Summer 2013 Box Office

[DaveC]

"Titanic" debuted on Wednesday to $4.3 on Wednesday which wasn't quite enough to give it 1st spot, that went to "Hunger Games" which took $4.6M Wednesday bringing its Cume to $252.9M.

Friday morning tracking is now suggesting that the weekend is going to be nowhere near as strong as first thiought with "Titanic", "Hunger Games" & "American Reunion" all liable to weekend with between $20M - $25M with "Hunger Games" is expected to take the top spot.

Edit. On Thursday "Titanic" took $3.6M, finishing 2nd again to "Hunger Games" which took the top spot with $6.8M, bringing its Cume to $269.3M.

[DaveC]

Friday

"Hunger Games" took Friday Night with $12.9M this means it's looking at a weekend of around $32M which might just see it pass the $300M mark, it's currently at $282M.

"American Reunion" was expected to do well on Friday and took $9.2M giving it #2 spot this should mean it will weekend with around $22M.

"Titanic" went into the weekend with $8.4M but it performed no where as well as expected taking $7.1M, this is well below the $11M that was anticipated, consequently weekend predictions have plummeted to $18M.

"Wrath of the Titans" took $5.4M which was exactly as predicted and consequently looks on target for a $14M 2nd weekend. "Mirror Mirror" is doing slightly better than expected an $11M weekend should give it 5th spot.

"John Carter" as expected looks to drop another 60% giving it a $900K weekend

[johnone]

DeadLine are reporting Hungrer Games have gone past $400 Million Worldwide

Hopefully Titanics Failure to take more means they'll stop this need for 3d Re releases...

[DaveC]

US Weekend

A bit of a surprise to see "Hunger Games" dominating the weekend yet again, this week it took $33.5M maing that a 42.8% drop on last weekend, this makes it the 7th best take for a film in its 3rd weekend slotting between "Alice in Wonderland (2010)" which took $34.2M and (ironically) "Titanic" whose 3rd weekend earned it $33.3M.

This brings the Pictures Cume to $302.9M, the first picture of the year to pass the $300M mark (incidentally the first picture to pass the mark since "Deathly Hallows Part 2" in July of last year. The film took just 17 days to get there and that makes it the 6th quickest to get there, only "The Dark Knight" (10 days), "Transformers 3" (14 days), "Avatar" (15 days), "Deathly Hallows Part 2" (15 Days) & "POTC: Dead Man's Chest" (16 days) have broken the $300M in less time.

The film currently ranks as the 37th biggest picture of all-time at the US Box Office, ranking between the $305M of "POTC: Black Pearl" and the $302.9M of "Half Blood Prince" and has now outgrossed "Twilight: Eclipse" which at $300.5M is that Franchises biggest earner.

Attend any Hollywood Part and the one thing you're bound to meet is an actor/actress who were B-list a decade ago and have now suffered the decline that invariably follows. The money may not be an issue but invitations cease as so the Red Carpets and they find themselves once again on the other side of the Velvet Rope Once again.

Thus it's no surprise that Universal had little trouble putting the original cast of "American Pie" together once again. And some of them came incredibly cheap True Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott may have got $5M each (based more on their necessity to the script that star power), Alyson Hannigan and Eugene Levy picked up $3M apiece the remainder of the cast were paid somewhere between $500K to $700K (Tara Reid cost just $250K) and the promise that people would pretend to be interested in them for a few weeks.

Add to the low wages and some decent tax breaks in Georgia meant that Universal were able to bring the film in for $55M. Pretty good considering the first pic cost just $11M ($17M in today's money), "American Pie 2" cost $30M ($41M today) and "American Wedding" cost $55M ($71M).

With a bow of $21M that makes the film the 3rd best opener of the franchise,only beating the original "Pies" $18.7M and a long way South of #2 & #3, "Pie 2"'s bow of $45M was the best while "Wedding" debuted at $33.6M. But it should match the $55M price tag before it closes. This should work as previously "Pie" moves have done equally as well offshore as they have in the US and thus a profit might be eked out.

The film ranks as the 25th best opening for an April pic, slotting between 2007's "Disturbia" ($22.8M) and 2008's "The Forbidden Kingdom" ($21.2M). The best opening for an April pic is last year's "Fast Five" which began Summer early with an $86M bow.

Audience demographics show the pic fairly evenly split among the sexes with 51% Male/49% Female. Age-wise, 65% were over the age of 25 indicating fans of the originals came out to see the pic. The pic got good approval ratings with a B+ from the whole, and a A- from the over 25's.

Midweek tracking definitely got Audience interest in "Titanic 3D" wrong anticipating a $30M weekend, Friday forecasts were still far off predicting a $25M weekend and it was only when no-one showed on Friday night that forecasts drifted south of $20M.

Thanks to Cameron's voyage to the bottom of the Pacific and a host of Centennial stories of the Titanic few were unaware that the pic was getting a 3D venture but it seems that no-one wanted to pay 3D prices for a pic that they probably owned and had watched many times over and quite why Paramount thought they needed a Wednesday bow remains a mystery.

In the genre of uncalled-for 3D remakes, the pic ranks as the 4th best (out of 5) with only "Toy Story 1 & 2" bowing lower with just $12M. Even "Phantom Menace" fared better with a $22.5M bow.

60% of the audience were female, and 51% were aged over 25. The resulting 5-day Cume of $25.7M pushes "Titanic"'s overall Cume to $626M where it remains the US' 2nd biggest grossing pic of all-time, still playing catch-up to stablemates "Avatar"'s US Cume of $760M.

Holdover "Wrath of the Titans" dropped an expected 55%, slightly better than "Clash" which dropped 56% and after its 2nd weekend had cumed $110M. In the genre of Live Action Fantasy, the picture currently ranks as the 29th biggest, slotting between the $63.1M of 2010's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and the $57.3M that "Willow" grossed in1988.

Taking advantage of the Easter holiday, "Mirror Mirror" dropped by just 39% this weekend, taking $11M to bring its Cume to $36.5M, but with a budget of $85M it's difficult to see the pic making even $50M before it closes. The film currently ranks at #24 in Julia Roberts career which surprisingly means it has overtaken the $35M of "Larry Crown" but still needs another $4M to overtake "Duplicity"

"21 Jump Street" also had a huge hold taking $10.2M this weekend which represents just a 31.2% drop, this brings the films cume over the $100M mark to $109.6M. This makes it the 5th biggest picture of the year, For Jonah Hill, the pic passes the $100M of "Evan Almighty" to become the 7th biggest pic of the year. In 6th comes Career Making "Suberbad" with $121.5M. For Channing Tatum the pic remains his 3rd biggest film with "GI Joe"'s $150M, and "The Vow"'s $123M sitting on top of the roost.

"Lorax" with $5M was pretty much as expected this pushes the pictures Cume to $198M, the film is the year's 2nd biggest picture. The film ranks as Universal's all-time 14th biggest picture at the US Box Office between the $202M of 2001's "Mummy Returns" and the $181M of Jim Carrey's 1997 pic "Liar Liar".

The pic ranks as the 19th biggest pic in the genre of Computer animated pics with "Happy Feet" at $198M, "Monsters v Aliens" at $198.8M and "Tangled" at $200M. Swap to all animation and the pic drops to #22 but with the same neighbours.

Lorax also marks the end of the multi-million $ earners this weekend, with #8, #9 and #10 all earning less than $1M at the box office. I haven't been able to find a weekend with so many low earners making the top 10.

"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" widened by 41 further cinemas and added a further $975K to bring its Cume to $4.6M. The film ranks as CBS Films making it the 7th and lowest earner in CBS's cinematic history. According to Deadline The pic cost somewhere between $4M-$5M to licence and thus CBS need at least another $4M to get a return.

"John Carter" dropped 58% this weekend but is now earning less than $1M a week , thanks partly to the film shedding over 1,383 theatres, thus even making $70M in the US before it closes especially as the film is now in the $2 theatres.

Finally "Safe House" makes a return to the charts with a $581K weekend, the film is now playing the $2 theatres but has managed to earn $124.7M which makes it the 3rd biggest picture of the year. Only last weekend did it manager to clamber pass the $123.9M of "The Vow" which is now the 4th biggest pic of the year. The pic has remained Washington's 2nd biggest picture "American Gangster" remains his biggest with a gross of $130M

                                  W’kend  Decline Th’tres Average  Gross     Budget
1.  “The Hunger Games”            $33.5M  -42.8%  4,137    $8,098  $302.8M    $78M
2.  “American Reunion”            $21.5M          3,192    $6,736   $21.5M    $50M
3.  “Titanic 3D”                  $17.3M          2,674    $6,488   $25.7M
4.  “Wrath of the Titans”         $15.0M  -55.1%  3,545    $4,234   $58.9M   $150M
5.  “Mirror Mirror”               $11.0M  -39.3%  3,618    $3,040   $36.5M    $85M
6.  “21 Jump Street”              $10.2M  -31.2%  3,009    $3,390  $109.6M    $42M
7.  “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax”         $5.0M  -35.8%  3,003    $1,665  $198.2M    $70M
8.  “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”  $0.9M  -23.4%    524    $1,861    $4.6M
9.  “John Carter”                  $0.8M  -59.6%  1,015      $808   $67.8M   $250M
10. “Safe House”                   $0.6M  -25.8%    482    $1,205  $124.7M    $85M

[johnone]

Dammit

It seems Titanic according to Deadline is doing as well as expected by the studio after a slow start ....will the nightmare of post process never end?

Wrath of the titans....thanks a lot world ......it opened second in the U.S but it seems the studio is pushing the fact it's the no 1 box office film worldwide......seriously though well done ....another crappy post process films a hit meaning more of the same from execs desperate to make money.

[runalong]

It's hardly setting the world alight though perhaps an end in sight

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by johnone

Wrath of the titans....thanks a lot world ......it opened second in the U.S but it seems the studio is pushing the fact it's the no 1 box office film worldwide......seriously though well done ....another crappy post process films a hit meaning more of the same from execs desperate to make money.

If you're meaning Wrath here, it wasn't post-process 2.5D, but filmed in proper 3D. Still dull as ditchwater though.

Originally Posted by DaveC

Thus it's no surprise that Universal had little trouble putting the original cast of "American Pie" together once again. And some of them came incredibly cheap True Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott may have got $5M each (based more on their necessity to the script that star power), Alyson Hannigan and Eugene Levy picked up $3M apiece the remainder of the cast were paid somewhere between $500K to $700K (Tara Reid cost just $250K) and the promise that people would pretend to be interested in them for a few weeks.

Well, its got Alyson Hannigan in, so I'm sold. She's also one of the few who seems to be having a successful (TV) career, so justifying her paycheck. For some of the others, I still wouldn't quibble too much for quarter of a million dollars. Its more than most of us here ever make !

In the genre of uncalled-for 3D remakes, the pic ranks as the 4th best (out of 5) with only "Toy Story 1 & 2" bowing lower with just $12M. Even "Phantom Menace" fared better with a $22.5M bow.

So what was the fifth film ? Lion King ?

What other 2.5D films are upcoming ? Beauty and the Beast, Jurassic Park, Finding Nemo. What else for this sub-genre ?
Coming soon Top Gun 2.5D.

[DaveC]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

So what was the fifth film ? Lion King ?

As far as I can recall there are 5 pics that have been re-released with a subsequent 3D version.

"Lion King 3D" is the best performing pic, it opened with $30M and went on to make a Worldwide $170M ($94M in the US, $76M offshore).

"Phantom Menace 3D" comes next opening in the US with $22.5M but went on to take a Worldwide $100.5M, that's $43M in the US and $57M offshore (it's still out there making money apparently).

Then comes "Titanic 3D", which opened in the US at $17.5M, the US gross is currently $25.7M, but Offshore it's taken $35.5M giving it a Worldwide take of $61.2M

"Beauty and the Beast opened to $17.7M, in the US it made $47.4M, Offshore just $6M giving it a Worldwide take of $53M

Finally we have "Toy Story 1/2" (the 3D pics were released as a double bill) which opened at $12.5M, in the US it took $30.7M, Offshore just $1.6M giving it a Worldwide gross of $32.3M.

The problem is judging if they're making money. The pictures 3D release is mainly for the Home Market and "Titanic" had to be cleaned and remastered anyway for the forthcoming Blu Ray release. So the studios aren't saying how much the conversion cost and how much the Cinema release actually cost them, hardly anything because in the days of digital media the disks can be returned to the studio and reused and as the conversion is largely accounted for in the Home Media divisions then the studios are just chancing their arms by releasing it cinematically too

[DaveC]

Overseas Weekend

"Wrath of the Titans" holds the #1 spot for a 2nd weekend, taking $43M this weekend from 60 markets, that represents a 43% drop from its debut weekend (pretty good considering the pic had no new openings to bolster its 2nd weekend take). This pushes the pictures Offshore Cume to $152.5M. The original "Clash" took a total of $330M offshore (representing 66% of the Worldwide Gross of $493M) and thus after 10 days "Wrath" has already taken near half.

The $152M Offshore Gross the pic is now the 4th biggest pic in this year's Offshore Chart, while its Worldwide Gross of $209.5M makes it the 5th biggest film of the year.

"Titanic" took $35.5M from 5,570 theatres across 53 markets, The UK was the weekend's biggest earner where the film pocketed $4.4M, Germany produced $3.5M, France $3.3M and Italy $3M. The film has earned a Worldwide $61.2M which as I've said above currently makes it the 3rd biggest 3D re-release in terms of Titanic's overall Worldwide take to $1,905M.

"Hunger Games" weekend take dropped 27% this weekend, taking $25.5M from 60 markets. Though the films $157M Offshore take makes it the years 3rd biggest pic in the Overseas Chart the cume represents just 34% of the Worldwide Gross, which is unusual as normally Offshore represents around 60% of the Worldwide. The film's Worldwide take now stands at $460M easily making it the years biggest pic ("Journey 2" sits in 2nd spot with a Worldwide $313M).

Usually US comedies don't travel well outside of the US, with the Offshore take representing about 40% of the Worldwide (as is the case of last year's "Hangover 2" & "Bridesmaids"). The "American Pie" movies have always been unusual in that typically Offshore matches the US take.

With "American Reunion" it seems that this is going to continue with the 4th pic of the franchise taking $19.3M from 23 markets. Russia proved $5.1M of the Weekend, while Australia weekended with $5.0M. The Picture's first weekend produced a Worldwide take of $40.8M

Talking of intellectual properties that don't travel well outside of the US, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" doesn't seem to be faring too well offshore. Taking $11.8M this weekend from 49 markets bringing its Offshore Cume to $59M representing just 22% of the Worldwide Box Office which currently stands at $257.2M making it the year's 4th biggest picture.

Though the same may be true the other way too, Aadrman have never done particularly well in the US "Pirates! Band of Misfits" is due to open domestically in a couple of weeks time, that said, it's not doing so well offshore. This weekend it took $10M from from 29 territories (with an Italian bow providing $1.2M). The pictures Offshore Cume now stands at $25M and with a budget of $60M to recoup things don't look great. Aside from North America, the picture has 15 further markets of which Russia, Brazil and Spain are the largest.

French pic "Sur la Piste du Marsupliami" ("On the trail of the Marsupliami") is Alain Chabet's live action/animation tale of the pursuit of the mythical Marsupliami. Based upon a comic book the picture took $8M this weekend from Franco territories alone.

"Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" took $5.3M from 27 markets, bringing its Offshore Cume to $53.2M, the pic gets a US release on May 3rd.

"21 Jump Street: added a further $2.9M from 7 markets bringing its Offshore Cume to $27.6M and a Worldwide $137.2M. "John Carter" took $2.6M from 54 markets bringing its Offshore Cume to $195.6M and a Worldwide $263.6M It remains the years 3rd biggest picture

1.  “Wrath of the Titans”        $43.0M  Offshore Cume $152.5M W’wide $209.5M Budget $150M
2.  “Titanic”                    $35.5M                 $35.5M         $61.2M
3.  “Hunger Games”               $25.5M                $157.1M        $460.0M         $78M
4.  “American Reunion”           $19.3M                 $19.3M         $40.8M         $50M
5.  “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax”       $11.8M                 $59.0M        $257.2M         $70M
6.  “Pirates! Band of Misfits”   $10.0M                 $25.2M                        $60M
7.  “Sur la Piste du Marsupliami” $8.0M                  $8.0M
8.  “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”  $5.3M                 $53.2M
9.  “21 Jump Street”              $2.9M                 $27.6M        $137.2M         $42M
10. “John Carter”                 $2.6M                $195.6M        $263.6M        $250M

[DaveC]

Originally Posted by runalong

It's [Wrath] hardly setting the world alight though perhaps an end in sight

"Clash 3" was already in pre-production as of last November

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...er-bros-256828

And "Wrath" looks as if it'll make a profit from Theatrical showings alone so I guess it'll be Greenlit soon