Brian Fowler Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 After back to back second place finishes, The Revenant grabs first with 16 million. Star Wars is number 2 with 14 and change, Ride Along 2 third with 12. Our three big news releases, Dirty Grandpa, The Boy and The 5th Wave go 4, 5 6 with between 11.5 and 10.7. Michael Bay Sucks remains a bomb falling to 7th place with under ten million. Daddy's Home crossed 135 million total. Big hit Star Wars hit 879. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Deadpool is the CHIKARA of comic book characters. Conceptually, maybe, but his books crush on the charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 He operates on two levels: he's both The DX of comic book characters and the Young Bucks depending on the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Deadpool is the CHIKARA of comic book characters. Conceptually, maybe, but his books crush on the charts. I would Squirrel Girl is the chikara of comic book characters. Deadpool is too R rated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 What Fowler failed to mention that movies along the East Coast were all closed - thus boning a lot of the box office totals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 The pre-weekend estimate was 9% of business would be cut. It's doubtful it has had much impact on where movies ranked, except maybe propping up the Bayghazi film, since it's doing a disproportionately high amount of its business in the South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Looks like Star Wars will crawl across 900 million/2 billion this weekend. 900 million should be safe for a little while anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I like that people are trying to figure why Hail, Caesar! bombed and why 20% of the audience that actually went to go see it was 55 and over. It's almost like the Coen brothers are both sixty years old and write movies that naturally skew towards older people. I mean it's not like that they wrote a screenplay of a movie that came four months prior that really only succeeded because it garnered support from older people. Nope, not at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 I can't believe that PRIDE AND PREJUIDICE AND ZOMBIES movie actually came out. That was like...5 years too late for anyone to care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 It was in development hell for so long, Smith wrote an original novel and it made it to theaters before PPZ did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Considering how long it was in development as an actual Hollywood movie it has a really small budget. They might just barely break even, or take a small loss, but it will turn out to be little harm done in the big picture. Janurary/February at the movies: "Little Harm Done". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Deadpool has the best Thursday preview for an R-Rated film ever, 12.7 million, shattering Fifty Shades of Grey's record of 8.9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 47.5 million on Friday for Deadpool. Mojo has revised 3-day estimates to $110 million. Which would best EPISODE III as Fox's biggest opening ever. That is kinda insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Turns out those $70M predictions were way off but not in the direction that most of us thought. If you would have told me a year ago Deadpool could do 100 obviously I would have thought that was crazy. There's going to be a lot of comic book "fans" pissed about that number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Matrix Reloaded's best R-rated opening weekend is officially in serious jeopardy. Even if Deadpool disappoints the rest of the weekend, besting 91.7 looks like a done deal. Also going to be the best February open ever by a wide margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 My hope out of this is that Fox and other studios realize that something that takes the elements of the source material and tries to figure out why they work and leans into them (as opposed to the Fantastic Four movie, for instance), can open from a place of strength, and not just think that people are hungry for lots of R-rated superheroes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 I thnk this is more a victory for the marketing department than the ideal of fidelity to source material. Whatever Fox skimped on in terms of the actual "budget" of the movie, they made up for with a marketing campagin that was both expansive and clever. This was probably on par with the GOTG campaign in regards to how effectively it took a lesser-known property and made the case to your average moviegoer why they would be entertained by it. And then made that case a hundred thousand times over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 It's going to have a higher opening than Gotg which seems almost impossible but here we are. I wonder now if this could challenge Batman/Superman and Cap. Cap's last film opened at 94 I think but this will have the Stark bump and everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I assume Cap will be boosted once word gets out about spidey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Plus this being rated R just puts it over the top. Insane number. I didn't realize Deadpool was that popular now. I thought at most he was a cult hit. Not mainstream on the level of Cap and Iron Man. Disney is never getting the X-Men back. Of course the downside to all this is China banned the movie lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Honestly I don't think Deadpool the comic is that popular, I think it was a fantastic marketing campaign and has had really good word of mouth from those that have seen it. I want to see it and I've never read or seen anything with Deadpool before. To me it shows that you can have a good comic book movie that like was stated, follows the source material and actually has a good script and make money even if it isn't one of the classic comic book heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Deadpool is popular beyond the comic. He's been a meme character and Hot Topic t-shirt for edgy would-be tough guys for years now. It's just interesting that's transferred to box office power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I think it was partly the trailer, and partly that they timed the trailer releases properly to peak the interest when the movie was coming out. And partly, Deadpool is a bit of a comic character who people who don't read comics like, if you know what I mean. Didn't the Deadpool video game from a few years ago make more than it was supposed to? I know let's players got a shitload of views on it, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Deadpool is probably the most popular comic character created in my lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Deadpool is probably the most popular comic character created in my lifetime. Over Harley Quinn? I would say the Turtles but not sur they fit the criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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