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Weekend Box Office 8/1-8/3: I Am Groot edition

UPDATED, Friday, 1:33 PM: Matinee showings of James Gunn’s The Guardians Of The Galaxy is hot as can be and after those record late night numbers we are now looking at a picture that could play past $90M — if this strength holds up, which we believe it will. It plays to families, with kids so Saturday and Sunday moviegoing should be strong and tonight’s CinemaScore is also expected to be high. It’s taking all the air out of the box office right now. And checking in with Fandango, they said today is their biggest ticketing day of the summer. So Guardian tickets are selling like hot cakes. Of the more than 1,000 ticket buyers, 55% plan to see the movie more than once and 63% plan to bring in their kids to see the film. It’s outselling the first Thor and Captain America and even the first Iron Man in the same point of their sales cycle so Marvel has itself the start of another original film franchise.

http://m.deadline.com/2014/08/box-of...-on-get-on-up/


RTH with early Friday estimate between 39-43 million.
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Nice. I believed in it.
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#GuardiansOfTheGalaxy on fire today heading to about $40M, on track for scorching opening wknd of $90-100M. Franchise born.
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Of the more than 1,000 ticket buyers, 55% plan to see the movie more than once and 63% plan to bring in their kids to see the film. It’s outselling the first Thor and Captain America and even the first Iron Man in the same point of their sales cycle so Marvel has itself the start of another original film franchise.

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Re: Weekend Box Office 8/1-8/3: I Am Groot edition

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Nice. I believed in it.
Same here. Let us see how it goes when TMNT releases. I hope it stands well.
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TMNT is gonna blow chunks out my asshole.
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I'm not sure how to gauge that. I... Yeah. I'm not... Yeah.
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So which one of you schmucks was proposing this would bomb?

Finke is already stating the projections are tagged for a $98M weekend. I really hope this becomes the first non-Iron Man Marvel film to cross the $100M mark in its opening weekend. I think it can do it, especially with how the WOM has been. I've already seen it twice in the past 24 hours and am going again tomorrow night with friends who haven't seen it yet.
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Variety is now mentioning 100 million OW

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/gu...ce-1201274069/
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Awesome numbers. This is simply a reward for Marvel for doing something quirky yet doing it the right way. Getting the right people attached to the project and making a good movie.
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Now aren't you bastards sorry you booed Batista?
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Very cool.
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Originally Posted by Deftones
Awesome numbers. This is simply a reward for Marvel for doing something quirky yet doing it the right way. Getting the right people attached to the project and making a good movie.
Let's hope we're saying this after Ant-Man.
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Let's hope we're saying this after Ant-Man.
At this point, can they do any wrong?
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
Let's hope we're saying this after Ant-Man.
Good luck with that.
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Lots of skeptics with Guardians when it was first announced, Edgar Wright fans/Bloggers are up in arms, but the General Public could not care less.
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I think this year was a turning point at least in my estimation of Marvel Studios... both of this yr's releases being amongst the best of them all. While they are a made-by-committee type of film, in their defense you've still been able to see a director's style come through at the same time. I still think the credits scenes are a gimmick, but they've made it their own... it works, kinda fun. I still don't think the general public is aware of the difference between 'Marvel Studios' and a Marvel film made by another studio... but I'm sure they'll continue trying to separate themselves.
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Lots of skeptics with Guardians when it was first announced, Edgar Wright fans/Bloggers are up in arms, but the General Public could not care less.
Based upon the fact that Marvel re-hired Gunn for the sequel for GOTG makes me feel Wright was either not doing the job Marvel hired him to do or was not getting along with top brass.

If the man who came from Troma gets a second gig before his first attempt came out, Wright did something wrong.
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Re: Weekend Box Office 8/1-8/3: I Am Groot edition

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Based upon the fact that Marvel re-hired Gunn for the sequel for GOTG makes me feel Wright was either not doing the job Marvel hired him to do or was not getting along with top brass.

If the man who came from Troma gets a second gig before his first attempt came out, Wright did something wrong.
No, Wright just didn't conform to what the higher-ups wanted. He was most likely promised a self-contained story early on, with his version of Ant-Man, that Marvel decided they wanted him to segue the character into the MCU. Marvel changed their minds after and Wright did not, so he bailed.

GoG was always conceived as a cosmic entry into the MCU. Ant-Man was not.
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5th UPDATE: Saturday, 6:58 AM: All in a day’s work — Saving the universe and saving the day — James Gunn’s fun superhero actioner Guardians of the Galaxy launched with a $37.95M Friday (which includes those $11.2M Thursday late nights) for Disney/Marvel helping to breathe life into the box office after a seven-week slump. Depending on family moviegoing today, the movie could play anywhere right now from $92.5M to $95.5M, which means it could end up higher than the opening of Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95M). If it drops 15% on Saturday, we’re looking at the higher end of the estimate.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/08/box-...-on-get-on-up/

Looks like it may just miss $100MM.
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5th UPDATE: Saturday, 6:58 AM: All in a day’s work — Saving the universe and saving the day — James Gunn’s fun superhero actioner Guardians of the Galaxy launched with a $37.95M Friday (which includes those $11.2M Thursday late nights) for Disney/Marvel helping to breathe life into the box office after a seven-week slump. Depending on family moviegoing today, the movie could play anywhere right now from $92.5M to $95.5M, which means it could end up higher than the opening of Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95M). If it drops 15% on Saturday, we’re looking at the higher end of the estimate.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/08/box-...-on-get-on-up/

Looks like it may just miss $100MM.
Too bad, but it's still a major success that this film is even flirting with that number.
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Originally Posted by The Bus
Looks like it may just miss $100MM.
BOMB. So much for GoTG2.
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yeah fuckers! my $26m opening weekend bomb prediction was dead on! SUCK IT.
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I'm glad we got a second opinion.

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