The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man: Box Office Thread - Part 2

[©KAW]

Cannot imagine why. Looking over New Line's catalog it seems wildly out of their league.

It's a movie, what league are you talking about?

 

[TheLastBlade]

Still pissed that ice age 4 is doing more than it should.... Seriously?

 

[©KAW]

Those children flicks usually do pretty well, I'm not surprised.

 

[TheLastBlade]

Man, those movies stopped mattering after the first one... But yeah, it's the kids :/

 

[grieven]

I wanted Spider-Man to dominate this year but I knew he would be the underdog. Still, I am shocked that this month ended up the way it did, TDK in 10 days has more than Spidey did in the whole month...

That being said box office doesn't matter to me at all, and as far as I'm concerned we've had 3 films among the best, if not the best, in the superhero genre. So cheers to that!

TAS is the first movie in a rebooted franchise series, and is retelling the origin to boot. TDKR is the 3rd and last movie in an unprecedented, rabidly popular rebooted franchise series. I also wanted Spider-Man to reign supreme, but I think just about everyone in the world expected Batman to make much more money. I think TAS has done extremely well for all it went up against. TAS2 should do even better, provided they bring back Webb or worst case if they replace him, they don't do so with a hack.

 

[Anno_Domini]

I'm a Webbhead and a Marvelite, and I like the Nolanverse films.

So...
does this mean I'm neither of those or that I'm all of those? Or does this just make me a lover?

You're pansexual with CBMs

Still pissed that ice age 4 is doing more than it should.... Seriously?

I'm surprised more that kids wanted to watch Ice Age 4 more than TAS-M.

 

[grieven]

I'm surprised more that kids wanted to watch Ice Age 4 more than TAS-M.

The popularity of the Ice Age films internationally baffles me.

IA4 looks to make more than TAS worldwide, but TAS stil looks to finish in the top 4 or 5 this year worldwide:

http://www.boxofficeguru.com/intl.htm

 

[TheLastBlade]

The popularity of the Ice Age films internationally baffles me.

IA4 looks to make more than TAS worldwide, but TAS stil looks to finish in the top 4 or 5 this year worldwide:

http://www.boxofficeguru.com/intl.htm

Everyone say what you want about spiderman's domestic gross, but the only reason it's so successful is because of its foreign box office... Without it, it'd would've been screwed.

 

[Bruce Malone]

^^^

I agree. In most scenarios a film that cost 230m and only grosses slightly more than that domestically would be screwed.

 

[TheLastBlade]

Especially when it BARELY made double it's budget.

No one knows how ****ed ice age 4 wouldve been.

 

[grieven]

^^^

I agree. In most scenarios a film that cost 230m and only grosses slightly more than that domestically would be screwed.

I think it's more common these days than not for expensive films to not make much more than their budget domestically, earning their lion's share abroad. With how expensive event franchise films are to make, it's becoming more and more the exception for big budget fx heavy films to make much more domestically than their cost.

Prime examples from this year:

Domestic Less than Budget:
John Carter: Budget $250m Domestic $73m
Battleship: Budget $209m Domestic $65m
Wrath of the Titans: Budget $150m Domestic $83.7
Dark Shadows: Budget $150m Domestic $79m
MIB 3: Budget $225m Domestic $175m
Snow White and Hutsman: Budget $170m Domestic $153m
Prometheus: Budget $130m Domestic $126m
Ice Age Continental Drift: Budget $? Domestic will finish around $135m

Domestic slightly more than budget
Brave: Budget $185m Domestic $217m
The Amazing Spider-Man: Budget $230m Domestic will finish around $255m
Journey 2: Budget $79m Domestic $103.8m
Madagascar 3: Budget $145m Domestic $209m


Rare exceptions, domestic much more than budget (not including non event films like Ted):
The Avengers: Budget $220m Domestic $616m
The Hunger Games: Budget $78m Domestic $406m
The Dark Knight Rises: Budget $250m Domestic should finish over $425m
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Budget $70m Domestic $214m


Lesson learned: If you're going to make an expensive movie, DO NOT CAST TAYLOR KITSCH!

 

[Bruce Malone]

I think it's more common these days than not for expensive films to not make much more than their budget domestically, earning their lion's share abroad. With how expensive event franchise films are to make, it's becoming more and more the exception for big budget fx heavy films to make much more domestically than their cost.

Prime examples from this year:

John Carter: Budget $250m Domestic $73m
Battleship: Budget $209m Domestic $65m
Wrath of the Titans: Budget $150m Domestic $83.7
Dark Shadows: Budget $150m Domestic $79m
MIB 3: Budget $225m Domestic $175m
Snow White and Hutsman: Budget $170m Domestic $153m
Prometheus: Budget $130m Domestic $126m
Ice Age Continental Drift: Budget $? Domestic will finish around $135m
Brave: Budget $185 Domestic $217

The Amazing Spider-Man: Budget $230m Domestic will finish $250m+

Rare exceptions (not including non event films like Ted):
The Avengers: Budget $220m Domestic $616m
The Hunger Games: Budget $78m Domestic $406m
The Dark Knight Rises: Budget $250m Domestic should finish over $425m


Lesson learned: If you're going to make an expensive movie, DO NOT CAST TAYLOR KITSCH!

More common perhaps this year but still not wanted by studios. Out of all those movies listed a side from Snow White with its under 200m budget, Ice age 4 with it's inexplicably huge international fan base and brave with an again under 200m budget the rest of the films on that list are seen as either bombs or mild disappointments.

 

[Just one more]

I'm surprised more that kids wanted to watch Ice Age 4 more than TAS-M.

Well they tried to make it more gritty (a term I am fast starting to hate), which normally does not sit well with parents of small kids (like my boss whose kid loves SM, but is not allowed to watch this because of its grittiness).

Spidey 1 was a fun film (with scenes in the daytime YAY!), this one tries to be something different which I think rubs some people the wrong way.

 

[Jexx]

Not gritty, grounded.

 

[TheLastBlade]

Well they tried to make it more gritty (a term I am fast starting to hate), which normally does not sit well with parents of small kids (like my boss whose kid loves SM, but is not allowed to watch this because of its grittiness).

Spidey 1 was a fun film (with scenes in the daytime YAY!), this one tries to be something different which I think rubs some people the wrong way.

The only thing gritty was the ads... Spiderman 1 was the different one.

 

[Just one more]

The only thing gritty was the ads... Spiderman 1 was the different one.

Are you saying that SM1 was more gritty? Seriously?

 

[Anno_Domini]

Well they tried to make it more gritty (a term I am fast starting to hate), which normally does not sit well with parents of small kids (like my boss whose kid loves SM, but is not allowed to watch this because of its grittiness).

Spidey 1 was a fun film (with scenes in the daytime YAY!), this one tries to be something different which I think rubs some people the wrong way.

I definitely think the certain tone of course rubbed some people the wrong way, but it's still Spider-Man. That alone should give it reason to not be topped by an animated film. It still shocks me to the day as we all thought TAS-M would be ruling the box office until TDKR showed up, but that didn't happen.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I definitely think the certain tone of course rubbed some people the wrong way, but it's still Spider-Man. That alone should give it reason to not be topped by an animated film. It still shocks me to the day as we all thought TAS-M would be ruling the box office until TDKR showed up, but that didn't happen.

I think it did about as well as most ppl realistically predicted it. Aside from the super-fans most people realized that from the 1st trailer onwards this would not be a movie that fans would go totally head over heels for not nearly to the level of the 1st trilogy.

I always predicted a 250m cap for the film. It was too soon for an origin reboot.

 

[Jexx]

Yea, it was too soon, they should of released it in the fall.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Not exactly what he meant, but okay...lol.

 

[Jexx]

:P

I personally was overjoyed when I first heard about the reboot, I was so happy they were fixing the organic webshooters.

...:P

 

[Just one more]

:P

I personally was overjoyed when I first heard about the reboot, I was so happy they were fixing the organic webshooters.

...:P

Still would like to see a scene more than 10 seconds long showing him making them (and making the webbing too!)

 

[Anno_Domini]

Peter didn't make the webbing in TAS-M.

 

[Jexx]

I believe that he did.

Just not in a normal sense. Oscorp did most of the work, making the bio-cable and all, I just believe that Peter has the webshooters add a small amount of chemical that will loosen the cable, make it stickier, and will make it dissolve.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Since nothing of that is ever explained, I believe he didn't, lol.