X3 Box Office Tracker

[danoyse]

After all of that it still took Superman 3 days and 4 nights to top X3's opening day. LMFAO All I heard for months is Singer is God, Superman this, Superman that, blah blah blah. When it all comes down to opening day the fanboys here realize that they're not the only ones who buy tickets, and their ridiculous ideas of how a movie should be is not inline with the general public who could care less about sticking to exact origins, what color cyclops hair is, or if Professor X dies. They're going to the movies to have fun...not cry like babies about details.

Seriously...they're roasting Singer alive over in the SR forum (very unfairly, I think). They really do think the entire public hates the movie because of his suit.

There's just no making anyone happy, is there???

 

[BMM]

After all of that it still took Superman 3 days and 4 nights to top X3's opening day. LMFAO All I heard for months is Singer is God, Superman this, Superman that, blah blah blah. When it all comes down to opening day the fanboys here realize that they're not the only ones who buy tickets, and their ridiculous ideas of how a movie should be is not inline with the general public who could care less about sticking to exact origins, what color cyclops hair is, or if Professor X dies. They're going to the movies to have fun...not cry like babies about details.

Which is why the general audiences who bothered to see Returns appear to enjoy it.

 

[BMM]

Seriously...they're roasting Singer alive over in the SR forum (very unfairly, I think). They really do think the entire public hates the movie because of his suit.

There's just no making anyone happy, is there???

Haha. Overall, I don't think they're doing too horribly. The ratings system is by far top heavy. Only 51 people rate the movie being below average (I'm assuming a 5 is in the middle) . . . and the Bluetights/Planet network seems to have no problem.

I really am anticipating the Pirates opening almost simply for numbers sake. It should be interesting, but God how can that movie be two and a half hours long . . .

 

[Celestial]

Please keep the Superman Returns spoilers out of here. The movie has yet to be released in most of the world.

 

[danoyse]

Haha. Overall, I don't think they're doing too horribly. The ratings system is by far top heavy. Only 51 people rate the movie being below average (I'm assuming a 5 is in the middle) . . . and the Bluetights/Planet network seems to have no problem.

Check out the complaints thread in SHH...they're all under debate about (SPOILER).....a certain character's parental rights. Good lord, people are dense.

I really am anticipating the Pirates opening almost simply for numbers sake. It should be interesting, but God how can that movie be two and a half hours long . . .

The first one was 2 hours, 23 minutes.

 

[josh8]

And yet . . . Routh with his minimal lines (as though the character he plays is supposed to be chatty) has more lines than Jean . . . and in the Dark Phoenix Saga no less . . . and he has more lines and more growth than Angel, Arclight, Callisto, Cyclops, Colossus, Iceman, Jean, Juggernaut, Kitty, Mystique, Psylocke, Pyro, Rogue, Trask, and Xavier. Jimmy and Perry are no more caricatures than half of the secondary characters in The Last Stand . . .

yeah, but he's the title character. so your argument is ... stupid.

The Last Stand isn't the worst movie imaginable, and no, people shouldn't simply bash it in light of Returns, but you're flaws regarding Returns aren't much different than those found in most films anymore . . . especially The Last Stand.

it was his opinion, but i guess you're kind of validating his point that SR wasnt smarter than any other run-of-the-mill comic book movie.

 

[josh8]

Keep the ****ing SR vs. X3 bull**** out of here. God I wish I was a mod.

yeah i know. but you have to admit it is kind of fun. i dont think SR sucks, but the rabid fans trying to defend it's poor performance is really amusing and it's even more fun to rile them up a bit. especially considering how they focused so much on x3's massive drop, it's a little bit of karma to see them trying to make all these excuses.

overall, massive opening followed by massive drops still beats massive failure right out of the gate. haha i know, it's too early to tell, but it's still funny.

 

[BMM]

yeah, but he's the title character. so your argument is ... stupid.

Wow. No more than your's. Perry White has more lines than half of the examples I listed. That's not the point. It isn't my intention to say that because Routh has more lines his performance is better than those in The Last Stand. I'm pointing out that alleged minimalist lines in Returns don't make for any worse a movie than the minimalist lines featured in The Last Stand, or any movie for that matter.

it was his opinion, but i guess you're kind of validating his point that SR wasnt smarter than any other run-of-the-mill comic book movie.

It wasn't my intention to boast Returns as being smarter than any other run-of-the-mill comic book movie--nor did I. It was my intention to demonstrate that its plot wasn't the worst (rating below Catwoman) and certainly is no more ridiculous than others before it . . . seeing as how these are comic book films afterall.

The first one was 2 hours, 23 minutes

Wow. I guess it is. I haven't watched it in a while and don't remember it being that long. How many theaters/screens is the sequel opening in/with? I would think it would be more than the first. Given it's hype, it will be interesting to see if its opening weekend holds up to The Last Stand's.

 

[silver_arrow]

Let's take my 6 friends as an example. they are on their 30 something. 4 of them watched superman, 1 will still watch it while the other will not see it. they both have good thing to say about superman, but did they care to recommend it? No. Did they care to discuss it?No. When asked, they'd say it's good, but just quite long. End of story, and then we proceeded to eat and drink to celebrate the bday of our other friend.

Now, xmen. Did I mention, I dragged them into watching it? After we watched it, we discussed all the fun stuffs. Is it good? they said it's fun to watch. Is it Oscar quality film? They didn't care. Did they know it was supposedly to be directed by Singer? Nope. Did they ask who the director? No. But here's the funny thing,a week after we saw each other again, 4 confessed they watched it again.

Similarity? their low regard to comic movies. Difference? They found xmen more fun, and surprisingly found some issues worth discussing over a cup of coffee.

 

[PoSeiDon]

I would like to say I love the X forum! Superman has gotten RAVE reviews so what is going on over on the sups board! All of us X-men fans don't agree and we discuss it untill our hearts content! We didnt care if the critics liked it or not(some of us) but having critial acclaim is a good thing. NOW when a movie like Superman gets all these great reivews they are already doing a "who should have directed superman"

Yall sure lex hasnt tapered with the brains of people who saw sups lol

 

[Sagitarrius]

I think they just didn't consider Pirates when when they picked the date.

i don't think Pirates had anything to do with Superman's disappointing
audience output on it's opening weekend.

with a 4000 theater release available , if the general
audience really had a big interest and really wanted
to see S-returns, they simply would have turned out to go see it.

 

[PoSeiDon]

i don't think Pirates had anything to do with Superman's disappointing
audience output on it's opening weekend.

with a 4000 theater release available , if the general
audience really had a big interest and really wanted
to see S-returns, they simply would have turned out to go see it.

At the end of the day, that quote above speaks volumes about why sups box office is not stellar right now. Its opened up on a day that other movies came out the box putting butts in the seats! so that means people were not that interested! my mother loved the first superman and even i did when i was little. I said "mom superman comes out wensday" and she said "and....." I think thats how most responded.

 

[josh8]

Wow. No more than your's. Perry White has more lines than half of the examples I listed. That's not the point. It isn't my intention to say that because Routh has more lines his performance is better than those in The Last Stand. I'm pointing out that alleged minimalist lines in Returns don't make for any worse a movie than the minimalist lines featured in The Last Stand, or any movie for that matter.

my argument wasnt stupid simply because i didnt make one. i was just stating the obvious about yours.

i never implied that it takes tons of dialogue to make characters meaningful, or that little dialogue means little characterization. i was just pointing out that something you said seemed rather rediculous.

It wasn't my intention to boast Returns as being smarter than any other run-of-the-mill comic book movie--nor did I. It was my intention to demonstrate that its plot wasn't the worst (rating below Catwoman) and certainly is no more ridiculous than others before it . . . seeing as how these are comic book films afterall.

sorry, you're right about this one. YJ1 was responding to someone else talking about SR being a really smart movie and i confused that with you after you responded to him. my apologies for that.

however, you did corroborate his opinion that SR had a stupid plot (and the fact that most action movies have stupid plots is irrelevant to his argument). and that's what his original opinion was. he was responding against another opinion that it was a smart movie.

 

[danoyse]

i don't think Pirates had anything to do with Superman's disappointing
audience output on it's opening weekend.

Oh no, nothing to do with this weekend...but they didn't realize how harsh the competition would be on that 2nd weekend.

with a 4000 theater release available , if the general
audience really had a big interest and really wanted
to see S-returns, they simply would have turned out to go see it.

Then again...the last X-Men movie was only 3 years ago. The last Superman movie was 20 years ago, and bad movie at that.

I'm hoping it will have a Batman Begins-like pickup at the box office. I'd hate to SR flop, I really enjoyed it.

 

[phantom47]

Im surprised that Divinci Code is doing alittle better than X3. It got a boost somehow and im guessing it was shipped to discount theaters this weekend

 

[crappymovie]

Im surprised that Divinci Code is doing alittle better than X3. It got a boost somehow and im guessing it was shipped to discount theaters this weekend

Or...the audience that was watching X3 got converted into the Superman audience, which is likely, because of the viewing drop on Wednesday (when SR opened.) The general public is still watching Da Vinci.

 

[phantom47]

ohh yeah i forgot that SR pulled alot of X's audience well X3 did anoth 2.1 mil this weekend and we have another 2 days of holiday this week for it to pull in good numbers

 

[crappymovie]

I'm hoping it will have a Batman Begins-like pickup at the box office. I'd hate to SR flop, I really enjoyed it.

Same....this was an "origin" film, a sequel could have X2 potential....

If only Pirates wasn't opening so soon...

 

[crappymovie]

ohh yeah i forgot that SR pulled alot of X's audience well X3 did anoth 2.1 mil this weekend and we have another 2 days of holiday this week for it to pull in good numbers

Agreed, it should make the bulk of it's big money this week, because Pirates will knock it down again ...What's troubling is the 775 thousand on Saturday though, because that's a pretty poor number for a Sat (indicates that a huge portion of the audience is gone...) But I still think it can do $235 million.

 

[Carp Man]

Ok. X3's weekend estimates are in. Updated #'s below. $ 2,050,000 for the weekend. SR updated weekend #'s below.

 

[phantom47]

do you think cars will surpass X3 domestic

 

[crappymovie]

do you think cars will surpass X3 domestic

Very likely. It's already at $182 million this weekend, and it made $14 million this weekend. It should probably end up with about $240-245 million.

X3 should be ahead of Da Vinci for the year, as well as SR (but it could have a Batman Begins performance...)

But I still think X3's performance is a bit disappointing, especially with that opening weekend. But most of the films that were perceived by the public to be a little...off, have had similar performances (cars, da vinci)

 

[LittleMissVixen]

I figured SR was gonna be a bit off when The Devil Wears Parda was the only sold-out show on the marquee at my local movie house.

(Meryl Streep looks scarier than Kevin Spacey as LL, lol)

 

[LoGaN's RuNNer]

yeah i know. but you have to admit it is kind of fun. i dont think SR sucks, but the rabid fans trying to defend it's poor performance is really amusing and it's even more fun to rile them up a bit. especially considering how they focused so much on x3's massive drop, it's a little bit of karma to see them trying to make all these excuses.

overall, massive opening followed by massive drops still beats massive failure right out of the gate. haha i know, it's too early to tell, but it's still funny.

Yeah it kinda is. I was thinking that SR was going to beat X3 by at least 15 million, maybe I was wrong.. Still too early to tell I know, but with Pirates next week..

 

[Optic Blast]

Why is there so much hatred between everybody here? I'm not talking about this specific thread, I'm talking about all over the forums. If someone doesn't agree with your opinion, they're your enemy. Also, since when has how fast a movie makes a ton of money matter whether or not it's a good movie? People on here are starting to sound like studio executives. What matters is in twenty years, are people going to look back and say, "Damn, that was a classic movie. Great filmmaking!" or are they going to say, "Damn, that movie made over 100 million dollars in the first 9 hours of release!". I wish people would stop spinning their own personal biases on other people, be they adulations of praise, or heaps of negativity. Let people enjoy what they enjoy, or dislike what they dislike.