Box Office Weekend 7/12-7/14: Robots vs Minions vs Grown Ups

[Visco.]

I'll redbox it when it comes out on DVD.

[djgeneral]

Adam Sandler has 12 films (13 if you count Hotel Trans) over $100 million in the US.

Even Jack And Jill, which was pretty horrible, managed to somehow get $75 million.

He is one of the most reliable movie stars in history despite the hate some have for him. I guess why fix what isn't broken.

And we know he is capable of being in/making good movies - Funny People, Reign Over Me, Punch-Drunk Love, etc.

I'd like to see a "smart" comedy from him - something more along the lines of Funny People which is one of my all-time favorites but people don't like it. Critics like those kinds of films he does but fans don't. And fans hate it, but critics love movies like Grown Ups. It's just mindless fun though.

[mlittle3]

Grown Up's was terrible. I am sure the second one is even worse.

[phillychronicle1981]

wow people comparing grown ups 2 to Dredd. yeah grown ups going to make more than Dredd but we know which is the better film. same case for pacific rim and grown ups 2 and we know which is the better film. The only film i like of Sandler was happy gilmore, punch drunk love and spanglish.

[Batman1980]

uillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim failed to do monster business at the North American box office. The tentpole was beat by both Despicable Me 2 and Adam Sandler's ensemble comedy Grown Ups 2 in a major disappointment for Thomas Tull's Legendary Pictures.

Pacifc Rim grossed $38.3 million, a problematic number considering the movie's production budget of at least $190 million. Legendary footed most of the bill for the 3D title, with distribution and marketing partner Warner Bros. putting up a minority stake. IMAX theaters -- the favored venue for fanboys -- ponied up $17.3 million, or 23 percent of the gross.

Universal's box office hit Despicable 2 stayed at No. 1 in its second weekend, grossing $44.8 million for a domestic total of $229.2 million. The 3D animated tentpole has now earned north of $400 million worldwide.

ANALYSIS: What 'Pacific Rim's' Fate Means for Legendary and Warner Bros.

Sony's Grown Ups 2 took in a stellar $42.5 million in a needed win for Sandler, who has had a string of box office disappointments.

Despite being ravaged by critics, Grown Ups 2 received a B- CinemaScore, same as the 2010 original. The sequel, costing a relatively modest $80 million to produce, reteams Sandler with Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello.

Fox's Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy comedy The Heat placed No. 4 in its third weekend, jumping the $100 million mark and ending the weekend with a North American cume of $112.4 million.

Coming in No. 5 Friday was Gore Verbinski's troubled The Lone Ranger, which fell to $11.1 million in its second weekend for a tepid domestic cume of $77.1 million. Overseas, the big-budget tentpole took in a meek $12.7 million from 33 territories for an international total of $48 million and worldwide cume of $119.1 million. Lone Ranger has a number of major markets left to open in.

Marking del Toro's first big-budget tentpole, Pacific Rim pits giant robots against alien monsters and stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day.

Defying soft prerelease tracking, Pacific Rim got off to a better-than-expected start Thursday night and Friday, but once fanboy traffic started tapering off late in the evening, the movie took a dip. Mirroring strong reviews, Pacific Rim received an A- CinemaScore.

Overseas, Pacific Rim launched to strong numbers in Asia, Russia and Mexico -- del Toro's home country -- though it fared dismally in Australia on Thursday, coming in No. 4 behind the the opening day of The Heat, Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University (the two animated films are benefiting from school holidays). It also was soft in the U.K.

Final weekend numbers have yet to be released, but Pacific Rim is expected to end the weekend with worldwide grosses north of $100 million.

VIDEO: 'Pacific Rim's' Guillermo del Toro on Box-Office Pressure, Planning a Sequel

So far internationally, the tentpole is outpacing a slew of films that went on to gross between $300 million and $400 million overseas, including Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Clash of the Titans and Prometheus. It's also pacing on par with World War Z, which has earned more than $200 million to date at the foreign box office.

Making headlines at the specialty box office in North America was The Weinstein Co.'s critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station, about the the shooting of a young African-American man by BART police in Oakland. The film -- opening just as George Zimmerman was acquitted of shooting Trayvon Martin -- grossed $377,285 from seven theaters for a location average of $53,898, the third best of the year so far.

Fruitvale star Michael B. Jordan and first-time feature Ryan Coogler have been vocal in comparing the two shootings, and the issues they raise.

Source - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...able-me-585190

[Chaotic]

PR losing to two sequels isnt surprising at all

[Foggy]

B- is lousy for Grown Ups 2, even the audience isn't too keen on it.

[djgeneral]

It will still be another $100 million movie for Sandler making this #14

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by Foggy

B- is lousy for Grown Ups 2, even the audience isn't too keen on it.

it got a B, still not much better though

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

it got a B, still not much better though

Says B- in the article, but that's besides the point. Anything below an A grade is considered not very good.

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by Foggy

B- is lousy for Grown Ups 2, even the audience isn't too keen on it.

Originally Posted by Foggy

Says B- in the article, but that's besides the point. Anything below an A grade is considered not very good.

Cinemascore.com says B but that is the same score as the first one got

If anything below an A isnt considered good, then 90% of movies are considered good then.

[Visco.]

Pacific Rim is only being showed twice at my local theater. That's kind of annoying.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Pacific Rim is only being showed twice at my local theater. That's kind of annoying.

Yeah it doesn't have a lot of showtimes here either which is why I ended up going at 3:00 which I hate to do because it's usually a very busy time, oddly the auditorium was only about 2/3 full. Don't think the audience enjoyed it much either, they didn't seem to be reacting to it much during the showing.

[Chaotic]

the only times i see audiences react to movies are midnight showings

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Cinemascore.com says B but that is the same score as the first one got

If anything below an A isnt considered good, then 90% of movies are considered good then.

This is the thing I dislike about Cinemascore, every article says "well it got a B, hype going to suck around this one". A) Cinemascores are taken from one audience on opening day, the reason they're saying anything less than an A is bad is because all the people eager to watch it go on that Friday, so they automatically assume all these people are expecting the greatest thing ever. B) they assume audiences will either say "this is the bestest film ever!" Or "this is the worstest film ever!" They think audiences don't deduce things in terms of how much they like it. And lastly C) how does an entire conscious get accumulated by one audiences reaction?

[Pounder]

Well I called it back earlier in the year that Grown Ups 2 would beat PR at box office opening weekend and was called crazy. Where's my cookie.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by pgestradasp1

Well I called it back earlier in the year that Grown Ups 2 would beat PR at box office opening weekend and was called crazy. Where's my cookie.

Groan Ups 2 is doing ridiculously well but expect it to fall off next weekend as families go to Turbo and Despicable Me 2 and adults/teenagers flock to Elysium. Speaking of Elysium, tired of seeing the trailer for that movie, think I've seen it over 10 times now.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Groan Ups 2 is doing ridiculously well but expect it to fall off next weekend as families go to Turbo and Despicable Me 2 and adults/teenagers flock to Elysium. Speaking of Elysium, tired of seeing the trailer for that movie, think I've seen it over 10 times now.

Elysium is going to be R-rated, I doubt many teens will be flocking off to that.

[Pounder]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Groan Ups 2 is doing ridiculously well but expect it to fall off next weekend as families go to Turbo and Despicable Me 2 and adults/teenagers flock to Elysium. Speaking of Elysium, tired of seeing the trailer for that movie, think I've seen it over 10 times now.

Oh yes. Also the Conjuring and Red 2.

[Chaotic]

and it doesnt come out till August 9th