It'll be higher than your range domestically. Films don't gross $40M+ on their second weekend and then less than that over the remaining duration of their run. $280M is the very low end for Man of Steel, even with poor holds. $300M is not out of the question. It will need to make ~2x this weekend's number over the remainder of its run to hit that total. Summer dailies will help.
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It'll be higher than your range domestically. Films don't gross $40M+ on their second weekend and then less than that over the remaining duration of their run. $280M is the very low end for Man of Steel, even with poor holds. $300M is not out of the question. It will need to make ~2x this weekend's number over the remainder of its run to hit that total. Summer dailies will help.
$207M domestic and $374M worldwide.
PhoncipleBone
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$205m total. (EDIT: kswiston is right with the $207. That is including the Dark Knight Trilogy showings I believe.)
$48.7m opening weekend. Smaller than MOS.
$27.5m second weekend. Only 43.4% drop, which is a very good hold.
If word of mouth were better on MOS, it would not drop approx 70%. That is the biggest issue. The competition was going to take a bite out of MOS, but it took a huge bite because MOS missed leg day at the gym.
Mister Wilhelm
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$225 million budget + around $100 million in marketing.
Depending on how they worked out the international take, they're probably barely making money on it.
Not a bomb, but underperformed like crazy.
That's guaranteed.
MrPink93485
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It's really not fair to compare Man of Steel's drop to Batman Begins because of Begins' deflated first weekend. Remember it opened on a Wednesday so it burned off two days of demand by the time it got to Friday. Not that this is a good drop but obviously the competition took its toll on the film when this movie was already looking to skew a bit more frontloaded.
This was never dropping below 50% due to the large opening. Scale is something to be considered when measuring a hold. 55% drop for the weekend would have been considered a good drop believe it or not. It'll be a bit over 60 though unless it rebounds huge today
Maninthemirror
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Lol math.
Friday numbers were 9 previews and 35 million friday on opening weekend for man of steel so if this made 12.7 it dropped 63% not 71% which is better than harry potter azkaban in june (70% drop) , and nearly as good as toy story 3 (57% drop). Azkaban made 250 in the end while toy story 3 made 415 in the end .
This is on par with expectations, don't try to spin it as bomba
Maninthemirror
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It dropped 63 not 71
Every Friday Drop ever includes midnight previews from the first week. Hell, recently those Friday drops have been including Thursday Previews (as was the case with Iron Man 3). You can't cherry pick your number. Be happy that WB chose not to roll the Walmart previews into Friday.
Official Friday estimate for Monsters University is $30.5M
I am seeing both $25M and $25.5M for World War Z, but I think it is safe to say that the official Friday estimate will be in that range.
I honestly think Pacific Rim will perform decently. There's been more and more TV spots popping up the last week or two and I think people are getting somewhat intrigued by it. Kids should theoretically eat it up...and we know it'll do decently in foreign box offices. I just hope it does well enough to justify a sequel. GDT deserves it.
PhoncipleBone
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Which is a huge Friday-Friday drop.
Maninthemirror
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Mos didnt have midnights it had 8 pm shows. Hollywood stopped midnights in 2012 after aurora so its not fair to compare 12 pm fridays with 8 pm thursdays
PhoncipleBone
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I just want a better Superman movie than both of them. Looks like I will be waiting a long time.
MrPink93485
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Man of Steel had midnights, 7pm screenings were exclusive to Wal Mart and were a separate gross
Maninthemirror
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We got a better one this time
PhoncipleBone
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Man of Steel was better than Man of Steel?
AdventureRacing
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I would like this to but i'm not sure superman is all that good of a character to make movies out of.
Maninthemirror
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Did u go to a 12 am show ?
PhoncipleBone
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Yup. Only previous showing was the 7pm Wal Mart screening.
MrPink93485
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Nope but had a few friends that did
Maninthemirror
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Walmart 7 pm. Theaters 8 pm , closest to midnight was 11:30 pm
MrPink93485
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So now we're in the outright denial stage?
There were midnight grosses. WB reported those grosses. Just because Aurora happened doesn't mean that studios can't choose to have screenings at midnight, nor theaters for that matter. Unless you're saying my friends were lying...
By my rough estimation, with about 50% drops give or take, Man of Steel gets to 300 million just barely. I think legs will stabilize following this weekend and we'll be in store for some sub 50 drops. I wonder if WB will do double features with Pacific Rim to prop up grosses.
There were midnight grosses. WB reported those grosses. Just because Aurora happened doesn't mean that studios can't choose to have screenings at midnight, nor theaters for that matter. Unless you're saying my friends were lying...
By my rough estimation, with about 50% drops give or take, Man of Steel gets to 300 million just barely. I think legs will stabilize following this weekend and we'll be in store for some sub 50 drops. I wonder if WB will do double features with Pacific Rim to prop up grosses.
Sapiens
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We've had many great Superman movies over the years, but none of them carried the logo you wanted.
Films like the Matrix, for instance, demonstrate how it can be done right.
Henchmen21
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We had it. It's called every superman movie starring Christopher Reeves*
*IV is a good movie and I'll hold to that up to my dieing days.
Spike Spiegel
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So the Man of Steel has legs of Jello? Warner can't be pleased.
The next weekend thread should have a joke about skipping leg day in the title.
The next weekend thread should have a joke about skipping leg day in the title.
At least at every theater near me, MoS is the only recent movie that DIDN'T have 8/9 PM showings - it had the 7 PM Walmart screenings that didn't count for Friday anyway and then a bunch of showings at midnight.
you can't take out midnight numbers. That isn't how it works at all.
There was no 8 pm or 11:30 shows in America at all. Only the Walmart screenings. This opened at midnight. There was ZERO non-Walmart showings pre-midnight.
You are just making stuff up at this point.
Imagine the legs it would've had if it had been decent at least. Going by the OW people really wanted to believe a Superman movie could be good.
More spin .. *sigh* How about you answer the question I posed way up on this page before you type out another post?
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Holy shit at that. Toxic word of mouth, awful movie. What a bomba, a drop that massive does not inspire confidence to continue with a sequel or sequels on the same path.
But the movie is good, great actually.
If that was the case for the wider public it wouldn't be on pace to have a 65% drop for its full second weekend.
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AdventureRacing
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Unfortunately it seems the general opinion disagrees with that.
Well, I don't think it is. Movies with such messy scripts and screwed up pacing aren't great.
300 million? Thats crazy! It's not even grossing 250M ..
I think WB should just do us a favor and pull out MoS out of the theatres.
again, I truly don't believe anything other than Batman would work on screen. A JLA movie would be a massive bet and most likely end in blood and tears
STID already more than doubled the cost.
Although I'm sure you're being sarcastic, iron man 3 can afford that kind of drop when it's already made 1 billion. Mos, in its second week, can not. It's barely going to break even
Henchmen21
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Hey, I'd be happy to debate with you the merits of IV. Just not here as I don't want to clog up this thread.
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I wish if I had dreamed or imagined that I went at 955pm on Thursday to see this I would have seen a better movie.
As others have said, it had mightnight showings. Also, no one is making special cases for every other blockbuster this past year that has had Thursday sneaks (I saw Iron Man 3 at 8 or 9pm on a Thurs. I saw Iron Man 1 on a Thurs as well) so I don't see why you are trying to claim that Man of Steel is somehow different.
From the data we have, 8pm-12am preview showing times yield roughly the same results as just 12am previews times. The last Twilight move did not have a larger than series average midnight, despite offering Thursday evening previews for the first time.
Not terribly... it's fine, overall, but there's a real reason for the response it's getting.
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