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    Default The Box Office

    I notice this forum didn't have thread this for I thought it good place to have thread where you can talk about

    -Box Office numbers and success each weekend
    -Box Office Surprises which movie can out of nowhere and did good
    -Box office Tracking
    -General Movie news


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    Sonic The Hedgehog’ Runs Faster With 4-Day Of $64M+



    -Fans save this movie in my opinion,This look like it was going to be a gigantic bust but listening to fans to reworking the cgi and some good follow up marketing I think created a market for Sonic .



    - Harley Quinn :Birds of Prey has made about 16 million domestically so far this weekend and they believe the number will end around 18 or 19 million, So it is domestic gross right now is about 48.5 million


    - Early forecast is tracking Onward at 44 million, The Invisible Man at 20 to 25 million, and Ben Affleck "The way back" at 7 million

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    That Sonic thing is shocking.

    I never for one day thought the movie would break out big like this.

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    $64 million for Sonic? Wow! Didn’t see that coming. I suspect the studio probably didn’t either. Contrary to that old sports adage about how if general managers listen to fans, they end up sitting with them, in this instance, studio executives made the right call in taking criticisms about Sonic’s look to heart, and that resulted in a smash hit.
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    Sonic has A cinemascore with Audiences and 95% verified Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes which means people generally like the movie. For me nothing about that trailer scream it was must see but my guess on the Sonic is that an audience got invested in Sonic after the changed the cgi stuff.

    I don't think the next two weekends have particular strong movies, Sonic could do really good at the box office. I thought it would be Harley Quinn BoP capitalizing on the weak competition but looks like Sonic will be one doing it.

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    Good thread.

    I'm with everyone else, Sonic is a huge surprise. I'm happy its doing well as I think it's a good example for future films to follow. I appreciate the director, he wasn't so full of himself that he listened to fans and changed the design. That's rare and I'm ecstatic that he's being rewarded for it. Also happy to see Jim Carey be Jim Carey which is what I've seen from alot of the good reviews.

    I think it'll do good until Onward comes out. Although I haven't seen anything from the trailers that make me interested in that film, can't ever count out Pixar to make a good quality animation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Username taken View Post
    That Sonic thing is shocking.

    I never for one day thought the movie would break out big like this.
    It deserves to be a hit for listening to the fans.

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    Looks like Sonic is doing even better. It will get like 67M over 4 days.

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    How can they say what the domestic gross will be by the end of Monday, when it's only Sunday morning? Not that I doubt the prediction--it just seems odd, since usually we have to wait until Sunday morning just to get the three day estimate.

    I am surprised that SONIC did so well. It makes sense that families have been waiting for a good family movie to see over a long weekend--but with the all troubles and delays for SONIC, that suggested the movie wouldn't be so good.

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    Why would that be a surprise?

    Sonic is not just a video game franchise, it had quite a few animated series, it totally could roll out as a fun family movie, and the redesign has been great.

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    Default When it comes to Box office...

    If a movie like F9 is released stateside and it makes say $80 million domestic but $900 million worldwide, why is that not considered a success? They've made their budget back plus more. But yet if BO returns were like that, the studio wouldn't greenlight a sequel.

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    BO? First F9 has made $400,000 worldwide not a billion. But thr F&F movies are made for the international market. A lot depends on budget and expectations. What billion dollar movie didn't get a sequel greenlit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    BO? First F9 has made $400,000 worldwide not a billion. But thr F&F movies are made for the international market. A lot depends on budget and expectations. What billion dollar movie didn't get a sequel greenlit?
    Oh what I was talking about was if a movie is only a moderate success or not a hit domestically but is a hit worldwide if that means it's a success or not and if a sequel will be generated. I feel like it is a success. But yeah seems like they only care about domestic returns.

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    It's very simple, most of the North American box office for North American studios box office goes to the studios. International box office does NOT.

    That's why a movie like Warcraft isn't getting a sequel despite hitting $400m or so worldwide.

    That being said, when movies hit the 1 billion or so mark, the absolutely massive revenue still means the studios will clean out and make the movie profitable (depending on the budget).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Username taken View Post
    It's very simple, most of the North American for North American studios box office goes to the studios. International box office does NOT.

    That's why a movie like Warcraft isn't getting a sequel despite hitting $400m or so worldwide.

    That being said, when movies hit the 1 billion or so mark, the absolutely massive revenue still means the studios will clean out and make the movie profitable (depending on the budget).
    meaning that if it hits a billion worldwide they still make money? If international box office doesn't go to the studios, how do they still profit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    BO? First F9 has made $400,000 worldwide not a billion. But thr F&F movies are made for the international market. A lot depends on budget and expectations. What billion dollar movie didn't get a sequel greenlit?
    The F and F movies are made for the mainstream market not necessarily just for international market , the same applies for the rest of the..... many comic films , we now get in drones.

    They are what are supposed to be pop corn stereotypical action summer blockbusters.

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