BigThor
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He is talking about the 900 million to 1 billion range. No superhero movie falls within that particular range.
For good reason, that is a weird amount to make.
He is talking about the 900 million to 1 billion range. No superhero movie falls within that particular range.
Once you get in the mid $950ms plus, might as well make an all out push for the billion dollar mark.
http://deadline.com/2017/10/thor-ragnarok-box-office-opening-projection-1202187006/After Blade Runner 2049 Crashed, Leave It To Thor: Ragnarok To Save Autumn B.O. With $100M+ Opening
October is going to be a sluggish month at the box office. Many were hoping that Alcon Entertainment/Sonys Blade Runner 2049 would take us to a higher ground: Its advance ticket sales, Blade Runner 2049 was outpacing previous record October openers Gravity and The Martian, and before its debut, some tracking services had the film near $50M.
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But with the domestic box office still 4.7% behind last year with $8.3 billion, if were going to beat last years record $11.4B, it will have to start with Disney/Marvels Thor: Ragnarok wholl pass the baton to Warner Bros./DCs Justice League wholl then pass to Disney/Pixars Coco and then finally Disney/Lucasfilms Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Thor Ragnarok, the third in the series, hit tracking this morning, and its looking at a $100M-$110M start per industry figures with enormous strength among the four quadrants: Very strong with families, Hispanics and African Americans. Thor: Ragnarok in tracking has an enormous 85% in total awareness, 29% in unaided (those polled say its a movie they want to see without being prompted on the title, that number is huge), 61% definite interest, and 24% first choice (when youre in the double digits at that level, thats excellent). A $100M start would be huge for the threequel, beating its previous chapter, Thor: The Dark Worlds, $85.7M November opening four years ago. Such projections this far out always come with a footnote because when a pic arrives this strong, its hard to determine how high it will go. Even if the domestic marketplace turns wonky, a $90M opening for Thor: Ragnarok wouldnt be so bad.
The Thor franchise started off with Paramount distributing the movie under their deal with Marvel, opening the first installment to $65.7M (and a final $181M) in May 2011. When Disney took over Marvel, they pushed this franchises numbers up even more with $85.7M debut and $206.4M final stateside. Thor: Ragnarok is the third Marvel title to play in the November corridor following Thor: The Dark World and last years Doctor Strange ($85M, $232.6M). Together the first two Thor movies have made over $1.09 billion at the global B.O.
Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director James Gunn gave the film a rave review, saying on Facebook, I dont think any film of the modern era has captured the bat**** crazy fun of 80s classics like Flash Gordon and Buckaroo Banzai as well as Taika Waititi has here. I felt like I was fourteen watching a magical VHS tape that exploded into something grand. Its the most colorful of all Marvel films I mean, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is practically sepia-tone in comparison and its also the funniest.
Deadline saw Thor: Ragnarok on Tuesday night and it truly is a ton of fun in the Guardians of the Galaxy-kind of way, far from the moody tones of Thor: The Dark World. In the threequel, [BLACKOUT]Thors sister[/BLACKOUT], Hela (Cate Blanchett) takes over Asgard and paving the way for the planets Ragnarok aka its apocalypse. She has crushed Thors hammer to bits and the hero is stranded on the colorful planet Sakaar where he is forced to fight in gladiator battles, his first being against the Hulk. With Hulks help and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Thor looks to make his way back to Asgard.
Uppdate: 15 days before release.Uppdate 20 days before release:
Opening day / Friday - 440 tickets sold out of 2105 available. (21% of tickets)
Saturday - 342 tickets sold out of 2105 available. (16%)
Sunday - 116 tickets sold out of 1684 available. (7%)
Opening Weekend totals: 898 IMAX tickets sold out of 5894. (15%)
It's for the IMAX theatre here in Sweden.What is that for? US IMAX sales?
It's for the IMAX theatre here in Sweden.
It sure is. 2 actually.Oh gotya. I was thinking the numbers sounded a bit low for US lol.
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Thor Ragnarok, the third in the series, hit tracking this morning, and its looking at a $100M-$110M start per industry figures with enormous strength among the four quadrants: Very strong with families, Hispanics and African Americans. Thor: Ragnarok in tracking has an enormous 85% in total awareness, 29% in unaided (those polled say its a movie they want to see without being prompted on the title, that number is huge), 61% definite interest, and 24% first choice (when youre in the double digits at that level, thats excellent).
I can see it making around 700M, but not much more. There's not enough interest in this franchise.
In addition Dark World has hurt this franchise. That was a crashing bore of a movie.
The movie is still more than 3 weeks away so no concrete projections can be made but I see this one opening at around (112-115 million) right nao. But Ragnarok has been able to sustain an enormous interest/hype on social media platforms and that does suggest that we might see a breakout in a big way. So can't rule out a bigger increase from TDW. Right nao I have Ragnarok increasing (32-36)% over TDW (IM2 to IM3). The initial hype certainly makes a case for an increase similar or at least closer in proximity to Vol 2 from GotG. So 125 million OW isn't too far fetched and that would be a great start for the movie.
Forgot to mention it in the earlier post but a shout-out to HammerDown for blacking out that spoiler part. I probably would have been pissed if I knew what was in that spot. Thanks to HD.![]()
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I read it when it wasn't hidden *cries * lol oh well
If it is indeed a big spoiler, then Deadline screwed up. They should have been much more careful with stuff like that.
It's a pretty damn big spoiler, it ruins one of the big hidden revelations in the film. If I hadn't already known I would have been super pissed at Deadline.