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Wkd BO 804-0617 - Man in Black kidnaps #1, Dun' not done son, Woman nears $400m DOM
- Thread starter xaosslug
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Thanks. And yeah, I have no real feel or knowledge of China's box office or legs or how long movies are allowed to stay in theaters (isn't there a 30 day thing?), etc.
Also, what caused this to break out so massively? Was the first a big hit? (Can't find any bo details on mojo).
Domestic films don't have strict run stipulations, I don't think. WW2 definitely won't.
The first film made about $90M in China. Word of mouth is causing the breakout. This film was expected to be big, but $150-200M total big.
I guess the Chinese public decided that this was the film that represented their patriotism for some reason. I am not Chinese, and have not seen the film, so I can only repeat what I have heard.
War Apes was even better the second time around. What a god damn fine movie. Really noticed how this is part of the few blockbusters that have child characters that aren't annoying. She was rather charming. I'm sure her inability to speak plays a huge part in that though.
Damn shame that this will end up making less money than Dawn.
Damn shame that this will end up making less money than Dawn.
She must be happy to still be getting work post Resident Evil.
Dunkirk only dropped 18% week-to-week on Monday. Some of that was probably the Canadian holiday though. Wonder Woman fared even better, dropping 8% from last week.
Expect muted Tuesday bumps as a result.
TheTylerDurden
Member
Wonder Woman hitting 400m domestic is an amazing thing.
Don't know if it's going to squeak into the top five goal that's laid out for it, but this is more than enough of an achievement - with 800ww still to come.
What does the swisman have to say about WW hitting over 409 domestic to knock off Iron Man 3?
Don't know if it's going to squeak into the top five goal that's laid out for it, but this is more than enough of an achievement - with 800ww still to come.
What does the swisman have to say about WW hitting over 409 domestic to knock off Iron Man 3?
Homecoming is going to be their highest domestic grosser in 10 years.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
And it's only because they didn't make it!
hodayathink
Member
The impairment charge is the only reason they lost money last year (so they didn't really lose money). Sony has made failures, but they haven't been GitS or King Arthur (or Monster Trucks) level failures, so they're just plugging along as a company right now.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Superhero movies usually don't do that much in Japan, except maybe Spider-Man.
Maybe it's a Terminator 2 situation when the 2nd film catch on eat more than the first.
That's a shame. $850 would have been a great number to end on.
Japan loves Disney. Japan does not love western superheroes. Spider-man has a bigger following than most superheroes in Japan, but even those movies aren't blowing the doors off of the box office. The Raimi films averaged $55-60M each. The Pirates films during the same era did $60-90M. Amazing Spider-Man 2 did $30M on much more favorable exchange rates, and that was the top superhero gross of the last 3 years I believe.
hodayathink
Member
Kind of off topic, but that reminds me that they haven't announced a Frozen world in KH3, which I though was going to be like the first thing they announced.
They can just wait until 2019 and announce a Frozen 2 world in Kingdom Hearts 3.
igordennis
Member
( ._.)
DarkLordMalik
Member
/fixed
Optimism!
Years ago, it was announced that Universal would be adapting the comic book Cowboy Ninja Viking with Chris Pratt as the lead. They finally dated the film for June 28, 2019. I guess Pratt is also producing now.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
*looks at Cowboys & Aliens opening*
*looks at Passengers & Magnificent 7 opening*
I think we know how this country song ends. Lol but seriously , it could be fun.
Glass Rebel
Member
Doesn';t help they always get released going up against the home team
Clearly Phase 4 is gonna be centered around Battle Fever J to corner the Japanese market.
Glass Rebel
Member
oh wow it's the avengers post infinity war
I'm still not sold on Doraemon replacing Thanos as the big bad going forward.
Doraemon could take over for Tony Stark
Glass Rebel
Member
Actually looks like Ultraman is taking Iron Man's place. Also, Scarlet Witch got thicc.
LordOfLore
Banned
Yeah, this'll be fun.
How does Thanos feel about playing with dolls?
Glass Rebel
Member
Don't think he's got anything against it.
Then again, Thanos and little girls always been a weird topic
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Even my son thought it was so so, and he likes everything he sees.
Woo officially official
Wonder Woman crossed 400 million yesterday, now stands a 400.22 Million!
https://twitter.com/GiteshPandya/status/895277065171333120
Wonder Woman crossed 400 million yesterday, now stands a 400.22 Million!
https://twitter.com/GiteshPandya/status/895277065171333120
Don't think he's got anything against it.
Then again, Thanos and little girls always been a weird topic
You know what is funny, originally Thanos was just going to be crazy and thought he was talking to Death. They actually did this idea in the Silver Surfer cartoon
God is real.
Greatest day in human history or greatest day in earths existence? Realistic DOM total Kswiss? Lay it on us.
Icedburden
Member
what a time to be alive
Around $410M
He hath spoken. Book it.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Gonna just miss Phoney's 4x multiplier though.
Woulda been sweet
Woulda been sweet
LordOfLore
Banned
So it'll pass Spidey?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
By the end of the weekend probably.
Just wonder how close it will get to Spidey worldwide.
There was a massive campaign on Weibo stating the director got into shitload of debt to shoot the movie and people have generally responded by trying to support that sort of behavior. The mermaid had a similar online campaign where peoole wanted to give back to the director as a lot of the previous films he put out people pirated.
On top of that, Chinese patriotism is being pumped up now as there will be a change of leadership, it's the Army's 90th birthday etc. However most people seem to actually not enjoy those patriotic elements. From what I've seen basically its the first fully slick Hollywood style blockbuster with Chinese relatable themes and the audiences responded to it.
It will take a bit longer than that. Spider-man will be about $3M ahead going into the weekend, and Wonder Woman made $2.2M last weekend. Probably the following weekend.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Derp. Thanks.