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Wkd BO 12•23-25•16 - bomba Ass, Passengers, Sing as audiences continue to go Rogue

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ArmGunar

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I wonder if today's news will impact Ep 8's reshoots. I have to imagine that LucasFilm will do some sort of tribute to Carrie.

Don't know but now Disney is sure to have another 2 billion film.
Luke's return and sadly Carrie Fisher's death will have a big impact
 
I wonder if today's news will impact Ep 8's reshoots. I have to imagine that LucasFilm will do some sort of tribute to Carrie.
I have no idea if it's true or not, but wasn't there an old rumor that
Leia gets attacked and goes into a coma because of her injuries
? :/
 

Schlorgan

Member
I have no idea if it's true or not, but wasn't there an old rumor that
Leis gets attacked and goes into a coma because of her injuries
? :/
If that's true, I'm going to say that
Rey lashes and injures Leia, causing her to run away and eventually join Snoke. Once Snoke has Rey, he betrays Kylo Ren, who joins the Resistance to get revenge.
 

kswiston

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WB and Sony didn't submit their weekend actuals today, but everyone else did. I assume we will get the missing info (along with Tuesday) tomorrow.

Rogue One did score a $32M Monday. Moana's actual Monday gross was $4.8M vs the $3.0M estimate Disney gave yesterday.

Sing, Assassin's Creed, and Why Him decreased a bit in the actuals.

Miss Sloane dropped 91% to $41k.
 

Penguin

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I didn't? I mean, Batman '89 and Superman '78 were huge films, but they didn't lead to a mass amount of comic book adaptations outside sequels in their own franchises. X-Men and Spider-Man lead to an explosion of superhero adaptations that's still going pretty strong.

Eh I disagree

I would say they didn't lead to a mass amount of GOOD adaptions

The 90s is full of some random arse comic book movies

The Mask, MIB, Phantom, Barbwire, Spawn, etc
 

Schlorgan

Member
Top 55 Highest Grossing of 2016 (as of right now):

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Still crazy that BvS didn't break a billion.

It had that monster opening day, and then it started to trip its way up the cliff.
But look at the money it and Suicide Squad still pulled in on really horrible reviews. Imagine how high DC could go if they delivered something good. It is obvious the hunger is there to see those characters on film.
 

jett

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I mean, it's been like that for 15 years or so.

You know, looking back at the box office from 2000 it's ridiculous show much things have changed.

1 Mission: Impossible II Par. $546.4 $215.4 39.4% $331.0 60.6%
2 Gladiator DW $457.6 $187.7 41.0% $269.9 59.0%
3 Cast Away Fox $429.6 $233.6 54.4% $196.0 45.6%
4 What Women Want Par. $374.1 $182.8 48.9% $191.3 51.1%
5 Dinosaur BV $349.8 $137.7 39.4% $212.1 60.6%
6 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Uni. $345.1 $260.0 75.3% $85.1 24.7%
7 Meet the Parents Uni. $330.4 $166.2 50.3% $164.2 49.7%
8 The Perfect Storm WB $328.7 $182.6 55.6% $146.1 44.4%
9 X-Men Fox $296.3 $157.3 53.1% $139.0 46.9%
10 What Lies Beneath DW $291.4 $155.5 53.3% $136.0

Even 2009 wasn't too bad, 4 original IPs...although one of them featured talking animals.
 
It's ridiculous it hit that much domestic and worldwide. How'd it have dem legs?

M:I 2 had pretty standard summer legs for 2000

Compare that to Gladiator's legs, which opened only a few weeks before.

And M:I 2 had the second lowest #1 WW gross of any film within 5 years in either direction.

2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $896.9
2004 Shrek 2 $919.8
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119.1
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $923.3
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $974.8
2000 Mission: Impossible II $546.4
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $983.6
1998 Armageddon $553.7
1997 Titanic $2,128.9
1996 Independence Day $817.4
1995 Toy Story $373.6

It was still a big success, but it wasn't a monster like the hits in the years around it.
 
Only two original IPs in the top 10, and they're both about talking animals.

So, better than last year's top 10 ww grossing films, then? Things are looking up! :)

2015: Sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, spinoff, sequel, original IP, sequel, sequel, adaptation of a novel.

Damn I just went back and yep the last time original IPs outnumbered sequels/reboots/adapted screenplays at the top 10 WW was 2000. Of course, back then the entire top 10 put together grossed less than this year's top 5. So we brought this trend on ourselves.
 

Measley

Junior Member
Video game movies just cannot get itself going. Should be easy with so many comic book movies to use as a reference.

I'm shocked that they actually went with the weird time-travel storyline from the game. I always thought that entire concept was dumb, and the story should have just been set in medieval times.
 

3N16MA

Banned
I didn't realize that Dory surpassed Zootopia for the animated crown.

Ice Age went from two straight films breaking 850M WW to barely cracking 400M. Perhaps the franchise will finally end.
 
I'm shocked that they actually went with the weird time-travel storyline from the game. I always thought that entire concept was dumb, and the story should have just been set in medieval times.

It would've at least made for a great act 3 twist if they started in medieval times; then you open up the world toward the end of the movie.
 
Is it possible Rogue One doesn't pass Civil War for the top spot this year? It looks like its doing a bit weaker overseas than Civil War did even though its going to pass it by a good amount domestically
 
How's Moana's take looking? I know that Disney animation still goes for staggered worldwide releases, but it's still looking remarkably tepid to this particular untrained eye.
 
M:I 2 had pretty standard summer legs for 2000

Compare that to Gladiator's legs, which opened only a few weeks before.

And M:I 2 had the second lowest #1 WW gross of any film within 5 years in either direction.

2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $896.9
2004 Shrek 2 $919.8
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119.1
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $923.3
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $974.8
2000 Mission: Impossible II $546.4
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $983.6
1998 Armageddon $553.7
1997 Titanic $2,128.9
1996 Independence Day $817.4
1995 Toy Story $373.6

It was still a big success, but it wasn't a monster like the hits in the years around it.

Titanic numbers always just pop out.

In tickets sold since it...nothing is even in the same galaxy
 

kswiston

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Titanic numbers always just pop out.

In tickets sold since it...nothing is even in the same galaxy

Titanic is the most successful film of all time worldwide if you are going by attendance (especially if you are not counting decades of re-releases)

Edit: that said, some of those posted 90s grosses have 2010s 3D re-release cash thrown in.
 

Schlorgan

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Fantastic Beasts' domestic run is comparable to Oz: The Great and Powerful's according to Mojo ($215m for FB and $219m for Oz in 39 days) but Oz had a way bigger budget and not as high overseas gross.

Sam Raimi movies seem to either be really cheap or really expensive with no middle ground.
 
Is it possible Rogue One doesn't pass Civil War for the top spot this year? It looks like its doing a bit weaker overseas than Civil War did even though its going to pass it by a good amount domestically

I could be wrong, but I think Civil War has the edge currently by about 50 million or so. China and SK don't look to be over performers, so I would guess R1 tops out at 1.1 billion.
 

milanbaros

Member?
Has any studio managed to set something up like Disney? It is a well oiled money making machine.

One day the wheels will come off but right now it seems they are unstoppable.
 

kswiston

Member
Around $22.6M for Rogue One on Tuesday. That puts the domestic total at ~$340M.

I don't know how Cheap Tuesday will affect today's drop.
 

LionPride

Banned
Yeah. If a film was a lock it was that one.

There was also a Marvel movie with the title Civil War and a Star Wars movie. Those were actual locks just based off of prior quality. Folks don't care to see ya movie if they think it looks bad. Although the X-Men films may prove my point wrong...

Disney always has at least one major bomb every year to put a minor damper on the party.

Eh, still making Billions of dollars because jesus christ of course they are

Just think how many people went insane when DIsney bought Marvel Entertainment and Lucasfilms saying they are gonna fuck everything up
 

3N16MA

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There was also a Marvel movie with the title Civil War and a Star Wars movie. Those were actual locks just based off of prior quality. Folks don't care to see ya movie if they think it looks bad. Although the X-Men films may prove my point wrong...



Eh, still making Billions of dollars because jesus christ of course they are

Just think how many people went insane when DIsney bought Marvel Entertainment and Lucasfilms saying they are gonna fuck everything up

Buying Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilms are all genius moves. Buying Pixar has even led to Disney Animation being turned around by bringing John Lasseter in.
 

Lan Dong Mik

And why would I want them?
I'm pretty surprised Sing is Certified Fresh. That movie fucking suuuuucked. Probably the worst movie I've seen in a theater this year.
 
I could be wrong, but I think Civil War has the edge currently by about 50 million or so. China and SK don't look to be over performers, so I would guess R1 tops out at 1.1 billion.

Yeah its gonna be interesting to watch. I think their total gross is going to be really really close with Civil War edging it out and remaining number 1 for the year. Either way Disney just keeps dumping buckets of cash into their reserves.
 
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