Im really excited about this movie!
The trailer looks great!
share8% on rotten tomatoes, that is all.
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MovieChat Forums > Fifty Shades Darker (2017) Discussion > Im really excited about this movie!
Hi jtl-779 - It's performing well at the box office. A lot of people are already seeing it.
shareThat's great, i had a feeling about that, digitaldiva. :-)
shareYes, despite what the nay sayers were hoping, so far it's outperforming both the Wick and Lego movies.
shareYou're kidding right? Of course it's going to do good in the opening Thursday late showings. What parent is going to take a child to see a kid's movie near a midnight opening, let alone on a school night? FSD is fine racking up tickets for late showings but overall, movies like The Lego Batman start raking in the dough on Friday afternoon, all day/all evening weekends. This happened for the Lego movie in 2014. It opened with half-a-mill on Thursday and then it had a whooping 80% surge starting Friday throughout the weekend. Anyways, FSD is opening less than it did for FSoG.
shareHi Femme_X. Why would I be kidding? Why is it a shock that the film is doing well at the box office? It's not raking in the money that the first one did, something that everyone agreed it wouldn't, yet is doing a brisk business. I'm sure it will drop after Valentine's Day, but with a budget of $20 million and an R rating, so far so good.
shareWell first of all, you're betting on horse that's only begun a race, but not crossed the finish line yet. Second of all, I'm not denying that the film is going to flop or do bad. I knew it was going to do well, maybe not as its predecessor, but good enough. Thirdly, if you check the estimated budget, it was 55 million.
The fact that it won a late showing night doesn't mean it's going to outperform or sell well. This can become a close race.The numbers were low and btw, it's not really winning. FSoG did 8 mil on its opening night, FSD did a little more than 5 mil. The Lego Batman movie surpassed the opening of Zootopia (which dominated global earnings). There has always been shake-ups and surprises at the end of a blockbuster weekend. So for you to think that a Thursday late night showing automatically makes FSD the winner already, is a bit arrogant.
Hi Femme_X, I got my budget info from industry sources rather than Wikipedia. The budget on Wiki includes two films, Darker and Freed, which were shot at the same time. https://moviepilot.com/posts/3731795
No one has said that FSD will break the bank, but it's presently doing well at the box office, and should continue making money through Valentine's Day, then sink like the first one did. The bulk of the money will be made in overseas markets.
An article from Moviepilot? Come on! That's not a credible source. I didn't use Wikipedia, I looked it up at Box office mojo, which has great analysis in overall film earnings. The breakdown they do
is incredible. I know they filmed the last two films back-to-back, which is why is was hard to believe that it ran on a $20 million budget considering they even filmed overseas.
I've read this comment a few times already here. The "why would parents take their kids to late night showings on a school night... That's why FSD did better..." I get what you're saying, but what about John Wick ll? That's not a kid movie and FSD still made more than that.
I'm not trying to argue, I'm just trying to understand the comment which seems to be only directed towards the Lego movie, but there is also JW ll that opened on Thursday.
John Wick is what they called a "sleeper". They started with limited releases and then on to more theatrical runs as it gained more popularity. John Wick 2 is not expected to outperform anything, it didn't reach the popularity that FS did. The big contenders that all of these articles are putting money on is FSD and the Lego Batman movie. Which is why I bring up tLBM in my view-of-point, late-night Thursday showings around any child film isn't box-breaking, it's a school night which is a valid point. When kids get out of school Friday and the weekend starts, that's when you see more earnings.
sharePlease...you don't like it fine...there are millions of book lovers who do..enough said.
shareWe're having a discussion about box office projections and earnings. No one is mentioning dislikes or likes, whether we're devoted fans or not. Mind your own business insundling, we get your distaste for any negative comments about this franchise.
shareIt's not a discussion without insundling bringing up the millions of dollars or fans who loved the books and movies.
Lego Movie to take the win for the weekend!
Ahh, ok. Now I get it. I've never seen any of the John Wick movies. I had no idea it was a limited release on Thursday.
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