28/03/2016 Box Office Round-Up
It’s been a mega weekend with an absolutely huge opening and several examples of good counter-scheduling. You can see our predictions for the weekend here.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Budget: $250 M
Overall Box Office: $424 M
Domestic Box Office: $170.01 M
Weekend Box Office: $170.01 M
Our Prediction: $180 M
Comments: Batman v Superman blew away expectations and critics by earning a stunning $170.01 million domestically this weekend, GL was only $10 m off with its prediction. Batman v Superman needs to earn at least a billion worldwide to be considered a success, and it’s well on his way, but the drop-off next week will be very interesting.
Zootopia
Budget: $150 M
Overall Box Office: $696.7 M
Domestic Box Office: $146.7 M
Weekend Box Office: $23.1 M
Our Prediction: $25 M
Comments: Taking advantage of an available family audience and the Easter holiday, Zootopia came just under expectations and earned $23.1 M this weekend.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Budget: $18 M
Overall Box Office: $26.1 M
Domestic Box Office: $18.1 M
Weekend Box Office: $18.1 M
Our Prediction: $18 M
Comments: We may not have been spot-on with Zootopia and BvS, but we nailed it when it comes to My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 with the comedy sequel reeling in just over $18 M.
I’m laughing into my second cup of coffee at how off my predictions were. It’s nice to see that more people opted to go see MBFGW 2 than I’d predicted. Perhaps this is why I’m not a movie executive. 😉
[…]the drop-off next week will be very interesting.
Indeed. Though I still think that it won’t be as significant as expected. After all, there might be people who decided to not go see it opening weekend.
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The best thing to come from Batman v Superman is all of the videos that are starting to popup picking apart the movie. Critics hated it & a huge amount of fanboys seem to have problems with it. I do wonder how many will go & hate watch it a 2nd time. I’m still convinced it’s going to have a massive drop off next week, but that might be more wishful thinking on my part. If the drop off is big enough it could force Warner to rethink things & hire someone else to take over for Snyder. Fingers crossed! 🙂
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The only shock for me is that MBFGW2 didn’t flop like a fish outta water.
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I demand a fucking refund for that pile of shit that is BvS. It made no sense and I still feel raped. Henry Cavill is a piece of wood, Affleck is an uglier piece of wood and Gabot is an Israeli twig that needs fucking snapped.
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Did you have trouble understanding what Gal Gadot was saying? My husband said he couldn’t understand her at all, just curious if others had that experience.
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The BO number for Zootopia is wrong… it was at $ 23 miliion, according to boxofficemojo, so ur prediciton was quite good.
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the BO number for Zootopia is wrong, it was about $23million according to boxofficemojo, so ur prediction was quite good
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Ah! You’re right. I don’t know where we got that figured from, but it’s clearly wrong! Thanks so much!
– Sam
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