SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 7/15/11

[numbersix]

I just dropped Tabloid from a few, and kept it in others. Life Above All may have nabbed some points in a slow weekend, but I'm avoiding it. Decided to wait and see what would be a good replacement for Tabloid later in the round.

[silversurfer19]

Yeah, I dropped Tabloid from every slate. There are easily movies with it's equivalent potential coming up in the coming couple of months so I'll just wait and see.

[Chienfantome]

I don't think any of this weekend's limited release is interesting. They are too dangerous, and don't look like ones with possible legs...

[thswrestler160]

HOLY SHIT raise your virtual hand if you underestimated HP8
early estimates
40million midnights
80million opening day
180million opening weekend

also its opened to 43.6 mil in 26 countries wed. running 82% ahead of PT1 which made 660 international

[Chienfantome]

But the thing will be frontloaded to the max, and the word of mouth I'm hearing for now isn't really good... Still, it's a hell of a start.

[W]

I pretty much need it to be "frontloaded to the max" to share a HY BO victory, so that's fine with me. And $180 M blows TDK out of the water. Surely it's the bigger 3D ticket prices because I don't see as much buzz as TDK had.

[Buscemi]

The final tally here: 15 sold out shows at midnight and great reaction from the audience.

And the Rotten Tomatoes rating stands at 97%.

[Shrykespeare]

Final theater counts:

Harry Potter - 4,375
Winnie the Pooh - 2,405
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 24
Tabloid - 14
Salvation Boulevard - 4
Life, Above All - 3


Estimates for next week:

Captain America - 3,500
Friends With Benefits - 2,700
Sarah's Key - 5
Another Earth - 4
The Myth of an American Sleepover - 1

[thswrestler160]

HP has now officially shattered the midnight record with 43.5 million. idk about other theaters but our midnight was easily our busiest ever. Eclipse our previous best sold out 6 shows. HP sold out 11 and we had people buying tickets for the 3am shows most of which saw the midnight and wanted to see it again. It's also sitting pretty at 8.7 on imdb

[thswrestler160]

damn the biggest movie opening ever and no ones posting here.

movie fri/weekend total imdb
1. HP 92.1/180 180 8.7
2. TF3 6.3/20 302 6.7
3. HB 5.4/15 57.4 7.7
4. Zoo 3.8/11 41 3.5
5. Pooh 2.9/7.8 7.8 7.2
6. Cars2 2.4/7.6 165.5 6.6
tabloid 7.2
salvation 6.9
snow flower no rating
life above all 6.4

[Shrykespeare]

Jeez, wrestler, give a guy a chance!

I was busy!

But thanks for posting!

[undeadmonkey]

that's pretty great. i'm glad i opted for HP in the may leagues instead of transformers. $180M for $25 in the game is a steal

[Buscemi]

Winnie the Pooh probably would have fared better had they saved it for the fall. The Rotten Tomatoes rating is at 90% and the audience reaction at my showing was quite good.

[Shrykespeare]

Sunday Estimates


Top 5:
5 points - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2, $168.5M
4 points - Transformers: Dark of the Moon, $21.2M (is now over $300M total)
3 points - Horrible Bosses, $17.6M
2 points - Zookeeper, $12.3M
1 point - Cars 2, $8.3M
Winnie the Pooh, $8M
Bad Teacher, $5.2M
Larry Crowne, $2.6M
Super 8, $1.9M
Monte Carlo, $1.3M (#13)

PTA:
5 points - Harry Potter
4 points - Tabloid
3 points - Beats, Rhymes & Life
2 points - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
1 point - Horrible Bosses

Life Above All only managed a 2,860 PTA. No word yet on Salvation Boulevard.

[numbersix]

Early word on Friday was that Salvation Blvd was doing way worse than Life Above All, so don't expect much from it