2015 Summer Box Office thread

[Jay 37,378]

I used this list

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2015&p=.htm

Maybe it isn't updated for this weekend yet

[Romão 2,274]

I think BOM is about to go down. They never took this long update before

[Jay 37,378]

Hmmm, it is Memorial Day Weekend here in the US - maybe they won't update until tomorrow

[Jay 37,378]

OK, here's the REAL World-Wide Summer so far after last weekend; I'll be sure to wait for Box Office Mojo to update first next time

1 Furious 7 Uni. $1,500.1

2 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $1,281.3

3 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $233.1

4 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $192.4

5 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Sony $99.9

6 Shaun the Sheep Movie LGF $59.7

7 The Longest Ride Fox $51.8

8 Unfriended Uni. $43.1

9 The Age of Adaline LGF $40.7

10 Hot Pursuit WB $32.1

Opening this weekend, we have ALOHA and SAN ANDREAS

I guess San Andreas will be #1, right? Tomorrowland will drop way down. Avengers 2 might leave the top 5 first time since its run started

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Will Furious 74 beat Avengers 1?

[Jay 37,378]

Wow, I'm wicked late!

I guess San Andreas will be #1, right? Tomorrowland will drop way down. Avengers 2 might leave the top 5 first time since its run started

Mostly right!

Domestic weekend

1 N San Andreas WB $54,588,173

2 2 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $14,823,140

3 1 Tomorrowland BV $14,303,679

4 3 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $14,178,236

5 5 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $11,401,402

6 N Aloha Sony $9,670,235

7 4 Poltergeist (2015) Fox $8,059,126

8 7 Far from the Madding Crowd FoxS $1,459,138

9 6 Hot Pursuit WB $1,402,067

10 10 Home (2015) Fox $1,251,611

Domestic Summer So Far

1 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $431,813,896

2 Furious 7 Uni. $349,597,795

3 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $153,281,595

4 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $122,834,265

5 San Andreas WB $72,626,201

6 Tomorrowland BV $69,213,978

7 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Sony $68,046,326

8 The Age of Adaline LGF $41,730,093

9 Poltergeist (2015) Fox $41,601,928

10 The Longest Ride Fox $37,160,019

(New to the top 10: San Andreas)

(Now gone from the Top 10: Hot Pursuit)

World-wide summer so far

1 Furious 7 Uni. $1,506.6
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $1,326.0
3 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $287.8
4 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $234.0
5 Tomorrowland BV $139.2
6 San Andreas WB $132.6
7 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Sony $101.1
8 Shaun the Sheep Movie LGF $59.7
9 The Longest Ride Fox $52.1
10 The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared MBox $50.7

(New to the top 10: San Andreas & Tomorrowland & The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)

(Now gone from the Top 10: Unfriended & Age of Adaline & Hot Pursuit)

Shame a great r-rated action flick like Mad Max can't make more money....

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I'm just glad it broke $100 million. Pretty good considering it's a 30 year franchise today's generation knows nothing about.

Also nice to see that Tomorrowland wasn't a total failure.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

If Mad Max doesn't get a sequel, I'm gonna be pissed!

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Mad Max doesn't make more money because many people think it looks ridiculous or stupid. I have heard that comment a lot.

[Jay 37,378]

Domestic weekend

1 N Spy Fox $29,085,719

2 1 San Andreas WB $25,839,225

3 N Insidious Chapter 3 Focus $22,692,741

4 N Entourage WB $10,283,250

5 4 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $7,831,453

6 2 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $7,573,350

7 3 Tomorrowland BV $7,200,103

8 5 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $6,339,663

9 6 Aloha Sony $3,240,312

10 7 Poltergeist (2015) Fox $2,705,009

Domestic Summer So Far

1 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $438,901,113

2 Furious 7 Uni. $350,081,220

3 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $161,789,170

4 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $131,654,764

5 San Andreas WB $101,119,862

6 Tomorrowland BV $77,314,310

7 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Sony $68,432,065

8 Poltergeist (2015) Fox $44,619,721

9 The Age of Adaline LGF $41,939,474

10 The Longest Ride Fox $37,249,891

(New to the Top 10: none )
(Now gone from the Top 10: none)

World-wide Summer So Far

1 Furious 7 Uni. $1,510.1

2 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $1,349.1

3 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $315.8

4 San Andreas WB $289.6

5 Pitch Perfect 2 Uni. $250.8

6 Tomorrowland BV $170.8

7 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Sony $101.5

8 Spy Fox $88.6

9 Shaun the Sheep Movie LGF $59.7

10 Poltergeist (2015) Fox $52.9

(New to the Top 10: Spy & Poltergeist)
(Now gone from the Top 10: The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared & The Longest Ride)

[Hurmm 91]

(Now gone from the Top 10: The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared & The Longest Ride)

What.

[Jay 37,378]

What?

[Jay 37,378]

Jurassic World Smashes June Opening Day Record with $83 Million

It was looking pretty good on Friday that Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World would be beating the previous June opening weekend record set by Man of Steel when it reported $18.5 million just from Thursday previews, but business was so insane on Friday that it’s now being reported that the Chris Pratt-starring blockbuster has grossed an estimated $82.8 million in 4,273 theaters.

That’s just over $19,000 per theater and it would make it the third-highest opening and single day ever after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2‘s $91.1 million and Avengers: Age of Ultron‘ $84.4 million, putting it ahead of Marvel’s The Avengers $80 million back in 2012. The latter currently holds the opening weekend record with $207.4 million.

That puts it well ahead of the previous June opening and single day record held by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with $68.5 million from June 30, 2010 and also ahead of the $75.7 million opening day for The Dark Knight Rises, which ended up with $160.9 million in its opening weekend in 2012.

Based on the Thursday numbers, we originally were thinking Jurassic World would end up with $130 million, but considering how much bigger the movie was on Friday, it’s now looking closer to $180 million or even more! Could it make a play for the $200 million plus opening of Avengers? It’s become one of those insane box office phenoms that only come about once every couple of years and apparently everybody is going out to see Universal Pictures’ revived franchise. With it already scoring an “A” CinemaScore, the sky is the limit for Jurassic World right now.

Check back on Sunday for the full box office report to see how it fared.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

The theater i saw it in was packed. And when i left people were already lining up for the next showing.

Also, there was actually a bit of an applause when the credits started to roll, which is something ive never heard in any showing of a new film here, ever.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

I applauded at the end of Fury Road. I was the only one, but I didn't care!

[crocodile 8,020]

I've seen it once. It was after Tarantino's Death Proof.

Karol

[BloodBoal 7,538]

The Return Of The King was the only time I actually saw that happening.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Such displays of emotion are rare in my country.

They were probably teenagers. The unruly youth!

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Such displays of emotion are rare in my country.

Same here. But The Return Of The King completely deserved that!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Happens all the time here.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[crocodile 8,020]

I'm pretty sure every screening of The Room ends like this.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Happens all the time here.

Because you live in a weird country.

[Jay 37,378]

Koray is right it happens all the time here. My screening of JW Thursday night had applause at the end. So weird.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Why weird, if it happens all the time there?

[Jay 37,378]

The fact that people applaud at a movie screening where no one who actually made the film is present is weird!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I don't find it weird. People cheer when they watch football at home. What's the difference?

[Jay 37,378]

Rooting for the your team is different than applauding for a movie!

[crocodile 8,020]

I'm rooting for characters to get safely to end credits.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Indeed. Ive seen applauding in a cinema here for special event showings, like Star Trek marathons etc where everyone there is a devoted fan, but a normal run of the mill Saturday at the movies?

[nightscape94 965]

Applause is just a natural extension of excitement. If you were thoroughly entertained by a movie, sometimes applauding is involuntary.

I've never applauded though.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Australians get a bit embarrassed by applauding or cheering in cinemas, which is why it doesn't happen here often. But it sort of happened at the end of Jurassic World. People started and hesitated, then became more enthusiastic.

[mrbellamy 6,298]

I don't mind enthusiastic applause. I totally get it with blockbusters/crowd-pleasers...I know what Koray's saying, I think a lot of people (at least in the US) treat movies like Jurassic World like a sporting event. It's not really for showing appreciation of the movie as much as just the fun of it. Makes it a more social experience. It's a movie, you're already pretending that dinosaurs still exist so why not take the extra step and pretend it's happening in front of you. I'd feel awkward doing it myself but then I don't really get super into it with sports either. But I've clapped at midnight shows and stuff where the energy of the crowd is ramped way up.

The thing that I don't really understand is when there's polite applause at the end, like for a serious drama or something. I got that recently with The Imitation Game...credits rolled and there was a few seconds of this really limp, mild applause. That's weirder to me, that's more like people are just doing it without even thinking about it.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

It's definitely a social thing, as I'm sure no one claps at a movie when they're alone at home. We all have those moments in film where we're in awe, and clapping is a way of expressing it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

What if you are in a cinema at, lets say a tuesday afternoon when most people are at work watching a movie that with 6 or 7 others in the room?

Do you still applaud?

[Not Mr. Big 4,643]

People who applaud at the end of and during movies are the scum of the earth! They ruin many, many otherwise great moments. Thankfully, it only happens at movies geared towards a younger audience.

[Quintus 5,399]

Americans applaud and whoop during anything they can though don't they? Even orchestral performances aren't sacred over there.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Not during!

After sure, but not during.

[Quintus 5,399]

It's hard to find a live JW performance video on YouTube which isn't drowned out by whoops and applause.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Thats not the experience I had in Boston, twice.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

People there are accustomed to the concert hall. Try the Hollywood Bowl.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Another reason never to go there!

I hope the audience will behave at Tanglewood, Jason?

[crocodile 8,020]

I don't mind people reacting to what they're hearing. It's a good thing. There are limits, of course.

Even when obnoxious it's still not quite as annoying as when people are walking out during end credits of live music to projection performances. Happens all the time, every single time, even. That is really disrespectiful.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I've attended two of those and the audience has always remained till the end.

[crocodile 8,020]

I attended about 12 of those in four different countries and it happened every single time.

Karol

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[crocodile 8,020]

You know what makes it worse? "Darth Vader and Stormtroopers walking onto a stage" cliche. It's just completely undoes the power of music.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

JOHN WILLIAMS FUCK YEAH!

[Jay 37,378]

Jurassic World will earn $200+ million domestic this weekend, beating Avengers 2's opening

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/box-office-jurassic-world-rumbles-record-setting-204-142336076.html

It's the biggest opening weekend Universal Pictures has ever had

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4068&p=.htm

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I think I enjoyed JW more then AOU, overall.