Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

[Mynameisdean]

Were you replying to me, heralds?

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

Transformers 4 has a big drop in the box office this week, while Earth To Echo flopped (good riddance), Tammy and Deliver Us From Evil are successes, Dragons 2 is doing a decent job of keeping up with box office despite it's layoffs that happened, WOW! never expected 22 Jump Street to pull that much in the box office and still lead with that much money, while Maleficent is doing just fine in the box office (not as much as Oz or Alice though), and these are from estimates by the way.
11Transformers: Age of ExtinctionPar.$36,400,000-63.6%4,233-$8,599$174,746,000$2102
2NTammyWB$21,170,000-3,465-$6,110$32,906,000$201
3NDeliver Us From EvilSGem$9,500,000-3,049-$3,116$15,000,000-1
4222 Jump StreetSony$9,400,000-40.7%3,324-102$2,828$158,854,000$504
53How to Train Your Dragon 2Fox$8,750,000-33.9%3,297-453$2,654$140,000,000$1454
6NEarth to EchoRela.$8,250,000-3,230-$2,554$13,500,000-1
75MaleficentBV$6,133,000-26.8%2,389-684$2,567$213,882,000$1806
86Jersey BoysWB$5,160,000-33.1%2,630-275$1,962$36,705,000$403
94Think Like a Man TooSGem$4,900,000-52.5%1,729-496$2,834$57,192,000$243
107Edge of TomorrowWB$3,640,000-32.6%1,538-997$2,367$90,870,000$1785
1142America (2014)LGF$2,725,000+6,958.1%1,105+1,102$2,466$4,000,000-2
128The Fault in our StarsFox$2,450,000-52.2%1,865-980$1,314$115,851,000$125

 

[Drtooth]

The entire box office was a bad draw this weekend. The lowest in a decade, which speaks that something is wrong with this year's box office overall. That said, Transformers pretty much doubled its budget in the second week, mostly due to international sales, especially since it just opened in certain countries.

While I'd love to laugh at Echo's horrible opening performance (still did better than Legends of Oz's entire take), I', especially pleased to see that the Paranoid right wing conspiracy "documentary" opened at 11, and hopefully will stay on the bottom. When the Transformers movie is the less plot hole filled convoluted incoherent movie, you know you logic is totally screwed up.

 

[Drtooth]

Okay. Now this is ticking me off. I'm well aware that Dreamworks laid off a bunch of people because Dragons underperformed. I hope several of them were on the marketing department. 50 million opening? Failure! Let's pull all advertisements at once. Meanwhile, Earth to Echo opens at a pathetic 8 Million (below Dragons' 4th week, mind you) and is still getting advertisements in its second week.

Really Dreamworks?!

 

[Muppet Master]

Okay. Now this is ticking me off. I'm well aware that Dreamworks laid off a bunch of people because Dragons underperformed. I hope several of them were on the marketing department. 50 million opening? Failure! Let's pull all advertisements at once. Meanwhile, Earth to Echo opens at a pathetic 8 Million (below Dragons' 4th week, mind you) and is still getting advertisements in its second week.

Really Dreamworks?!

It's like $49 million is an all-time low for Dreamworks, considering that dreamworks is no stranger to box-office bombs (unlike Blue Sky Studios or Pixar).

 

[Drtooth]

While a weak opening speaks of a miserable box office take in general for non-blockbuster films, absolute failures like Oz and Echo at least tried no matter how desperate their attempts were. Dragons opens respectably against a comedy, and it's throw in the towel time. No wonder it didn't get a strong second week. Not even a "the number one family movie" weasel. This is their best opening since The Croods (which did much better), and it's already made more money than their last two films domestically. They should have tried harder the second week. If it's a failure, it's a failure of optimism for their marketing department. Echo has nothing to be optimistic about. It opened well under an underperforming movie's fourth week and they're still pushing it.

Seriously. Restructure your marketing department.

 

[Drtooth]

First off... Saw 22 Jump Street Friday, and I totally get the hype. I missed out on the first one and was kinda lost on it, but I LOVED how it opened with Nick Offerman lampshade hanging the heck out of the first movie and how it got a sequel.

Secondly, the very bad reaction to Spider-Man 2 has had the writer step down from the franchise, presumably in a none too happy manner

Now, I have to admit, I actually enjoyed the movie, but felt it wasn't as good as the first one, which I felt outdid the Sam Raimi films. It's a shame the second one couldn't even live up to those films, and hopefully with a new writer, they can salvage the franchise with a third film. If anything, the problem was this. I hear all these rants about the dark gritty super hero reboot, and it felt like the film was trying too hard to rebel against that. Instead of the dark, brooding tone (completely and utterly fitting of Spider-Man), they tried some of that, and campy wackiness that detracted from the tone of this reboot. Like the Herr Docktor and The Rhino (which came at the wrong time in the movie, anyway). Then of course there's the fault in trying to do things too differently from the first movie series, which is Kobyashi Maru, frankly. As in, they'd take crap for making it different, but they'd also take crap if the thing was the same.

Oh... and Stan didn't get a funny cameo. The last film, his appearance was freaking priceless. This time, he was just there.

Anyway, I hope the next writer manages to stay on one tonal track. Hopefully the dark one.

 

[Mynameisdean]

Well, I just saw a Planes 2 commercial that said stuff like "inspiring", "better than the original", etc. *COUGH*takenoutofcontext*COUGH*

 

[Muppet Master]

Well, I just saw a Planes 2 commercial that said stuff like "inspiring", "better than the original", etc. *COUGH*takenoutofcontext*COUGH*

The film has 4 reviews and half are already rotten, it's obviously ready for like 20%, but it still has a chance at reaching #1 at the box office this weekend unless Jason Siegel's stripper movie gets some decent returns.

 

[Drtooth]

Well, I just saw a Planes 2 commercial that said stuff like "inspiring", "better than the original", etc. *COUGH*takenoutofcontext*COUGH*

Well, I'll give the sequel this... it's probably better for dumping the underdog winning the race concept at least. There were so many racing movies out last year. You hear all these complaints about "oh, there's too many dark and gritty superhero movies," yet no one complained about how there were at least 3 or 4 racing movies.

The film has 4 reviews and half are already rotten, it's obviously ready for like 20%, but it still has a chance at reaching #1 at the box office this weekend unless Jason Siegel's stripper movie gets some decent returns.

Both films would have to topple Planet of the Apes. While 22 Jump Street did prove to be the exception to the rule, comedy movies haven't been all that popular this season. But then again, it is Jason Segal, and his comedies usually turn out to be popular.