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[DriftingSpirit]

Worldwide Updates:

Despicable Me 3 - $1.022B
IT - $553M
War for the Planet of the Apes - $481M
Kingsman: The Golden Circle - $193M
The Emoji Movie - $193M
Leap! - $105M
The Lego Ninjago Movie - $58M

IT will pass Transformers 5 worldwide.

Damn

 

[Certinty]

Can't believe how well IT is doing. Movie was so meh to me.

American Made was great and Kingsman TGC was way more fun too.

 

[kswiston]

The first paragraph from Indiewire's The Mountain Between Us review is pretty good

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/the-mountain-between-us-review-idris-elba-kate-winslet-1201881379/

“The Mountain Between Us” is one of those movies that’s impossible to watch without imagining the elevator pitch that got the project off the ground (yes, it was adapted from a Charles Martin novel of the same name, but someone still had to sell Hollywood on the idea). “It’s ‘The Grey’ meets ‘The English Patient’!” “It’s ‘Alive’ meets ‘Before Sunrise’!” “It’s ‘Cast Away,’ but if Tom Hanks was a little horny for Wilson!” Amusingly billed as a “romance-disaster” on the film’s Wikipedia page, Hany Abu-Assad’s dreary but diverting high-altitude epic is a “will they or won’t they?” flirtation superimposed onto a classic story of survival. It’s fantastically unrealistic stuff from the first minute to the last (and there are far too many minutes between them), but Idris Elba and Kate Winslet generate enough heat to keep the frostbite at bay, and Mandy Walker’s stunning location cinematography ensures that the film looks considerably more authentic than it feels.

You like Before Sunrise Bronson. You know what you have to do.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Wait you're telling me Tom Hanks wasn't even a little horny for Wilson?

 

[vinnygambini]

Kingsman 2 wasn't as good or interesting as the original, but I'm surprised to see how tepid the response for it is.

I thought Kingsman 2 was quite dull, and I quite enjoyed the first one.

I understand the tepid response.

 

[Beeks]

Saw Battle of the Sexes now that it finally went wide, was a fun little period piece. Need to rewatch the original Blade Runner before 2049 next weekend.

 

[Korigama]

I fell asleep. Did Kiefer team up with them at all?

Small role and a different character in spite of the sequel claims, apparently.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Crazy to see 3 movies so close to each other in the BO.

 

[gatti-man]

Can't believe how well IT is doing. Movie was so meh to me.

American Made was great and Kingsman TGC was way more fun too.

I loved IT. I think some people just get turned off by the jumps in emotion. Scary to sweet to funny to scary to funny to sweet it just rubs some people wrong.

 

[OrangeAtlas]

Can we talk about how The LEGO Ninjago Movie has 13 credited writers between screenplay and story credits?

Something clearly went wrong there.

 

[Pachimari]

What is Homecoming at WW now? Somebody in the last thread mentioned it has a chance of bypassing Spider-Man 3.

 

[WaffleTaco]

FTFY

After the disaster that was The Mummy he deserves what gets.

But the reviews are great!!

Nah. Not with this movie.

But but reviews are great!

 

[kswiston]

What is Homecoming at WW now? Somebody in the last thread mentioned it has a chance of bypassing Spider-Man 3.

We haven't received any updated international numbers, but I think that the Chinese run died too quickly to make $890M likely. On opening weekend, it seemed like $140M in China could possibly happen. But the run quickly collapsed, and its final total will be around $115M instead. It will pass $880M, but remain slightly behind Spider-Man 3 both domestically and overseas.

 

[DMczaf]

Where were you when Bronson got worked ?

 

[Toa TAK]

I really DO wanna see American Made before BR comes out.

Maybe I'll do a run on Tuesday. I gotta see Cruise in something good to make up for The.. you know.

 

[DeathyBoy]

Small role and a different character in spite of the sequel claims, apparently.

I figured as such.

Stupid film. Ellen Page and Kiefer versus the afterlife would be a great little genre film.

 

[Magwik]

Ellen Page must have a really shit agent

 

[Timu]

[IT will pass Transformers 5 worldwide.

I would laugh my ass off if that happens.

 

[jon bones]

so IT & Kingsman are both doing well? IT sequel seems destined to get budget love now, is Kingsman 3 likely?

 

[Schucky Ducky]

IT's going to end up making so much money. I could see it winning the box office again in the weekends leading up to Halloween.

 

[Buckle]

It making a nice comeback just in time for spooky scary season.

Looking forward to seeing it rake it all in this month.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Ellen Page must have a really shit agent

She’s gonna have to get onboard with that The Last of Us movie

 

[Timu]

We haven't received any updated international numbers, but I think that the Chinese run died too quickly to make $890M likely. On opening weekend, it seemed like $140M in China could possibly happen. But the run quickly collapsed, and its final total will be around $115M instead. It will pass $880M, but remain slightly behind Spider-Man 3 both domestically and overseas.

Damn, and it was so close too. Oh well, hopefully the sequel will do better in 2019.

 

[HK-47]

We haven't received any updated international numbers, but I think that the Chinese run died too quickly to make $890M likely. On opening weekend, it seemed like $140M in China could possibly happen. But the run quickly collapsed, and its final total will be around $115M instead. It will pass $880M, but remain slightly behind Spider-Man 3 both domestically and overseas.

What a bomb

 

[Sweeney Tom]

Ellen Page must have a really shit agent

Whose agent is worse, hers or Idris Elba's

 

[OrangeAtlas]

so IT & Kingsman are both doing well? IT sequel seems destined to get budget love now, is Kingsman 3 likely?

Kingsman's doing pretty much identical numbers to the first. Considering the higher budget, marketing, and cast, it's probably a disappointment for them.

 

[Mister Wilhelm]

American Made's budget is $50 million but they marketed the hell out of it.

I think this is a break-even scenario with that opening and the international take.

 

[Slayven]

I can't bump a movie if I haven't seen it!

We got the ticket stub with your dna.

We know you saw it after reading Eat Love and Pray

 

[CrimsonCrescendo]

I thought Kingsman 2 was quite dull, and I quite enjoyed the first one.

I understand the tepid response.

It'll still probably make 320 to 350 million dollars, 300 million being the lowest I can see. Enough to get a sequel but probably not enough for that Statesmen spin off.

 

[hodayathink]

Whose agent is worse, hers or Idris Elba's

I feel like Idris is more along the lines of Sam Jackson where he just feels like he has to be working, and therefore will pick a script among the list of movies he has on the table when he doesn't have a project, no matter if all the movies on the table aren't very good.

 

[Toa TAK]

We got the ticket stub with your dna.

We know you saw it after reading Eat Love and Pray

Don’t you mean Eat, Pray, Love?

 

[BronsonLee]

You like Before Sunrise Bronson. You know what you have to do.

wtf there's no way in hell that movie is anything like Before Sunrise at all

The whole point of that film is that there aren't many stakes to it at first

Where were you when Bronson got worked ?

I'm the one who does the working!

We got the ticket stub with your dna.

We know you saw it after reading Eat Love and Pray

FILTH

 

[JigglesBunny]

Flatliners wasn’t even offensively awful, just boring to the point of being an endurance exercise. It’s the type of thing that won’t be remembered in a week.

Oh and American Made is aight.

 

[kswiston]

Don’t you mean Eat, Pray, Love?

Nah. Slayven is talking about the religious zombie book.

 

[Slayven]

Flatliners wasn't even offensively awful, just boring to the point of being an endurance exercise. It's the type of thing that won't be remembered in a week.

Oh and American Made is aight.

a lot for reviews are talking about how it is way too long

Nah. Slayven is talking about the religious zombie book.

*cough*

 

[Toa TAK]

Nah. Slayven is talking about the religious zombie book.

I'd watch that.

I think.

 

[RoboPlato]

I don't think I've seen a top 3 so close together in weekend takes before.

 

[JigglesBunny]

a lot for reviews are talking about how it is way too long

I think it clocked in just under two hours but the shit felt like three. They could have shaved off half an hour and it wouldn’t have made much difference to the “story.”

 

[WaffleTaco]

We need more girl-girl zombie rom coms tbh

 

[xaosslug]

ww chart added

 

[kswiston]

I don't think I've seen a top 3 so close together in weekend takes before.

Things will probably look different with the actuals (I think that American Made is overpredicting Sunday), but this could be the smallest #1-3 gap ever where all three films are above $10M.

There were some really small gaps in the 80s and 90s, but those were on weekends of $3-4M.

ww chart added

A Dog's Purpose beat a lot of big budget films this year in the worldwide box office. The final opening in Spain should push it over $200M worldwide next weekend.

 

[Ahasverus]

so IT & Kingsman are both doing well? IT sequel seems destined to get budget love now, is Kingsman 3 likely?

Hopefully not as it's the only thing standing between Vaughn and Man of Steel 2.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Hopefully not as it's the only thing standing between Vaughn and Man of Steel 2.

So we get Kingsmen 3 and Vaughn doesn't have to be part of that universe?

Win-win!

 

[DeathyBoy]

I think it clocked in just under two hours but the shit felt like three. They could have shaved off half an hour and it wouldn’t have made much difference to the “story.”

It's another horror film with less story than the cold open of your average Supernatural episode.

 

[DJwest]

Hope that Kingsman 2 exceeds expectations, I need a sequel.

 

[natjjohn]

Hope that Kingsman 2 exceeds expectations, I need a sequel.

Hasn’t it already performed below expectations

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

Lego Ninjago movie is a disaster.

And it's Warner Bros.' own fault, really. Their thirst for franchises has gotten the better of them, first with the DCEU and now with Lego.

The main thing is that they pulled the NSMB mistake by releasing two Lego films in the same year that are very similar to each other in theme and beats (hence the accusations that the brand is growing stale). If The Lego Ninjago Movie was remarkably very different from the past films, this wouldn't be too much of a problem, but from what I've heard / talked to someone who's a fan of the original show but didn't like the movie, they brought in a ton of people who changed a lot from the show the film's based on to make it more similar to the Lego theatrical films. The six main characters, for example, go to school in the film (they didn't in the TV show), and have a different set of voice actors.

Lego Ninjago Movie's credentials list three directors, five producers, and seven writers overall (five for story, seven for screenplay). Only two of those writers came from the TV series, and they only worked on the screenplay. Lego Movie and Lego Batman Movie had significantly less directors/producers/writers on their projects. A perfect example of too many cooks spoiling the soup.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Hasn’t it already performed below expectations

Assuming estimates are right it's $1 million behind K1's second weekend total.

 

[jon bones]

Hopefully not as it's the only thing standing between Vaughn and Man of Steel 2.

no, save Vaughn for post-Flashpoint ‘young Superman’ DCEU

this one is a waste of his talent

 

[Discotheque]

Hopefully Vaughn stays the hell away from superman. Clearly in the minority here with this opinion but he would be a regression from Snyder as well

Superman could do with a fresh talent. But not that wasteman