Age of Extinction is currently at $432,948,000 a week after release. Anyone remember how DOTM was doing at this point?
DOTM hit $500 million after 8 days Edit- also I'd like to note that foreign numbers haven't been counted since June 29th so it probably passed $500 million already.
Not sure about worldwide totals through 8 days, but DOTM had $204 million at that point domestically, while AOE is at $149 million. Pretty big drop domestically, although the slack seems to be going to international markets this time around. Wonder if AOE will even make $300 million in America, like the last 3. DOTM wound up with 350, so AOE would basically have to match DOTM from this point on to make it.
It took TF otM a full month to reach a billion. By comparison, TF:AoE has reached just shy of HALF that within a single week. WITHOUT EVEN OPENING IN EUROPE OR SPAIN BEFOREHAND, FFS. O_O
Don't get carried away, it's tracking way behind DOTM by a wide margin in domestic B.O., OS seems high but China's gross is responsible for more than half of that number. Over the top hatred from the critics and toxic WOM (though God knows why, the movie's pretty good IMO) really catch up with it this time. On a positive note, it's crossing $200 mark in China this weekend.
It crossed 400 million in forgein countries and it's number 7 at domestic behind Godzilla, Spiderman, Xmen, Lego movie, Captain America and Maleficent. My prediction will be that it will make less than the last three films so I guess around 285 million seems possible.
To me, it looks like AOE will probably plateau out aroun $250 million by the time summer is out. But that seems to be the trend regarding all sorts of 'blockbusters this year: nothing has really flown into the stratosphere of numbers like last year.. At this rate, maybe it'll be a given that Mockingjay Pt 1 will probably be the only one to hit above $300 mil by the end of the year.
to be fair, it's coming off 2 subpar films, box office numbers are down all over the place in the us...domestic totals are irrelevant these days, or, at least nowhere near as important as they used to be. TF4 will more than likely be the biggest movie worldwide for the year...in the us though the hunger games is the only movie that has a shot.
GOTG and Planet of the Apes seems possible to pass 300 million since they're one of the most anticipated films of the year.
Thy are trending strong WOM for those two (and GOTG is my must-see for August, as I've avoided trailers for months in anticipation to be surprised), but I still don't think Dawn is going to perform hugely. I sometimes think that the studios shot themselves in the foot by doing DVD and Blu-Ray preorders as soon as a movie makes landfall in theaters. I mean, less than 24 hours after AOE was released, we had at least two retailers out up disc pre-orders! That's like telling people, "just skip the $15 tickets. Preorder now and wait, or just give it 5 months and it'll be on Netflix."
I don't think either of those two will make 300 million. To date none of the MCU movies that didn't star Iron Man have hit that mark, or even come very close. GotG I don't think will change that trend, although I expect it will do decently well. The first Apes movie did well, but still well under 200 million domestically. This one looks like it has the critics raving and will have good word of mouth, but likely not enough to boost it a whole 125 million (over 70%) from its predecessor.
