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Wkd Box Office - 2•8-10•19 - The Lego Franchise gets kicked over. Lunar New Year sends Wandering Earth to nearly $300M in China.
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They kinda of did
Space colonists land on a planet that infect people with a spore that makes men's thoughts be telepathically broadcast to everyone in a certain range. Some handle it well others don't like a village where all the women disappeared.
They canceled all the press tour. Neeson was suppose to be on Colbert Friday night, the red carpet was suppose to be Tuesday and they canceled that with 2 hours warning.
And a >400mil world wide once it opens in Japan next month. All and all, definitely some great legs on it despite it's modest opening.
There was definitely a "Strike while the iron was hot" issue with how long it took for the sequel to come out. In that 5 year gap you had two spin-offs so i can see the freshness of the appeal wearing off over time.
Certainly feels like they didn't market lego movie 2 as well. I'm also hesitant to take my kids after how bored they were watching lego batman. That movie felt too dumb for adults but way too wordy and complicated for young kids.
What Men Want is going to drop hard though I'm surprised it did as well as it did considering how dreadfully unfunny it looked. Lego is getting over saturated and way too long between this and the first one.
The message here is way more directed at kids, especially siblings, so it may be worthwhile. Also the movie's basically a musical and there's dinosaurs with laser guns in it so it's pretty hard to get bored.
Free Solo is $50K away from passing Mortal Engines with like 1/30th of the budget. Werethisclose.gif
Seems like a good start. Will need to see how it holds though. Hopefully it comes in higher than tracking in the US.
It kinda of snuck up on you, the first one was everywhere
Literally the only advertisement I saw was actually advertising renting the first movie because part two was "coming soon". This was last week. Maybe they thought recognition of the brand was enough this time around.
Musicals generally have a ceiling around 150-160M, and never really get higher than that. I don't know why everyone kept insisting that Mary Poppins was a bomb.
I'm surprised people haven't seen ads for Lego Movie 2; I saw a trailer at pretty much every movie i saw in theaters in the last few months.
Wikipedia lists $99m (from an LA Times article).
Perhaps Alita will even smash the records of Pacific Rim Uprising and the Divergent Series!
There was a lot of marketing and this is the same release window as the first.
To be fair, it's a much better movie than all of those, it's not even remotely close.
For some reason I remember it being April, but you're right, first week of February.
Those anime brought to life movies have not been doing well at all.
It's like video game brought to life movies.
Hollywood needs a formula how to do them.
Lego2 was fantastic,my 6 year old loved it.
Cold Pursuit was very odd, more of a black comedy than a revenge action film as seen in the trailer. Whatever Swedish/Norwegian film/show it is based on is probably far better. Props for the significant native American aspect though, the wife loved that stuff. I also appreciate how Liam is firmly in the Schwarzeneggar/Connery realm of "so I have an accent, i'm gonna have American siblings and never explain it" school of acting :)
Cold Pursuit was very odd, more of a black comedy than a revenge action film as seen in the trailer. Whatever Swedish/Norwegian film/show it is based on is probably far better. Props for the significant native American aspect though, the wife loved that stuff. I also appreciate how Liam is firmly in the Schwarzeneggar/Connery realm of "so I have an accent, i'm gonna have American siblings and never explain it" school of acting :)
Because it's a Disney movie and people think every Disney movie is destined to do gangbusters at the box office even though their non-MCU/Pixar content has been flop city lately.
I was gonna do an international roundup, but Screendaily were late so I took a look at Deadline and well I'm now in a hospital for an aneurysm.
Here is a totally unrelated image:
Bumblebee (PAR): $345K intl weekend (36 markets); $332.2M intl cume
Not a lot.
Still expecting Happy Death Day 2U to eat Alita's lunch.
May even give Blade Runner 2049 a run for its money.
Holy shit. Mads Mikkelsen, Daisy Riddley, Tom Holland. That will draw eyes
Finding it hard to find showings of Happy Death Day 2U locally actually. The wife and I want to go for V-day to see it, but theaters are packing in that 'Isn't it Romantic' movie and even Alita. It's like some chains think the movie is not gonna do well on V-day? Cause it's odd that I can't buy tix to the movie at some of our premium chains.
I haven't been to the movies all year. Nothing has really grabbed me and I have also been catching up on shit I missed last year. This thread did remind me to pick up my Dolby tickets to Alita though. I don't have high hopes for it doing well commercially but Robert Rodriguez handling Cameron's baby can't end up too too bad quality wise (I hope).
I think it's possible Alita could open at $40 million. Ghost in the Shell opened at $18 million while BR 2049 opened at $32 million, and I feel like attaching James Cameron's name to this might pull in a little more. Plus, I feel like it's been marketed a lot more than those two similar films.
As for Lego Movie, I think those films are just played out right now. Ninjago wasn't any good, and Lego Batman should've been a lot better than it was.
As for Lego Movie, I think those films are just played out right now. Ninjago wasn't any good, and Lego Batman should've been a lot better than it was.
Just coming back from Lego2 and I thought it was agressively mediocre... aside from a few chuckles here and there.
Even my kids had a bit of a muted reception compared to the first one, and my eldest just hate the "get into your head" song.
Theater was pretty empty for a Sunday morning showing, and relatively few kids, which surprised me.
I think Dragon 3 will do way better tbh.
Even my kids had a bit of a muted reception compared to the first one, and my eldest just hate the "get into your head" song.
Theater was pretty empty for a Sunday morning showing, and relatively few kids, which surprised me.
I think Dragon 3 will do way better tbh.
that's what i meant... (i did post my thoughts on the film above your comment)
alita, speed racer, warcraft, all good movies, made by people who get it, but unfortunately won't bring in the bucks
HAHAHAHAHA no
We have people here saying Speed Racer was good so...sure, why not?
I point you to the half a dozen threads we've made celebrating it and breaking down why it works, two of them at least started by me.
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