Man of Steel Box Office Prediction Thread - Part 5

[kalelvis]

WB's scheduling of Superman movies does leave a lot to be desired. SR came out the week before PotC 2, and now MoS during NBA playoffs and the week before to big budget competitors.

Can't wait to see the figures at the end of the weekend with the updated WW.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I hope BOM's early WW projections of over $500 million come true. *Crosses fingers*

 

[Excel]

WB's scheduling of Superman movies does leave a lot to be desired. SR came out the week before PotC 2, and now MoS during NBA playoffs and the week before to big budget competitors.

Can't wait to see the figures at the end of the weekend with the updated WW.

If MOS had july 12th instead of Pacific Rim...*sighs*

 

[Liam_H]

I'm really looking forward to Pacific Rim and it needs all the help it can get at this point so I'm not too bothered by it.

 

[The Chris]

I would have put it near TDK/TDKR time too instead of BB time, but there's always hope for the next one. I assume they did because june is the 75th anniversary of superman.

 

[J.Howlett]

I would have put it near TDK/TDKR time too instead of BB time, but there's always hope for the next one. I assume they did because june is the 75th anniversary of superman.

Plus, Man of Steel is the perfect Father's Day movie so I don't question the date any longer. It made sense to put it there.

For the sequel, definitely mid-July would be nice.

 

[jacobed]

WB's scheduling of Superman movies does leave a lot to be desired. SR came out the week before PotC 2, and now MoS during NBA playoffs and the week before to big budget competitors.

Can't wait to see the figures at the end of the weekend with the updated WW.

Haha NBA Finals mean nothing and Wwz came in later

 

[BH/HHH]

Plus, Man of Steel is the perfect Father's Day movie so I don't question the date any longer. It made sense to put it there.

For the sequel, definitely mid-July would be nice.

Unless they want to release it at Christmas as the final Hobbit film will have hot next year. Maybe they can have it ready to release Christmas 2015.

 

[The Chris]

Plus, Man of Steel is the perfect Father's Day movie so I don't question the date any longer. It made sense to put it there.

For the sequel, definitely mid-July would be nice.

It sure was. Me and my brother are more into Batman, but our parents adore Superman so it was definitely a pleasure to take them on father's day

 

[Liam_H]

But Father's Day boosted it for like only a day. Competition this weekend and the coming two weeks are going to hurt it.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I almost wonder if WB didn't trust Man of Steel enough to take over from TDKR and TDK's july spots where both films were so successful in?

It's like they didn't think it was a worthy enough successor yet, when you'd think that would make sense?

 

[Liam_H]

That doesn't make any sense. Pacific Rim just needed the better date than MoS did. Cause if PR came out last week it would probably be buried by now.

 

[Bruce Malone]

That's not how WB has treated the july date previously though. It was generally the date they'd release their prestige picture or blockbuster of the year i.e TDKR or Harry Potter 7-pt 2.

I'm assuming they are considering PR to be their "prestigious" blockbuster this year? and that MoS was then put into the less flashy june month.

 

[Liam_H]

Yes mid-July has treated WB well for the past five years, so why wouldn't they put MoS there. A movie that is supposedly gonna kickstart a DC universe of some sort. I mean there was no way they thought PR was the more surefire bet than MoS was going to be.

Its just that PR is a lot harder sell than MoS is so they gave the more lucrative date to PR which they also hope to turn into a franchise. But it seems they're pissing it away since PR is not tracking to well.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I think WB had/has really high hopes for PR, maybe they thought it could be their transformers franchise i suppose?

Regardless of how much MoS grosses i'm pretty positive its take had it been released mid-july would have been higher. How much higher i don't know though?

MoS just seemed like great "successor" to the TDK franchise where both TDK and TDKR had mid july releases and made bank.

 

[Liam_H]

MoS definitely would have made more with July 12th or the 19th. It would've cleaned up considering its biggest comp during those few weeks is The Wolverine.

 

[UrNuts2]

Yes mid-July has treated WB well for the past five years, so why wouldn't they put MoS there. A movie that is supposedly gonna kickstart a DC universe of some sort. I mean there was no way they thought PR was the more surefire bet than MoS was going to be.

Its just that PR is a lot harder sell than MoS is so they gave the more lucrative date to PR which they also hope to turn into a franchise. But it seems they're pissing it away since PR is not tracking to well.

i think PR was placed in July cause WB had the confidence that MoS would do well overall opening it on father's day weekend and also exposing it to July 4th weekend during its 4th week run, considering that the 1st month of release for a tentpole is the most telling month when it comes to overall box office .. likely they thought PR has a better chance to perform well from July .. i think PR has a chance to do well overseas, especially the Asian markets .. so placing MoS in June showed their confidence in MoS IMO ..

the general feeling amongst Hypsters was that 600m ww for MoS was the magic number in terms of a sequel .. i see that number being had by week 6/7, leaving what; another 5/6 weeks of cinematic run for MoS ?

 

[sf2]

I think WB had/has really high hopes for PR, maybe they thought it could be their transformers franchise i suppose?

Regardless of how much MoS grosses i'm pretty positive its take had it been released mid-july would have been higher. How much higher i don't know though?

MoS just seemed like great "successor" to the TDK franchise where both TDK and TDKR had mid july releases and made bank.

That's no doubt WB wants PR to be their transformers.

 

[redp]

That's no doubt WB wants PR to be their transformers.

But, IMO, that isn't happening. Pacific Rim will not reach any of the levels that transformers did. In fact, I don't see it making more than $600M.

 

[J.Howlett]

But Father's Day boosted it for like only a day. Competition this weekend and the coming two weeks are going to hurt it.

Not disagreeing but the international grosses will help this film out. Either way, it's getting a sequel.

This release was all about reestablishing the hero and the brand. This film did that in spades.

 

[robot]

I hope BOM's early WW projections of over $500 million come true. *Crosses fingers*

700m is a lock... 500m would be a loss for WB.. it all it did was 500M it might have failed worse than SR...

That's no doubt WB wants PR to be their transformers.

Isn't MOS transformers on steroid?

 

[Stoic]

Looks like WWZ beat out MOS for the Friday #2 spot with $24M over Man of Steel's $13.2M take. Of course Monsters U dominated with a cume of $29M last night (including $2.6 M for Thursday's late showing)

 

[J.Howlett]

Looks like WWZ beat out MOS for the Friday #2 spot with $24M over Man of Steel's $13.2M take. Of course Monsters U dominated with a cume of $29M last night (including $2.6 M for Thursday's late showing)

Not even worried. This film will tap out domestically at around 290 million, probably 300 million.

All we need from international grosses is not lower than 450 million.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I expected 13mil this Friday. It had two big movies coming out it was bound to drop hard. It's doing fine. WB literally doesn't have another franchise and this will be their new one. It should do 45-48mil this weekend as I always thought it would. It's passing SR this weekend.

 

[redp]

Looks like WWZ beat out MOS for the Friday #2 spot with $24M over Man of Steel's $13.2M take. Of course Monsters U dominated with a cume of $29M last night (including $2.6 M for Thursday's late showing)

That was expected. And that is quite bad for MOS.