paperheart Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Now may be a good time to celebrate. BOX OFFICE: ANT-MAN Has Third Biggest Marvel Opening Of All-Time In China Following the news yesterday that Ant-Man opened 60% bigger in China during midnight screenings than Guardians of the Galaxy did last year, it has now been confirmed that the final Phase 2 movie had Marvel's third biggest opening day of all-time in the country. In fact, its only been beaten by Iron Man 3 and Avengers: Age of Ultron, and its $12.9 million haul signals good things to come for Ant-Man. The former went on to earn $120 million there, while the latter grossed $240 million. Comic book movies. Who would have ever thought it? IM 3 had an opening day of $21MM in China and went on to do $120MM while AoU had a $34MM opening day on its way to $240MM. Using the 6-7x multiple those two did, A-M on track for $80-90MM in China. $500MM WW looks within reach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Ant-Man Is Really Big In China Ant-Man has climbed to the #1 spot at the international box office, thanks to an impressive $42.5 million three-day weekend in China. Ant-Man has had a staggered international release. The film grossed $55.4 million in its previous international box office showing in 37 territories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
media_junkie Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Bosco, When are you going to update your chart? I love your charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 (edited) Bosco, When are you going to update your chart? I love your charts. Thank you! In checking the weekend dropoff rates, it is interesting to see Ant-Man now has the largest dropoff by Weeks 11 and 12. Edited October 24, 2015 by Bosco685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
media_junkie Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Awesome, thanks Bosco. I find it insane what Marvel did with a "C" (possible "D" list character). Other than the Hulk it seems Marvel can do no wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 One item I forgot to include was the comparison of Marvel Studios movies' weekend drop-off rate. In checking the weekend drop-off rates, it is interesting to see Ant-Man now has the largest drop-off by Weeks 11 and 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Cataldo Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Couldn't that also be due to more dropped theaters, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Awesome, thanks Bosco. I find it insane what Marvel did with a "C" (possible "D" list character). Other than the Hulk it seems Marvel can do no wrong. after GOTG, how could this be surprising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 One item I forgot to include was the comparison of Marvel Studios movies' weekend drop-off rate. In checking the weekend drop-off rates, it is interesting to see Ant-Man now has the largest drop-off by Weeks 11 and 12. If you're going to have a massive drop off you want it at the very end of your run where it simply doesn't matter. If you have a massive drop off early in your run then I think you're in trouble. Antman had a really solid run even in it's later stages it was putting up impressive numbers I thought which allowed it to overtake Cap 1 and almost overtake Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 If you're going to have a massive drop off you want it at the very end of your run where it simply doesn't matter. If you have a massive drop off early in your run then I think you're in trouble. Antman had a really solid run even in it's later stages it was putting up impressive numbers I thought which allowed it to overtake Cap 1 and almost overtake Thor. Oh, I agree. That was why I created that comparison matrix since it was assumed Ant-Man would drop off the quickest. It actually did better than some of the heavy-hitters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) One item I forgot to include was the comparison of Marvel Studios movies' weekend drop-off rate. In checking the weekend drop-off rates, it is interesting to see Ant-Man now has the largest drop-off by Weeks 11 and 12. If you're going to have a massive drop off you want it at the very end of your run where it simply doesn't matter. If you have a massive drop off early in your run then I think you're in trouble. Antman had a really solid run even in it's later stages it was putting up impressive numbers I thought which allowed it to overtake Cap 1 and almost overtake Thor. after the 5th weekend, these % drop offs mean almost nothing. by then, 85-90% of the total domestic BO haul has already been taken in. another $35MM from China this week, A-M will cross $500MM WW on Thurs or Fri. Edited October 25, 2015 by paperheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashsaytr Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 after the 5th weekend, these % drop offs mean almost nothing. by then, 85-90% of the total domestic BO haul has already been taken in. another $35MM from China this week, A-M will cross $500MM WW on Thurs or Fri. Actually that's not complete accurate on the 5th weekend. If you look what Ant-Man brought in at the entire 5th week alone, that was an additional $8.4 MM. It may not seem like a large amount in the grade scheme. If Ant-Man had experienced a much larger weekly drop-off than the -32.6% it had, it would have definitely had an impact. And the follow-on weeks after that. It appears after Week 8 the total week seemed to drop off in the domestic market, and by Weekend 10 is where the total weekend was less than seven digits. Weekends with seven-digit contributions do make an impact on the final total. So no, even the 5th weekend had a huge impact for little old Ant-Man. And the overall 5th week itself was a huge benefit to the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) after the 5th weekend, these % drop offs mean almost nothing. by then, 85-90% of the total domestic BO haul has already been taken in. another $35MM from China this week, A-M will cross $500MM WW on Thurs or Fri. Actually that's not complete accurate on the 5th weekend. If you look what Ant-Man brought in at the entire 5th week alone, that was an additional $8.4 MM. It may not seem like a large amount in the grade scheme. If Ant-Man had experienced a much larger weekly drop-off than the -32.6% it had, it would have definitely had an impact. And the follow-on weeks after that. It appears after Week 8 the total week seemed to drop off in the domestic market, and by Weekend 10 is where the total weekend was less than seven digits. Weekends with seven-digit contributions do make an impact on the final total. So no, even the 5th weekend had a huge impact for little old Ant-Man. And the overall 5th week itself was a huge benefit to the film. after the 5th weekend, A-M had taken in 87% of what it would do in total. same with: Avengers 84%, AoU 90%, GOTG 83%, IM 3 91%, Cap: WS 91%, X-Men:DOFP 92%, etc. the tail after the 5th weekend is just not that important to these quick burn outs. none of these are Avatar or Titanic where they kept going and going and going. Edited October 25, 2015 by paperheart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) after the 5th weekend, A-M had taken in 87% of what it would do in total. same with: Avengers 84%, AoU 90%, GOTG 83%, etc. huge benefit, nope. By the 5th weekend Ant-Man took in $5,493,417 (3.4% of its overall box office total at that point in time). I'd say that is still a healthy sum. So I have to disagree. Edited October 25, 2015 by Bosco685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Namor Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 It's astounding what this movie has done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicopolis Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 It's astounding what this movie has done... Astonishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 I don't go watching super-hero films at the cinema anymore. Would Ant-Man be worth getting on Blu-ray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBT Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Yuuup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Namor Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 It's astounding what this movie has done... Astonishing. Of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
