Snikt! Wolverine's Box Office Predictions

[SP1D3RxV3N0M]

Oh good grief... Someone put me out of my misery.

This franchise is dead to me now.

Where do I have my gun?...

 

[04nbod]

The trouble with Hugh getting the credit for the success is that Fox may become even more reluctant to make an X-Men movie without Wolverine.

maybe not, they could look at why the last stand did better and come to the conclusion that team movies with big characters like storm,rogue,cyclops and magneto get more money in.

 

[Project862006]

160 Million worldwide already movie cost 150 million and it is only been 3 days yes this will be a success

 

[Chewy]

The actuals are up at BoxOfficeMojo and this opened slightly lower than X2.

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2009&wknd=18&p=.htm

 

[Downhere]

The actuals are up at BoxOfficeMojo and this opened slightly lower than X2.

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2009&wknd=18&p=.htm

Great opening, especially since this is a solo flick with just Wolverine and not the rest of the X-gang. As long as it gets a multiplier of a little over 2.3, then it will cross 200 million and that would be a good thing for the X-Men Franchise.

 

[RomyFan]

I'm so happy it's doing well in the box office; that way, we may get to see Gambit soon again t:

 

[RoboAmish]

Next weekend will be interesting...

 

[night0205]

lol...i'm glad this movie is making money. I liked it and would be looking forward to a sequal...however...they really need to do something special with First Class if they do it because...I don't know if that movie would hold it's own.

 

[Dark Knight]

It hasn't been canceled, and it's not "****" as you claim (unless "****" is "good" or one of its synonyms starred out). And besides, even if it was being canceled it wouldn't help your claim at all, since many great shows get canceled, while even more bad ones stay on the air. Dancing with the Stars? American Idol? Deal or No Deal? Are those shows good because they have managed to avoid cancelation?

BTW, take a look at this review for the season finale of Terminator's season finale. A crappy show does not get a 9.5 rating.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/971/971828p1.html

Now look at their review for the Wolverine movie: 2.5 stars out of 5. That means that the movie is mediocre.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/977/977864p1.html

And shall we bring the tomatometer into this, as well?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wolverine/

37% of critics have said the movie was "good." That means that 63% of the critics said that it was bad, which means that by a wide majority, the people who actually bother to critique the movie have said that the movie is bad. You do not have to have a newspaper column or a blog to actually evaluate a movie's quality. Wolverine is a failure in terms of movie making, and there is no excuse for it except that there is an idiot hack in charge of Fox. If you enjoy the movie, then that's fine and dandy, but that doesn't make it good.

Bravo!

Somebody else gets it.

This movie can sucker the under 12 year olds and teenagers but adults should know this film is a disappointment and is mediocre at best.

Those of you who are happy and content with mediocrity....well then thats your deal.

 

[ultimatefan]

87 million is definitely a highly respectable opening. I feel it´s going to drop big in the following weekend, though.

 

[BMM]

$85 million? Not bad at all. I still don't understand why people think this wouldn't open big.

 

[Dark Knight]

It was a bad movie, and the people calling it good have no taste. Simple as that. Unfortunately, people who actually know how to evaluate a movie's quality are a rare breed these days, as Wolverine's box office haul clearly proves.

Don't worry....this half a$$ed mediocre "Wolverine" films Domestic legs will not stay strong within the next two weeks.

 

[night0205]

It's 85 actually. Will it have legs after Star Trek? I have no idea...but it's not looking so good.

 

[Dark Knight]

87 million is definitely a highly respectable opening. I feel it´s going to drop big in the following weekend, though.

It will drop big.....the Domestic #'s will be lucky to reach 150 million when it's all said and done.

 

[Dark Knight]

Watchmen dropped like a rock because a lot of the general audience who did see it hated it. The producers were actually begging fans to come back the second weekend just to avoid that big drop and it still didn't help.

I think Star Trek is going to have great legs because it does attract older audiences - and they take their time getting to the movies, they don't all rush out the first weekend. It may just be good enough to hold off Angels & Demons the following weekend. But A&D should do well - it's got a huge fanbase and most of them consider that book far superior to DaVinci Code (and it was). And again, it's an older audience, if it's good it should be around for awhile.

Star Trek or Terminator will be the big hits of the summer IMO.

Angels and Demons will do well since everyone has been saying it will be far better than DaVinci Code.

 

[Dark Knight]

It's 85 actually. Will it have legs after Star Trek? I have no idea...but it's not looking so good.

Wolverine will have no legs....

 

[nintendo nerd]

It will drop big.....the Domestic #'s will be lucky to reach 150 million when it's all said and done.

i haven't seen the film yet, And can't tell anything about the quality of it. But its going to do waaaaay more than 150.

 

[night0205]

well it will have some...maybe not big...but no legs? i don't believe you.

 

[craigdbfan]

Bravo!

Somebody else gets it.

This movie can sucker the under 12 year olds and teenagers but adults should know this film is a disappointment and is mediocre at best.

Those of you who are happy and content with mediocrity....well then thats your deal.

Exactly.

I don't understand how one can be content with this level of filmmaking when Singer displayed with X2 the amount of potential the X-Men mythos has to offer.

First Class sounds like a nightmare for me. They hired a CW writer (Josh Schwartz) who's worked on "The O.C" and "Gossip Girl" for the said network.

On the positive side, I don't think First Class would have enough "appeal" to pull in audiences (especially under the control of Fox).

They structured this X-Men series around Wolverine that an X-Men movie without him wouldn't fare as well as XO:W. If that doesn't do well in the B.O hopefully then Fox will fork over the rights.

 

[Hound89]

i actually see Terminator doing really bad

no Arnie

 

[night0205]

they won't fork over the rights, even if the next movie flops...they won't even give back daredevil or fantastic four...so giving back their property that has the most potential? i don't think so.

Did you see how much the first transformers made?

 

[danoyse]

Just to remind everyone - this thread is to discuss the movie's box office results. It is not to continue the endless debate to judge whose standards on film are better then others.

Now let's get things back on topic.

 

[narrows101]

Final figure: $85.1M.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ib8ry3Uw7hPYMr_ntxjPv47Aql4AD97VKC882

`Wolverine' finishes weekend with $85.1M debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is rolling in dough, though his movie pulled in a little less money than originally estimated.

According to final studio numbers Monday, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" took in $85.1 million over opening weekend. That's almost $2 million less than 20th Century Fox projected a day earlier.

Final numbers on big movies often differ from earlier projections, because Sunday figures are based on estimates of how big the crowds will be that day.

Based on the final figures, "Wolverine" now ranks as the third-biggest opening weekend in the "X-Men" franchise. It came in a few hundred thousand dollars behind the second movie, "X2: X-Men United," and about $18 million behind the third one, "X-Men: The Last Stand."

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I knew they overestimated to make the movie look like it made more than X2 on opening weekend. Just like last year when Iron Man was estimated to have made 100mil when it really opened with 98.6mil.

Lets be honest my fellow haters, this flick was always going to open huge so these numbers shouldn't come as a shock to you. The huge fall it's going to have next weekend is what really matters though. I think that it will be lucky to make 190mil in total. No chance of 200mil unless the studio pushes it Superman Returns style...AKA, pretend that it made 200mil.

 

[chaseter]

Great to see that this made less than X2