Tracking estimates that Mission Impossible: Fallout is going to open north of $135m worldwide. If so, that would make the films opening the most successful of the franchise to date.
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Tracking estimates that Mission Impossible: Fallout is going to open north of $135m worldwide. If so, that would make the films opening the most successful of the franchise to date. -
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Following Mission Impossible Fallouts tally of $162m which takes it past halfway of outgrossing MI3...
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies opened to $12m which is said to be decent given the $10m budget and the high level of merchandise sales the film has already helped generate.
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! is up to $170m but suffered a harder drop than expected causing fears it won't have the lifespan of the first film
Meanwhile The Equalizer 2 also struggled to hold ground and is now on $71m
Hotel Transylvania 3 is on $286m, steadily making ground on the original
Meanwhile in Disney's sphere Ant Man and the Wasp continued on pace with the original, now hitting $397m
And The Incredibles 2 has just today narrowly pipped past the $1bn club mark. It's now Pixar's highest domestic grossing film ever and their third highest grossing with a strong chance of topping Toy Story 3 and becoming number one.
This weekend will see the launch of Christopher Robin and a wider rollout for Ant Man and the WaspComment
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Mission Impossible: Fallout saw off newcomers to remain number one. The film is now up to $329m worldwide
Christopher Robin disappointed with a soft opening of $29m, this may follow Saving Mr Banks route
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again opened in seven new countries but only rose to $230m showing audience attendance is much softer second time out
Another YT adaptation bomb from a mile away The Darkest Minds flopped into cinemas with just $9m
Meanwhile, Black Panther finally broke the $700m domestic mark
This week will see the releases of Slender Man and The MegComment
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Figures are still finalising for the weekends biggest new release The Meg, but as they stand the film has massively outperformed projections. The film needs to earn a high amount to be profitable so low tracking had set the stage for a late summer bomb but audiences globally seem to have taken well to the Megaladon movie and it opened to an international haul of $141m
Slender Man also outperformed expectations. The film opened to a low key $11m domestically but as the film only cost $10m to make it sets it on the road to profitability quite quickly.
Similarly doing alright for itself was BlaKkKlansman, opening to $11m against a $15m budgetComment
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Early estimates are looking like Warner Bros and Sony both have big hits on their upcoming slate with strong tracking figures coming in for both The Nun and VenomComment
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Crazy Rich Asians opened at the US in first place with a haul of $34m. The film is the first Asian led movie released there at cinemas in 25 years and at a budget of $30m is off to a solid start.
One week on and the success of The Meg has been heavily impressive. In its second weekends close the global tally for the film stands at $314m. The movie had been viewed as a likely bomb that required an unreachable $350+ to turn a profit but even if true it's looking well placed to do so and to receive a more economically costed sequel.
Hoped franchise started Mile 22 seemed to fail to do just that opening to just $14m
Mission Impossible: Fallout is now at the $501m marker which places it close on the heels of Mission Impossible II. In a week and a half the film reaches China which is when we should see it boosted closer to the fourth and fifth entries.
Hotel Transylvania 3 is slowing down but has now reached $426m
This weeks release will be The Happy Time MurdersComment
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In the US, Crazy Rich Asians remained number one and now sits on $83m worldwide fuelled almost entirely by its domestic takings which seems likely to remain the case.
The real big fish of late has been The Meg, the shark movie actually managed to rise up to $411m total this weekend. The film will release in a little over a week in Japan and then it should start winding down but we've swum long past the initial flop concerns, taken a bite out of breaking even territory and are actually chomping down on sequel territory now.
The Happy Time Murders opened in the US to the tune of $9m. Poor reviews dogged the case here for the film which is looking like a flop.
Mission Impossible: Fallout now sits on $538m worldwide. It should overtake MI2 this week to become the third biggest entry
Ant Man and the Wasp opened in China at last and saw its fortunes rise to $544m worldwide. The hero may be Marvels weakest box office link but it's managed to now out gross the original so a third entry seems safe.Comment
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Did the late opening affect Ant Man over here? I never got around to seeing it and it was partly because the hype was long gone by the time it came out here. It felt like a film that had come and gone before it had even opened.Comment
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It seemed to do consistently with the original. Marvel sequels tend to get boosted over the originals and I imagine several factors worked against Ant Man and the Wasp:
1-The trailers sold it as mostly more of the same
2-Ant Man wasn't in Infinity War so didn't get any carry over
3-The movies stakes are generally low so they carry an easier sense of people being able to skip it, watch it at home later and not worry about missing anything essential
4-It was clearly a prequel to Infinity War which makes it also feel a little predictable in terms of where it's headed
Apparently Ant Man features prominently in Avengers 4 so there's a chance they could get a boost there if a third film doesn't wait too long to arriveComment
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Fandango has polled for users most anticipated movies for the remainder of the year and the results are:
01 - Fantastic Beasts II: The Crimes of Grindlewald
02 - Bohemian Rhapsody
03 - Venom
04 - Wreck it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet
05 - A Star is Born
Not a big surprise for Beasts given the in built fan base but it does feel atm that hype is silent on the filmComment
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To sum up: nothing decent coming out for the rest of the year.Comment
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Crazy Rich Asians domestic success saw the film top a global haul of $130m this weekend.
Meanwhile The Meg took another big bite out of the box office to splash in at $465m worldwide, the half a billion mark now looking like a lock in.
Also holding very strongly was Mission Impossible: Fallout. The sixth film is now in its sixth week and has just hit $647m worldwide, this weeks takings putting it in as the third most successful entry - now $35m behind Rogue Nation and $47m behind Ghost Protocol, The massive boost is down to the films China release last week which pulled in 84% more takings than the previous entry. Even if the second weekend Chinese drop off is steeper than 60% it should put it within touching distance of a franchise best performance within days.
Though business is dying off now for The Incredibles 2, Disney took advantage of the pre-return to school weekend by expanding the showings of the film and it paid off with a last push boost to earnings. The sequel now stands at $1.162bn
This coming weekend will mostly revolve around the fifth entry into the Conjuring Cinematic Universe, The NunComment
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The Nun set a Conjuring Universe record opening by taking $131m against its $22m budget. It's opening run was enough to put it past half way to surpassing the lifetime earnings of the current lowest grossing entry, the original Annabelle spin-off.
Crazy Rich Asians began slowing down though a couple of openings are still pending for the film which now sits on $164m worldwide
Finally drawing to a close is The Meg which is now up to $491m and should end its run just tipping past the half billion checkpoint in around a weeks time.
Whilst domestic takings for Mission Impossible: Fallout are now beginning to end, international takings are still monstrous. The sixth entry leapt up by around another $80m this week to hit $726m worldwide which is not only the highest grossing entry now for the series, but also the highest grossing movie of Tom Cruise's career.
This week will see The Predator stalk the box officeComment
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Fanboys might be talking about it bombing but the early tracking for Venom is estimating it may break October opening records in the USComment
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The Predator opened at number 1 in the US and broke a record, the record for lowest opening for a film opening at over 4,000 theatres. The film is relatively economically budgeted in terms of tentpole films so it remains to be seen how it ends up stacking as overall worldwide opening takings were $54m against an $88m budget. The previous taker was The Mummy which went on to earn around $400m which wouldn't be too bad for this film though it's not expected to hit that. A better comparison is the third Predator movie Predators which ultimately grossed $124m worldwide, though this fourth movie was always an odd project to go big on.
Meanwhile The Nun faced a steep drop off in business but is still a glowing hit compared to Predator. This second week saw takings reach $228m worldwide which places it just $29m behind overtaking the first Annabelle spin-off and $90m from being the highest grossing entry of the five strong franchise. With five more openings this week it should pace nicely into the franchise norms within days.
Mission Impossible: Fallout has reached a global haul of $760m putting $800m in its sights and making it very widely the biggest hit in the franchise.
Now coming to a stop, The Meg has hit the unimaginable target of $505m marking it as one of the biggest success stories of the summer
Meanwhile, Hotel Transylvania 3 also comes to the end of its run on a very similar figure of $503m, that total making this the biggest success of the franchise so far also.
This weekend will see The House with a Clock in its Walls releaseComment
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