Amph The 2015 Box Office Bloodbath (And the winner is...)

it's more feasible to swap spouses for a weekend.

 

I wonder how the Poltergeist remake is going to do? It's coming out the same weekend as Tomorrowland.

 

I have to root for the original sci fi/fantasy adventure over the remake. I can tell you for sure that the Poltergeist trailer is awful. Not a single ounce of scary or interesting in it - looks every bit as terrible as I want it to be. The director has never made a financially successful movie, though Monster House was a modest critical success though completely unremarkable in my opinion.

 

The most famous scene doesn't even make sense anymore. TV's are digital; there's no static except on models that simulate it for humans who are easily frightened of change. And networks don't sign off anymore. Is the poltergeist going to appear in the TV during a slap chop infomercial?

 

It will be in the HBO logo.

 

Mad Max has a guaranteed audience in the U.S./UK/Australia, but maybe not so much anywhere else. But you could be right about it riding the coattails of Furious 7 in China.

 

Fury Road is a nostalgic ode to The Road Warrior that actually is every bit as much fun as The Road Warrior, but with by far the best music I've heard at the movies in more than a year.

But there were pretty clearly more people out for the Thursday night late showing of Pitch Perfect 2. If I had to guess, then I'd say Mad Max is going to come in second this weekend.

 

That's longer than the 17 days Furious 7 took to reach $1 billion worldwide. AOU has been playing for 23 days worldwide, although only 15 days in the U.S.

 

Looks like Pitch Perfect 2 is going to have a ~$65 million weekend, and Fury Road is going to have a ~$40 million weekend. Max may have a hard time breaking even on its theatrical run.

Audiences don't seem very excited about Mad Max. B+ Cinemascore.

 

People should be seeing Mad Max, not a chick flick

 

People see what they want to see. Fury Road is very clearly not everyone's cup of tea.

 

And I don't know why.

 

i see these women out there promoting Pitch Perfect, they're all around 30 or above, and the movie is about college kids?

 

Take it to the misogyny thread.

 

Really?

 

You know, I take that back, cause I'm basically going to be dragged to the theatre to see it on Tuesday

 

I'm going to PP2 with the whole family tomorrow.

 

$44.4 million for Fury Road vs. $70 million for PP2, looks like we're looking at now.

 

I would most certainly be game for another Mad Max film.

 

Pitch Perfect 2 makes more money opening weekend than the original's entire domestic run. I hate to say it but Mad Max will probably have a pretty steep drop next weekend. Only B+ cinemascore.

Pitch Perfect 2 should have a great second weekend - still will be great counterprogramming against Poltergeist and Tomorrowland.

 

$65 million for Fury Road internationally, for a total of $109.4 million, which is actually a nose ahead of Pitch Perfect's $108.4.