Lawlight said:
Runa216 said:
I'm not defending it, since this movie does not need me to twist facts and alter truths just to get some sort of satisfaction out of its failings.
The movie is at 737 million dollars, like 22 million short of Winter Soldier despite only being out 5 days in the US and 12 days worldwide. IT's gonna crack a billion, Audience and critic reception have both been outstanding, and it is likely to be the #1 movie this year (though I'd love to see Rogue One match or best it).
This movie is a success from virtually every angle and in every situation, and yet you feel the need to report every failure, every disappointment that really should be negligible. This isn't some heroic feat of bringing the truth to the masses, it's clinging onto failure because you, for some reason, can't handle the fact that a great movie is making great box office dollars.
737 million and still making 30 million a day. By the time yesterday's numbers come out I bet it'll be ahead of The Winter Soldier, which also did quite well. I still see this doing 1.3 billion or so worldwide.
Oh, and if you want to compare its monday and Tuesday numbers to previous comparable films, then yes, its monday was lower than Deadpool and Batman v Superman, but one of those movies both had a holiday to help them out (Deadpool), and the other got lucky. The real numbers are in Tuesday, where Captain America increased by 3%, but Batman v Superman decreased by 19% . Deadpool decreased by 41%, but again, holiday monday.
Captain America bested its closest direct competition (Age of Ultron) by small but admirable amounts on Monday and Tuesday, a movie that was released the same weekend one year ago. Of course, anything could happen from here, but Captain America is doing great so far, and I don't expect his steam-rolling of the Box Office to slow considerably.
Also, despite Deadpool having a lower opening weekend by 34 million dollars, its domestic haul is well ahead of batman v Superman.
Zootopia - the furry movie with no hype going in - had an opening weekend less than half as good as Batman v Superman, yet beat it both domestically and worldwide (is ahead in both markets and still making more per weekend). Batman v Superman was BAD, and it fell HARD and FAST. People didn't like it, reviewers didn't like it. It still made a lot of money, but it should have made Avengers money or near to it.
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What fact did I twist? The fact that the movie made less in its 2nd week than Jungle Book's 3rd in the UK?
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Well, that only tells us that Jungle Book is doing mighty impressive in UK and that UK finally got some nice weather to fuck the cinemas. Already number 1 movie this year there and will probably make twice as much as Zootopia, a movie which is close to 1 billion WW. It will make more in UK as Iron Man 3, Furious 7 and other huge movies did.
Pretty much every movie (Jungle Book as well) had a huge drop last week (and probably this at least for some days) in UK and other European countries because of the weather conditions. Good weather hurts the cinemas in countries which don't have too much of it. People don't waste the few good days they get for sitting in a cinema, they enjoy to be outside instead.
Just check how the weather was this year most of the time and then how it was the last ten days or so and how ticket sales went down in the same time in some European countries.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/london/ec4a-2/may-weather/328328#
That is a pretty good example. Last weekend was the first weekend of pretty much the whole year with decent temperatures. No surprise that many chose to do something else instead of watching a movie. The first great weekend after more than half a year of not so great weather lol.
Stuff like snow storms is also bad for cinemas^^
Not that I want to defend the numbers, I think it will do worse as some probably expected close before release (even if it does very good for a Captain movie) but I strongly believe that the great weather fucked the movies the last ten days in some European countries. Just read in box office forums from these European countries and people there pretty much say the same.
http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/281-uk-box-office-thread-muted-grosses-due-to-weather-cw-67-%C2%A3274m-398m-total-tjb-63-%C2%A3368m-53m-neigbours-2-%C2%A317m-24m-opening/?page=644
So yeah, overall it's easy to see that you use numbers of single markets which are obviously not so good for different reasons just to have your "I found bad numbers" moments even if that won't really change that Civil War will do pretty decent WW as long as you don't compare it with The Avengers.
You really have to start to look at the factors which affect numbers in different markets before you start to talk about them. Doesn't seem as if you do it.
