Expectations should've always been around where The Nice Guys fell, and Baby Driver is literally a day or two away from beating TNG's domestic total.
Expectations should've always been around where The Nice Guys fell, and Baby Driver is literally a day or two away from beating TNG's domestic total.
Wow--did not expect The House to bomb like that. Advertising was all over the place for that and has been for months.
DM3 is also performing much more closely to 2 than Minions overseas, so it does look like it will gross around the same $850M WW as Guardians 2.*
*Assuming crazy shit doesn't happen in China for DM3.
Since the gross is so domestic heavy, could it outprofit the likes of Cinderella and such ($160m according to deadline)?Yes $400M is in play. This is the most unexpected superhero run since Spider-Man 1.
Edit: I guess the first Guardians is up there as well.
The-Numbers is now reporting that same $16.1M for Wonder Woman. So maybe there was an update from the original $15.5M estimate.
I think it's just that the comedies being turned out look like unimaginative repetitive bullshit. None of them look appealing at all. Not even on an LCD level.
vinnygambinkķmi;242416980 said:Wow Despicable Me at $75M, was expecting low $80M debut.
T5 had a better hold than anticipated, Paramount need all the money they can get.
It's weird, I always thought that T5 would finish with a higher gross than PotC5 WW - who would have thought.
It's funny because how a certain section of people feel about the MCU is how I've felt about the last few years' of comedies.
They're either:
a) a house party movie
b) (Mostly) white dudes/gals painting NYC or LA red
It's improv heavy but they end up with the same Apatow-esque insult jokes anyway
It think that we made the same mistake as we made with Ice Age last year. Thinking that Foreign audiences were fine with the Transformers stuff they were getting, and that the freefall domestically would be muted some in the worldwide gross.
The year has not been kind to comedies. Damn
I'll bet my avatar for a month JL grosses two hundred million more than Spidey ww. At least.
Expectations should've always been around where The Nice Guys fell, and Baby Driver is literally a day or two away from beating TNG's domestic total.
The Nice Guys doing so little made me sad. Was my favorite movie of the summer last year. Crowe was hilarious.
I think it was because Bronson gave it his seal of approval.
Starting to think Sony will be desperate to give Lord/Miller a huge paycheck to make MIB23 for next summer. They're available and a script is done. If they shoot by October, it can be out by next summer following 22JS' production schedule. Question is will Lord/Miller do Flash instead?
22 Jump Street was the last huge comedy; would think a third one with the quality of the first two would be at least as big as 22.
Seeing Baby Driver, an original movie directed by Edgar Wright, debut above the second weekend of a Transformers movie makes me so happy.
Wondy 5th wknd 16M bigger than
TDKR 5th weekend - 11 million,
AoU 5th weekend - 11.4 million,
Spider-Man 5th weekend - 14.3 million.
Also, on the topic of the vile American comedies that have been a thing for about a decade or so (not to say 2017 comedies are the same brand, but that's kind of what American comedies tend to be now) and Michael Bay vileness finally being shown the door that they should have shown a decade ago, it is worth pointing out that the 2016 election and its outcome of a Trump presidency have made people appreciate that all things are political and have consequences. (which for some reason people had forgotten)
So, killing off the Sandler-brand of 'racism is fun' comedy might actually be something we can thank Trump for.
Ditto on Bay, who somehow does both that AND proactively seeks to sabotage himself with his latest doodoo. You'd almost think he actively hates having to make Transformers movies, yet they keep hiring him for some reason.
Seeing Baby Driver, an original movie directed by Edgar Wright, debut above the second weekend of a Transformers movie makes me so happy.
Believe it should get the majority of drive-in screens...
That's also because people are actually taking time to think about purchasing tickets to actual good films. Rising ticket prices and an easy to access movie streaming with quick theater to home turnarounds on films have really affected that.It was only a matter of time before RT became as influential as it is today. I'm surprised it took this long tbh. Yelp did it much quicker
Like the gramophone.They stilk exsist?
It was only a matter of time before RT became as influential as it is today. I'm surprised it took this long tbh. Yelp did it much quicker
I honestly don't think this is true.
It feels funny considering all the doom and gloom "wah no original movies", "wah rotten tomatoes" hoopla that's been going around lately.
But the thinkpieces told me REAL CINEMA is doomedIt's funny because last year at this point, we had only four non-sequels (and one sorta sequel, depending how you want to classify BvS) pass 100M, and, out of those, only one wholly original film (Zootopia). This year, we've had two sorta sequels/sorta originals, five additional non-sequels, and out of those five, three were wholly original ideas (I'm counting the Boss Baby here because it's based off an obscure book).
Financially, original ideas are clearly doing better this year.
But the thinkpieces told me REAL CINEMA is doomed
I mean, I'm not the only person to never read a review anymore yet actively seek Double Toasted, Gremlinproduction (cinemasnob), RLM, and even Angry Joe videos on 'just how bad is it' after 2016 thought us all to never trust reviews of movies ever again.
Wondy 5th wknd 16M bigger than
TDKR 5th weekend - 11 million,
AoU 5th weekend - 11.4 million,
Spider-Man 5th weekend - 14.3 million.