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BO 0909-1116 - Hanks & Eastwood still got it as Bough bows second

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xaosslug

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83% Sully
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‘Sully’ Flies High to $35.5 Million US Opening

Tom Hanks’ “Sully” has taken off with a stellar $35.5 million at 3,525 North American locations, marking a solid start to the fall box office season.

Directed by Clint Eastwood, “Sully” handily outperformed recent expectations, which had been in the $25 million range. The action-adventure, which recreates 2009’s “Miracle on the Hudson” emergency landing, generated an A CinemaScore in a strong signal that “Sully” should continue to draw well in coming weeks.

Sony-Screen Gems drama “When the Bough Breaks” opened respectably in second with $15 million at 2,246 sites. Lionsgate’s launch of European animated comedy “The Wild Life” generated only modest interest with less than $3.4 million at 2,493 locations and Relativity’s horror film “The Disappointments Room” was nearly invisible with $1.4 million at 1,554 screens for a dismal $901 per-screen average.

“Sully” stars Hanks as Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the career pilot who successfully landed a damaged U.S. Airways jet in the Hudson River after it hit a flock of geese following takeoff from LaGuardia Airport. Eastwood directed from a script by Todd Komarnicki, based on the autobiography “Highest Duty” by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow.

“Sully” generated the top gross for a post-Labor Day weekend and the fifth-best September opening ever after “Hotel Transylvania 2,” “Hotel Transylvania,” “Insidious: Chapter 2” and “Sweet Home Alabama.” The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 2 and has received largely laudatory reviews with a current 84% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Audiences were 80% over 35 and 56% female. “Sully” generated $4 million from 375 Imax locations for a $10,666 average in what’s touted as the first Hollywood film ever shot entirely on Imax cameras.

Aaron Eckhart stars as First Officer Jeffrey Skiles and Laura Linney as Sullenberger’s spouse Lorraine.

“Sully” easily outperformed the opening of Hanks’ 2012 hostage drama “Captain Phillips,” which opened with $25.7 million on its way to a domestic total of $107 million. Hanks’ most recent film, “Bridge of Spies,” debuted in mid-October with a $15.4 million opening weekend at 2,811 sites and wound up with a $72 million domestic total.

“Sully” has a production budget of about $60 million, so it will need to show holdover strength in the following weekends to make it into profitable territory. Village Roadshow Pictures is a co-producer and co-financer with Warner Bros.

“Sully” took in $9.5 million at 3,600 screens in 39 international markets, led by $2.3 million in Australia. It generated the top opening for an Eastwood film in Russia with $925,ooo on 882 screens.

“When the Bough Breaks,” which has modest $10 million production budget, stars Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall as a couple who desperately wants a baby. They hire a surrogate, played by Jaz Sinclair, who develops a psychotic fixation on the husband as the pregnancy progresses.

Sony’s third weekend of horror-thriller “Don’t Breathe” finished third with $8.2 million at 3,384 locations to bring its 17-day total to $66.8 million. Warner’s sixth weekend of “Suicide Squad” followed with $5.7 million at 3,103 sites for a domestic total of $307.4 million.


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kswiston

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Ayer is a fan of the round-up. You will probably have to wait until Tuesday for an official over $700M announcement.

Legs continue to be pretty good though. Japan's opening might be higher than BvS. I think that the domestic take will be near or a little over $325M. We could see Suicide Squad get close to $750M.

$735M is looking like a lock.
 

obin_gam

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Ayer is a fan of the round-up. You will probably have to wait until Tuesday for an official over $700M announcement.

Legs continue to be pretty good though. Japan's opening might be higher than BvS. I think that the domestic take will be near or a little over $325M. We could see Suicide Squad get close to $750M.

$735M is looking like a lock.

I know what you mean, but saying the guy who MADE THE MOVIE isn't "official" is kinda... really
 

kswiston

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I know what you mean, but saying the guy who MADE THE MOVIE isn't "official" is kinda... really

He did the same thing with the $600M mark. Announced it on a Friday when official numbers for the Thursday were still $10-15M short. I mean, it doesn't make a difference since it's a done deal, but WB's official estimate through today is $699.4M.
 

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Even with a small ass budget, Morgan just disappeared. *Poof*
 
Congrats on Suicide Squad for its great success!

I've only seen the movie once, even though I've spent approximately $310 dollars on it. I NEED to see it again.

SS broke 700m WW just now

But according to some people here, it probably still hasn't even broken even lol

God, I want this jacket sooooooooooo bad

Hot Topic keeps selling out of it in my size online and I've hunted for it in local places and can never find it ;-;
 
I hope Don't Breathe crawls its way to $100m. 10 Cloverfield Lane had good legs and made another $17m after weekend 3 though, so that's pretty unlikely.
 
With Halloween around the corner it might get a second life. Does it have much competition in the horror genre coming up?
Blair Witch next weekend. Probably a teenie jump scare flick with a pretty white girl in her panties in the trailer or two as well, but not sure.
 

kswiston

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Suicide Squad passed ID4 as Will Smith's #1 film domestically.

Yup. Took him 20 years' worth of inflation to do it, but still a fun stat. I doubt he is losing sleep over not being in the ID4 sequel.


Speaking of Suicide Squad, I finally went to see the film this weekend during a 12:40 matinee. My wife and I were 67% of the attendance at that showing.

Overall, I think that the film deserved the reputation that it received. There are some likeable aspects there, but just a ton of missteps as well. One thing that stuck out to me was the unearned sense of camaraderie between the squad by the end of the film. I get that all ensemble films try to sell the group bonding thing within a runtime of 2 hours, but most don't feature a cast of psychopaths who have worked together for all of 30 hours before defeating the big bad.
 
Sully is gonna be another $100m domestic earner on a medium-size budget for WB. Like Me Before You and Central Intelligence, they gotta feel pretty darn good about that.

Its a good movie, too, so that helps!
 
$700 million for SS is pretty good I'd have to think, especially considering this is without China

Also whats up with The Shallows getting that huge boost out of nowhere? Which markets did it release in?
 

kswiston

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$700 million for SS is pretty good I'd have to think, especially considering this is without China

Also whats up with The Shallows getting that huge boost out of nowhere? Which markets did it release in?

The Shallows opened in China and made $8.3M


Star Trek Beyond is doing much worse in China than I would have guessed. About $11M this weekend, and $53M total. It might end up finishing in the $65M range.

Me Before You ended up breaking $200M worldwide on its $20M production budget. Ghostbusters cost 7x as much and will end up $20M ahead worldwide.


Over in Japan, the anime Your Name matched its already large second weekend in weekend #3, and seems destined for $150M+. I am not an expert on the Japanese market, but that may be the biggest local animated film of all time there NOT directed by Miyazaki.
 

Busty

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Toldja! i knew that Sully would over perform/break out. I think Warners did a great job connecting with the American Sniper audience and over the coming weeks they will turn out to see this picture too.

While it won't do 'Sniper money' it will continue Warners current good run at the box office.

Star Trek Beyond is doing much worse in China than I would have guessed. About $11M this weekend, and $53M total. It might end up finishing in the $65M range.

So much for that fourth film. Weak international and domestic grosses are bad enough but when one of your franchises doesn't do well in China either, when you're a studio in real trouble and desperate for Chinese investment, that's an outright disaster.

Me Before You ended up breaking $200M worldwide on its $20M production budget. Ghostbusters cost 7x as much and will end up $20M ahead worldwide.

Though released by Warners this was a co-pro that was co-financed by MGM. This basically means that all the profits that MGM are going to make off this will be used to mop up the considerable red ink from Ben Hur.
 

kswiston

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Not one but two openers at 0% RT. I've never seen this before.

I'm not suggesting it's good, but When the Bough Breaks is aimed at black audiences, and RT scores seem to correlate poorly with audience reception for films aimed at that demo. Probably why so few reviewers bothered to review When the Bough Breaks, despite it being a wide release in over 2000 venues.
 

Ridley327

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Though released by Warners this was a co-pro that was co-financed by MGM. This basically means that all the profits that MGM are going to make off this will be used to mop up the considerable red ink from Ben Hur.

Damn, MGM found a way to cover their ass after all. Paramount stays losing on that venture.
 
So much for that fourth film. Weak international and domestic grosses are bad enough but when one of your franchises doesn't do well in China either, when you're a studio in real trouble and desperate for Chinese investment, that's an outright disaster.

I would argue that those viewers are a victory for a super-liberal franchise inside the very much still communist (people's) republic of China.

Anyone thinking that just making random movies that must appeal to each and every audience everywhere regardless of ideology or culture is a fool in terms of expectations. Money being nice is one thing, but entertainment (or "art") without ideology is inconceivable.
That said, the lack of a US domestic and overseas BO appeal for Beyond is disappointing.

Do wonder if they're going to wing it for the fourth or not. Beyond is probably the best Trek movie in two decades, with Discovery hitting next year. It's possible the influx in brand awareness is enough to warrant a fourth anyway. And they were quick to announce it too (even if that doesn't mean anything).
 

SMG

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Saw a video of Sully on the Onion and thought they made the whole thing up. Looked like a joke.
 

kswiston

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If Sully ends up with similar legs to Gran Torino, it could end up being Tom Hanks' biggest live action role since The Da Vinci Code a decade ago.

Also, September is so barren that Sully's $35.5M is the fifth best September opening weekend of all time.
 

Bluth54

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It would be super cool if one of the columns showed the amount of cash needed to break even.

Studios rarely give out break even numbers. The only time I can remember that happening in recent history was that Paul Feig said in an interview that Ghostbusters needed $500 million world wide on the low end to break even.
 

kswiston

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It would be super cool if one of the columns showed the amount of cash needed to break even.

If you want a rough idea, a film need to make double its reported production budget domestically, or three times its reported budget worldwide to be relatively certain of breaking even. That doesn't work for 100% of films, but it's close enough.
 
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