Comments on: $80 Million Opening Weekend For Wolverine?

By: paul d

paul d — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:49:35 +0000

this movie honestly has a chance to clear 100 mil openening weekend. nearly one year to the date iron man opening last year, x-men has a huge fanbase and will excite moviegoers who have had a month and a half of very weak releases.

By: paul d

paul d — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:49:35 +0000

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:38:34 +0000

I’m predicting 70 million based off the XMen name alone. Unfortunately, the movie is extremely bad and word of mouth and Star Trek will bury it by the next weekend.

By: Tim Hartnell

Tim Hartnell — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:40:50 +0000

Hey everyone check out an xmen mashup I did in honor of wolverine origins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnzrZmd6qs

By: Ralph DeLuca

Ralph DeLuca — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:50:36 +0000

I am really looking forward to seeing this film. I even ordered the original movie poster for my collection.

Ralph DeLuca
Madison, NJ

By: krazie835

krazie835 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:56:41 +0000

Well, Taken did pretty well despite the fact that it had already been released in other places and the dvd was already floating around. Not to mention the fact that you’d be more likely to find a solid quality version of the movie on a torrent site than the unfinished version of Wolverine.

I’m sure piracy is hurting the industry but it’s not hurting the movie industry like it’s hurting the music industry–not yet anyways lol.

By: MUVI

MUVI — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:50:54 +0000

I’m not to interesting with this movie. X-Men is a name that bring a lot of superhero character. It will be nice if they are working together, not by single hero (wolverine) like this ;)

Just comment

By: FilmNerdJamie

FilmNerdJamie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:49:47 +0000

Some are forgetting how most people (i.e. nerds and average film-goers alike) walked out not liking X-MEN: THE LAST STAND. That said, this is 100% on Jackman and people still love the guy and that character (i.e. look at the increased Oscar ratings!)

So I do think it’s going to pull in $70-$80 million on its opening. But yeah word-of-mouth will kill it and it will plummet big time during the second weekend imo.

As for TREK, $50 million is a solid (and more so ever realistic) opening number considering it’s a “franchise revival” film where the last few installments were pretty much failures – correct me if I’m wrong.

It has the burden of having to convince the general public that it’s worth going to see in much the same way BATMAN BEGINS and SUPERMAN RETURNS did – which were both considered box-office under-performers despite grossing $200 million.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:13:23 +0000

@Hazzy

People laughed at the TF trailer? I always heard cheers, followed by boos at Michael Bay’s name popping up.

@King Phil

Star Trek is going to depend HEAVILY upon WOM, I agree with that.

Yup, this joint is buzzin’ again. YAY!

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:05:40 +0000

@Your Majesty

I don’t think Star Trek will open with much more than $50 mil either but the difference will be word of mouth. I think that film is going to be pretty awesome and the word of mouth is going to help it stay in the no. 2 or 3 spot for a good few weeks. If ‘Wolverine’ and ‘Angels & Demons’ both suck, that’s going to help it even more.

I’m feeling the buzz of activity on the site again. Isn’t this lovely?