If I’d known the reviews for CA:CW were going to be this good, I would have given it a little more thought. It appears the world isn’t quite tired of superhero movies yet.
It seems that Batman v Superman is horribly disappointing in the Box Office. It recently surpassed the first Iron Man, I believe. The fact that it is only now grossing a second tier Marvel hero says how lackluster the film was. It still hasn’t pulled in as much as Iron Man 3.
The Jungle Book seems to be during surprisingly well. Just out a couple of weeks it’s already at a domestic total of 252m.
The Huntsman is bombing completely. I’m not surprised at that in the least.
I voted for Alice because I want it to do well. I have no idea how it will actually do. It’s the very last film Alan Rickman worked on.
Cap 3(aka Avengers 3, aka Iron Man Whatever, aka Spider-Man reboot)-Unlike Supes/Bats, we actually know these guys and are interested in how they’ll handle whatever the situation is, the writers haven’t fucked with the characters and origins like they have with the DC movie, and there is lightness to balance to dark.
Never even heard of it before this thread, but they’ve already gone wrong with the title itself. It should be Sausagefest.
Florence Foster Jenkins. Among other things, we’ll get to see Simon Helberg’s forehead.
I voted for Civil War, based solely on the fact that it’s the only movie on that list that I’m actually going to watch.
No dark horse love for “Swiss Army Man”, in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse?
I think the movie-going public is just tired of movies featuring farting corpses.
It does seem to be a bloated market.
The opening results are in for Civil War:
Domestic: $181,791,000 26.8%
- Foreign: $496,600,000 73.2%
= Worldwide: $678,391,000
I’m not surprised it did so well. I wouldn’t be surprised, in fact, if it beats out Age of Ultron (this is a much better movie). It’ll definitely outpace Superman v Batman.
The Jungle Book is doing very well:
Domestic: $284,985,265 36.7%
- Foreign: $491,200,000 63.3%
= Worldwide: $776,185,265
Seems like a good time to provide some updates. Cite: BoxOfficeMojo (all figures domestic). Titles in Bold received at least one vote in the poll.
Captain America: Civil War - $404M
The Jungle Book - $358M
Batman v Superman: DoJ - $330M
Finding Dory - $296M
X-Men: Apocalypse - $151M
The Angry Birds Movie - $105M
TMNT: Out of the Shadows - $77M
Alice through the Looking Glass - $74M
Central Intelligence - $71M
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 - $59M
Barbershop: The Next Cut - $54M
Now You See Me 2 - $53M
The Huntsman: Winter’s War - $48M
Independence Day: Resurgence - $47M
Warcraft - $45M
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping - $9M
Clearly, the film people underestimated the most was the recent “live action” remake of a Disney animated property. The one that was most overestimated was the sequel to a Tim Burton success (not directed by Burton), which is unlikely to break $100M.
Note that Dory was only $10M shy of CA:CW’s numbers after 2 weeks, so it has a good chance of giving Marvel a run for its money as the final winner.
The fact that POPSTAR was on that list at all is arguably a pretty big overestimation. Heck, THE SHALLOWS, starring Blake Lively’s rear end, wasn’t listed, but pulled in more money partway through its first weekend than POPSTAR got in its whole run!
The one that surprised me is Warcraft. It laid an egg in the US, but did big numbers overseas (especially in China). $44M in the US vs. $368M internationally.
I personally thought it stunk (and I’m a WoW player). But apparently the Chinese love it.
As a reminder, the metric was worldwide box office…I’m not sure how much that changes the answers, though.
Which is a damned shame. My husband and I thought POPSTAR was hilarious. Central Intelligence too. (Edit to add, Keanu too) We see a lot of serious movies and blockbusters. Sometimes it’s nice to just laugh and have fun. I haven’t seen The Shallows yet. It’s on my list.
I saw The Shallows the other day. I thought it was pretty good. Besides being physically attractive I thought Lively did a hell of a good job, considering she had to carry about 98% of the film. I don;'t think it was good as the last film I saw, The Lobster, but it was a nice, tense summer film.
FWIW, Finding Dory is noa comfortable $54 million ahead of Captain America. Star Trek had a great opening, but probably not enough to catch up. So Suicide Squad is the only feasible challenger left at this point, and it’s pretty unlikely to even pass Captain America IMHO.
Like someone pointed out upthread, though, wasn’t this supposed to be about the worldwide gross? Because – as Labor Day weekend comes to a close – it looks like Captain America is still ahead of Finding Dory (and everything else) worldwide.
(And, again: The Shallows, which didn’t even get on this poll, has apparently grossed more than Popstar and Keanu and Barbershop: The Next Cut put together.)
Still, the really glaring item missing from that list looks to have been Jason Bourne, which (a) only had one week at #1 before Suicide Squad came along, but (b) is now at ~$380m and still going, which is more than the majority of the poll options.
A couple of other poll options not mentioned: Ghostbusters is at $126M domestic and $219M worldwide, while The Secret Life of Pets did a whopping $359M domestic and $762M worldwide (and not surprisingly, a sequel is planned…)