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Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Poll
05-04-15, 09:45 AM
#102
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
It's all hearsay from reddit, apparently Korean women love him. And the promise of him in a suit is like their Magic Mike I guess 
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05-04-15, 09:57 AM
#103
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Good report on the weekend box-office from Thompson on Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono...ffice-20150503
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono...ffice-20150503
05-04-15, 10:00 AM
#104
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
No shit attendance is dropping for younger audiences, they're almost entirely priced out at this point.
05-04-15, 10:54 AM
#105
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
05-04-15, 11:10 AM
#106
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
As expected, yesterdays estimate was a little low but not by much.
The total was $191.3m: http://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers...ce-1201419080/
The total was $191.3m: http://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers...ce-1201419080/
05-04-15, 12:44 PM
#107
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05-04-15, 01:48 PM
#108
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Pretty funny how this thread went from "$250 million easy regardless of the fight!" to "The fight had to affect it..."
I'm surprised it didn't do better than 1. I saw it on Saturday at 9 a.m. and the theater was completely full. I've been to blockbuster movies on Saturday morning and been the only guy in there. I think the lukewarm reviews didn't help the movie.
I'm surprised it didn't do better than 1. I saw it on Saturday at 9 a.m. and the theater was completely full. I've been to blockbuster movies on Saturday morning and been the only guy in there. I think the lukewarm reviews didn't help the movie.
05-04-15, 01:53 PM
#109
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
I saw it on Thursday night at 10PM, and the auditorium was half to 3/4 full. But, this was a 500 seat auditorium and the theater where I saw it had been playing it pretty much every half hour since 7PM. So they probably pushed a lot more people through than your typical Thursday night screening where there are 3 or 4 shows max, but those people were more spread out between the different showings.
I actually walked into the theater about 10 minutes to 10 and was prepared to buy tickets for the 10:30 showing, but was told that the 10PM show was only about half full, so we went for that instead.
I actually walked into the theater about 10 minutes to 10 and was prepared to buy tickets for the 10:30 showing, but was told that the 10PM show was only about half full, so we went for that instead.
05-04-15, 02:49 PM
#111
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
I could easily buy that happening. Why pay for an overpriced, crowded movie theater when you can use your parents' Netflix subscription? I could see younger kids moving away from movie theaters.
05-04-15, 02:55 PM
#112
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Good report on the weekend box-office from Thompson on Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono...ffice-20150503
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsono...ffice-20150503
I think Batman v. Superman (it still sounds like a legal case to me) will match Ultron's opening if the marketing isn't terrible.
05-04-15, 02:57 PM
#113
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
05-04-15, 03:24 PM
#114
DVD Talk Limited Edition
05-04-15, 03:24 PM
#115
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
And we are still talking in a thread about a movie that grossed more than $190m on opening weekend.
05-04-15, 05:15 PM
#116
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
2011 was, previously, the measuring stick. Back when that summer had:
Thor
X-Men: First Class
Green Lantern
Captain America
And in 2016:
Deadpool
BVS
Cap:Civil War
X-Men: Apocalypse
Suicide Squad
Gambit
Doctor Strange
Sinister Six (Is this still happening?)
I said before that Ant-Man could get a huge boost from 3D tickets (Having seen the trailer in both 2D & 3D over the weekend, it's clear that this appears to be the only Marvel movie, so far, to use 3D to it's full potential) So that could bring a fun Honey, I Shrunk The Kids-vibe to the movie. Expect the marketing (Especially on the Disney Channel) to mostly focus on tiny Ant-Man too.
It could also benefit from having a slightly refreshing take to see a superhero movie where the entire world isn't at risk again---Even though I think the line, "You think you can save the world?" ends up appearing in the trailer.
05-05-15, 01:57 PM
#118
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Per Boxoffice.com:
If this continues to follow Iron Man 3's drops, then it will probably have at least a 60% drop this weekend. $500 mil US is probably looking less likely. $450 mil is where I'm thinking this ends. But still a huge success, especially when it should trounce the first one's international take.
Avengers: Age of Ultron continued to dominate the daily box office on Monday with an estimated daily take of $13.2 million. In the process, the blockbuster superhero sequel from Disney and Marvel surpassed the $200 million mark on Monday. The film reached the milestone in four days; making it the second fastest film ever to reach the milestone (behind only 2012's Marvel's The Avengers). However, Avengers: Age of Ultron was down a sizable 74 percent from Sunday's performance. That is a concerning early sign given that The Avengers declined 67 percent to gross $18.89 million on its first Monday. The first Monday performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron was much closer to that of 2013's Iron Man 3, which fell 74 percent on its first Monday to gross $11.27 million. With a massive four-day start of $204.47 million, Avengers: Age of Ultron is running 10 percent behind the $226.34 million four-day take of The Avengers and 10 percent ahead of the $185.41 million four-day gross of Iron Man 3.
05-05-15, 02:37 PM
#119
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Superheroes make for excellent subject matter in the mindless, effects-driven blockbuster franchises Hollywood loves to make these days. It's relatively easy to write them since there are decades of stories already about the heroes and most Western audiences have a good grasp of their conventions. The most comparable movie "fad" would be the Westerns that dominated the 1950s, but that was a studio system churning out literally hundreds of Westerns a year. We get ten superhero movies a year and half of them won't even be positioned as superheroes.
05-05-15, 02:49 PM
#120
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
Maybe the Avengers characters are not as fresh since they are being seen so often now.
With the way the Marvel movies are setup, these characters are just not on a normal 2-4 years between sequels like other franchises.
05-05-15, 03:01 PM
#121
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Avenged Weekend Box Office Thread (5/1/15 - 5/3/15) with Bonus Pre-Discussion Pol
I love how people keep expecting "fatigue" to set in, like superheroes are a fad or something. Superman and Captain Marvel were selling millions of comics...in the 1940s. It's said that Superman's insignia might be the second-most recognized symbol in the world after the Cross.
Superheroes make for excellent subject matter in the mindless, effects-driven blockbuster franchises Hollywood loves to make these days. It's relatively easy to write them since there are decades of stories already about the heroes and most Western audiences have a good grasp of their conventions. The most comparable movie "fad" would be the Westerns that dominated the 1950s, but that was a studio system churning out literally hundreds of Westerns a year. We get ten superhero movies a year and half of them won't even be positioned as superheroes.
Superheroes make for excellent subject matter in the mindless, effects-driven blockbuster franchises Hollywood loves to make these days. It's relatively easy to write them since there are decades of stories already about the heroes and most Western audiences have a good grasp of their conventions. The most comparable movie "fad" would be the Westerns that dominated the 1950s, but that was a studio system churning out literally hundreds of Westerns a year. We get ten superhero movies a year and half of them won't even be positioned as superheroes.
05-05-15, 03:14 PM
#123
DVD Talk Hero
05-05-15, 03:18 PM
#124
05-05-15, 03:51 PM
#125
