And Japan hasn’t reported their numbers since the 13th. I know it’s made more than $19 million there. When those numbers come it’ll jump over the $700 million mark.
Bomb bombbombbomb
I just saw it a couple of hours ago, and damn. Great movie.
Just posting to note why I haven’t seen it yet:
I’m fortunate enough to have two good discount theaters near me, $2 per ticket. Big screen viewing for $2, way better than waiting to stream or pickup from RedBox but without the crazy high cost of first run ticket prices.
Any big Hollywood movie aimed at a wide audience will come to the discount theater. So, unless there’s something I’ve been dying to see (or unless it’s a niche film that won’t come to the discount theater) I always wait it out until the discount release.
Spider-man 2, released 3 weeks before Maleficent has been playing at the discount theater for a month now. Godzilla, released a week before Maleficent has been playing at the discount theater for two weeks.
I’m starting to think it won’t be until the end of the summer that I get to see Maleficent.
Every producer should wish they could have this kind of bomb.
I love it! (both posts)
No kidding. In the greater Chicagoland area, I count that it’s still playing in 29 multiplexes, four of those within the city limits, the rest burbs. In one theater it was down to one showing a day, seven other theaters had it at two showings a day. The rest are three or four showings, with a few at five. I didn’t see a discount theater among them, but I’m not that familiar with the burb theaters. The city theaters were all normal multiplexes.
Still playing on 1500 screens. But starting to show signs of fading this week.
It will beat the X-Men movie in the domestic yearly chart in a few days. But the Transformers movie will top it first. So it will be at number 4 again.
Will cross $230M domestic soon. Don’t see $240M unless Disney promotes it and can hold screens for a while longer. Don’t see a release date yet for video. Disney may not be in a rush to release it.
Over at BoxOfficeProphets, the weekend wrap up column had this to say:
“The Angelina Jolie starrer has been one of the very few bright spots released this summer, as the quasi-original premise has played with big sequel and concept films all summer.”
Not a bomb, but definitely Da Bomb.
Betting against Disney is usually a very bad idea. I’d be hard pressed to think of a Disney family movie that is bad in recent years.
Well, John Carter wasn’t actually bad, but it did bomb.
Not a family movie: PG-13. Disney does make bad movies, to be sure, but their bread and butter is family fare and they almost never miss with those.
I submit The Lone Ranger for your consideration.
(just noticed your PG-13 disclaimer but I still think it can be argued that it was meant as a family movie)
Spirited Away made about ¥30.4 billion ($304 million). The theaters were sold out every day, every showing for about three months.
Whatever the MPAA Rating, I’d put Maleficent in with John Carter and Lone Ranger as “Family Friendly aimed at Teens”. So, I think Chronos and Cyros make valid comparisons.
Cite? Box Office Mojo shows it at $230 million, but I’m sure they could be wrong.
It’s finally fallen out of the top ten as of Friday (day 57 of release). Shed 500 screens and is down to around “only” 1000. Fell 45% this weekend as result. Will likely continue to drop quickly until it hits the “dollar” cinemas. Will rack up just a few million more.
Crossed $230M domestic on Thursday. BoxOfficeMojo’s current foreign estimate is $483M.
Crossed X-Men but not before being passed by Transformers. So still number 4 for the year. Dawn … won’t come anywhere close.
Put another way, it’s just now passed CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER on the all-time list of box-office blockbusters by raking in $715 million – such that it’s now within a mere $1.5 million of next passing mega-hit GRAVITY to take spot #61.
Worldwide, though, it’s now finally hit number 3 for the year.
Japan last reported its figures on the 20th and it’s just shy of $30 million. That may not seem like much at this point but it opened July 4th. As a comparison, Maleficent has made just over $30 million in the UK, and it opened there May 28. It opened in Brazil the day after, May 29, and has made just over $32 million.
It’s $12 million away from making half a billion dollars at the international boxoffice.
You don’t often see Wikipedia cites on the SDMB…
I don’t see any reason people shouldn’t use it as a cite on the SDMB. It’s good for casual conversation. And, often, if you don’t believe the data it’s easy enough to follow their cites to see where they are getting their conclusions from.
There are multiple values in that Wikipedia link with a wide range, so that’s not really a cite. Also, the link you provided says 30.4B Yen, which at 2001 exchange rates was somewhere in the $243 to $255 million range, not $300 million.
Here are some reasonable cites:
229M
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=594:Spirited_Away_(Sen_to_Chihiro_no_kamikakushi)
230M