Snikt! Wolverine's Box Office Predictions

[topdog1]

Saw Terminator Salvation and Wolverine is ten times the better film. Seriously. TS is as poorly written as it gets. Why I'm posting here is that I noticed that my local large cinema chain increased their prices this week for weekend shows. I paid $5 for a Friday Wolverine matinee but had to pay $7.50 for Salvation's Friday matinee. They should have raised prices a few weeks ago. I'm sure the same number of people would have seen it but the take would have been larger.

 

[danoyse]

I just think they need to stop releasing so many movies in May. They're all cannibalizing each other. TS and Night at the Museum 2 on the same weekend? That's crazy. They have a whole summer to release these movies, they should quit trying to cram them all into the same month.

I am very excited to see Up next weekend.

 

[Jick]

I just think they need to stop releasing so many movies in May. They're all cannibalizing each other. TS and Night at the Museum 2 on the same weekend? That's crazy. They have a whole summer to release these movies, they should quit trying to cram them all into the same month.

I am very excited to see Up next weekend.

They said that there's hidden Toy Story 3 characters, there.
You tell us if you see them!

 

[FaT_tONle]

May has been a bit heavy this year but I think people may be making too much of it. We usually see the Pixar film in June but they decided to go May for whatever reason... probably because of the extra weekend we had in May. But every weekend is pretty much going to be crowded from now till mid July. There isn't a lot of flexibility anywhere.

 

[neemer5]

Saw Terminator Salvation and Wolverine is ten times the better film. Seriously. TS is as poorly written as it gets.

You can thank Christian Bale and his forced rewrites for that.

 

[Victor Creed]

Saw Terminator Salvation and Wolverine is ten times the better film.

TS wasn't the best film ever, but Wolverine had some of the worst plot holes and CGI failures that I've seen since the 80s. I think you're using your Marvel blinders if you seriously think that Wolverine was "ten times the better film".

 

[Celestial]

Wolverine is estimated to have taken $7.8m domestic Fri-Sun for a new domestic total of $163m. Internationally, it took around $7m for a $156.7m total. That gives a worldwide total of $320m.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004134.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2009&wknd=21&p=.htm

The domestic run is nearly through and it should lose a lot of theatres by next weekend (maybe 1,000) but it could still have another $10m or so. It opens in Mexico this week. I'm thinking it should get to $175m domestic and $180m international. I'm relieved that it looks like the opening/total multiplier will be above two.

 

[BestGirl]

You can thank Christian Bale and his forced rewrites for that.

I've heard the original script was really bad, too. Bale wouldn't sign on until more writers polished it. It obviously still had major rough spots.

 

[EnDz0n3]

^ Congrats. I think you've found the only existing picture of Maggie Gyllenhaal where she atleast looks human. t:

okay back to Box office. Who would've thunk Night at the Museum would give Terminator Salvation a run for its money. Looks like TS will severely underperform..

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

^ Congrats. I think you've found the only existing picture of Maggie Gyllenhaal where she atleast looks human. t:

okay back to Box office. Who would've thunk Night at the Museum would give Terminator Salvation a run for its money. Looks like TS will severely underperform..

It didn't give it a run for it's money, it beat it. Also I predicted that it would so I guess atleast one person thought that it would.

 

[Superhero 101]

Well Wolverine Finally got a Worldwide total of 310,350,110 that is good right?

 

[danoyse]

okay back to Box office. Who would've thunk Night at the Museum would give Terminator Salvation a run for its money. Looks like TS will severely underperform..

I had a feeling Night at the Museum would overtake Terminator - it's really the first family film, and it's a holiday weekend, etc...but wow, I just saw TS's numbers for the weekend, and I didn't expect that.

I saw TS this morning, and it was better than I thought it would be, but the original two movies were so much better.

I also saw Wolverine with a friend yesterday morning (love those $6 morning movies) and I was surprised to see our show had a pretty decent-sized crowd. I was half-expecting to have the place to ourselves. And my friend loved the movie.

 

[Celestial]

Well Wolverine Finally got a Worldwide total of 310,350,110 that is good right?

More like $322 million. boxofficemojo hasn't updated the international numbers yet but Variety saysthe overseas total is $156.7m. It opens in Mexico soon.

 

[Superhero 101]

Well thats better.

 

[chaseter]

Haha this didn't even beat X1's domestic after inflation. Oh I wish I could go back 9 years when movie tickets were like 4 bucks

 

[chaseter]

Saw Terminator Salvation and Wolverine is ten times the better film. Seriously. TS is as poorly written as it gets. Why I'm posting here is that I noticed that my local large cinema chain increased their prices this week for weekend shows. I paid $5 for a Friday Wolverine matinee but had to pay $7.50 for Salvation's Friday matinee. They should have raised prices a few weeks ago. I'm sure the same number of people would have seen it but the take would have been larger.

It does have some bad plot holes but the action is above and beyond this movie by far None of the Terminator films are heavy on the story and when you throw in time travel and paradoxes then of course it gets hairy. It had way less cheese and camp than Wolverine

 

[EnDz0n3]

One thing I'll say about TS, it looked expensive, that is, it looked like a $200Million blockbuster. Too bad everything else sucked. They really should've stuck to their guns and gone with having the story revolve around the Marcus Wright character. With him in the lead and an expanded story with Moon Bloodgood *snicker* and Kyle Reese's characters. I think it's bad when the viewer wishes for the protagonist, John Connor, to croak...

I know i'm not the biggest Christian Bale fan in the world...But the guy was especially annoying in this film!

 

[chaseter]

The mute kid was annoying. I was waiting for him to get squashed. TS did look pretty and visually it was way better than Wolverine. Story wise, both had some cliche and bad writing with some glaring holes but at least TS didn't have a ladder chop or optic blast claw repelling. That was the only thing that made TS a bit better, way better fx and no cheesy/campy over the top crap. But, this is Wolverine's last weekend at the box office. It is already down to 2 showings at my theatre this weekend.

 

[EnDz0n3]

^LOL

That was a girl tho.

 

[Kanon]

okay back to Box office. Who would've thunk Night at the Museum would give Terminator Salvation a run for its money. Looks like TS will severely underperform..

I said back in February 2008, when the May 22 date was announced, that it was almost suicide to open against NatM2, with Wolverine and Star Trek around as well...

 

[danoyse]

It does have some bad plot holes but the action is above and beyond this movie by far None of the Terminator films are heavy on the story and when you throw in time travel and paradoxes then of course it gets hairy. It had way less cheese and camp than Wolverine

The action was cool, but I liked Wolverine better...

 

[X-Maniac]

This thread is a spoilerific minefield. Terminator doesn't come in the UK till June 3. (And we've got three more episodes of Smallville in the UK. Trying to avoid the spoilers for American Idiot was bad enough, as the UK gets the results a day before us in the UK.) Damned internet.

 

[Superhero 101]

I thought that TS had potential. The Editing and weak Story just made the movie suck. The movie only had two good action scenes the Intro with Connor and The Bike Scene. The last Fight with the "terminator" was bad.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I find it amusing that so many people bash TS to make themselves feel better about Wolverine and try to insult fans of the Terminator.

Personally I thought TS was a very well made, gritty, intense, and realistic film that captured what I thought about the future war. Obviously it underperformed and I'm disappointed that films like NATM and Dance Flick have bigger audiences.

The one thing that hurt TS in my opinion was the overhype and I think Bale's rant had a lot to do with it too I believe.

Although I will be concerned if Harry Potter and Transformers 2 underperforms.

 

[Hugh'sMrs]

Although the character of Marcus Wright was more interesting than John Connor, I wish Sam Worthington had played John instead of Christian Bale (who seemed to be doing a Batman as Connor impersonation)

I was apprehensive about Anton Yelchin playing Kyle Reese as I'm such a huge fan of Biehn and didn't want to consider anyone else in the role but Anton did a good job.

While I adore Hugh and love him as Wolverine, I think TS was the better film. In the next week I'm going to see Star Trek for the third time and TS for the second but I'm going to wait to see XOW again until it's on DVD.