Godzilla Box Office Updates

Tuesday update in original post.

@gman2887

so that means that the studios got alot more than what the film was budgeted for, that is really great news, also i got to thank you not only on the heads up with the box office updates but for the books you recommended i learned alot more about godzilla than i could have imagened. :)

@Bigbadben

Actually Thomas Tull (CEO of Legendary) said the movie will have to hit $380 million world wide to break even. (Factoring in marketing, liscensing...etc...) Which it will no doubt hit. The movie hasn't even been out for a full week and has yet to open in some countries. I suspect it'll make somewhere in the neighborhood of $500-$600 million by the end of its run.

Glad you enjoyed the books. Ryfle can be a little stagnant, admittedly, but he makes you think about the series. Ragone is a little more light, but never insulting. Great material and I'm glad you were able to find it.

Wait, so if my math is right... did Godzilla beat Pacific Rims entire domestic amount in under a week? Holy $hit.

I'm very terrified that tickets to Godzilla will stop selling because of X-Men. Halp! :'(

X-Men is going to be #1 at the box office, easily. People need to get over that.

But stop selling tickets altogether? That never happens. It's a three (technically four, for the industry) day weekend. There's plenty of time to see two movies and Godzilla is expected to make close to $50 million this weekend, which would be a very respectable start to the second week.

It is going to fall this weekend. That doesn't mean it flops or stops making money altogether.

@GMAN2887 - Thank you. So how much do you think the domestic and the foreign gross will be at the end of Godzilla's screening?

I'm less of a boxoffice tracker and more of an enthusiast, but many sources claim Godzilla will most likely finish around $700 million world wide.

I like to hedge my expectations a touch and say it'll be somewhere between $500-$600 million, which would still be great. If anything is certain at this point, it's that it won't make less than $500 million world wide.

@gman2887

well as long as it makes 400 million i am ok with it. :)

hopefully it will make at least 550 million by the end of its run. :)

@GMAN2887

Actually, I read in The Hollywood Reporter that Godzilla would need to make $450 million before breaking even, according to Legendary CEO Thomas Tull.  Here is the article: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/legendarys-thomas-tull-talks-godzilla-700348

Oh yes speaking of X-Men's opening. Do you guys realize X-Men took lower sales on the first day compared to Godzilla in the US box office? 

X-Men: Days of Future Past opened to $8.1 million from late Thursday shows. That's lower than recent superhero movies Captain America Winter Soldier ($10.2 million) and the Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($8.7 million), while Godzilla opened at $9.3 million. Already Spider-Man 2 is struggling to hit the $250 million expectation in the US box office, yet on its 21st day of sales it has only garnered $177 million as of today.

I think the X-men franchise of movies are rather hyped up, but it doesnt mean they make the most money in the process. Individually so far each of the X-men movies have made an average of $330 million worldwide. The highest earner is X-men: The Last Stand, which grossed $459 million worldwide. 

I believe Godzilla 2014 can easily do better than that. 

@DESTROYAH-X

People may be becoming a little tired of super-hero movies in general, and maybe the X-Men franchise in particular.  The mutants against humans thing has worn itself thin.  But the good reviews will help X-Men in the long run.

Godzilla will still do well.  GMAN-2887 specualted about $40-50 million over the 4-day weekend.  I agree.  $50 million would be outstanding for a second weekend.  That number is probably about 30% more than they had originally projected.

A couple of weeks ago I pedicted that Godzilla would do $90 million in  its first weekend (movie publications predicted $65-$70 million) and about $250-$275 or so overall, domestically.  I was right on with the $90 million, but I may have over-estimated the final domestic numbers.   About $225 million looks to be a better guess.   We'll see.

i went to see Xmen last night, the movie is not bad but I do think Xmen is worn out. Don't get me wrong Hugh Jackman will always continue to entertain me as wolverine and he'll always be the only wolverine to me. But as I was watching the film, most of the old cast still remains, I couldn't help but feel really old. I watched THE first Xmen film at 10 years old. Now I'm 24 and I'm watching the same characters with the same actors, I just couldn't get past that for 14 years I've been watching the same people/characters. The film is good but still the best Xmen films are "Xmen 1, X2, and The Wolverine" the rest I could care less for. I think Xmen films have ran their course and the public has grown tired of Xmen and Spiderman

let these super hero movies be burried by godzilla. :)

It is time for a new era of godzilla to begin. :)

Friday update.

@GMAN 2887:

$8.8 million for the second Friday is low, considering the numbers that it received last weekend.  That may mean that the mixed word-of-mouth, that began to build as the movie  aged, is taking its toll.  Or it could mean that the folks who were really hyped to see Godzilla went to see it right away.  With Godzilla making only $8.8, it will be lucky to gross $35 million over the hoiday. 

@Ratedrex

You're incorrect about the $450 million. The article you're referencing is dated. Various media outlets had to correct it to $380 million:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/godzilla-seeks-worldwide-domination-at-the-box-office-1201181416/

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-16/entertainment/sns-201405161537reedbusivarietyn1201181416-20140516_1_veronika-kwan-vandenberg-pacific-rim-legendary-pictures

@GMAN2887

Ok, I stand corrected.  I did not see those recent articles.  This means that Godzilla will turn an even bigger profit; which means that they may be more willing to up the budget at least 30% for the sequel.  The only way we are going to get the movie that some of us want is for the studios to spend the money that a project like Godzilla would need.

Not sure if this is good news. Latest update shows while Godzilla closed in at $8.8 million this Friday 23/5, for this Saturday 24/5 it bounced back at $11.5 million, and for this Sunday 25/5 latest it took in $10.7 million dollars. This is a sign that Godzilla is not taking a bad hit from X-Men just yet and is able to hold its own.

On the side of the X-Men, the first weekend sales figures for the US box office comes in at $90.7 million, which is lesser than Godzilla's $93 million. 

Some insiders are claiming Godzilla actually took away from some X-Men boxoffice bets. X-Men has a much greater climb than Godzilla, so I'm curious to watch how it does.

The Saturday and Sunday percentages are closer to what analysts were predicting. Friday was abysmal, but the $31 million for the weekend isn't overtly awful. Tomorrow is memorial day. Most outlets will count that as part of X-Men's weekend gross and it will naturally look better because of it.Memorial Day, however, doesn't exactly have the best history raking in box office revenue. We'll see what happens. Best case scenerio Godzilla hits $40 million for the four day weekend. (As opposed to the previously reported $50 million.) Most likely it will be just shy of it-- which is where my bets are at.