The Muppets is now the top-grossing Muppet movie

[goldenstate5]

To be fair, those increases for every other movie was extremely pathetic. It was a rough Christmas for pretty much every release.

But yeah, the next week should earn it another 3 million to 78, and it's off to limp its way slowly to 80.

 

[beaker]

It made basically what it made over the weekend over the course of this week. Not bad considering. And they're still airing ads for it, though not as many as they should. it could very well reach 80 mil by the end of the year at that... or at the very least 75 mil. Modest... not quite summer money, but still good enough.

Btw, in another post you said Winnie the Pooh under performed. I just rewatched that film, my god that "movie" is awful. Hate to say it. The voices were all wrong, the trying to be way too much like the 60's and 70's specials. To me Piglet, Tigger and Huffalump movies were divine...this one seemed like it was phoning it in.

Also having watched Letters to Santa tonight, even at only 46 minutes I love it more than the new movie. But pretty much a lot of you are correct in that it's going to soar way past $100 million easily when it hits Europe. With dvd/blu ray, it's going to do quite well since this is a movie many might be waiting for the home market.

 

[goldenstate5]

Soar over 100 million in its overall gross is probably correct? A full 100 million overseas? Ehhh... I'm not sure on that.

I am fully confident that it will be a hit on DVD.

Also Letters to Santa better than the new movie?! I... we'll have to agree to disagree

 

[Drtooth]

To be fair, those increases for every other movie was extremely pathetic. It was a rough Christmas for pretty much every release.

But yeah, the next week should earn it another 3 million to 78, and it's off to limp its way slowly to 80.

Yeah, TinTin opened 5th... that Dumb Chipmunks movie didn't even get what The Muppets did by the 2 week period in its two weeks... Christmas vacation will be the telling sign. 75 million domestically isn't bad. It might just barely get to 80 mil by the end of next week, it might fall a little short. Even thin, it did as good as a movie released this time of year possibly could.

 

[beaker]

Soar over 100 million in its overall gross is probably correct? A full 100 million overseas? Ehhh... I'm not sure on that.

I am fully confident that it will be a hit on DVD.

Also Letters to Santa better than the new movie?! I... we'll have to agree to disagree

I was saying combined with european and dvd sales on top of north american gross it'll soar way past $100 million

 

[zoebell]

it's estimated to take in 1.2 million just for today. if that turns out right then i think it will have a very good week this week. pass 80 million by the weekend

 

[Drtooth]

Across the board NO ONE is going to movies anymore. There are those who are completely too poor to be able to go to the huge expensive, crummy theaters, but then there are the technodorks that LOVE watching stuff on tiny phones because they can, or wait for the blu ray.

I doubt any of the big Winter blockbusters are even going to make budget, let alone be massive hits. The Muppets, having a relatively small budget, might be the ONLY movie in the past couple months (other than Twibilght) that actually made a modest amount of money afterwards.

 

[DannyRWW]

It helps too that the critics liked this. I haven't heard anything from Disney since their comments after opening weekend but seeing as how even the higher end muppet merchandise is selling I think they will count this as a success. It shows that people are interested in buy merchandise with the muppets on. I hope we see more merchandises soon as a result of this though.

 

[Drtooth]

It helps too that the critics liked this. I haven't heard anything from Disney since their comments after opening weekend but seeing as how even the higher end muppet merchandise is selling I think they will count this as a success. It shows that people are interested in buy merchandise with the muppets on. I hope we see more merchandises soon as a result of this though.

I hope so. The Muppets made as best they could in a very slow season where everyone is either buying presence or waiting to see everything on the glory of a credit card sized screen on a phone... you know, the way movies were meant to be seen . At this point I'm MUCH more worried about TinTin opening a dismal 5th. I had a feeling it wouldn't hit much in the US, but I really wish it at least came in at least 4th, behind Chipmunks. On the other hand, I'm snickering at how bad We Bought a Zoo opened up. Hate that Arthur Christmas had such a bump, but hopefully it falls completely the end of the week.

Still, a modest success that made up its budget and the buzz it created are all it needs. I doubt anything released the past week will make budget. They released WAAAAAY too many movies in a single period.

 

[beaker]

Yeah just bad timing for the Muppets movie, since all the articles point toward the historically abysmal box office showings for thanksgiving through new years.

On the plus side, noone could have predicted the INSANE positive reviews and word of mouth it would get...just, that didn't at all translate into much of the movie going boom we would have hoped.