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Wkd Box Office - 5•10-12•19 - Pikachu does like Ash and fails to be #1, Endgame's Arceus-like run slows, Tolkien can't Hustle audience interest
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Not missing much of anything, especially not Fallen Kingdom.
EDIT: Brain fart, thought we were talking about Jurassic World. First John Wick is great, thought Chapter 2 was kinda disappointing.
Jurassic Park barely exists to me as a thing. Didn't care for JP 1 back in the day and never went back.
The first movie is largely a familiar premise of "bad guys mess with the wrong person, man seeks revenge" in the mold of Man of Fire, Man From Nowhere, Taken, etc, but with subtle world-building, amazing choreography and stuntwork/action direction, tons of style, and a self-aware tone.
The sequel fully embraces that world-building and does an action movie plot couched in its own unique heightened reality. It's kind of like a Raid vs Raid 2 situation, except the first movie actually has the hints of a larger world beyond the relatively simple and small-scale revenge plot.
It's actually pretty impressive because John Wick was intended to be a one-and-done, they didn't have plans for a sequel, but the world-building in the first movie is so good that the sequel feels like a natural escalation and expansion.
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Nah I gotta keep seeing endgame until Memorial Day or so (when it passes avatar hopefully)
Nah theaters will decline in popularity before inflation catches up I think. Streaming has already cut the legs off too much
My god imagine if they had let endgame have that slot. 3.5b probably
Sarcasm or serious?
I saw it 3 times. 1 alone. 2 with gf. 3 with brother. No need to see it again. I'm Endgame-out.
Box office era is 100% serious about seeing Endgame multiple times to beat Avatar. Some people have been buying up tickets on Fandango just to support it.
Yeah sarcasm. I saw it twice and I'm with ya. Might see it again if I see my sister or maybe paired with something else on a weekend
Hearing nothing but good things about JW3. SweetNicole has said some.. positive things about the film that one might classify as OUTLANDISH, so.. maybe it's time to give it another chance if
the action is better than Fury Road
Don't forget once it passes Avatar a national holiday will be declared and everyone will rush to the theaters and drive the worldwide gross to $3.5b too!
There shall be parades and rejoicing in the street and burnings of James Cameron memorabilia on that glorious day
Don't forget once it passes Avatar a national holiday will be declared and everyone will rush to the theaters and drive the worldwide gross to $3.5b too!
And burning dollar bills shall fly through the sky as the parade ends in the ritual sacrifice of James Cameron. Kevin Feige shall drive the knife into his heart while the Russo Brothers drink the blood that comes pouring out.
Endgame 3.85M and Pikachu 3.1M via Charlie
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/27781-wednesday-516-early-estimates/
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/27781-wednesday-516-early-estimates/
Again below IW for same day if that holds. 32% drop from Tuesday compared to IW's 30%. Curious if that trend continues or grows in one direction or the other.
I saw Endgame twice in theaters.
But I also saw Avatar twice in theaters.
So it all evens out.
With Endgame being as long as it is, I can't imagine seeing it more than once in the theater. I was pretty forgiving of its length since it needed to wrap up multiple character arcs and it moved at a pretty brisk pace.
TRUTH: Perfect movie length is 90min - 2 hours.
TRUTH: Perfect movie length is 90min - 2 hours.
More than likely. Domestic is kinda being sluggish but internationally its picking up the slack. If it passes 2.65 billion by the end of this weekend then it's a done deal.
3 billion on the other hand doesn't seem likely.
As long as it comes out on top that's good.
I can see someone coming away thinking it was a sad movie if they, say, go to the bathroom after 20 minutes and don't get back for two and a half hours
All anyone remembers of that movie is the painting scene and Rose letting Jack die because she wouldn't allow him to stay on her piece of wreckage. lol
Hands up! This is the FBI!! You mispelled kombat with a c.!!!
I'm not sure, but why are Endgames legs being considered bad?
I'd expect it to fall faster... it's already past Infinity Wars total, and will likely be passed 770milly by this weekend. Starting that high the descent was always likely to be steeper than the norm wasn't it?
I'd expect it to fall faster... it's already past Infinity Wars total, and will likely be passed 770milly by this weekend. Starting that high the descent was always likely to be steeper than the norm wasn't it?
I generally don't join the prediction game since the last time I did it was "NSMBU alone will get WiiU to 20 million units first year!"
It's legs are fine, some people expect it to have legs similar to movies that opened to smaller numbers but thats wishful thinking. The next movie that opens to over $350m, we'll have something to compare its legs to.
Where were those people when BR2049 was in the cinemas?
I get it when you want to see a movie multiple times to help secure a sequel or more movies in that cinematic universe, but for Marvel movies that was already a given.
Christ, I also wish people would rather buy tickets for Detective Pikachu.
I need more movies in that world!
The goal is to beat that shitty Avatar movie. Whatever it takes.
Wish Sweden was still so fortunate. Had to wait five months for us to get Spider-Verse, I regretted not seeing that twice. Endgame is the only MCU movie other than Iron Man 3 and Homecoming that I saw more than once, and the latter two were just because I had friends who wanted to see it.
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