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| Dlmusic
Sun 6/7/2009 8:30p | No doubt Transformers will be huge. It's opening weekend will be so monstrous that even if the movie is terrible and the word of mouth is bad it could already have grossed $150+ million in just a few days. Considering it will have been over a month since Star Trek (the last big action flick) there will be pent up demand as well.
Look at Spider-man 3. Got pretty terrible reviews and word of mouth but still well over $300 million. Of course, it made about $150 million in it's opening weekend.
Regardless, I still think Up can still make plenty of money even with it. Remember that small live action film that premiered the same year of Finding Nemo. The one named Pirates of the Caribbean? |
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| Dlmusic
Tue 6/9/2009 8:20p | Monday number came in and it's HUGE for Up. $4.7 million! The highest second Monday for a Pixar film ever. It also only dropped 25% from its previous week. By comparison Finding Nemo (which had the best dropoff previously) fell 35%.
It also made $200,000 more than Finding Nemo did. Currently it's just under $7 million behind and if it keeps up it's pace it will less than $6 million behind going into a weekend with weak releases.
Another thing that will help Up this weekend is that Disney will count the sneaks of The Proposal into Up's gross. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Tue 6/9/2009 9:28p | It's one of the only family movies out there right now. 'The Hangover' isn't really in competition with 'UP' since it appeals to an entirely different *cough*moronic*cough* demographic. |
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| DlandDug
Mon 6/15/2009 10:34a | Up just may break that magical $300 million dollar mark. But don't take it from me-- take it from the foaming fan boy over at the LA Times Business section:
>>Disney's "Up" dropped 31% on its third weekend and is declining at a slower pace than any Pixar animated feature since 2003's "Finding Nemo." If "Up" continues to perform as well as that picture, it could top $300 million in the U.S. and Canada by the end of its run.<<
http://www.latimes.com/busines...12.story
Granted, it's another "if." Just as the much scorned prediction of $300 million for WALL-E was predicated on an "if." |
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| Dlmusic
Mon 6/15/2009 7:07p | It's become less of an if and more of a more likely than not that Up will easily sail by $250 million at this point. Even if Up makes half as much as Nemo did after it's third week it will still make $260+ million.
There are no signs at all that Up won't continue to be strong. Look at last weekend, Up only fell 26% from last Saturday. That's an amazing hold, much better than Nemo's 42%.
This is the week that Nemo had an amazing hold so it will be interesting to see what Up does. I honestly am expecting some pretty big numbers. Up just made the top 10 biggest 3rd weekends of all time, and it could make the top 10 biggest 4th weekends of all time too.
If you think Up's numbers are good though, just wait until Toy Story 3. I'd really like to see Pixar reclaim top spot of CGI films although Shrek 2 was a monster ($441 million). |
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| DlandDug
Wed 6/17/2009 1:39a | And from another fan boy-- this time at Variety:
>>After less than a month at the multiplexes, Disney-Pixar's 3-D toon "Up" has enough lift to likely become the second-highest-grossing Pixar title at the domestic B.O. after "Finding Nemo."
Through Sunday, "Up's" domestic total was $187.4 million -- the second best of any summer film to date.<<
http://www.variety.com/article...237&cs=1
Funny how nobody seems to want to talk about UP's boxoffice-- just chew over the improbablilities in the plot... |
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| mawnck
Wed 6/17/2009 6:47a | >>Funny how nobody seems to want to talk about UP's boxoffice-- just chew over the improbablilities in the plot...<<
I didn't know anyone was questioning UP's box office performance.
Monsters vs. Aliens did well too. It sucked. |
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| Dlmusic
Wed 6/17/2009 8:55p | <<Monsters vs. Aliens did well too. It sucked.>>
Monsters vs. Aliens certainly didn't bomb, but it ended up with $195 million or so (still in theaters but making very little at this point). Up could make it close to $300 million if not over. That's a pretty big difference. At any rate Up has already made $195 million and since it made $3 million on Tuesday (only a -19% drop from the previous week) it's safe to say it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Overseas Up will probably get higher box office returns that Monsters Vs Aliens too, considering sci-fi doesn't play well everywhere across the world. |
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| DlandDug
Wed 6/17/2009 10:24p | >>I didn't know anyone was questioning UP's box office performance.<<
The Usual Suspect has gone AWOL since post #9 back on June 6. That's all the comment meant-- nothing more.
This thread is devoted to box office performance, so whether the film is good or not isn't really part of the equation. There are two other threads where that is being discussed. |
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| DlandDug
Wed 6/17/2009 10:42p | >>Monsters vs. Aliens did well too. It sucked.<<
Since you brought it up...
Monsters vs. Aliens made $59 million on its first weekend. Second weekend dropped 45% for a total of $104 million. Third weekend dropped 48% for a total of $140 million. After twelve weeks, its domestic total is $195 million, on a production budget of $175 million.
UP made $68 million in its first weekend. Second weekend dropped 34% for a total of $137 million. Third weekend dropped 32% for a total of $187 million. This weekend (its fourth) it will likely top $210 million. All on the same $175 million production budget.
So UP will have made the entire domestic total of Monsters vs. Aliens's 12 week run in less than four weeks. |
