The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Box Office Prediction Thread - Part 5

[Erzengel]

OS box office numbers won't be updated until Monday. It will surpass 700 million this week for sure.

Probably 698 after the foreign numbers are introduced. Then I'm guessing by next weekend.

 

[Erzengel]

In the first series of movies he was aging rapidly. The second series they wanted to slow his aging down, but still age him. The older TV series were before many of these life events occured.

Also, what in the world does a younger Spider-man have to do with attacting a younger audience? I've never seen Batman, Superman, or any other hero not pull in a younger audience because they were in their 30s. Kids don't care about how old Super Hero is, they just want to see a cool comic book movie.

Because Superman and Batman are usually portrayed as established adult superheros outside of Superboy/Smallville. Do you know why there's not a teenage Batman (Bruce Wayne) because there never was. Which is why I'm not sure about the show Gotham and doing that whole pre Batman stuff. At most, Batman is portrayed as mid 20s, never just a student same thing with Superman. Although, I'd love to see a Batman Beyond movie.

Spider-Man most popular mythos is usually when he's in high school/college.

 

[spiderman2]

Probably 698 after the foreign numbers are introduced. Then I'm guessing by next weekend.

Captian America is at what 710? Will this movie make more? Has it still has maybe a little bit left in the USA and in dollar theaters.

 

[Erzengel]

With a 50% decrease each week, it's looking at about $705. Even comparing it with Thor: The Dark World which made $206 domestically. It's already pushing $2 million below that and making less in day to day comparisons.

 

[XSpidercideX]

Because Superman and Batman are usually portrayed as established adult superheros outside of Superboy. Do you know why there's not a teenage Batman (Bruce Wayne) because there never was. Although, I'd love to see a Batman Beyond movie.

Spider-Man most popular mythos is usually when he's in high school/college.

That is because he is one of the few characters that started out as a teenager, but he didn't stay there. Spider-man is unique because he is not frozen in time.

Many adaptation have him in his school days because that is where he started. It is popular to portray him this way becuase you wouldn't start a series at the end of something you are adapting. His school days are a logical starting point for all adaptations, and I think every adaptation should include his school days, but it should not stay there either.

In the comics, the character has progressed from 15 to 28. There is no reason to keep him young in all non-comc adaptations. The character should be allowed to grow.

 

[Erzengel]

That is because he is one of the few characters that started out as a teenager, but he didn't stay there. Spider-man is unique because he is not frozen in time.

Many adaptation have him in his school days because that is where he started. It is popular to portray him this way becuase you wouldn't start a series at the end of something you are adapting. His school days are a logical starting point for all adaptations, and I think every adaptation should include his school days, but it should not stay there either.

In the comics, the character has progressed from 15 to 28. There is no reason to keep him young in all non-comc adaptations. The character should be allowed to grow.

That's pretty much what I was inferring and one of the reasons why the Spider-Man character can just handcuff you to specific mythos, characters and repetitive story lines.

I mean I would have rather they just started him off as Spider-Man instead of revisiting the origin story. It didn't need to be a continuation of Raimi's trilogy. However, when you still need to build up characters, reintroduce relationships and not necessarily stay faithful to the original stories just feels like their options are limited.

 

[Arach Knight]

In the first series of movies he was aging rapidly.

No he wasn't. He graduates from high school in the first film and we get to see his first few months or so as Spider-Man. Spider-Man 2 is midway into his college career. In Spider-Man 3, Peter is still in college, as he is lab partners with Gwen and still attending Columbia University (the real life analog of Marvel's Empire State University). Since Peter is a high school senior in Spider-Man, and at best a college senior in Spider-Man 3, that means only four years go by during the entire series. The series starts with a 17 year old Peter and ends with a 21 year old Peter. That isn't rapid at all. Heck, more time passes between the final two Dark Knight films than the entirety of the Raimi trilogy (there is an eight year gap between TDK and TDKR).

 

[Wildcard]

Captian America is at what 710? Will this movie make more? Has it still has maybe a little bit left in the USA and in dollar theaters.

It might have a little bit of life left, but not enough for it to pass by Captain America. It likely only has a couple weeks or so left to be in theaters before it fades off the radar completely & is taken out.

Movies that spend more & make less die quicker than others.

 

[Erzengel]

It's funny, I keep waiting for TWS to take over the domestic gross, but the Lego movie is still showing in theaters. As of right now it's $150k behind it. I'm wondering if this weekend, it surpasses it.

 

[ironman_rick]

well...coming back to TAS2..... it has officially grosses more than $500M OS (the 1st movie to do so in 2014). TF4 is gonna bash past this number next month though.

from boxofficemojo.com


Dom - $195M
O/S - $503M

Total - $698M

 

[ironman_rick]

It's funny, I keep waiting for TWS to take over the domestic gross, but the Lego movie is still showing in theaters. As of right now it's $150k behind it. I'm wondering if this weekend, it surpasses it.

Yup it has....finally.

 

[Erzengel]

With a 50% decrease each week, it's looking at about $705. Even comparing it with Thor: The Dark World which made $206 domestically. It's already pushing $2 million below that and making less in day to day comparisons.

well...coming back to TAS2..... it has officially grosses more than $500M OS (the 1st movie to do so in 2014). TF4 is gonna bash past this number next month though.

from boxofficemojo.com


Dom - $195M
O/S - $503M

Total - $698M

So this time last week it was $690, and the week before that it was like $674? So, $4, $2, $1, looks like around $705. Earliest it will reach $700 is close to the weekend.

 

[Spider-knight]

that's right. in the comics peter has been an adult for decades. iand while i am fine that he is in highschool in every media i would love to see a series that takes place in peter's adult life. of course we had that in TAS and unlimiated but most of the time people set him up in highschool but for once i would love to see the adult peter in the show again.

also any thoughts on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7PyRQQjLE

agree or disagree?

 

[hippie_hunter]

Probably 698 after the foreign numbers are introduced. Then I'm guessing by next weekend.

Isn't the film pretty much gone by next weekend. It's month window in China is now done, this is the last week the movie is going to be playing in most theaters in the area where I live, and it should be done in just about every major market out there that opened a whole two weeks before the US.

 

[XSpidercideX]

Isn't the film pretty much gone by next weekend. It's month window in China is now done, this is the last week the movie is going to be playing in most theaters in the area where I live, and it should be done in just about every major market out there that opened a whole two weeks before the US.

Most movies are in theaters for 14 weeks, Spidey has been in theaters for 5. It will remain in theaters a long time, but only 100s of screens instead of thousands. CA:TWS is still in theaters.

 

[Nicko-Ray]

So at the most, we're looking at least a $705M overall finish or less.

 

[XSpidercideX]

So at the most, we're looking at least a $705M overall finish or less.

I'd say more. Foreign, this movie has a few million left and it will exceed 200 million domestic. So it will have to be over 705. Note that the domestic weekend numbers have not been added yet for TASM2. It is still sitting back at Friday estimates.

 

[Spider-knight]

any thoughts on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7PyRQQjLE

agree or disagree?

 

[TH29]

While I had hoped it would have made more, I guess its not so bad considering its basically the same overall gross of Cap.

 

[Airnick]

While I had hoped it would have made more, I guess its not so bad considering its basically the same overall gross of Cap.

Yeah I guess if you wanna look at it that way. But the fact that it made less then TASM1 is definitely a disappointment.

 

[TH29]

yeah. I still feel sandwiching it in between all these other flicks was a bad move and definitely didnt help its box office.

 

[Wildcard]

Yeah I guess if you wanna look at it that way. But the fact that it made less then TASM1 is definitely a disappointment.

^ And the fact that Cap was astronomically more profitable than TASM 2 as well. The numbers might look about the same, but they still add up differently...so to speak.

 

[LizardMan07]

Imagine if there was a clerical error in the box office and the film actually made an extra 300 million dollars.

 

[spider-neil]

^ And the fact that Cap was astronomically more profitable than TASM 2 as well. The numbers might look about the same, but they still add up differently...so to speak.

Cap 2 is not 'astronomically' more profitable than ASM2, unless Marvel somehow managed to fund their movie with the change they found down the back of their couch.

 

[LizardMan07]

I think it made a fair chunk more though didn't it?

Fact of the matter is, no real positive way to spin the numbers. Sony openly claimed they wanted a billion, Campea came out and said it would do for Spiderman what TDK did for Batman, it didn't do that.

It will not be a success in sony's eyes, they're toeing the line to it being acceptable, dissapointing and a disaster.

Marvel Studios, on the other hand, would be very happy with how TWS went in the BO