2018 At The Boxoffice (1 Viewer)

[benbess]

Spielberg had his biggest his in years in 2018....Since I didn't read the novel, I liked this one better than almost every else here.

Ready Player One
Domestic Total Gross: $137,018,455
Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: March 29, 2018
Genre: Sci-Fi Action Runtime: 2 hrs. 20 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: N/A
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $137,018,455 23.5%
+ Foreign: $445,200,000 76.5%
= Worldwide: $582,218,455

 

[benbess]

Spielberg has overall had a very solid record in the 21st century....

2001 AI $236 million worldwide (100m budget)
2002 Minority Report $358 worldwide (102m budget)
2002 Catch Me If You Can $352 ($50m budget)
2004 The Terminal $219 ($60m)
2005 War of the Worlds $592 (132)
2005 Munich $130 (70)
2008 Crystal Skull $787 (185)
2011 Tintin $374 (135)
2011 Warhorse $178 (66)
2012 Lincoln $275 (65)
2015 Bridge of Spies $165 (40)
2016 The BFG $183 (140)
2017 The Post $180 (50)

Only one of his movies on this list lost a lot of money, and that's The BFG. It's impressive that with historical movies like Warhorse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies etc. that he can make them on a relatively economical budget, still give them an epic feeling, and get enough box office so that they are solid hits.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Fantastic Beasts was saved by its overseas haul.

I've been hearing surprisingly good things about Instant Family, so that might end up having more staying power that it would appear based on the genre.

I wonder if Sony had moved forward with David Fincher's The Girl Who Played with Fire adaptation with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara back in the lead roles, would it have underperformed as badly the The Girl in the Spider's Web has? The counterargument is that Sony was smart to nix the budget creep on Fincher's movie, because the franchise isn't built for box office success over the long haul. Either way, we've learned that Claire Foy alone can't carry a big opening. Whether anybody could have in this case is an open question.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Fantastic Beasts was saved by its overseas haul.

Yes, but I still think WB should be looking at what the down result in the US means for the franchise going forward. It was also down in the UK from the last one. I want the series to continue and fully expect that it will, but I also want the future movies to be better than this one was, so hopefully they are having conversations about what, if anything, they feel they should retool going forward.

I wonder if Sony had moved forward with David Fincher's The Girl Who Played with Fire adaptation with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara back in the lead roles, would it have underperformed as badly the The Girl in the Spider's Web has?

I would have seen that movie. I've been saying since this project was announced that a semi-reboot is a weird choice for this franchise. Fincher's version inched to $100m domestic on a $90 budget, so was not a hit. But the people who liked it, myself included, would want to have Mara and Craig back in continuity with that version. So who exactly was the new one intended for? I liked Claire Foy in First Man, but I'm just not interested in her Lisbeth (or anyone, really, who isn't Noomi Rapace or Rooney Mara.)

 

[TJPC]

We just got back from “Fantastic Beasts” and loved it! I really can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I really can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t.

I'm glad you enjoyed it more than I did. I'll be happy to explain to you why I didn't love it if you want to discuss it over in its own thread, but since this thread is more about box office, it would derail this conversation to go into that too much here.

 

[Malcolm R]

Preview numbers from BOMojo:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4459&p=.htm

Ralph Breaks the Internet scored $3.8 million in Tuesday evening previews, outperforming recent Thanksgiving weekend champs Coco ($2.3m) and Moana ($2.6m). Those two films were both new IPs, which could play a role in how Ralph performs overall this weekend, but a performance over $70 million for the five-day weekend would seem more than likely at this point, if not higher.

Creed II wasn't too far behind, ringing up $3.7 million from Tuesday previews, which is more than double the $1.4 million the first film brought in before going on to open with $42.1 million in its first five days over the same weekend three years ago.

Lastly, Lionsgate's release of Summit's Robin Hood brought in $800k last night to go along with $400k from paid Monday night previews for a $1.2 million early start, all of which will be rolled into Wednesday's overall gross.

 

[Tino]

Top 10 boxofficemojo


1 N Ralph Breaks the Internet BV $55,672,000 - 4,017 - $13,859 $84,472,000 - 1
2 N Creed II MGM $35,293,000 - 3,441 - $10,257 $55,806,000 - 1
3 2 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) Uni. $30,210,000 -21.7% 3,960 -181 $7,629 $180,442,250 $75 3
4 1 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald WB $29,650,000 -52.3% 4,163 - $7,122 $117,117,238 $200 2
5 3 Bohemian Rhapsody Fox $13,855,000 -13.6% 2,927 -883 $4,734 $152,014,253 $52 4
6 4 Instant Family Par. $12,500,000 -13.8% 3,286 - $3,804 $35,751,508 $48 2
7 N Robin Hood (2018) LG/S $9,125,000 - 2,827 - $3,228 $14,220,000 - 1
8 5 Widows Fox $7,955,000 -35.6% 2,803 - $2,838 $25,585,819 $42 2
9 22 Green Book Uni. $5,443,000 +1,598.7% 1,063 +1,038 $5,120 $7,800,401 - 2
10 7 A Star is Born (2018) WB $3,005,000 -30.0% 1,202 -808 $2,500 $191,005,173 $36 8

 

[Jake Lipson]

It's important to note that those are the 3-day weekend numbers. Because of the holiday, Wednesday and Thursday had more traffic than usual in theaters, so the 5-day numbers are worth considering as well just as a different metric. I went to Ralph on Friday, so my $7.88 admission is in the $55 million somewhere, but I went to Creed on Thursday, so my cost on that one is not in the 3-day total. Mojo doesn't appear to have a 5-day chart up yet.

 

[Tino]

It's important to note that those are the 3-day weekend numbers. Because of the holiday, Wednesday and Thursday had more traffic than usual in theaters, so the 5-day numbers are worth considering as well just as a different metric. I went to Ralph on Friday, so my $7.88 admission is in the $55 million somewhere, but I went to Creed on Thursday, so my cost on that one is not in the 3-day total. Mojo doesn't appear to have a 5-day chart up yet.

Correct. However the new releases totals are the 5 day totals.

 

[benbess]

Robin Hood seems to be bombing, and I'm afraid it deserves that fate. Just saw it, and it was a mediocre video-game-ish mess. Not even F. Murray Abraham can save this turkey. No pardon for this one....

 

[Jake Lipson]

Not even F. Murray Abraham can save this turkey. No pardon for this one....

That's okay, he's got another role coming up that will serve him much better. He's the villain in the third How to Train Your Dragon film.

 

[Tino]

Top 10

1 1 Ralph Breaks the Internet BV $25,756,000 -54.2% 4,017 - $6,412 $119,294,233 $175 2
2 3 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) Uni. $17,730,000 -41.7% 3,934 -26 $4,507 $203,507,195 $75 4
3 2 Creed II MGM $16,832,863 -52.7% 3,576 +135 $4,707 $81,169,147 $50 2
4 4 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald WB $11,200,000 -61.9% 3,851 -312 $2,908 $134,341,406 $200 3
5 5 Bohemian Rhapsody Fox $8,100,000 -42.1% 3,007 +80 $2,694 $164,423,150 $52 5
6 6 Instant Family Par. $7,150,000 -41.9% 3,376 +90 $2,118 $45,927,769 $48 3
7 N The Possession of Hannah Grace SGem $6,500,000 - 2,065 - $3,148 $6,500,000 $9.5 1
8 7 Robin Hood (2018) LG/S $4,700,000 -48.9% 2,827 - $1,663 $21,727,682 $100 2
9 8 Widows Fox $4,400,000 -46.5% 2,393 -410 $1,839 $33,060,245 $42 3
10 9 Green Book Uni. $3,900,000 -29.1% 1,065 +2 $3,662 $14,016,491 $23 3
Www.boxofficemojo.com

 

[Colin Jacobson]

When was the last time a new movie couldn't rank higher than #7 for opening weekend?

Not that I expected "Possession" to be a hit, but it's still astonishing that the first 6 slots are all prior releases...

 

[Malcolm R]

It's not that rare. Below are some of the worst openings released on 2000+ screens just from this year (though these were likely not the weekend's top new release, if that's what you were getting at).

All of these also grossed $3.2 million or less, or half or less of the $6.5 million (2065 screens) of Possession... It's also not too bad since early predictions for Possession were $3m or less for the entire weekend.

Bad Samaritan, 2007 screens, opened at #11
Life Itself, 2609 screens, opened #11
Action Point, 2032 screens, opened #9
Gringo, 2404 screens, opened #11
The Hurricane Heist, 2402 screens, opened #9
Kin, 2141 screens, opened #12
Early Man, 2494 screens, opened #7
Hotel Artemis, 2407 screens, opened #8

 

[Wayne_j]

When was the last time a new movie couldn't rank higher than #7 for opening weekend?

Robin Hood last week

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Robin Hood last week

But "Robin Hood" wasn't the top-grossing new movie - both "Ralph" and "Creed" were new movies and they were 1 and 2, respectively...

 

[Colin Jacobson]

It's not that rare. Below are some of the worst openings released on 2000+ screens just from this year (though these were likely not the weekend's top new release, if that's what you were getting at).

That's exactly what I meant.

I wasn't looking just for new movies that flopped - I was looking for the lowest ranking new movie in a weekend.

It has to be pretty rare that the most successful new movie only makes it to #7...

 

[Colin Jacobson]

The overloaded release schedule for the days right before Christmas makes no sense to me - and it makes even less sense when you see how empty the preceding weeks are.

As already discussed, last weekend was a wasteland for new releases in terms of box office potential, and this weekend is worse. As far as I can tell, there's NO wide release new film coming out Friday.

12/14 is a little better with the animated Spider-Man movie and "Mortal Engines", but neither look like behemoths ala the "Star Wars" movie that owned that release slot the prior 3 years. (Looks like it would've been a good place for "Solo", doesn't it?)

So we have a slew of big ticket films all coming out within 3 days of each other. When at least one of them underperforms, that studio will wonder why they didn't move the release to one of those empty slots!

 

[Jake Lipson]

As far as I can tell, there's NO wide release new film coming out Friday.

You're right, with the "new film" qualifier. Universal is releasing Schendlir's List in wide release, but that's it.

I agree with your point about the next several weeks being overloaded. Some of them aren't going to make it.