The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Box Office Prediction Thread - Part 6

[The Joker]

Poor Spidey... It freaking claaaaawed it's way to that $200 million.

Indeed.

And DOFP just surpassed it at the box office WW.

 

[hippie_hunter]

TASM finished 7th. Right now TASM2 is 5th. Godzilla won't overtake it. I'd say T4 overtakes it this Summer. Not sure about the next PotA.

Just looking at the July movies, that month was ripe for a box office hit. Godzilla or even TASM2 may have done a little better being moved there.

Then for the rest of the year obviously Hunger Games and the Hobbit so TASM2 will probably finish 8th at best this year.

While I don't think it will happen, I wouldn't be surprised to see Godzilla top the Amazing Spider-Man 2.

 

[Erzengel]

Godzilla has been making less in weekly comparisons.

The bump that it had in the beginning has made up for it but now it's a 2 million dollar difference.

 

[Leenie]

And DOFP just surpassed it at the box office WW.

This just stuns me. I'm seriously stunned by this.

After seeing TASM2 on the first week of its domestic release, I remember saying something to the effect of "It's guaranteed to make more than X-Men, because Spidey always tends to make more bank than the X-movies."

Welp, here we are. I hope I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if X-Men outgrossed Spidey, or something.

 

[Arach Knight]

Does Spidey have any robotic villains?

-Spider Slayers (robots)
- Carnage (nanobot version from the Ben Reilly Era)
- Beetle (powered armor)
- Cardiac (quasi-cyborg)
- Rhino (Ultimate version)

 

[sf2]

any update?

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

any update?

None that I've seen... Now that it's hit 200 million Sony will do doubt stop reporting any updates, plus it's done overseas as well.

 

[Erzengel]

any update?

It's at $704 WW. Maybe it'll hit $705-$706 but I wouldn't expect anything other than that.

 

[The Shape]

I still think this will do really well on Blu-Ray and On Demand.

 

[Erzengel]

I'm waiting for Netflix.

 

[The Shape]

Cool.

 

[Angryfantasyfan]

I still think this will do really well on Blu-Ray and On Demand.

Any particular reason why?

 

[The Shape]

Any particular reason why?

It's not uncommon for box office duds or modest hits to find a second life on home video. Despite its reception among fans, it's still a big, fun, family-friendly film that will draw viewers. There's no doubt that plenty of people who didn't get to see it in theaters will check it out at home one way or another. Plus, most fans (whether they loved the movie or not) will want to add it to their collections.

Man of Steel had a mixed critical reception and wasn't a billion-dollar box office smash, but it's performed very wel on home video and on-demand.

 

[Nicko-Ray]

I think it'll stay at about where it's at right now, right? I don't think it's playing anywhere much else.

 

[socool]

It's not uncommon for box office duds or modest hits to find a second life on home video. Despite its reception among fans, it's still a big, fun, family-friendly film that will draw viewers. There's no doubt that plenty of people who didn't get to see it in theaters will check it out at home one way or another. Plus, most fans (whether they loved the movie or not) will want to add it to their collections.

Man of Steel had a mixed critical reception and wasn't a billion-dollar box office smash, but it's performed very wel on home video and on-demand.

Agreed. I was dissapointed by the film, but I'm definitely getting the blu-ray. There is fun to be had, no doubt, and the special features are more than enough of an incentive, anyway.

I think it'll stay at about where it's at right now, right? I don't think it's playing anywhere much else.

Box office wise? Yeah, it's finished. It's been out for over 2 months in the US alone. Almost 3 internationally.

 

[chaseter]

It's not uncommon for box office duds or modest hits to find a second life on home video. Despite its reception among fans, it's still a big, fun, family-friendly film that will draw viewers. There's no doubt that plenty of people who didn't get to see it in theaters will check it out at home one way or another. Plus, most fans (whether they loved the movie or not) will want to add it to their collections.

Man of Steel had a mixed critical reception and wasn't a billion-dollar box office smash, but it's performed very wel on home video and on-demand.

And WB scrapped MoS2.

 

[sf2]

And WB scrapped MoS2.

indeed. spidey fans r lucky as TASM 3 is still going ahead.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

^

It's not uncommon for box office duds or modest hits to find a second life on home video. Despite its reception among fans, it's still a big, fun, family-friendly film that will draw viewers. There's no doubt that plenty of people who didn't get to see it in theaters will check it out at home one way or another. Plus, most fans (whether they loved the movie or not) will want to add it to their collections.

Man of Steel had a mixed critical reception and wasn't a billion-dollar box office smash, but it's performed very wel on home video and on-demand.

Agreed, but this wasn't a Box Office dud, it's profit margin is probably very small but it performed well at the Box Office at the third highest grossing of the year.

 

[The Shape]

And WB scrapped MoS2.

Yeah, sure they did.

 

[Erzengel]

He did say or modest hit.

 

[chaseter]

Yeah, sure they did.

Come back after you research and then comment.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It's not uncommon for box office duds or modest hits to find a second life on home video. Despite its reception among fans, it's still a big, fun, family-friendly film that will draw viewers. There's no doubt that plenty of people who didn't get to see it in theaters will check it out at home one way or another.

The problem with people who think that the Amazing Spider-Man 2 will have a great life on home video are blatantly ignoring three core facts:

1. The first Amazing Spider-Man wasn't exactly a mega-hit on home video to begin with. It didn't even make it in the top 10 of blu-ray sales and wasn't even in the top 15 of DVD sales. If people weren't gobbling up the first one like crazy, what makes you think that the sequel which has been less well-received than the first one will do better?

2. When home video sales salvage a film that has had a less than stellar run in theaters, it's typically a much smaller film in terms of budget and scale that was often mistreated by the distributor like Lionsgate's mishandling of Kick-Ass and Dredd 3D or Warner Bros. screwing over Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. They're films that would have most likely done better if their distributor treated them properly. Or in some cases they were doomed from the get-go like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World because they're not suited for general audience tastes. AAA blockbuster films that had an excessive amount of promotion with hopes of it becoming a $1 billion film aren't exactly the kind of films that get a second lif, they either continue on after being a smash hit due to high quality like the Avengers or they get forgotten like Green Lantern.

3. The home video market just isn't what it is anymore. The days where great home video sales can salvage a film franchise are just gone. Home video sales are on the decline due to people transitioning to digital and retnal services such as Netflix and Redbox. In this era, films that find second life in the home video market are going to be even fewer and fewer and even then, it's going to be a film that has been well-received right from the get-go like Dredd 3D, not a film that has had a negative to mixed reception like the Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Plus, most fans (whether they loved the movie or not) will want to add it to their collections.

I say this as someone who likes the original Amazing Spider-Man and wanted this film to be good, I will not be one of those Spider-Man fans who will buy this movie just to fill in the hole in my Spider-Man film collection. It's a poorly made film due to constant studio interference and a piss poor script and it irritated the hell out of me with its inconsistent quality that ranged from fantastic to god awful.

Man of Steel had a mixed critical reception and wasn't a billion-dollar box office smash, but it's performed very wel on home video and on-demand.

Warner Bros. has a much more efficient home video division than Sony does and they advertised the hell out of the Man of Steel blu-ray.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I didn't even bother buying the Blu-Ray for the last one and I hated this one far more. I definitely won't be buying it. I won't even bother watching it on TV.

 

[The Joker]

I have no intention of buying TASM 2. I don't even own the first TASM movie.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I will only, and only buy TASM2 for someone I can't stand. It truly is the perfect gift for someone you hate.