Box Office Showdown (3/23-3/25) Pacific Rim: Uprising, Sherlock Gnomes, Midnight Sun

[Creed]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

We need to find some financing.

Also, we need to find and call some agents!

[Destinys Memory]

#1 Black Panther
#2 Sherlock Gnomes (it looks awful)
#3 Pacific Rim: Why'd we make another one of these? Uprising (it looks worse than awful)

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by creed123

Also, we need to find and call some agents!

Good point.

[MikeScott]

Originally Posted by HorrorBlu

After Thoroughbreds got such a mediocre theatrical release, I'm also grateful Unsane will have a wide theatrical. I'll definitely be there opening weekend to support it.

Thoroughbreds didn't even open here. Bummed. They showed the trailer enough. Sad to see it drop so awful this weekend (at least the Friday-Friday drop was terrible).

[Britbuffguy]

I've only ever seen trailers for Rim and Gnomes...both look bad. I get the one is yet another Jesus movie. When is Easter....it might do alright that weekend.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by MikeScott

Thoroughbreds didn't even open here. Bummed. They showed the trailer enough. Sad to see it drop so awful this weekend (at least the Friday-Friday drop was terrible).

It opened here at the West side theater only, dropped to 2 showings on Friday.

[Creed]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I've only ever seen trailers for Rim and Gnomes...both look bad. I get the one is yet another Jesus movie. When is Easter....it might do alright that weekend.

Uprising looks like dumb fun like the first, but at the same time, not as good as the first.

Sherlock Gnomes, don't get me started. Rewatched the trailer and it's much worse.

[MikeScott]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

If Pacific Rim makes only $20 million...Black Panther will have a chance to beat it.

There's a good chance it will.

[Predatorix38417]

1. Pacific Rim $23 million
2. Black Panther $20 million
3. Sherlock Gnomes $18 million
4. Tomb Raider $12 million
5. I Can Only Imagine $10 million

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by MikeScott

Thoroughbreds didn't even open here. Bummed. They showed the trailer enough. Sad to see it drop so awful this weekend (at least the Friday-Friday drop was terrible).

My theatre had it in their "coming soon" section on their site but it's gone.

I hope Midnight Sun has Thursday night screenings.

[Chaotic]

Greatest Showman is about to pass $400M worldwide. Impressive.

[Britnasty]

Y'all are far too optimistic on some of these films.

Pacific Rim Uprising 23.5M
Black Panther 20M
Sherlock Gnomes 13M
I Can Only Imagine 12M (a sizable expansion is coming after this weekend)
Tomb Raider 11M
Midnight Sun 2M
Paul, Apostle of Christ 2M
Unsane 1M

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by Britnasty

Y'all are far too optimistic on some of these films.

Pacific Rim Uprising 23.5M
Black Panther 20M
Sherlock Gnomes 13M
I Can Only Imagine 12M (a sizable expansion is coming after this weekend)
Tomb Raider 11M
Midnight Sun 2M
Paul, Apostle of Christ 2M
Unsane 1M

I feel like Midnight Sun can do $5-$6M

[MikeScott]

1. PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING - 20.18 MILLION (New)
2. SHERLOCK GNOMES - 20.088 MILLION (New)
3. BLACK PANTHER - 19.455 MILLION (-27%)
4. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE - 14.025 MILLION (-18%)
5. TOMB RAIDER - 11.343 MILLION (-52%)
6. LOVE, SIMON - 9.169 MILLION (-22%)
7. A WRINKLE IN TIME - 8.453 MILLION (-48%)
8. GAME NIGHT - 4.257 MILLION (-24%)
9. MIDNIGHT SUN - 4.072 MILLION (New)
10. PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST - 3.825 MILLION (New)
11. PETER RABBIT - 3.693 MILLION (-29%)
12. UNSANE - 3 MILLION (New)
13. RED SPARROW - 2.492 MILLION (-45%)
14. STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT - 2.115 MILLION (-55%)
15. DEATH WISH - 1.65 MILLION (-51%)
16. ISLE OF DOGS - 1.2 MILLION (New)


Unsane I will likely lower. Just depends on theater count.

[Blu Titan]

Pacific Rim is winning the box office weekend and there’s zero doubt about it. After three consecutive weekends where a big budget film flopped...the box office is due for a spark. The trailers indicate that it’s a fun ride and it has better reviews than Sparrow, Wrinkle in Time and Tomb Raider.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Pacific Rim is winning the box office weekend and there’s zero doubt about it. After three consecutive weekends where a big budget film flopped...the box office is due for a spark. The trailers indicate that it’s a fun ride and it has better reviews than Sparrow, Wrinkle in Time and Tomb Raider.

I also think it will. I mean the original has a good amount of following so this sequel seems to be quite inviting amongst the fans.

[Blu Titan]

I predict +$35 million for Pacific Rim and $17 million for Black Panther.

[sandman slim]

I hope Pacific Rim does well... but I'm getting a bit of a "bomb" vibe. Have a feeling it may win Friday & then drop hard.

[fitprod]

Considering the first Pacific Rim opened with hype in August at just under $38 million, I don’t see this doing more than $20 million. It will likely beat Black Panther, but barely.

Fitprod1

[Predatorix38417]

If Pacific Rim bombs, then I think Ready Player One will have potential to exceed expectations significantly, $60-70 million+ opening weekend could be possible.

I'm actually quite scared by how well Black Panther has been doing, mostly cause Infinity War opens a little more than a month and a week away and this is still the number one movie. I'm worried Infinity War will open to less because of saturation left over from Black Panther.