The Jungle wins again, Huntsman disappoints

No surprisingly Disney's The Jungle Book remained at the top of the box office with a second week gross of $60.8 million. After 10 days its domestic cume climbed to $191 million for a worldwide total current of $528 million. That puts it as the fifth most successful film of the year. 'The Jungle Book' only a small drop, 41%, considering it opened with over $100 million.


The Huntsman: Winter's War opened to a timid $20 million which is a far cry for its predecessor Snow White & the Huntsman debut of $56.2 million. That film went to gross $155 million domestically for a $396 million worldwide. Not such luck with this prequel. Was it because blank expression Kristen Steward wasn't here or was it because the movie is just plain awful? Whatever the case, it will not recoup its $115 million budget and we can call it the end of this 'franchise' that no one was clamoring for.

Barbershop: The Next Cut added $10.8 million to its numbers for a total of $36 million in the third spot.

Still showing 'legs' after eight weeks is Disney's Zootopia which added $6.6 million to its bank in the fourth place for a domestic total of $316.4 million and $907 million worldwide. The animated film might crack the billion dollar club in the next few weeks.

The Boss descended to the fifth spot with $6 million. The comedy has grossed now $49.5 million in three weeks.

Not so for great numbers for the WB/DC superheroes. Not only Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will not make the studio's original projection to join 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', 'Jurassic World' and 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' VIP billion dollar club, but it now looks unlikely that it might catch up even with the overachiever 'Zootopia' bunny current numbers. This weekend it held better with $5.5 million in the sixth place, and its current domestic total is $319 million and worldwide is $850 million. Like I say every week: Deadpool with less budget did better domestically and if it wasn't because China banned it from playing there, it would have surpassed 'BvSOJ' worldwide too.

 

Huntsman looks like complete and utter gay horseshit.

As for Batman V. Superman, it really is surprising.

A year ago, I could have believed that Star Wars would beat it. But I thought FOR SURE that it was gonna outsell Jurassic World.

 

No idea why. I said right from the very first fucking trailer it wouldnt be a) that good or b) change DC's 'movie-power' at all.

DC are still so far behind Marvel, it's silly.

 

Some apologists are bringing these statistics: 'Batman v Superman' has grossed more domestically and worldwide that Marvel's Iron-Man & Iron-Man 2 pointing out that after all 'Iron-Man' started the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe. So, they claim, DCEU is doing great as it has the upper hand in box office numbers. To these people I say that they are forgetting a key element and the biggest difference between those films: how much money each studio poured into each one. Marvel made 'Iron-Man' for $140 million and spend like an additional $30 million in marketing. Total=$170 investment and total grosses worldwide = $585 million. Now how much cost 'BvS'? $250 million budget and over $200 million in marketing worldwide, for a total investment of $450 million. That is why many insiders keep saying that even with $851 million worldwide grosses the DC film still has not shown profit until it surpasses $900 million. Films needs to make twice its budget to recoup its investment. Anything above that will be profit. So 'Iron-Man' became profitable after it surpassed the $340 million mark. Which means it ended with $245 million profit after recouping its investment. Even if 'BvS' makes $1 billion (unlikely) it will profit only $100 million which is lower than 'Iron-Man' profits.

 

went to see jungle book this morning- excellent! Very, very good

 

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Budget: US$250 million
Marketing: US$200 million

Is that right?? :tick:

 

Actually is not: marketing worldwide was in fact $250 million, that is why this film needed to make $1 billion or else will lose money. I can see WB executives cancelling a bunch of those proposed DCEU projects and cutting budgets (The Flash & Cyborg will be a team movie, not a single film for each one).

 

Oh please, any prediction you make on a film before it comes out is going to be correct 100% of the time as long as that film sucks, because that is exactly what your prediction is going to be.

By the way I was really surprised they green lite a Huntsmen sequel. That was a really bad call seeing as how horrible the first one was.

 

|It's an insane amount of money.
I thought thre budget for Spectre was :scratcher: but this is mental.

In fact, looking at some other massive-budget movies, howcome hardly any of them are any good? ::

 

The Cuntsman