The Amazing Spider-Man The Box Office Thread

[I Am The Knight]

Costumed love in Batman Returns was brilliant, and good luck to Nolan if he tries to top that. I'm sure though, that, like with Joker, he will go in a completely different direction for the character.

With that said, I think the reboot can do BB numbers...We need a better understanding of the scale of this babe.

 

[TheSlag]

Costumed Love in Batman Returns was Brilliant?!??!?! Not IMO. It was just stupid. : And I cannot imagine Nolan going anywhere near that in TDKR (hopefully and thankfully). I could see him taking Catwoman quickly to a scourned lover/psychotic figure. Any "flirting" between Batman and Catwoman would be idiotic IMO.

So we will just have to agree to disagree on that. We have vastly different opinons when it comes to "costumed love" in superhero movies.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Yes it was brilliant. But fine, agree to disagree, as getting into that would derail the thread....I do think we can all agree that brilliant or not so much, TDKR will lay waste to anything in it's path.

 

[TheSlag]

Yes it was brilliant. But fine, agree to disagree, as getting into that would derail the thread....I do think we can all agree that brilliant or not so much, TDKR will lay waste to anything in it's path.

LOL.. lay waste? not MUCH of a fan/ego there are you?

I agree that I think TDKR will beat the reboot overall in box office. Lay waste to.. NO.

 

[I Am The Knight]

LOL.. lay waste? not MUCH of a fan/ego there are you?

I agree that I think TDKR will beat the reboot overall in box office. Lay waste to.. NO.

Let's put it this way...TDK made as much as both Iron Man and Hulk combined, just in domestic grosses. And then some TDKR is the sequel to one of the most beloved movies of the last decade, it's going to make a whole lotta coin just from goodwill alone, goodwill that the Spider-Man franchise does not have at the moment thanks to the "controversial" SM3.

So. Spidey is more or less in the same spot that the Bat franchise was back in 2005. So I expect the reboot to make about as much as BB, considering people like it and it garners repeat attendance. Heck, I'll say it can surpass BB easily, but not by that much....Maybe do X2-X3 numbers?

 

[TheSlag]

I am not going to worry about the box office for the reboot. I hope it does well, but it's not that big of a deal for me. I mainly hope it's a good movie period. No matter how well it does or not at the box office. And to speculate before seeing anything other than what we have, is crazy IMO at this time.

But to say TDKR will lay waste to all is arrogant at its best. I wonder HOW TDKR will do a) without a key figure like Ledger's Joker b) Trying to live up to TDK expectations and c) having Catwoman in it.

I would not be surprised if TDKR does good early box office numbers but drops off fairly quickly. Hope not, cause I am a fan of all superhero movies. But I wonder.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I think TDKR has a good shot at $400 million, again just from goodwill alone. WOM should help it, course...

It's going to be interesting to see how people react to the reboot, WOM will have to carry it, especially considering the tough competition it faces. I do believe it's going to be a good movie, I have faith in Webb, and the cast is superb.

 

[chaseter]

TDKR will make 400 million +

 

[Tacit Ronin]

TDKR's overseas numbers will be significantly larger than TDK's.

 

[Brother Jack]

TDKR's overseas numbers will be significantly larger than TDK's.

Why do you say that?

 

[Ajendo]

The movie may be amazing, but it has too many things working against it to top any of Raimi's movies financially. Quality wise is yet to be seen. I will also guarantee that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. It might not happen but I guarantee that it will. That isn't a fact, that is a strong guess.

And my bet with Ninja still stands I can't wait to see that sig!

You made that bet with me

 

[chaseter]

HAHA I already forgot who I made the bet with. That bodes well.

 

[Venom'sDad]

As much as it pains me to say this; but, I don't have great BO expectation for this film.

 

[d.k.]

I think it'll do very well at the box office, it's spider-man for crying out loud.
The past movies were super successful, I don't think there's any reason to think this will be any different.

 

[chaseter]

Depends on how you define super successful. Will it make double it's budget? Of course. That is successful. Will it make TDK numbers? No way. So it all depends on what you consider number wise to be super successful.

 

[d.k.]

Yeah I wasn't so much comparing it to TDK as much as I was the three previous spidey movies, which I'd say would be considered super successful. I think the odds are that this will be as successful or even more so than all of those

 

[Venom'sDad]

I think it'll do very well at the box office, it's spider-man for crying out loud.
The past movies were super successful, I don't think there's any reason to think this will be any different.

Yeah.....and they said the same about "Supes Return" and his super successful past.

Depends on how you define super successful. Will it make double it's budget? Of course. That is successful. Will it make TDK numbers? No way. So it all depends on what you consider number wise to be super successful.

Exactly...especially if the Budget is truely $80 million as once reported.

 

[d.k.]

Yeah.....and they said the same about "Supes Return" and his super successful past.

Don't really see how the fact that a superman movie that came out five years ago doing poorly would be an indicator that the spidey reebot won't do that well. Two different characters, two different franchises.

 

[The Batman]

But to say TDKR will lay waste to all is arrogant at its best.

....Spider-Man fans used to think Spidey could outsell a World's Finest movie at the BO. Everyones a bit arrogant.

 

[Ajendo]

Yeah.....and they said the same about "Supes Return" and his super successful past.

The supes films just aren't aggressively engaging. Recycling a comedic lex luthor as THE villain in every film is just sad, boring and uninteresting. Znyder's recent comment about supes was spot on, supes has to be physical. We need a supes movie that maximises the use of his powers and gives him an engaging opponent and not some bald headed clown with a fetish for real estate.

That being said, spider-man is a far more visually engaging chracater to watch, especially if he's done right.

 

[spider-neil]

to be honest, it's difficult to tell which way the box office of spidey will go. if the trailer is amazing then WOM, hype and marketing will drive this movie. also there is nothing to gauge the success or failure as there hasn't been a franchise as successful as the spiuder-man franchise that has been rebooted so quickly.

people mention BB suffering coming on the heels of B&R but B&R was a flop critically and financially, SM3 was massive $900 (it did higher numbers than TDK overseas).

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Spider-man reboot

600-700 m worldwide, enough to green light a sequel.

 

[chaseter]

I won't even try to guess WW with an untested franchise. The WW market is extremely hard to read with new movies. The only safe bets are family cartoons and not overly patriotic American action movies.

 

[MrSpyder]

Spider-man reboot

600-700 m worldwide, enough to green light a sequel.

I agree with this, would like to see how it will do domestically

 

[Iceman]

Spidey needs a different release date with easier competition. If Star Trek II maintains the quality of the first it's going to be tight. If Spidey turns out to be amazing I'll be rewatching a few times weeks after release but once DKR is out the door is shut on everything else (for me). I think it should go for about a month after Avengers (hopefully will have watched that 6 or 7 times by then t so beginning of June.