already. Christian cinema at the top of the box office. One of the best 2nd week drops in the history of cinema. God bless America.

It's not even close to being one of the best second weekend drops in history. Especially considering that this is a holiday weekend. 500 films have had better second weekend drops. It would be like calling Terminator Genisys' $27M opening one of the biggest openings of all time (#513 currently).

 

[Abounder]

Evangelical movie? I wonder if churches and private schools go on field trips to help those numbers lol, can't laugh at the profit though!

Cruise missile has a range upgrade

It's kind of hard to believe something like Jurassic World has that high of a gross at the box office. Anybody want to tell me why?

Jurassic World trailer had more hits than the Star Wars teaser (on their official sites), so the hype was there but not so much on GAF
Jurassic Park 3 was still a hit despite being crap, Ebert called it the 'best blockbuster of the summer'
Overseas market has been exploding + 3D tax
Pratt was the star of Guardians which was no.1 summer blockbuster the year before JW
Spielberg + dinos rules the world

 

[gimmmick]

No offense to anyone that enjoy's religious movies, but war room has to be the most retarded trailer I have seen in a very long time. If I have to put my faith into praying into an empty closet to save my marriage , then I know why she wants to leave me.

 

[Amalthea]

"Franchise might be more popular than they appear."

 

[kswiston]

No offense to anyone that enjoy's religious movies, but war room has to be the most retarded trailer I have seen in a very long time. If I have to put my faith into praying into an empty closet to save my marriage , then I know why she wants to leave me.

The synopsis we got for God's Not Dead 2 in the last thread was way worse.

 

[DMczaf]

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Labour Day is extremely inflated for holdovers. It has a pretty good shot at $200M now, but it will likely crawl there.



It's not even close to being one of the best second weekend drops in history. Especially considering that this is a holiday weekend. 500 films have had better second weekend drops. It would be like calling Terminator Genisys' $27M opening one of the biggest openings of all time (#513 currently).

Where did you get that 500 number. Oh wait nvm wrong release size.

 

[kswiston]

Where did you get that 500 number. It would come in at #38 on this list

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/smallestdrops.htm

That's because you are looking at the 3000+ theater supersaturated release list, when War room was released in less than 1200 (and is currently playing in a little more than 1500) theatres. Notice how War Room isn't actually on the list you posted? BOM has already updated all of their lists for this weekend.

EDIT: I see you caught the mistake.

 

[Messypandas]

Why does Mission Impossible have a rotten splat.

 

[demosthenes]

Anyone have a gif of him in the new movie?

And bring on more Mission Impossible!

Eh. Arguably a more enjoyable film.

Same tier anyways.

No.

 

[shira]

http://i.imgur.com/Lw0oFeq.webm

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Studios need to look in to starting a Evangelical Christian Cinematic Universe. The money from the inevitable rapture crossover film would make Avatar look like The Oogieloves.

 

[Cheebo]

Seeing how well these horrible evangelical movies do I wonder how well an actually well made one would do. Although I suspect a big problem is that no one with any talent would want to direct or write one of these (and rightfully so)so I am not sure how possible that even is.

 

[kswiston]

Seeing how well these horrible evangelical movies do I wonder how well an actually well made one would do. Although I suspect a big problem is that no one with any talent would want to direct or write one of these (and rightfully so) so I am not sure how possible tidy even is.

Are you talking about a modern day film? The biblical films do well enough.


The evangelical films like War Room, or Heaven is for real are more comparable to low budget horror films though. They do well with their niche audience on shoestring budgets, but I don't really think that they have huge crossover potential. $100-150M domestic is probably about the ceiling. I think that Heaven is for Real is still the highest grossing film of that type at $90M.

 

[Slayven]

I want a holy action adventure movie. Got the perfect title "Let No Man Put Asunder.."

 

[Africanus]

Fixed.

People like dinosaurs. People like nostalgia. It's more broadly appealing than any superhero movie in the sense that dinosaurs were actually once a thing...AND ARE AWESOME!

Dinosaurs still walk the Earth my friend.

Spoiler

Being chased by a goose is just as scary as being chased by a velociraptor.

 

[shira]

Studios need to look in to starting a Evangelical Christian Cinematic Universe. The money from the inevitable rapture crossover film would make Avatar look like The Oogieloves.

It's not even released in Canada. Those are pure US stats.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I want a holy action adventure movie. Got the perfect title "Let No Man Put Asunder.."

Even better idea: Let's jump on the superhero bandwagon and make a $120M film about this fucker

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I want a holy action adventure movie. Got the perfect title "Let No Man Put Asunder.."

Oh, god. lol

 

[kswiston]

I want a holy action adventure movie. Got the perfect title "Let No Man Put Asunder.."

They had Persecuted last year, which covered the action part:

Plot summary:

Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with, or profiting from, the girl's murder. It's a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire American Christian community.

 

[Slayven]

They had Persecuted last year, which covered the action part:

Plot summary:

Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with, or profiting from, the girl's murder. It's a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire American Christian community.

Oh god

So Christians are the villains and the hero?

 

[Nerdkiller]

Dinosaurs still walk the Earth my friend.

Spoiler

Being chased by a goose is just as scary as being chased by a velociraptor.

Meh. look at where those dinos are now.

Bonus:

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I thought 650 domestic was fully off the table for Jurassic World.

Looks like it hasn't been removed from the menu entirely. Maybe it's on the secret menu.

And yeah, I think it was a couple weeks ago, but someone else mentioned that Mad Max might have had a better time of things if it wasn't scheduled for May, but August (or maybe even April)

 

[kswiston]

I thought 650 domestic was fully off the table for Jurassic World.

Looks like it hasn't been removed from the menu entirely. Maybe it's on the secret menu.

The IMAX re-release helped quite a bit. I'm not sure if that carried over to this weekend though. It might just be the last hurrah of summer at this point.