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Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Wonder Woman Crosses $400 million.

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2017 feels like it’s shaping up to be a wild ride for comic adaptions. We look at who the real winners and losers are for this year’s comic films.

The big news is that Wonder Woman continues to impress passing $400 million at the domestic box office, just $500,000 short, and it’s $5.1 million short of $400 million internationally. Wonder Woman is the top earning movie domestically for DC’s movie universe. The film however is third internationally behind both Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad and likely won’t pass either. It’s the second highest earning DC movie worldwide.

Wonder Woman crosses $400 million domestically. The best of the DC movie universe.

Atomic Blonde in its third weekend dropped to tenth place adding $4.6 million to its total. So far, the film has earned $61.8 million worldwide but in three weeks it has passed both Ghost in the Shell and Valerian domestically.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets continues to struggle standing at $90 million with a $177 million budget. The film will need a miracle from here on out.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is an interesting film when it comes to whether it’s a winner or loser. The film has earned $702.1 million worldwide but that’s dead last when it comes to Spider-Man films. It’s fourth when it comes to domestic (not adjusted for inflation). When we do adjust for inflation it’s fifth out of sixth. When it’s all done, the film will likely wind up in the middle of the pack when it comes to domestic earnings but be at the end of the pack for worldwide earnings. The film did pass Wonder Woman when it comes to international earnings emphasizing Warner Bros. issues at the foreign box office.

Lets compare how the big two comic companies compare for earnings. On average DC films earn $337.1 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.3 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $433.8 million. There’s still work for DC when it comes to the international film market.

Already, the year is an interesting one with three clear successes and a whole lot of mixed otherwise. Wonder Woman, Logan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year, The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Atomic Blonde are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments.

Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers:

Total Domestic Gross: $1.667 billion
Total International Gross: $2.141 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.808 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.083 million
Total “Profit”: $2.725 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $166.7 million
Average International Gross: $237.9 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $380.8 million
Average Budget: $108.3 million
Average Profit: $272.5 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

 

Annabelle: Creation Creates Scares and a Win at the Weekend Box Office

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It was a slow weekend at the box office down 6% from the same weekend last year but it was a big weekend for Warner Bros. whose Annabelle: Creation topped it with a $35 million opening. The film also has earned $36.7 million at the foreign box office for a toal of $71.7 million. With a budget of just $15 million, that’s a great start but, it’s the lowest opening the “Conjuring” series of films domestically. The previous Annabelle film, released in 2014, opened with $37.1 million, and 2016’s The Conjuring 2 opened with $40.4 million. That’s also the second win for director David F. Sandberg whose Lights Out earned $67.1 million on a $5 million budget. He’s rumored to be directing the big budget Shazam! film for WB and New Line.

The film play to a majority female audience of 52% who were 54% 25 years or older. The film received a “B” CinemaScore which is on par with the first film though the two Conjuring films received an “A-.”

Dunkirk repeated in second place adding $11.4 million to its domestic total to bring it to $153.7 million domestically and $363.7 million worldwide.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature opened in third place with $8.9 million. That’s the worst opening for a film playing in over 4,000 theaters. The Emoji Movie set that record a few weekends ago with $24.5 million and before that was The Mummy which opened with $31.7 million. It’s a record setting 2017!

The Dark Tower saw a 58.9% drop going from first to fourth and earning just $7.9 million domestically. The film sits at $34.3 million domestically on a $60 million budget. Its also earned $19.3 million at the foreign box office for $53.6 million total.

Finishing the top five was The Emoji Movie with $6.6 million domestically to bring its total to $63.6 million. Worldwide the film has brought in $97.2 million despite it being one of the worst reviewed films of the year.

When it comes to comic adaptations…

Spider-Man: Homecoming brought in $6.1 million to come in at #7. Domestically the film has earned $306.5 million and $702 million worldwide.

Atomic Blonde was #10 with $4.6 million. Worldwide the film has earned $61.7 million on a $30 million budget.

Wonder Woman was #16 with $1.5 million. The film has crossed the $400 million mark and sits at $402.2 million domestically and $797.1 million worldwide.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets earned $890,000 and struggles with just $90 million worldwide on a $177.2 million budget.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 added $262,000 to its domestic total to stand at $388.9 million domestically and $861.9 worldwide.

We’ll be back in an hour for a more in-depth look at this year’s comic adaptations.

Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Wonder Woman Approaches $400 million.

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2017 feels like it’s shaping up to be a wild ride for comic adaptions. We look at who the real winners and losers are for this year’s comic films.

The big news is that Wonder Woman continues to impress approaching $400 million at the domestic box office, just $500,000 short, and it’s $6.1 million short of $400 million internationally. Wonder Woman is the top earning movie domestically for DC’s movie universe. The film however is third internationally behind both Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad and likely won’t pass either. It’s the second highest earning DC movie worldwide.

Wonder Woman approaches $400 million, the best of the DC movie universe.

Atomic Blonde in its second weekend dropped to seventh place adding $8.2 million to its total. So far, the film has earned just shy of $46 million but in two weeks it has earned almost as much as Ghost in the Shell and Valerian domestically.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets continues to struggle standing at $65.6 million with a $177 million budget. The film will need a miracle from here on out.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is an interesting film when it comes to whether it’s a winner or loser. The film has earned $670.9 million worldwide but that’s dead last when it comes to Spider-Man films. It’s fourth when it comes to domestic (not adjusted for inflation). When we do adjust for inflation it’s fifth out of sixth. When it’s all done, the film will likely wind up in the middle of the pack when it comes to domestic earnings but be at the end of the pack for worldwide earnings.

Lets compare how the big two comic companies compare for earnings. On average DC films earn $336.5 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.2 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $433.6 million. There’s still work for DC when it comes to the international film market.

Already, the year is an interesting one with three clear successes and a whole lot of mixed otherwise. Wonder Woman, Logan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year, The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Atomic Blonde are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments.

Here’s where this year’s comic films stand as far as the actual numbers:

Total Domestic Gross: $1.641 billion
Total International Gross: $2.091 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.733 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.083 million
Total “Profit”: $2.650 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $164.1 million
Average International Gross: $232.4 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $373.3 million
Average Budget: $108.3 million
Average Profit: $265.0 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

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Dark Tower Barely Wins a Soft Weekend at the Box Office

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Despite lots of anticipation and a good marketing push, Sony‘s The Dark Tower opened weakly barely winning the weekend box office in the softest weekend at the domestic box office since early April.

The film opened with an estimated $19.5 million domestically and $8 million at the foreign box office. With a budget of just $60 million that’s not horrible, but it’s also not that great. The film was to kick off a multi-platorm franchise but with an opening such as this one has to wonder how that might change. The film is the second largest opening for a Stephen King adaptation.

Dark Tower has just 18% on RottenTomatoes and received a “B” CinemaScore. It was mostly male with 58% and 68% were over the age of 25.

In a close second place was Dunkirk which added $17.6 million to its domestic total dropping just 34% in its third weekend. It now has a domestic total of $133.6 million and has earned $314.2 million worldwide so far.

In third place was The Emoji Movie which added $12.35 million to its domestic total with a 50% drop. It has earned $49.5 million domestically and $62.2 million worldwide.

Girls Trip is a trip folks want to take coming in fourth place and dropping just 42% in its third weekend. The film added $11.4 million to its total and stands at $85.4 million. The film is outpacing Bridesmaid so should wind up doing a bit better than that film when it’s theatrical run is over.

Rounding out the top five was Kidnap which brough in $10.2 million. It received a “B+” CinemaScore with an audience 63% female and 73% over the age of 25.

When it comes to comic adaptations….

Spider-Man: Homecoming came in sixth place adding $8.8 million to its total to bring it to $294.9 million domestically. Worldwide the film has earned $670.9 million which still has it dead last when it comes to worldwide earnings but it’s fourth when it comes to domestic (not adjusted for inflation).

Atomic Blonde dropped to seventh place just behind Spidey adding $8.2 million to its total to bring its domestic cume to $34.1 million on a $30 million budget. Worldwide the film has earned $45.8 million.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets continues to struggle adding $2.4 million to its domestic total. So far its earned $36.1 million and worldwide it has earned just $65.6 million on a $177.2 million budget.

Wonder Woman added $2.4 million to its total to bring its domestic total to $399.5 million. The film has also earned $393.9 million at the foreign box office for a worldwide total of $793.4 million.

Finally, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 added $445,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $388.4 million. Worldwide the film has earned $861.3 million.

We’ll be back in an hour to take a deeper dive into how comic adaptations are doing at the box office in 2017.

Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Atomic Blonde Debuts

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Atomic Blonde opened up this past weekend, the latest comic adaptation, based on the series published by Oni Press. With expectations that the film would open around $20 million, it fell short with just $18.6 million. Still, with a $30 million budget, the film will be fine in the long run and probably turn a profit.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets continues to struggle standing at just $30.6 million domestically in two weeks. With a budget of $209 million, the movie will need a miracle. The film has made a bit over $25 million at the foreign box office and opens in China on August 25.

Spider-Man: Homecoming continues to do well with a worldwide gross of $633.8 million. I say well, because while that number’s impressive it’s short the $766.2 million average Spider-Man films earn. It will likely be the lowest earning Spider-Man film to date.

Wonder Woman continues to impress and is on its way to $400 domestically, just the 27th film to do so. The movie has earned $786 million, the second highest amount for a DC movie universe film. However, due to its much lower budget, the film has the highest gross to budget return.

Wonder Woman is also driving the gap between earning averages for the Marvel and DC adaptations and helping it catch up in a way. On average DC films earn $335.5 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.2 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $432.8 million.

Already, the year is an interesting one with three clear successes and a whole lot of mixed otherwise. Wonder Woman, Logan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year, The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Atomic Blonde are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments. Spider-Man: Homecoming, we’ll wait and see.

Here’s where this year’s movie crop stands as far as the actual numbers (numbers have dipped due to a new film opening):

Total Domestic Gross: $1.599 billion
Total International Gross: $2.031 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.630 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.115 million
Total “Profit”: $2.515 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $159.9 million
Average International Gross: $225.7 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $363.0 million
Average Budget: $111.5 million
Average Profit: $251.5 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

Dunkirk Holds at #1, Barely Holding Off Emojis

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Dunkirk repeated in first place at the box office this past weekend bringing in an estimated $28.1 million at the domestic box office to bring its total to $102.8 million. At the foreign box office the film has earned $131.3 million to bring its total to $234.1 in just two weeks.

But… the film was barely in first place holding off The Emoji Movie which, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews, managed to come in second earning $25.7 million in its first week. With a budget of just $50 million, the film has a solid start and I’m sure we can expect a sequel down the road. Interestingly, the film played to a majority female audience 52% with 64% under the age of 25. So families and tweens?

Dropping to third was Girls Trip which added an impressive $20.1 million to its total to bring it to $65.5 million domestically and $67 million worldwide. With a budget of just $19 million, this one will absolutely get a sequel down the road.

In fourth place was another new film Atomic Blonde, the latest comic to be turned movie. That movie earned $18.6 million domestically and $6 million at the foreign box office. That might not seem like a great start but the film’s budget is just $30 million, so in its first week it has almost returned its entire budget. Still, there’s been a big push for the film and it failed to catch on with the female audience like Wonder Woman did, instead playing to 51% male. It was expected to bring in about $20 million.

Rounding out the top five was Spider-Man: Homecoming which added $13.5 million to its domestic total to bring it to $278.4 million and so far it has earned $633.8 million worldwide. The film will end up making about what all of the various Spider-Man films average.

When it comes to comic move adaptations….

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets earned $6.8 million to bring its domestic total to $30.6 million. With a budget of $177.2 million, the movie can only be called a flop.

Wonder Woman added $3.5 million to its domestic total to bring that to $395.4 million and $786 million worldwide.

Finally, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 added $293,000 to its domestic total and now stands at $860.6 million with a DVD release just a few weeks away.

We’ll be back in an hour with even more info about this year’s comic movie adaptations!

Where the Data Ranks 2017’s Comic Book Films. Wonder Woman Passes Guardians

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was the latest comic adaptations to launch in the theaters and it’s debut is nothing but a failure. With a budget over $200 million, the film earned just $17.02 million at the domestic box office. The film needs a miracle.

Spider-Man: Homecoming in its third week dropped 50% and will likely end its run around the last two SONY Spider-Man films receiving no Marvel bump.

Wonder Woman continues to impress and passed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in domestic earnings. It’s now the top earning comic film of the year at the domestic box office. It also is challenging Logan for the best gross to budget for the year.

Wonder Woman is also driving the gap between earning averages for the Marvel and DC adaptations and helping it catch up in a way. On average DC films earn $333.9 million domestically while Marvel earns $308.1 million. Internationally, Marvel rules with $476.9 million and DC lags behind with $432.7 million.

Already, the year is an interesting one with three clear successes and a whole lot of mixed otherwise. Wonder Woman, Logan and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have done well this year, The LEGO Batman Movie and Smurfs: The Lost Village are in that debatable area, and Valerian, Wilson and Ghost in the Shell are generally disappointments. Spider-Man: Homecoming, we’ll wait and see.

Here’s where this year’s movie crop stands as far as the actual numbers (numbers have dipped due to a new film opening):

Total Domestic Gross: $1.533 billion
Total International Gross: $1.989 billion
Worldwide Gross: $3.522 billion
Total Reported Budgets: $1.085 million
Total “Profit”: $2.437 billion

Average Domestic Gross: $170.4 million
Average International Gross: $284.1 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $391.4 million
Average Budget: $120.6 million
Average Profit: $270.8 million

Below is where the films released stand when it comes to being compared to this year’s averages. Those in green are above average while those below are red.

Dunkirk Opens with $50 million While Girls Trip Comes in Second

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Dunkirk won the weekend by opening with $50.5 million. That’s the first non-franchise film to win the weekend this summer and the first since March of this year. That’s a solid performance for the $150 million film that also saw $55.4 million overseas to bring its total to $105.9 million. The film has received solid reviews so expect it to do well from here.

In second place was Girls Trip. With just a $19 million budget, the film brought in $30.4 million. With an “A+” CinemaScore expect the film to do well.

Spider-Man: Homecoming swung lower with a 50% drop in its third week. The film earned $22 million to bring its domestic total to $251.7 million and stands at $571.7 million worldwide.

War for the Planet of the Apes came in fourth after being in first last week. The film earned $20.4 million to bring its domestic total to $97.8 million and $174.9 million worldwide.

Rounding out the top five was Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets which delivered an estimated $17 million. Adapted from a popular European comic series, the film has a $150 million budget (though it might be as high as $209 million). The film received a “B-” CinemaScore and will have to rely on the foreign box office to do well.

In other comic adaptation news…

Wonder Woman came in at #9 with $4.6 million which brings its domestic total to $389 million and $779.4 million worldwide. The film has passed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at the domestic box office. That film added $357,000 to its domestic total and stands at $387.3 million domestically and $860 million worldwide.

Next week sees the opening of another comic adaptation Atomic Blonde.

We’ll be back in an hour with a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations in film.

Movie Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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valerian french posterDon’t discount Luc Besson‘s newest film because it seems derivative: it’s based on classic French comics that inspired everyone from George Lucas to Besson himself. But, you should discount it because its characters are flimsy, script is weak and the film, while interesting to look at, is terminally boring.

Our story centers around Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne), federal agents from the space station Alpha, a giant city of millions of inhabitants from thousands of worlds. When sent on a mission to retrieve a valuable item from an inter-dimensional crime lord, they find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy to cover up something rotten at the heart of Alpha.

It’s gorgeous to look at. The inter-dimensional crime boss? He’s played by John Goodman, and literally is in an alternate dimension. Tourists show up to this barren wasteland and by putting on goggles and going through a special scanner, can see and interact with a giant open bazaar dozens of stories tall and miles across that exists in an alternate reality. It’s like Space Mall of America times 1000. It is the most amazing concept and pulled off brilliantly, as is a gag involving Valerian literally having one hand (and his gun) in one universe and the rest of him in ours.

And then there’s Alpha itself, which you can directly see as an inspiration on Besson’s vision of future New York in The Fifth Element as well as George Lucas’s visions of Coruscant as a giant city-planet in the Star Wars prequels. It’s breathtaking, and a chase through multiple levels is one of the best realized action sequences in the film.

But that’s where the good parts of the film end. If you turned the sound down and made up your own script, it might be more enjoyable. If Besson had spent anywhere near as much attention to writing good dialogue that illuminated his characters as he did to his visual design and effects, this would have been a stellar movie.

Instead, characters are left spouting drivel that sounds more like a middle schooler trying to ape pithy, pulpy verbal patter reminiscent of 1940s classics or noir. Unfortunately, Dane Dehaan is not Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant. And Cara Delevingne is not Ingrid Bergman or either Hepburn.

Their characterizations are strained as well. The film starts with a proposal on a beach, but Dehane and Delevigne don’t act like longtime work partners or seem to have romantic interest in one another. They try to create a sort of Sam and Dianne bickering sexual tension, but it just never works. You don’t get that either of them actually cares for one another except that they’re expected to because. . .  movie trope.

There are other dubious character choices. Remember the inter-dimensional crime lord? Sounds like a cool character to have throughout the movie, right? Yeah, no. He’s inexplicably gone after the first act. Rihanna and Ethan Hawke show up as a shape-shifting alien named Bubble making her way as an exotic dancer(/hooker? it never gets that far) and her pimp, but they come and go far too soon. We’re also expected to feel for the death of a character who had only been introduced fifteen minutes earlier. Spoiler alert: we don’t.

However, the film ends with a nice rumination on colonialism and how we treat civilizations who we feel are inferior. It’s too bad this wasn’t a stronger theme throughout, or it might have made the wooden acting and hollow script more palatable.

No, this is not as good as The Fifth Element. Somehow just because Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich make it look effortless to make their way through their film, we think it is. But that script looks like Shakespeare compared to this. And missing is Gary Oldman and his Mangalore cohorts– this film has no discernible villain and the absence is noticeable. Both Fifth Element and the Star Wars prequels, despite their flaws, look so much more impressive when compared to this.

There’s certainly an audience for this film, but your tolerance for style over substance will have to be incredibly high. That said, it’s visually stunning and should be lauded for bringing the fantastic vision of the future from these classic comics.

2 out of 5 stars

Pop! Movies: Valerian Out this June

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Set in the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline embark on a space adventure! Working together in an effort to save the universe from a dark force, they are now receiving the Pop! vinyl treatment!

On their mission to Alpha, they come across diverse characters such as Iron Siruss, Da, and the Doghan Daguis!

Look for the two chase variants of Doghan Daguis! Each one has a 2-in-6 rarity!

This series would not be complete without Commander Arun Filitt!

Don’t miss out on these characters from the upcoming film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets! Releasing July 21, 2017!

Pop! Movies: Valerian are out this June!

 

 

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