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Wkd BO 0429-050116 - Winter (Soldier & Super Friends) is coming... does $200m+ WW

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94% The Jungle Book (2016)
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16% The Huntsman: Winter’s War
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75% Keanu
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08% Mother’s Day
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92% Barbershop: The Next Cut
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19% Ratchet & Clank
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09% Papa: Hemingway in Cuba

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‘Jungle Book’ Triumphs, ‘Keanu’ Stumbles, ‘Mother’s Day’ Bombs

“The Jungle Book” steamrolled over a trio of box office lightweights, racking up $42.4 million to lead tickets sales for the third consecutive weekend. Disney’s live action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories has made $252.1 million since opening last month. It should have no trouble becoming the fourth film this year to cross $300 million domestically, joining “Deadpool,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and “Zootopia.”

It’s heady company. Just don’t look for this weekend’s new releases to join those ranks. “Keanu,” an action-comedy sendup from Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key, nabbed third place with $9.3 million across 2,658 screens. The weak result is alleviated somewhat by the fact that the Warner Bros./ New Line release cost a meagre $15 million to produce.

Open Road’s “Mother’s Day,” an ensemble romantic comedy with Julia Roberts, Jennifer Anniston, and Jason Sudekis, collapsed at the multiplexes, eking out $8.3 million across 3,035 locations to finish in fourth. That could spell the end for director Gary Marshall’s lucrative “throw a bunch of stars at a holiday” franchise that also encompassed “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve.” “Arbor Day” is unlikely to score a greenlight now.

And Focus Features’ “Ratchet and Clank” struggled to leave an impression. The adaptation of the video game series about a fugitive robot and a cat-like alien, only managed to pull in $4.8 million from 2,891 locations, marking it as D.O.A.

Analysts and box office watchers weren’t expecting a lot from this crop, but the results were even worse than expected. Going into the weekend, tracking services had both “Mother’s Day” and “Keanu” debuting to north of $10 million.

In its second weekend, Universal’s “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” dropped 52% to $9.4 million for a second place finish. With $33.9 million in the bank, this $115 million production is headed to write-down territory. “Barbarshop: The Next Cut” rounded out the top five, earning $6.1 million and bringing the Warner Bros. and MGM comedy sequel’s domestic total to $44.7 million.

Of course, the whole weekend is really just a throat clearing for “Captain America: Civil War,” which barrels into theaters on May 6. The superhero sequel could pull in as much as $200 million to score one of the biggest openings in history.

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If civil war did 200m opening weekend in foreign territories, how much is it predicted to do overall by next week when it is released in the US?
 
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Next week is going to be nuts.

Who would have once thought a Captain America film would be a hit in such ways.
 
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Savitar said:
Next week is going to be nuts.

Who would have once thought a Captain America film would be a hit in such ways.
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Well I mean it is basically marketed as an Avengers movie. If this were just a winters soldier sequel it wouldn't do as well.
 
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kswiston said:
Probably around $700M by the end of next weekend Worldwide.
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If it does $200m ow in US, it's going to do $300m OS in its second week? That seems high. Is it opening in new OS markets this week?

Edit: wait it still hasn't opened in China. Ok yeah I guess $700m is possible.

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Well it opens in China and Canada next week, also a tone of other countries.
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Yeah just realized China. And Canada they add to the Dom/US gross.
 
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Mrbob said:
Well I mean it is basically marketed as an Avengers movie. If this were just a winters soldier sequel it wouldn't do as well.
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gamz said:
It's not just a CA film tho.
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Both true.

But it's still listed as a Captain America movie so in the end it's still Captain America. And you can bet they'll take advantage of that one way or another to say how strong said characters property is, even with all the extra star power.
 
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Zootopia will get a few more weeks of family film money before finishing up its run. Damn impressive.

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Batman v Superman made $863M. Isnt that good?
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Relative to its budget and the intellectual property involved, no, it's a major, major disappointment.
 
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crimzonflame said:
Batman v Superman made $863M. Isnt that good?
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It's good when looking at just the # and that it'll make a profit, etc. But as others have pointed out, it's the very low end of what a BvS movie should have grossed. $1b was the floor most thought (including myself).
 
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Seriously if you're going to make a Ratchet and Clank movie at least fucking market it a lot. I barely saw any marketing for this movie. Like why would you expect people to see it if they don't know it.

They really wanted this movie to die. The marketing strategy was pretty shit. It could of done well if it was produced competently.
 
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guek

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Nintendo needs to get a Zelda movie franchise rolling to kick start the video game movie revolution. Option it to WB and have uh...Peter Jackson? I dunno
 
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AquaWateria said:
Seriously if you're going to make a Ratchet and Clank movie at least fucking market it a lot. I barely saw any marketing for this movie. Like why would you expect people to see it if they don't know it.

They really wanted this movie to die. The marketing strategy was pretty shit. It could of done well if it was produced competently.
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It's a cheap video game tie-in. They aren't going to spend bucks on the marketing knowing it's not going to make anything anyways.
 
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guek said:
Nintendo needs to get a Zelda movie franchise rolling to kick start the video game movie revolution. Option it to WB and have uh...Peter Jackson? I dunno
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No.

No, no, no, no.

Nintendo's already fucked up Zelda enough. Last thing we need is Hollywood getting their dirty hands on it too.

Besides, if you really wanna make VGMs a thing in 2016, you should be making a PewDiePie movie.
 
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