Box Office Discussion

[Benjamin Haines]

[angilas]

[Henry88]

$426,416,000
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id ... la2012.htm

[Cookie]

[Benjamin Haines]

[metal_bryan]

[Cookie]

I was actually playing around. Forgot to add a smiley face at the end there.

Also, I never tried to be a journalist.... If you guys notice, I've been giving you China numbers early. I'll have Sun numbers around 10am tomorrow. My "source" is someone that gets box office data and lives in China. I pass his info to ya'll.

[armandv]

Godzilla is kicking butt in China. It made $14.8 million Saturday.

[Cookie]

WOM is weak. Its at 75% at Wanda theaters. DOFP 93%, EOT 93%. Saturday decreased a bit. Estimate total through Friday and Saturday was 158(yuan).. It went down a tad to 155.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Cookie]

[Cookie]

226 yuan in 3 days... Or 36m. Pretty decent.

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

[Cookie]

[Henry88]

‘Godzilla’ Rampages to Huge $36 Million at China Box Office
http://www.thewrap.com/p273301/

[Cookie]

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

[Henry88]

wondering why box office mojo has not added china's numbers yet.?

[HannibalBarca]

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

Decent point, but Godzilla's performance was a big unknown in the grand scheme of things. Everyone else was expected to get As. Godzilla was written off by a lot of industry people from the start.

[Gojiraknight]

Godzilla was a big unknown up until the first marketing started to appear. Then all of a sudden the conversation changed to "Wow, that looks pretty good".

That optimism is reflected in the $93 million opening weekend, and especially the $38 million opening day (still the biggest for the year). I still think the movie turned out to not be what audiences were expecting, hence the lukewarm (though not bad) WOM. Had this been the "must-see" movie event the trailers were depicting, I think we'd see a much higher gross. But this is all hypothetical.

A $200 million domestic haul, and $500 million international, with a sequel on the way, should have us Godzilla fans dancing in the street. Godzilla is relevant again. That's what we wanted. He may not be dominating the pop culture conversation...but that's for the sequel.

[armandv]

[william newell]

Saw this for the 5th time today. By this time, with both GINO and Godzilla 2000, I was pretty much alone in the theater, but this had a decent crowd and everyone seemed to really enjoy it. Nice mix of demographics as well, everything from kids to seniors, with a surprisingly large quotient of females present. As to favorite scene, it's still the first time that Godzilla uses his atomic breath. The whole build up, with the glow beginning at the tip of his tail then progressing up his back, along with that nice "hum" sound effect, gives me goose pimples every time...

[XvGojira]

[Cookie]

GODZILLA increased a tad on Sunday, and has brought in 36.6 its first weekend. We'll see if it'll hold better than, well, everywhere else.

Will try and get you guys Monday number later in the day.. However, I don't get good phone reception at work.