Monday Movie Roundup...3/13/2017

Morning Pepe.

Logan is up to $438.2 million worldwide after 12 days in theaters (it opened March 1st in France, Indonesia and the Philippines). That puts it at the top spot of all three Wolverine films.

Damn right Hugh!

Now, as for that other franchise...

Logan had risen to fifth place. 

X-Men: The Last Stand made about $21 million more, and I wouldn't be surprised if that gap is surpassed by next week. 

However, Deadpool's $783.1 million will probably keep it at #1.

As I mentioned last week, I plan on adding my money to the pot this Friday. I've heard good things about Logan, but have steered clear of actual reviews.

Unlike other Marvel properties...

Have a good week Pepe!

Monday Movie Roundup...6/13/2016

Hey Pepe, what do you want to talk about?

Deadpool?

Well it's now almost at $777.2 million worldwide, thanks solely to Japan - which has added $6.5 million to the Deadpool 2: With Cable fund.

 X-Men: Apocalypse?

That's at $478.4 million worldwide, making it the third highest grossing film in the franchise.

Yes Pepe...that's still at #1.

Filling the #2 spot (for now...)

Now this is interesting.

Captain America: Civil War's worldwide total is now $1.143 billion...

...still in fourth place behind Iron Man 3...

...by about this much.

There's less than $100 million difference ($72.3 million if you wanna be precise) between them. Iron Man 3 was in theaters (in the States anyways) for 133 days. CA:CW has been out for 38. 

Exactly.

I can't even find it on Box Office Mojo's weekend page.

After 77 days in American theaters (and who knows how long everywhere else), BvS:DoJ  has made over $872.3 million worldwide. 

I'm not sure what that means either.

It's been a weekend. I'm off to bed.

Have a good week buddy!

Monday Movie Roundup...6/6/2016

Hey Pepe...

I know, I know. But work was rough today. Anyways,

X-Men: Apocalypse has made $401.4 million worldwide so far.

That puts it just under X2: X-Men United's $407.7 million, and earning it a solid sixth place among all X-Men films.

Is it wrong of me to be happy about that?

I don't have a problem with Singer. He gets it. He's always had a handle on what the X-Men are about. I haven't seen the film yet, but based on what I'm hearing I'm not sure I will (at least not in the theater). 

It sounds like the film suffers from "Spider-Man 3 - itis". It's got an okay (but not great) plot, with a pretty good villain. But there are too many mutants in the damn thing.

Right!

Why didn't they follow up X-Men: Days of Future Past with a separate film entirely? Like New Mutants or (dare I say it) X-Force? FOX (and Singer) could have developed three or four different mutant teams over three or four different movies that could have met during (wait for it...)

Know what I'm sayin?

What? You think they were worried about following in Marvel Studios' footprints?

First - all the X-Men films have the Marvel logo, making them (at least somewhat) Marvel films. Second - the X-Men films would be about X-Men teams, not individual people, so you'd have the group dynamic while minimizing the member count.

(sigh...) Speaking of Mutants,

I have no idea how Deadpool did in Japan this weekend.

It's at $772,376,021 right now. I'm mentioning it because looking back at previous posts, I realize I haven't noted it's worldwide numbers in several weeks. 

yeah, yeah...

I wanna say it was at $763.something million last time I looked, but I'll keep better track now that I've got the most recent number.

Thanks Hugh. Speaking of Marvel Movies,

$1.132 billion worldwide.

Only a mere $83.3 million needed to surpass Iron Man 3.

These guys must really, really, really know their s#!t.

As for these guys...

$872.2 million worldwide.

That's about $204 million more that Man of Steel, which is good. They're heading in a better direction...but still have quite a ways to go.

Have a good week Pepe!

Monday Movie Roundup...5/30/2016

 Morning Pepe...

Nope. Not going there.

How about here?

X-Men: Apocalypse made $250.8 million worldwide opening weekend. That's not bad. It's still the least grossing X-Men film, but only needs another $46 million to beat 2000's X-Men. Which I totally see happening by next Monday.

As for Cap 3...

it's still Marvel Studio's fourth top grossing film of all time, with $1.103 Billion. (Thanks in no small part to China's $177.7 million.) This puts it a mere $113 million away from Iron Man 3. But will it make it? This is the true TeamCap vs. TeamIronMan battle. 

Which third film brings in more dollas.

What about Deadpool? Well for one thing, I had no idea it was officially banned in China. 

Right. For another, the film doesn't come out in Japan until June 3rd...

...that's this Friday.

Now, I'm not expecting Deadpool to break $500 million in Japan, but consider this: by making just $236,822,783...it will break $1 Billion worldwide. Which would make Deadpool:

• the first X-Men franchise film to go over $1 Billion...ever.
• the first non-Marvel Studios film (featuring Marvel Comics characters) to go over $1 Billion...ever.
• the first Ryan Reynolds film to go over $1 Billion...you get the idea.

Seeing as how Japan has yet to spend over $100 million on any film so far this year, this seems unlikely. But Japan did spend over $249 million on a single film back in 2014: Frozen.

You heard me.

So anything's possible. Just Let It Go...

Sorry. 

Have a good week Pepe!