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‘Aquaman’ Darting To $120M+ In Competitive Christmas 5-Day Corridor – Box Office Preview
Deadline ^ | December 18, 2018 | Anthony D'Alessandro

Posted on 12/18/2018 5:59:23 PM PST by EdnaMode

Between last weekend and Christmas, ten wide releases carrying a combined near production cost of $913M will vie for business in a box office marketplace that one distribution source describes as a “game of chutes of ladders; there will be winners and there will be losers.”

The multiple factor is wild, and many studios, (if you’re not Disney with a Star Wars movie) like to assess business over the long haul, with clicking turnstiles all the way through the MLK holiday in January. That’s not B.S. when you consider how Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was able to excel in a Last Jedi-dominated holiday marketplace last year, earning 58% of its $404.5M in the New Year. Ditto for 20th Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman which looked like it was dead with an $8M 3-day, $19M six-day, only to make 72% of its $174.3M domestic in 2018.

Currently there’s only 4% K-12 schools off today according to ComScore, but that number will grow to 32% by Friday, and 100% all next week up to Jan. 1. Currently there’s 69% colleges on break, a number that swells to 84% by Friday and 100% throughout the rest of the year. After Christmas day each day is like a Saturday-business wise, and it’s not unheard of for the average 18-34 moviegoer to see more than two movies during that time frame, possibly even as many as four.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: aquaman; boxoffice; dc; dceu; hollywood; marypoppins; marypoppinsreturns; superheroes
That would be an impressive opening if they wind up with that gross. Only 36 films have opened with $120 or higher.
1 posted on 12/18/2018 5:59:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

It has had several openings worldwide to the tune of over $4 billion total revenues.

Hong Kong was a $100 million opening.


2 posted on 12/18/2018 6:04:48 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: EdnaMode

The numbers in this article about Aquaman are all wet.


3 posted on 12/18/2018 6:05:10 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: EdnaMode
There can be only one Aquaman for me.


4 posted on 12/18/2018 6:06:58 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

MOA means chicken , or rooster in Hawaiian


5 posted on 12/18/2018 6:08:04 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Yaelle

HA!


6 posted on 12/18/2018 6:08:09 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: reed13k

(My guilty pleasure show)


7 posted on 12/18/2018 6:08:36 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

Judging from the trailer, they may have jumped the shark with too much computer animation.


8 posted on 12/18/2018 7:15:04 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

To be fair, it would be very difficult to use ordinary special FX to portray an underwater civilization.


9 posted on 12/18/2018 7:22:11 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: EdnaMode

There’s really been no competition this fall. Good releases have been so few and far between that anything half-decent has performed well.


10 posted on 12/18/2018 8:24:19 PM PST by Alcibiades (I'm not tired of winning. More MAGA. More Mooch. More 5D chess. More covfefe.)
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To: Bratch

It didn’t look convincing to me.


11 posted on 12/18/2018 8:32:53 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Judging from the trailer, they may have jumped the shark with too much computer animation.

I agree. The trailer looks ridiculous.

12 posted on 12/18/2018 8:39:19 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: EdnaMode
This is nothing but a Thor rip-off, albeit shot underwater.

Aquaman has and always will be a lighthearted blonde character.

This film will make its requisite $100 million over the weekend but will tank fast and barely recoup its production budget.

D.C. MOVIES, OTHER THAN BATMAN AND WONDER WOMAN, ABSOLUTELY SUCK

13 posted on 12/18/2018 9:06:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Chuck Schumer has never held a private sector job in his life.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Dr. Sivana
D.C. MOVIES, OTHER THAN BATMAN AND WONDER WOMAN, ABSOLUTELY SUCK

"What Marvel has gotten right, and Warner has gotten wrong from the beginning is that Marvel puts its comic books on the screen. Warner makes crappy modern movies using its comic book characters as licensed properties." -Dr. Sivana

14 posted on 12/18/2018 9:37:04 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: NurdlyPeon

Largely true. I enjoy some of the DC movies, but the characters are used as pretexts.


15 posted on 12/18/2018 10:36:48 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"This film will make its requisite $100 million over the weekend but will tank fast and barely recoup its production budget. "

Revenues BEFORE this weekend opening are more than FOUR BILLION US DOLLARS!

16 posted on 12/19/2018 7:11:45 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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