Muppets Most Wanted Box Office Numbers

[Drtooth]

Worst part was before the movie my hubby and I were eating lunch and we heard a father with his son talking to the waitress about Peabody and Rio 2 it took all I had not to turn around and smack them.

Peabody yes, Rio 2... I'll agree... how dare them. I'm sure the first one was probab;y a good film, but every trailer I've seen has been obnoxious Moreso than the last time. Especially that Kristen Chennowith Frog. But at least it looks better than The Nut Job, which looked better than Free Birds.

If MMW was in direct competition with Free Birds (a movie that's solved by delivering Chuck E. Cheese TM pizza, the STUPIDEST plot twist ever, and worst product placement shilling since the Popeye's Chicken bit in Little Nicky), THEN I'd worry about the future of humanity. Yeah, MMW may have been a disappointment to some, but at least they didn't defeat Constantine with crappy cross-promotional pizza that you can't even order that's only tolerable to children playing arcade games.

Ahem... yeah, well... It sucks that it's going to be considered a modest money maker with international sales at best. Disney really picked a crummy month to release this one in. Too close to Peabody and Sherman, a weak month over all, opposite some idiotic hormonal tween film based on a book that should've been sued for copyright infringement in the first place... right before the BIG Marvel comics movie.

 

[Pinkflower7783]

I honestly had never even heard of Peabody until this film. I should note they were bragging more about Rio 2 so that's what made me cringe more then Peabody. I was gonna turn to them and say "you know there this other really good movie called MMW."

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Peabody yes, Rio 2... I'll agree... how dare them. .

You know, I think people here are picking on Peabody a little too much and haven't seen the film yet. It's a fantastic film and it deserves every dollar it gets! Of course I want Muppets Most Wanted to make more money as that's a franchise that I love (and anyway I don't see a Peabody and Sherman franchise really getting off the ground) so I want more films to be released, but Peabody is actually a really fantastic movie as well! I loved it.

 

[Muppet Master]

The weekend estimates are out! MMW in its third weekend fell 44.3% to a third weekend estimate total of $6,285,000 down from the $6.9 million estimates, but really it's only like $600,00 of a difference and when the actuals come out it might do better. Right now MMW has gotten a three-weekend domestic total of $42,142,000. Take that people who thought it would only make $30 mil. At the moment worldwide it has $49,642,000, BUT when the weekend foriegn totals come in I bet it'll fly past the $50 million mark. So in all MMW only needs $7,858,000 in its entire run to reach its budget, now tell me if that's not possible?

With Rio 2 comes out next week, the film will be damaged, I expect a sad plummet of about 50% or more . Here's my forecast of the film.

Weekend 4: $3,142,500 $45 million
Weekend 5: $1,600,000 $48 million
Weekend 6: $900,000 $49.8 million
Weekend 7: WHATEVER GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!!

So by its 7th weekend MMW should be poised to reach the $50 million mark and probably a bit more via. $51 million.

 

[Drtooth]

It really sucks that it's barely getting traction, but then again, we have an actual big movie that people actually want to see that actually is good. Captain America is going to have a HUGE opening for April... record setting. I'm sure Disney's going to be very generous and count MMW as decent money maker, they're still trying to promote the film and didn't completely give up on it, so I'll give them credit for that.

On the other hand, tweenagers are still going to Divergent, and the average age of the Noah film goers is pretty much 65+ (when, frankly, it looks like Michael Bay got at the Bible). MMW is at least holding for a family film... if it slipped to 4th this weekend, that's not terrible. If it can just manage to make 12 million more before it's out of theaters, then it will at least make it's budget domestically. If not, they didn't lose a John Carter/Lone Ranger chunk of change on it.

 

[Pinkflower7783]

As of now I just want it out on DVD.

 

[Reevz1977]

If Disney is smart (and I suspect they are!!), they will push the movie again in another fortnight for the Easter holidays. I really don't understand the logic in releasing the movie when they did but I sure it was thoroughly thought through. There's also the home video market to take into consideration with regards to total takings and I suspect that will be where this movie sees better numbers.

Whilst many will disagree, I really preferred this movie over "The Muppets" and I think it's appeal is considerably broader than the previous movie. It is up against stiff competition at the moment but it will find it's audience, I'm confident on that!

 

[Pinkflower7783]

 

[Drtooth]

If Disney is smart (and I suspect they are!!), they will push the movie again in another fortnight for the Easter holidays. I really don't understand the logic in releasing the movie when they did but I sure it was thoroughly thought through. There's also the home video market to take into consideration with regards to total takings and I suspect that will be where this movie sees better numbers.

Easter is more or less a month from the film's release. If it has some staying power and manages to stay in theaters past that, that's a good thing. The Muppets barely made any money second week of its release onward, but somehow managed a slight uptick around Christmas... in a month completely over-saturated with films. Especially opposite Chipmunks 3. So if it can be seen as an alternative to Rio 2, there might just be some hope. It will find an audience, no doubt, but it's looking more and more likely that will be once it hits DVD.

 

[Slackbot]

I saw it at 11:30 today. and the theater was about 2/3 full, mostly families with kids and 1 birthday party. People enjoyed it, although there were two very little kids who vocally wanted to leave; they were bored by the plot-heavy bits and scared by some of Constantine's sequences.

I brought a puppet to the theater again--Janken Fraggle this time--and hung around and talked with the kids and their Silly Creature escorts. It went over very well, and the mother of the birthday boy said I made his day. Guerrilla puppetry is a blast, and I like for people to see how puppetry works, with puppeteers and arm rods and everything.