Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<Big difference between Thor and Spiderman. Everyone knows about Spiderman, even before the movies.>> Exactly. I'm a comic book geek and I couldn't tell you the first thing about Thor.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<It did a 65 mill opening weekend, which for a big budget superhero movie at the lower end of the scale. This is far lower than all the spiderman movies, all the x-men movies (including the disappointing Wolverine) and all the Iron man movies, actually it half the business that Iron Man 2 did on the opening weekend>> It was actually expected to do the business it did. And yesterday it made 5.4 million which was a good hold for a Monday. It has two weeks before Pirates and even after that it will get a small boost from Memorial Day. I think when it's all said and done it will likely finish between 180-190 million. I think it's made around 200 million so far worldwide so add another 100 to 200 million. It will be just fine.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby Thor actually opened overseas before it opened in the U.S., so the overseas box office has a head start. It got beat overseas by Fast Five, but it has made $180 mil so far there. Total worldwide as of 5/9 is $251.4 mil. It is meeting expectations so far. Production budget was reportedly $150 mil.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Thor has had a pretty good Monday and Tuesday <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thor.htm" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/m...thor.htm</a>
Originally Posted By cheesybaby Back to the DVD sales - as if reading this thread, the-numbers.com recently added a Blu-Ray sales chart. As of 5/8/11, T:L has sold $32.6 million of Blue-Rays and $19.9 million of DVDs. In its 5th week of release it is #4 on the Blu-Ray chart and #13 on the DVD chart. T:L's $52.2 million total is tepid. By contrast, Tangled has a total of $141 million ($57.1 mil Blu-Ray and $83.9 mil DVD). It is still #5 on the Blu-Ray chart and #6 on the DVD chart.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Thanks for the info, cheesybaby. The total sales so far are tepid indeed. Compare T:L to another recent film in the same genre with the same ComicCon target audience, Iron Man 2. That film sold over 5 million copies in DVD for $118.8 million, which was roughly 50% of total sales. Given the sales figures, T:L has yet to reach 5 million copies in both DVD and Blu-Ray combined. Iron Man 2 sold 5 million copies its first week alone. No mystery why Iron Man 3 is coming out next summer. Speaking of sequels... still no word coming out of Burbank about TR3N. I'm guessing it's not happening, given these sales figures.
Originally Posted By DlandDug This is such a tough call-- although it shouldn't be based on how things have been handled in the recent past. I still think the TV series is the wild card. If it tanks, it may be curtains for another trip to the grid...
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed Dug, the key will be the series. That said, I read a funny scathing review of Pirates over here, which paraphrasing it said, if there is money, Disney will do it, they are no longer a hallmark of quality that they once were. Lol. The reviewer gave it one star.
Originally Posted By relapse I also think the series will be the key, Skinnerbox has been quick to label Tron Legacy as a flop, yet Thor did a 440 and Disney have already come out and greenlit a sequel (I would argue that with CPI etc that Thor on did slightly better) so Tron 3 must definitely be around the mark of being a strong chance to be greenlit. Where I think the Tron franchise still has legs is that Tron Legacy was overlooked to a degree by the tween market and this series does have the potential to build that market which would create a bigger audience for Tron 3.
