I'm thinking this'll be a lot stronger domestically than the last one. It's ridiculously joke/action packed. WOM in States may carry it
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Wkd BO 0421-2317 - F8 leads the box office, and drags those who resist
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I'm thinking this'll be a lot stronger domestically than the last one. It's ridiculously joke/action packed. WOM in States may carry it
Pan's Labyrinth had a platform release, so while it had a pretty good $37.6M total, no single weekend was over $5M.
That happened to me with TFA. Be careful around Facebook comment sections.
Ouch. Thats looks prett bad...
This is good news.
Time to join the Thor Ragnorok > GotG 2 club
Dash_Riprock
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Well I've been dead wrong on every one of my B.O. predictions so far so why not this one too?
Next up, Wonder Woman grosses a billion and Justice League gets a 100% RT score...
broncobuster
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Legit surprised GotG2 won't pass a billion, assuming estimates hold. We'll see. Marvel Studios giving it the May slot got me thinking they were confident it'd be huge.
PhoncipleBone
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Ditto. Calling shots like ID4Resurgance and Ghost in the Shell has backfired horribly on me. Looks like me calling Guardians to go crazy is short sighted. Should still outgross the first, just not by as huge a margin as predicted.
And MCU will continue to have no RDJ Free movies over $1b.
BlackNMild2k1
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Uh oh, U.S. release to have special 6th post credit scene added starring Iron-Man in space.
just to get that extra $50M to cross $1B.
Thor over everything. Join the club.
MHWilliams
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So around $900 million is likely. Up for GOTG 2. A bit disappointing otherwise.
The back end deals on the F&F films are probably ludicrous. Vin and Moritz could easily take home up to 20% of the first dollar gross between them.
The same is true of the Transformer films with Spielberg and Bay taking home a fucking HUGE chunk of the first dollar gross. At least the studio have a big merch presence with that film to soak up all the red ink.
BronsonLee
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I'm not sure why Universal hasn't expanded on F&F hard
Only thing I can think of is the ride and that stage show they're going to do next year
Only thing I can think of is the ride and that stage show they're going to do next year
The NY Post ( I know, I know) had an article about the toy market being saturated by all the family films that are coming out. Interestingly the article also briefly mentions the Power Rangers film.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/30/the-influx-of-kids-movies-has-fatigued-the-toy-industry/
As if the pitiful worldwide box office numbers weren't enough now the Power Rangers fans don't even have the hope of big toy sales to cling to when it comes to hoping for a sequel.
I'm sure they'll reboot it. At some point.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/30/the-influx-of-kids-movies-has-fatigued-the-toy-industry/
As if the pitiful worldwide box office numbers weren't enough now the Power Rangers fans don't even have the hope of big toy sales to cling to when it comes to hoping for a sequel.
I'm sure they'll reboot it. At some point.
China will save Power RangersThe NY Post ( I know, I know) had an article about the toy market being saturated by all the family films that are coming out. Interestingly the article also briefly mentions the Power Rangers film.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/30/the-influx-of-kids-movies-has-fatigued-the-toy-industry/
As if the pitiful worldwide box office numbers weren't enough now the Power Rangers fans don't even have the hope of big toy sales to cling to when it comes to hoping for a sequel.
I'm sure they'll reboot it. At some point.
#Believe
Nobody wants a toy of shitty designed Rangers
The fact that Lionsgate seemed to be hiding the designs of the Zords for most of the film's marketing campaign didn't help any either. Sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
PhoncipleBone
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GOTG2 advance sales higher than Avengers: Age of Ultron in US.
This weekend is going to be interesting. The overseas opening was good, but not blow the roof off. But looking like US premier might be above the $150m tracking?
This weekend is going to be interesting. The overseas opening was good, but not blow the roof off. But looking like US premier might be above the $150m tracking?
Back to the billion dollar table
twinturbo2
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I'll be there this weekend, the original was my favorite superhero movie.
Dont worry, neither of the booth things I think you could ended up dont liking have a comeback.
Even while I think people really didnt got the point of the dance of.
GraveRobberX
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Saw the edits...
Triggerhappytel
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I read the other day that Furious 7 only generated something like $300 million profit for Universal. That's insane on a movie that made $1.5 billion at the box office.
EDIT - Deadline calculated that it had made $354 million in profit.
Yeah, despite some more-tepid-than-expected reviews, I'm still planning on seeing it. Although I've got a newborn and getting to the cinema is a bit tricky at the moment, so I think I might take a cheeky afternoon off work next week to go along.
Man, I loved the ending to the first. Yeah it was cheesy but I loved all the characters, felt like they had depth and the ending was a great, air-punch moment for me, from the battle against the Dark Aether to the dance-off.
Still the most emotional scene in any blockbuster of the last 10 years.
And I just noticed that we witnessed here for the first time the moments where Gunn shines when it comes to this Franchise. It aint the jokes, its when the emotions are set off.
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