V For Vendetta Box Office Tracking Thread

[Darthphere]

V For Vendetta is simply following the BO trend of most comic book movies.

Decent or strong opening weekend, huge weekend drop-offs. Little in the way of buzz or word of mouth.

The only exceptions to this so far (in recent years) have been the Spider-man films.

Now I will say, considering the highly political content of this movie, I'm rather surprised. I was expecting a lot more controversy and media discussion about this movie, when there really hasn't been.

For the moviegoing public, I think some of them just couldn't get past V and his mask and couldn't buy into it.

Yeah, its a niche market, everyone that wanted to see it saw it opening weekend. I asked a friend of mine yet if she saw V and she said she never heard of it. This was yesterday.

 

[ThreeOfAKind]

V For Vendetta is simply following the BO trend of most comic book movies.

Decent or strong opening weekend, huge weekend drop-offs. Little in the way of buzz or word of mouth.

The only exceptions to this so far (in recent years) have been the Spider-man films.

And Batman Begins. Which had a weak opening weekend, and some of the best legs ever.


V for Vendetta has to be considered a disappointment, as far as its box office. As a movie it's really getting a great reaction, and I personally love it.

It's strange that the best reviewed movies this year (and generally most loved according to the ranking sites) such as Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Slither, and V for Vendetta - are the ones that are flopping. The only exception has been Inside Man.

V for Vendetta will probably make a profit on DVD where it should bring in some very strong numbers, however the BO intake is very weak. It will have to settle for cult movie status, and a place on a few peoples top 10 lists.

 

[TheVileOne]

And Batman Begins. Which had a weak opening weekend, and some of the best legs ever.

Batman Begins doesn't apply to my argument since it had a disappointing, weak opening. And it had low weekend drop-offs, great buzz, great word of mouth.

V for Vendetta has to be considered a disappointment, as far as its box office. As a movie it's really getting a great reaction, and I personally love it.

It's strange that the best reviewed movies this year (and generally most loved according to the ranking sites) such as Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Slither, and V for Vendetta - are the ones that are flopping. The only exception has been Inside Man.

V for Vendetta will probably make a profit on DVD where it should bring in some very strong numbers, however the BO intake is very weak. It will have to settle for cult movie status, and a place on a few peoples top 10 lists.

I won't really call the movie a flop. I will say that most everyone on the forums overestimated its BO potential as they do most comic book movies.

 

[Darthphere]

Personally I thought it was going to flop.

 

[superion]

V's 45% drop is better then I expected. I was shocked Slither flopped so badly. It's in the same horror genre as Staying Alive which opened last weekend in third place despite being so lousy the studio didn't let critics review it before its release while Slither got generally good reviews. I guess the teenage target audience for these movies really don't read reviews.

 

[TheVileOne]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Drop-off for the second weekend wasn't as high this time, iestimated at under 50%. I wouldn't call it impressive though.

And wow, look at that so-so box office for Ice Age 2 .

 

[Darthphere]

Damn kids and their movies.

 

[SsM]

I loved it, everyone I know loved it as well its a shame its not getting the recognition it really deserves.

 

[Nivek]

Very, very, very dissapointed. Not entirely unexspected, but hey, nothing did all that great in relation to anything thats not a brat flick. I still cant believe that movie did that well. The power of the rugrats compells box office.


The people I knew who said they were waiting to see it said they are "gonna wait for it to come out in video" now. So, all the negative nancys can gloat away about it not being a "huge hit" and all that jazz. Maybe in their opinon WB should have made V more kid friendly? Less Moore, more Comedy? Maybe a talking rabbit as a sidekick?

Eh, i'll own it on DVD regardless, and it will be yet another "Fight Club" type movie that every whines about "I should've seen it in the theatre, it was awesome.

 

[SsM]

yeah.. like they made batman more youth friendly with batman and robin.... V with bat roller skates to the rescue!

 

[Nivek]

Well, with everyone throwing around the loaded word "Bomb" left and right, people forget Batman and Robin did pretty well at the Box Office till fan word of mouth and critical reviews chased it out of the Box office. As anger-indusing that film was, it still pulled in $238 million worldwide. So dumbing down that character still brought in a profit.

 

[SsM]

Well, with everyone throwing around the loaded word "Bomb" left and right, people forget Batman and Robin did pretty well at the Box Office till fan word of mouth and critical reviews chased it out of the Box office. As anger-indusing that film was, it still pulled in $238 million worldwide. So dumbing down that character still brought in a profit.

Damn shame too pardon my language it took over ten years to get another good batman movie after batman returns

 

[Rob_Merritt]

I think its performing slightly under WB's expectations. It opened slightly soft domesticly but internationally The Pink Panther stole several markets they figured V would perform well in. However the movie was cheap to make, it will make a healthy profit.

 

[Darthphere]

Damn shame too pardon my language it took over ten years to get another good batman movie after batman returns

Thats assuming Batman Returns was actually good.

 

[GL's Light]

The weekend actuals are out:

V for Vendetta placed 5th with $ 6,295,358 (a 49% drop) for a total, so far, of $ 56,659,439.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

The worldwide BO according to BoxOfficeMojo is now $81,659,439.
And the movie still has to open in big markets like France and Japan,

 

[Polomontana]

V has legs!!! It's doing well worldwide. Why do you think they are doing another Garfield movie and it takes place overseas? Garfield made $75,369,589 in the United States and $123,232,506 in the foreign markets for a total of $198 million worldwide. I see a V prequal in the future!!

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

I see a V prequal in the future!!

No, really.

 

[superion]

They updated the overseas BO of V at BO Mojo and it seems to have barely moved. Its at $25 mill overseas. Wasn't it over $23 mill last week. Looks like the overseas numbers are going to be less then the US by quite a bit which is surprising as LOEG the last adaptation of a Moore comic made almost twice as much overseas.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

1.0mil for friday. www.boxofficemojo.com.

This thing isn't springing any legs. Thats a 50% friday to friday drop off.

 

[superion]

Unless its overseas results really picks up this will be a money loser at the BO.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

The estimated total for the week-end is $3,365,000 for a total gross in the USA of $62,257,000. It just surpassed the national final gross of Hellboy.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The estimated total for the week-end is $3,365,000 for a total gross in the USA of $62,257,000. It just surpassed the national final gross of Hellboy.

Yay! Maybe it can catch Titanic!

 

[superion]

The estimated total for the week-end is $3,365,000 for a total gross in the USA of $62,257,000. It just surpassed the national final gross of Hellboy.

Why use Hellboy as a benchmark for anything? Hellboy cost $96 million dollars ($66 production and $30 marketing) and only made a little over $99 million worldwide. The studio loss tens of millions of dollars on Hellboy. Why they are discussing a sequel is beyond me?

Hellboy was also released 3 years ago so inflation has to be included in the calculation. The max amount V will make domestically is $75 million. Assuming it gets that it will need at least another $70 million overseas just to breakeven. But like Hellboy its overseas BO is lagging behind the domestic by quite a bit. V looks like another money loser just not as bad as Hellboy.

 

[TheVileOne]

Hellboy was released 2 years ago, in 2004, not 3 years ago in 2003.