Box Office Showdown (6/30-7/2) Despicable Me 3, The House, Baby Driver

[Tony208]

Raunchy comedies have been flopping so hard. Being awful awful movies doesn't help.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/th...ce-1202486209/

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Hoping Baby Driver breaks out and scoops into second place, I'm doubtful but it's possible. Sony were mad to put it in such a loaded weekend.

I'm a happy boy.

[Chaotic]

DM3 was really overestimated. Made $72m

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

DM3 was really overestimated. Made $72m

Pretty awful.

[Chaotic]

Yeah an $80m movie making $72m opening is awful. This place....

[Tony208]

Good. That's what they get for using the terrible and unoriginal super villain brother angle. It was dumb in Austin Powers Goldmember and Spectre too.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Yeah an $80m movie making $72m opening is awful. This place....

Well, it could be awful depending on what the drop-off is next weekend. They must have spent a fortune on marketing, as I see that damn commercial like every 5 minutes!

[Chaotic]

If that's a flop then pretty much every blockbuster is a flop.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Yeah an $80m movie making $72m opening is awful. This place....

It could be awful if it only makes $1M each upcoming weekend for the next few weeks. But that won't happen, so it'd be foolish to call this a bust when there's still no other family competition until what.....The Emoji Movie at end of July? I'm not even counting Spider-Man Homecoming since young children and parents will still be choosing DM3.

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

It could be awful if it only makes $1M each upcoming weekend for the next few weeks. But that won't happen, so it'd be foolish to call this a bust when there's still no other family competition until what.....The Emoji Movie at end of July? I'm not even counting Spider-Man Homecoming since young children and parents will still be choosing DM3.

This will probably make $600M WW atleast. So yeah....just awful

[Foggy]

It's pretty bad, sure no one at Universal will be breaking a sweat, but considering how popular the films are, the numbers do demonstrate a decline in interested.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Foggy

It's pretty bad, sure no one at Universal will be breaking a sweat, but considering how popular the films are, the numbers do demonstrate a decline in interested.

It does indeed, but Minions was practically a freebie in that it's pretty darned rare for a spin-off to become the #1 grossing movie in any particular franchise, never mind become one of only 30-odd movies that ever cracked the $1BN mark worldwide.

Universal made beaucoup dollars on that flick and even though DM3 may well underperform in light of the incredible success of DM2 and Minions - like several other former franchise favourites have done this summer - it's still got dat sweeeeet $80M budget so even if it pulls in "only" $600M worldwide it will have cleared far more money than Pirates or Transformers with a similar gross.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Everybody is funny here.

[Chaotic]

Fox would've loved a $72M opening for Covenant.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

Everybody is funny here.

I'm not.

Even you said so!