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Wkd Box Office - 12•7-9•18 - China loves Aquaman with $94M OW. Domestic box office is hibernating.
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Staggered release. So it's not out in several territories (and won't be until next year), including big ones like France, Germany, and Japan.
I see. Even then, it seems like maybe this sequel will perform more or less similar to the first.
This is the latest update from Screendaily on it:
I don't have comparative numbers for the first one at hand so I'm not gonna make any predictions as such, but it seems to be doing quite alright for itself.
I just skimmed through the numbers and it looks like I may be wrong in my prediction. It's a little down domestically but way up WW. We'll just have to see how leggy it is.
I like how even though Venom got its screens slashed in China due to Aquaman, it's still hanging in the top 5 in China, and gain roughly 1000 showings going from Sunday to Monday. Thanks Adrift. Dog 13 might fall below it by the weekend.
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily
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At least America knows who the best bear is.And still did better than Pooh.
Can we not do this at this hour? It's like you guys purposefully wait until kswiss has tuckered off into bed before bringing out your weird bear stats and Chinese magic numbers.
And still did better than Pooh.
You sure about that?
How can you forget the best bear internationally?
Every single Disney or Pixar animation, almost without fail, someone says this.
Staggered releases are a hell of a thing.
Because I was saving the showstopper for last!How can you forget the best bear internationally?
Is it time for a Bear Bryant joke? or maybe a Teddy joke?
How do they stand to benefit from doing so? I can only think of them doing so due to foreign regulations and maybe avoiding other films.
There will be no dissing of the Paddington films. They are wonderful and magical. Even Bronson was broken by the first one.
The Grinch has performed comparably to other Illumination films in the States but seems to have bombed in the rest of the world? Do people not really care for Christmas movies? Even if it picks up traction the next couple of weeks for the holidays it doesn't seem like it'll get close to Secret Life of Pets. I had it as my wildcard for top 5 worldwide in 2018 >.<
Dr. Seuss isn't that well known outside the US but, even so, The Grinch already made more than the live action movie outside the US and it's currently only behind Horton and the Lomax.
It isn't out in a bunch of countries until January. It ain't even coming to my country until February 7 2019.
[edit] thought your post was the last one in the thread, until I realized there was a whole other page.
Coming from France, I had never even heard of Dr Seuss until the Grinch movie with Jim Carrey, and it was widely considered a frantic abomination there (as we have no relation to the original tale).
It's not until I met my wife, and then moved to the US, that I understood just how important and beloved the author is, and his stories so widely known here.
How can you forget the best bear internationally?
That looks... not right
That would put it under Lego Batman iirc. That's a shame, animation is such a perfect medium for superheroes. Movie audiences don't seem too accepting of non-live-action versions of Marvel and DC characters. But maybe it'll over-perform.
While this is under, LEGO Batman was a Feb release, so reviews and the season will help it leg some. Batman did have decent legs though. Spider-verse would be doing better if they'd actually explained the heart of the movie, but don't underestimate how December can make animated features leg.
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To compare with other recent December openings for animated films;
Ferdinand, opened on a similar date (the 15th) to $13M OW, went on to make $84M total
Sing, opened later in the month (the 23rd) to $35M OW, went on to make $270M total
So unless it for some reason really doesn't leg out, it should be more than fine. Might not hit the same multiplier as Sing because of when it launches and that it being based on a comic could make it a bit more frontloaded, but could conceivably do better if thinks shakes out its way (with competition, Oscar nod, good WOM)
Variety's take is even more positive for Spider-Verse (because again, a $30+M OW in December ≠ a $30+ OW in another month)
If it hits $39+M, even with potential frontloading thanks to comic fans, and with really fierce competition affecting its legs, it would be more surprising if it misses $200M than if it gets over it. The only potential warning sign would be if it gets a real bad CinemaScore/whatever the other polling audiences one is since that could indicate that it's a miss with the general audience. I don't think that's very likely though
Even on a larger scale we had Moana and Tangled opening in late November and they did
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Spider-verse should be good for at least 150-200m DOM with an opening range that seems to be hovering within 30-40m.
It would be quite odd for that to happen given that prescreenings were positive and CinemaScore is sampling from the people who tend to be the most forgiving/passionate about the thing they are seeing opening night ish.
57/249
49/201
Respectively.
Spider-verse should be good for at least 150-200m DOM with an opening range that seems to be hovering within 30-40m.
It would be quite odd for that to happen given that prescreenings were positive and CinemaScore is sampling from the people who tend to be the most forgiving/passionate about the thing they are seeing opening night ish.
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We don't deserve nice things. I curse everyone who watched Venom and doesn't watch this.
Also Sony's first choice for Peter Stanchek is Dylan O'Brien. Yuck.
But you don't understand, Venom is "one of the most original superhero films" according to an ad I saw. How could this kids movie compete with that?
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I'm going to be honest. I forgot about Ted and judging by the numbers for Ted 2 so did most people.
At the very least Spider-man's budget is only 90M(Only 10M more than Hotel Transylvania 3) so it doesn't need to do crazy numbers to be profitable. I was a bit worried when the directors said that this is Sony Animation's biggest project yet but it's still no where near how much Disney/Pixar spends on their films.
It looks like Mortal Enigines and Spider-Verse are sharing IMAX screens this weekend. The main theater near me still hasn't posted showtimes for tomorrow which is a first. Usually everything's ready by Wednesday morning.
ED: Wait, it looks like there's a Aquaman event screening tomorrow with Patrick Wilson as guest so I guess that theater is just shut down for the day.
ED: Wait, it looks like there's a Aquaman event screening tomorrow with Patrick Wilson as guest so I guess that theater is just shut down for the day.
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