I had a feeling it would flop. The trailer came up before I saw the Avengers, and the crowd (which was pretty loud) seemed thoroughly unimpressed. The only reaction was laughter at seeing Rihanna in a movie (no shade).
It won't make Avenger numbers but I feel like y'all don't know anything about Box Office figures because 26mil is not that bad. I see it pulling in 75mil this weekend and 100mil before next weekend. That would be 50% of it's production budget in a week. The numbers will likely drop pretty incredibly after that point because of new releases and the fact that it is summer, so box office returns for most movies are front-loaded.
Still, I see it eventually pulling in that 200million. Prince Caspian, which came out around the same time, opened with 19million. It went on to gross nearly 150 million and that was with bad word of mouth and a lot of other factors playing against the film. Battleship will be fine.
It won't make Avenger numbers but I feel like y'all don't know anything about Box Office figures because 26mil is not that bad. I see it pulling in 75mil this weekend and 100mil before next weekend. That would be 50% of it's production budget in a week. The numbers will likely drop pretty incredibly after that point because of new releases and the fact that it is summer, so box office returns for most movies are front-loaded.
Still, I see it eventually pulling in that 200million. Prince Caspian, which came out around the same time, opened with 19million. It went on to gross nearly 150 million and that was with bad word of mouth and a lot of other factors playing against the film. Battleship will be fine.
Ermm that $26 million number is for the entire weekend, not it's opening day. It'll be lucky to make $75 million with that kind of weekend.