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Wkd BO 0623-2517 - Transformers snore than meets the eye, Woman keeps up with Cars
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They already punishing themselves, what can I do?
What if it's good, though?
Even Marvel can polish a turd at this point. I fully anticipate it will be as good as the worse Marvel movie.
While that's true, but I'm thinking overall appeal of these franchises. I'm pretty sure the merchandising for these films is insane, so the more girls that are dressing up as Wonder Women around the world the better.
It also shows the growth of the brand. For DC, eversince MoS it seemed to be more US-sided than Marvel.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
And some cultures/countries are simply just not going to catch. It happens with a lot of properties. Sometimes a thing just doesn't work in a region.
Worldwide numbers get a ton of attention because they're bigger, sure. And that money/reach is important. But I don't think Wonder Woman getting a 50/50 split is somehow a real shortcoming. That's not to say that appeal can't be built over time, and hopefully it will be. But having room to grow isn't necessarily a fault or a misstep. It just means success can be greater overseas.
And even then: It's probably still way more important that the movie does well here than its doing well in any other region.
It could be GOAT if at the end they show Carol leafing through some old papers showing her real name is Karla Soften
PhoncipleBone
Banned
That sounds like the name of a villain in a porno.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Code:
Pre: $6.0M
Fri: $27.1M/$33.1M
Sat: $25.9M -4.43%/-21.75%
Sun: $25.0M -3.47%
OW: $84.0M
2nd: $35.5M -57.74%
3rd: $18.2M -48.73%
4th: $11.4M -37.36%
DOM: $260M
INT: $690M
WW: $950M- I've mentioned my thoughts on Despicable Me 3 a few times already, and the reason for my "underprediction" basically boils down to one thing: Minions. The film had very weak legs and its Flixster audience of 49% is worse than Shrek 3 or Transformers 4, and while DM3 is not a direct sequel, I suspect the damage has been done. Online signs are quite a bit weaker than Minions or DM2, and this summer has certainly taught us to exercise caution when predicting sequels that are in this sort of predicament.
- Reviews are about on par with Minions at this point, so I'm doubting legs will be much better. Especially seeing as next week's openers seems set to double the gross of Minions' post opening competitor, Ant-Man.
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[U]Top 10[/U]
1) Despicable Me 3 $84.0M
2) Baby Driver $19.0M
3) Transformers 5 $15.3M -65.76%
4) Wonder Woman $14.9M -40.18%
5) Cars 3 $10.7M -55.55%
6) The House $9.8M
7) 47 Meters Down $4.4M -37.94%
8) The Mummy $2.4M -60.40%
9) Pirates of the Caribbean 5 $2.3M -57.41%
10) Rough Night $2.2M -53.19%- TF5 had an absolutely awful Wednesday, dropping 43% from the day before, and things will only get worse over the weekend as it faces, you know, real competition.
- Cars 3 will look to be, as far as I can tell, the first major animated film to drop more than 55% in two consecutive weekends. It's become a bizarre yearly tradition for Illumination to cut off the legs of a summer Pixar film, and this looks to be the most devastating blow yet.
- The House appears to heading towards disaster status. Its online presence is as nonexistent as reviews.
- To end this on a positive note, Wonder Woman will continue to do its thing this weekend, topping Batman v Superman to becoming the highest grossing DCEU film domestically. If it can drop 35% or less, then $400M will certainly be in reach.
If she has a sassy black friend named Monica, I am burning all of Bobby's kangol hats
You know full well that's how they're gonna deal in Spectrum.
Maybe I'll get an Ultimates movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I don't see why my headwear has to suffer for Marvel's imagined sins here.
Do you have a link for some impression that backs this up? Not that I don't believe you, I would just like to see what they say about the movie.
I wasn't really up in arms about Baby Driver. I really liked the movie, but I had expected more from the synchronization of picture and music, and the third act made me a little sore on the overall product.
If JL is even slightly watchable, a billion is a near cert.
I totally agree, some territories are just not gonna catch on. However, when we have Marvel being able to make a movie called Captain America appealing in China, of all places, I think WB should be happy with WW but needs to think about how it markets its DC franchises outside of the US. We're four movies in to the DCEU and so this should be looked at. Having said that, these are good problems to have, as opposed to the situation we had prior to WW.
Having said all that, JL absolutely need the international gross to make 1bn which I'm sure WW sees as the minimum for that movie.
BoxOfficeReport.com @BORReport
Wonder Woman grossed an estimated $2.69M on Thursday. 28-Day total stands at $330.53M.#WonderWoman #BoxOffice
8:18 AM - 30 Jun 2017
BoxOfficeReport.com @BORReport
Wonder Woman has passed the $330.36M final gross of Batman v Superman to move into 49th place on the all-time domestic list.#WonderWoman
8:18 AM - 30 Jun 2017
Wonder Woman grossed an estimated $2.69M on Thursday. 28-Day total stands at $330.53M.#WonderWoman #BoxOffice
8:18 AM - 30 Jun 2017
BoxOfficeReport.com @BORReport
Wonder Woman has passed the $330.36M final gross of Batman v Superman to move into 49th place on the all-time domestic list.#WonderWoman
8:18 AM - 30 Jun 2017
I was so tempted to avatar quote you. Anyway, well deserved.
Hats get burned everyday B
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Kinda feeling like it might be possible Baby Driver gets good WOM among the youths.
Maybe.
Enough to push it over 60 maybe?
Maybe not.
Maybe.
Enough to push it over 60 maybe?
Maybe not.
BronsonLee
Member
I've gone to every school in my general vicinity to tell the youths not to watch Baby Driver and all I have to show for it is all these restraining orders and this axe in my head
QuantumZebra
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I'd put $100 on it being better than Thor 2, Iron-Man 2, and The Incredible Hulk.
I also anticipate it will top Thor, IM1, and Ant-Man, quality-wise.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Comps:
DM2: $4.7M (10pm)
Minions: $6.2M (6pm)
Secret Life of Pets: $5.3M (6pm)
DM3 was 6pm as well. I may have been bullish with my $84M prediction; I could see it not making much more than $70M based off that preview number.
Wolverine reboot is probably in there.
And FOX already has one lined up for the 14th of February 2019 meaning that starting next year they'll be doing 3 per year. Marvel's doing 3 per year and there's a rumor that WB will start doing 3-4 a year. I don't know about this.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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Gambit
X-Men Origins: Morph
Maggot
Fant4sti2
X-Men: The Draco
Maggot 2: Maggot Harder
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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The House made $800K in previews, barely beating out the $700K of Rough Night.
R-rated comedies are DOA this summer.
R-rated comedies are DOA this summer.
Bobby Roberts
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NealMcCauley
Member
Reviews are awful. Consensus is it's just another R comedy that thinks being cruel will elicit laughs. I wonder if audiences are starting to reject that line of thinking.
Also the trailers didn't do it any favors.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
They better not recast Laura but I bet they will, unfortunately.
I agree about Incredible Hulk btw, fun movie. The only decent thing Letterier has ever done.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Dafne Keen or riot
hodayathink
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Yeah, I just don't see Fox rolling with a legit teenage Laura, they'd want to age her up to 18-19 and hire someone that looks it.
They'll have to wait 5 years because as awesome as she was in Logan, I don't want to see a 12 year old lead a movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
You guys won't want it until it happens, and then it'll happen, and you'll be like "who'd have thought this could have worked" and then 4 months later it'll be taken for granted that it was always going to have worked and other people are silly to doubt the premise.
Given how the main X-Men films are getting more expensive with diminishing returns we'll see just how many of those release slots are actually 'claimed'.
I actually saw The House last night and.., it was alright. It's a very slight, but perfectly solid comedy with Will Ferrel doing his usual schtick, but as far as R rated comedies go I actually quite liked it*.
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* - The fact the film's run time, with credits, is like 90 minutes and is oddly gory for a comedy like this (a character gets their arm chopped off and set on fire) were huge plus factors for me. It was brief and did something different. Eh, maybe catch it on TV in a few years.
And the cycle continues.
Why don't we change it up a bit, since the cycle is getting stale and old?
I say a legit teen-aged Laura movie would and can work. I don't see why it couldn't. We've had great movies with child/teen leads before, haven't we?
Also, I assumed that the rumour of Dark Tower being 85 minutes long was just that, a rumour.
Nope, apparently the cut of Dark Tower being screened is indeed 85 minutes long. And that's 85 minutes with credits.
*sharp intake of breath*
Hope you guys weren't expecting a franchise out of Dark Tower.
Nope, apparently the cut of Dark Tower being screened is indeed 85 minutes long. And that's 85 minutes with credits.
*sharp intake of breath*
Hope you guys weren't expecting a franchise out of Dark Tower.
QuantumZebra
Member
hodayathink
Member
I have no doubt that it can be made to work pretty easily, I just wish they'd find a way to keep Dafne in the role.
Homecoming will give us insight on that
Tom Holland is 20/21 playing a 15 year old. Dafne would be somewhere around 15-16 by the time the next movie gets made, which means she'd be considered for 12-13 year old roles by Hollywood standards.
I mean, I figured something like E.T. or Harry Potter would've proven that.
I don't think there's anything indicating that. That's the thing, they can full well do it with her at her current age without issue.