-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Wkd BO 1023-2515 - martian vs witches & ghosts rocks truly outrageous bomba office
- Thread starter xaosslug
- Start date
- Status
Goosebumps reigns supreme, can't wait for the Animorphs movie.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Yeah and yet the director kept saying the movie was a passion project for him.
Yeah, the ads make it look like every other "teens with a dream ascend to popularity" out there. For as crazy as the source material is, that's not what the 80s babies want, and no one else needs. The only saving grace was how cheap it was to make.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
clearly the lesson to take away from Jem's failure is to stop making female-centric projects
Kabuki Waq
Member
After Skyfall not hyped at all about Spectre.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
I'm an 80's kid and would have gladly gone to see it if it didn't look like shit.
Nope, EMBRACE THE CHEESE
xaosslug
Member
yeah, the wrap had the budget for this at $10
the problem is that it wasn't 'Jem' enough to truly stroke the nostalgia piggy bank, and took itself way too seriously.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
The problem is none of these movies look interesting at all. How does no one realise it.
I watched Sicario with some friends last night now that was fantastic. The video cut out for a few mins near the end and people were starting to get pretty upset. Lo and behold management handed out free movie voucher to everyone afterwards.
I watched Sicario with some friends last night now that was fantastic. The video cut out for a few mins near the end and people were starting to get pretty upset. Lo and behold management handed out free movie voucher to everyone afterwards.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
filmgoers are just saving their money for that 400 million opening for star wars.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Oh shit, that's a funny comparison to make, actually: Looking at the list, if we only use the IMAX numbers that were reported in Variety, The Force Awakens single day ticket sales on Monday would place it at #7 on this list for the weekend.
And that's just IMAX. It's probably safe to say it made 10 mil already for those Thursday previews, putting it right around #4 or #5 on this weekend's list.
Worldwide Updates:
Ant-Man - $494M
The Visit - $89M
Jurassic World - $1.665B
Minions - $1.154B
Straight Outta Compton - $200M
Everest - $173M
Crimson Peak - $49M
Inside Out - $842M
Ant-Man is at $82M in China after 10 days. Pan is at $3.5M in China after 4-days (it won't even hit $10M total). WB actually wasted one of the 34 annual profit sharing quota slots in China on Pan.
Ant-Man - $494M
The Visit - $89M
Jurassic World - $1.665B
Minions - $1.154B
Straight Outta Compton - $200M
Everest - $173M
Crimson Peak - $49M
Inside Out - $842M
Ant-Man is at $82M in China after 10 days. Pan is at $3.5M in China after 4-days (it won't even hit $10M total). WB actually wasted one of the 34 annual profit sharing quota slots in China on Pan.
And_Gignac
Member
Steve Jobs wasnt/isnt a likeable person nor interesting to general audiences. Hollywood´s obsession with him is annoying.
Interesting read - http://www.laweekly.com/arts/can-bu...od-makes-movies-is-horrifyingly-wrong-6176088
John M Chu wanted a $100mil budget for JEM to go all out, was told to make it work with $5 mil. When it finishes its run and hits video it will probably make them enough to be happy with the final numbers.
John M Chu wanted a $100mil budget for JEM to go all out, was told to make it work with $5 mil. When it finishes its run and hits video it will probably make them enough to be happy with the final numbers.
Based on reading a few reviews, sounded like the only female character with true agency was the 'bad' guy, so let's pretend the lesson Hollywood takes is to do less of that.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Zuckerberg wasn't likeable/interesting to most people either, but Social Network was a decent success. I don't think the likeability of the guy was the point. I think, as has been pointed out, the big problem is that there was a marketing campaign and general interest built up... for the sake of four cities. Two weeks later, when everyone can actually see the damn movie, there's nothing pointing people at it anymore.
TheAbsolution
Member
I feel as though most people didn't know Steve Jobs was opening wide this weekend.
All the marketing was for the limited releases I feel and that hurt it.
All the marketing was for the limited releases I feel and that hurt it.
You could say the same thing (or worse) about Zuckerberg, and TSN was a big success. I disagree that Jobs's life story isn't interesting anyway. The book the movie is based on is great.
The biography that the film is based on sold close to 400k copies in its first week. It was also the best selling book on Amazon during 2011.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Everything was bomba
And_Gignac
Member
Difference is that The Social Network was focused on the creation of Facebook, while the Jobs movies have been marketed as STEVE JOBS: THE MOVIE.
The book was released two weeks after he died. Thats the "dead celebrity dies unexpectedly" effect.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
that's the heath ledger effect. the dark knight would not have made so much if it had been released four years after ledger died.
also, people who read do not watch movies.
The Martian is at $385M worldwide after this weekend, making it Ridley Scott's third biggest film to date. It should pass Prometheus some time this coming week for #2.
The Maze Runner Scorch Trials is sitting at $268M worldwide. It doesn't look like it will hit the numbers of the first film internationally either.
This is an odd opinion to take considering how often books with big WOM sales translate into hit movies.
The Maze Runner Scorch Trials is sitting at $268M worldwide. It doesn't look like it will hit the numbers of the first film internationally either.
This is an odd opinion to take considering how often books with big WOM sales translate into hit movies.
Why would they even do that in the first place?
They assumed people will remember the wide launch.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I don't know that this distinction is really any distinction. Zuckerberg's (Eisenberg) face was THE POSTER. The entirety of it. His face, and some text. People knew it was the facebook movie. His face = facebook. Jobs has been synonymous with Apple for multiple decades now. I don't understand how any of this is any different.
There's no real difference in the difference you're trying to argue. It's the same shit. If there's a difference, it's that the media push for Social Network didn't completely cut out for two weeks after a limited run in a tiny amount of theaters.
They should have opened it wide immediately, basically. Especially if they'd poured all that time and energy into pushing it.
The Social Network was marketed around whether or not Zuckerberg had "stolen" Facebook. There was a hook there that the Steve Jobs movie lacked.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Jem is a Blumhouse Production movie. That pretty much explains why it was destined to be trash.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Should have gone with Fury Road.
And_Gignac
Member
It would have flopped too had it been marketed as "The Biography of Mark Zuckerberg". People dont care about these geeks and their lives.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
okay
As someone whose childhood was dominated by nostalgia pandering to 80s kids, this is interesting.
It's this.
Glad to see Inside Out with such big numbers. What's the final number looking like?
It seems like Steve Jobs is the first outright miscalculation that Universal has made this year, if you can forgive the likes of Blackhat and Seventh Son as inherited issues from Legendary's time at WB. It's still got a lot of awards hype, but they bungled the marketing for sure.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Do you think the people that went to see it didn't know it was about Zuckeberg?
alfredofroylan
Member
I demand a "Hey Arnold" movie with a good ending.... and by that I mean Helga and Arnold together.
Pretty much where it is now. I don't think Inside Out has any markets left to open in. It made $10M over the past week, so I guess a finish of $850-860M is probable.
Blame Blum, Chu wanted a big budget but forgot Blum is cheapskate.
The Last Witch Hunter felt like a movie which belonged in 2006 or something. Just had the feeling of one of those movies where you would expect to be set in Eastern Europe with Jason Statham and some unknown European actress.
I enjoyed it for what it was but yeah not surprised at the box office at all.
I did think Paranormal Activity 6 was going to do better even with half of movie chains not showing it due to the being scared of technology.
I enjoyed it for what it was but yeah not surprised at the box office at all.
I did think Paranormal Activity 6 was going to do better even with half of movie chains not showing it due to the being scared of technology.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Locked
- Locked
- Locked