I guess it's looking like Bumblebee is gonna be the loser of the late December sweepstakes. Now watch it be the best reviewed movie of the bunch.
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Wkd Box Office - 11•30-12•2•18 - Ralph repeats #1 in slow weekend. Venom approaches $850M.
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looks at Spider-Verse
Well at least it will be the best reviewed and most profitable film of the sweeps that is based on a Hasbro toyline?
At the very least it should boost the franchise sales as a whole as people talk about HP again. The next movie could be used to promote the rumoured game and vice versa
Right?
Re: merch: we saw that happen with TLJ toys (the movie was by no means toy friendly).
You might want to check out the reviews for Into the Spider-verse. It's got a better rating than many best picture potential nominees.
I took from him saying "late December" that he wasn't counting Spider-Verse.
Bingo. This is between Mary Poppins, Aquaman, and Bumblebee.
I was going by what Kswiss deemed "late Dec releases" in the last thread for the prediction funsies:
But yeah, out of those three it does have a shot at being the best reviewed even if early word on Poppins is good (then again, when is early word not that?).
Holy shit Into the Spider-Verse was awesome! Easily one of the best superhero movies ever. It's so goddamn funny, touching, great looking, innovative and surprising. Even one of the best movies of the year. Damn it was cool fun!
And then Mortal Engines... gonna drop few lines after the embargo is over in two hours.
And then Mortal Engines... gonna drop few lines after the embargo is over in two hours.
I feel word of mouth is what will make Into the Spider-Verse a serious hit. The great reviews and huge ad blitz will do work as well but I think constantly hearing your buddies or coworkers or kids just constantly gushing will what drives things even further.
Mortal Engines starting out at 38% at RT from 13 reviews, 5.6/10. First ten minutes seem to be okay. After that...
Hasn't Sony taken out some serious money for extra advertising over the Christmas season? Something like 115m? Honestly a lot of the marketing made it seem skipable, but between WOM and the extra adverts it's all but guaranteed to outperform tracking.
I'm not convinced that Venoms screen count is going to get obliterated unless the relatively late notice (from our perspective at least) makes it hard for theater chains to make adjustments. But Chinese theater chains seem to be a little more reactive/dynamic than at least what I've seen in the west.
After I get home (no more phone posts) I'll go over a few reasons why I do not think that Venoms screen count will get erased (by erased I mean a drop of greater than 60%), unless there is some factual data to support its weekend screencount, and is love to see that resource.
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So Mortal Engines was a hot razzie mess. It's like an expensive tv series pilot with Weta's awful plastic (Hobbit) cgi. Set design was straight from some cheap syfy series. Even the starter music was ripped off from Fury Road. And the actors, holy shit. It was god awful.
It's a great contender to Robin Hood. I don't know which one was worse.
It's a great contender to Robin Hood. I don't know which one was worse.
But what will it do in Solos, my good man. Dare we dream for 1.5?
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What the hell is up with Peter Jackson? Its like he sold his soul to Satan so that LorR would be great, only for every other film's he's involved in to be a soulless piece of CGI shit...
He needs to go back to his roots and give the world Braindead 2.
I feel like he's more concerned with making sure that weta/New Zealand continue to get big work than he is with making good movies, per-say.
And I think making the Hobbit films with basically no preproduction is an experience that will leave its mark on him for years to come because of the stress/burnout that it caused.
Oh no, what have I done.
Okay, I'll just settle for that Tintin sequel then.
Jackson needs someone to rein his ideas in but I don't think anyone has the guts to tell him no anymore. I think Barrie Osborne filled that role during LOTR but since then he's been unquestioned.
Its doubly weird considering that every post-LotR film he has made has flopped or underperformed in some way, even The Hobbit Trilogy.
You'd think studios would be more apprehensive by now...
Jackson has produced Mortal Engines. This explains a thing or two.
China: As of Wednesday, Venom currently sits at
1.15m/268.73m
Venom Should be just under 270m going into the weekend. With Aquaman hitting, Venom could still do decent in no small part due to sold out showings of Aquaman helping Venoms walkups (Tencent connected and demographic overlap being the key factors). ACF should get some of that as well, not that it needs the help.
1.15m/268.73m
Venom Should be just under 270m going into the weekend. With Aquaman hitting, Venom could still do decent in no small part due to sold out showings of Aquaman helping Venoms walkups (Tencent connected and demographic overlap being the key factors). ACF should get some of that as well, not that it needs the help.
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How many more days a film run when it gets extended run?
Do it have a chance of hitting of 880M?
Extended runs are a duration of an additional 30 days (unless someone knows differently).
Venom has a chance to still hit 880m, but Aquaman is a daunting prospect and I don't want to speculate too much until we see the weekend coming in.
As an example: In China, Infinity War was originally going end showing on July 9th and sat at 368m.
Jurassic World 2 released of June 15th and Infinity War tumbled around 85% over that weekend. The total run was 379m with the extension. an additional 11m ish over the extension.
This was due to the release on Jurassic World 2 gobbling almost all of Infinity Wars screens and hit after hit of successive big releases that followed. Venom faces a similar challenge but has other factors that may help it. I'll go over those in a later post tho; it's not a done deal that Venom can't reach 880m.
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if Infinity war got only 11m in its extended run then i doubt we can expect some thing massively more than that. 15m or 18m at most for Venom in extended run should be a good guess?
Meanwhile he made one of the most impressive war documentaries well ever...
You should really look at "They Shall Not Grow Old". It's a hugely impressive piece of work from Jackson.
Anecdotal of course, booked tickets for Spiderman for Saturday night (Preview day before official release on 12th in the UK). Grand total of 4 tickets sold so far in the biggest screen.
I checked a few other times throughout the day and was a similar story. Doesn't look any better currently on the official release day either, will need some WOM in my town at least.
I checked a few other times throughout the day and was a similar story. Doesn't look any better currently on the official release day either, will need some WOM in my town at least.
What the fuck lol
Like, it was better than I expected, but mostly because the music callbacks and jamming to it in-theatre. It's pretty boring if you don't like Queen's music. More-or-less a serious of throwaway vignettes about how some lightbulb moment inspired a song interspersed with the usual 'obsessed artist pushes everyone away' arc.
A theater added spider-verse previews for tomorrow and Saturday, but I'm not feeling $15 for the smallest screen.
Matinees from both. Some good things and some not so good things. Korey dances around it but Martin finally gets him to admit in the last minutes the cg and mo cap largely looks awful.
I'd think that 10m wouldn't be unreasonable as a floor? But it could still pull an infinity War all the same, it could do anything.
Venom Thursday 1.08m/269.81m
Aquaman (previews) 1.35m/1.35m
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/?date=12 /06 /2018
Venom had a very small drop on Thursday that was in keeping with its typicalweekday drops Despite Aquaman entering the picture. A Good sign.
Encouraging though, is that Thursday previews/midnights for Aquaman did 1.35m. For comparison:
All credit for these numbers goes to ZeeSoh of Boxofficetheory
The whole Tencent/Demographic overlap thing we already talked about.
I was going to Seeya this and show the relationship between a films PTA and with how many screens were lost as a result when Fallen Kingdom hit as well as a comparative between the new releases at the time, but I'm tired :p
With the current word being that Aquaman is going to get comparable showings over the weekend to what Venom got in its first weekend, it's worth noting that, if you compare the amount of showings between the debuts of Jurassic World 2 and Aqua man the current makeup of the top 10 has 30k less showings with either older and/or smaller PTA movies beneath Venom/ACFnow versus then.
Meaning that there's likely more room to cut lower hanging fruit than there was than when Infinity War got clobbered. On top of Venom having a better ranking on the charts.
The encroachment of the Christmas season with some associated holidays and Spider-verse also being differentiating factors.
Venom has a shorter runtime than Infinity War. This will allow it to squeeze in a few more showings over a similar timespan. The shorter runtime will help it retain showings as chains manage slots for different films.
1h52m versus 2h40m
runtime comparison: Aquaman v Fallen Kingdom
2h23m v 2h10m
While Aquaman may yet break out, it's no Jurassic World 2, or Venom, in terms of upfront business. The pressure to cut Venom won't be as severe.
Unlike Infinity War, from Tencents perspective Venom is a Tencent film as much or more than Aquaman. It's not a secret that a lot of things in China's film side get decided based on who knows who etc (one of the reasons Deadpool never made it over so to say), and Tencent is currently in the midst of making a big push into sponsoring and cofinancing imports. They claerly are well integrated. It's unlikely that Venom would get left to the wolves withTencent having a stake above and beyond most of their deals; while having just made the decision to get its extension knowing that Aquaman (one of 'theirs' hits at the same time.
Everything I said may be true, but it may not matter, so we'll just have to wait a little longer to see what tomorrow can tell us. Fingers crossed!
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Aquaman did $24.6M Friday and deadline thinks it could hit $80M over the weekend. Justice League 2 without Superman or Batman is going to be wild.
https://deadline.com/2018/12/aquama...ner-bros-dc-international-weekend-1202515875/
If Aquaman turns out to be a huge hit then Justice League two should be an aquaman centric event like Throne of Atlantis or something like that.
Aquaman is off to a great start in China, which means that it killed Venom's legs. Venom is down 88% from last week (Friday to Friday) and hitting sub $1M numbers for the first time (pulling in just $300K per ent group)
I love how China is taking movies that fanboys hate (Venom and DC films) and are turning them into huge successes.
They should give the people what they want and just do a Diana/Arthur teamup movie
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