Somehow I can’t imagine a Pixar film being more then two hours. Though, I would love them to prove me wrong.
I prefer longer movies.
Whatever length needed to thoroughly tell the story is fine with me. From what I’m hearing it’s a little lighter on plot, but we could be wrong.
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% to 94%
Worldwide Gross: $630 million to $710 million
Seems like a reasonable guess to me. But we’ll all se what the results ultimately are come release day.
No, I totally agree. There’s no reason for it to drag on. I just like lo0ng movies better in general personally.
Runtime- 105 minutes
Total Gross
Domestic- $280,000,000
Overseas- $410,000,000
Worldwide- $690,000,000
Rotten Tomatoes Score- 89-94%
IMDB - 7.9-8.2
I see the film making around 600 million. I think it will get mostly postive reviews. Even the people who dislike will say it’s better then Cars 2.
As long as Brave gets better reviews than cars 2, I’m happy
I’m not sure how much it will gross though,i don’t think it will be as ‘kid friendly’ as cars2 And TS3 were.I think it will gross around the same as Walle.
I’m going to say that it’ll open like Ratatouille did.
I don’t know… with Disney marketing the whole “princess” thing all over the place, I bet there might be a fair-sized kid audience. I mean, that’s the magic of Pixar! They attract people of every age! I hope it does extremely well. And I also hope it’ll be kind of long; I mean, some 2-hour-plus movies make me lose interest, but Pixar, well… I have no problem with that! Heck, it could be three hours and I would be fine with that! The more Pixar magic the better! Before I saw Cars 2 I thought I’d heard the running time was two hours and I was impressed, and I was surprised when it turned out to be the exact same length as the first film… mostly because it was so awesome and had so much story I thought it was two hours long! Nevertheless, all that matters is that I love it!
I’m going to change my domestic gross to 75/310M. It’ll open good like the other Pixar films and will score a good multiplier. I’m sure word of mouth could help as well.
Well I’m guessing its going have to make at least $500 million. And that’s for its entire theatrical run to recover all its budget and marketing costs. Because if the budget that is shown on wikipedia is correct, then it cost $210 million to make Brave.
I’m going to say it’ll make 310 million domestically off of a 72 million opening.
So does anybody think that this will open at number one tomorrow?
It should most likely.
I’m sure it will be number one. Hopefully it opens to good numbers.
I’m sort of scared that Brave will open at #2, with that dumb Abraham Lincoln movie taking the #1 spot.
Hopefully I’m wrong.
Don’t worry. I’m sure Brave is going to at least make 60M this weekend since the Pixar films usually cross that amount. We shall find out on Monday. As for critic reviews so far, I think something “screwy” is kind of going on.
Since the film seems to be performing on a similar level to Wall-E, I’m going to estimate 230 domestic overall.
Since Wall•E opened almost the same weekend in June and is tracking about the same, yeah, the two estimates just over $200M are best guesses. It pumped $68M on the first 3 days and added $34M last weekend to end up around $132M in 10 days, (Edit: and now is $154M in 2 full weeks). It would seem to be a cakewalk to keep up with Wall-E and a host of other Pixar films released during the summer. Brave slipped to #3 on Friday, but has recovered to #2 since, still doing strong, but expect it to take a dive in the next two weeks! It seems to be holding up against the new male stripper movie by a nose.
The problem is all the competition coming in the next few weeks. It could take the wind out of Brave’s sails. Remember what happened to last year’s Cars2, a huge falloff around the 4th of July. The despicable reason for this problem is a switch last fall of DW’s Madagascar3 to only one week away from Pixar’s movie, so Pixar had to leap frog it to be two weekends distant: essential in the animation business! It’s now very close to the 4th of July, a big holiday weekend, except this year it falls on a Wednesday. Tonite at midnite, Amazing Spidey opens, and the next weekend, July 13th, so does Ice Age 4, another animation treat. The first of which has a very big promo buildup. RT gives IA4 a lousy 53% rating so far, but remember that Brave was down to 64% early on, and 20 reviews is a bit low. IA4 has been doing spectacularly well overseas, as did IA3. Our audiences are a bit more sophisticated over here, and they may remember how awful IA3 was in the last half of the film.
International. It doesn’t premiere in England until Aug. 17th. It’s out only in Australia and Russia and a few other 3rd tier countries. Doing well in Ruskeland with $5M in 10 days, as Pixar movies don’t usually do well there. But in the Land Down Under it has taken in only $7M, which is trailing Wall-E and well behind Up.
Edit: add $20M some for the 3rd weekend out. Holding at #3 and up to $174M.
Further Edit: ranks #4 after 4 weeks and falls only 43% with certified staying power! Will cross the $200M line by midweek. What makes this result very special is that IA4 did not knock the wind out of our movie’s ticket sales, of which there was a real danger of happening. That movie did only 2/3 as well, as people may be tiring of the franchise, especially after the last installment’s difficult rewatchability. Its TM rating has fallen to 40%, but as predicted, the overseas turkeys are gobbling it up.
Well, Brave crossed $200M on Wednesday, domestically. But we don’t know about any further accumulation due to an industry wide moratorium on box office results with the slaughter in Aurora, Colorado at the midnite showing of Batman. This was waiting to happen, either gunmen or a lone loser or a sarin gas attack or bomb in a left behind backpack, probably one of those. The terrorist attack on a Russian theater years ago showed just how juicy theaters are for such people. And 9-11 didn’t help. They have had 2 security people at my theater in recent weeks, not just one.
They will announce weekend results on Monday, for publication on Tuesday in the trades, sooner for the online world. It was very noticeable for me on Friday nite that something was up with boxofficemojo.com, the major web site for studio results, along with all the industry trade mag sites. I suppose this thread is a good one to occasionally report the staggered overseas box for Brave, especially with releases and reaction in Britain, Europe and Japan.
News Flash!!! Just in case you didn’t hear, there is some sort of unofficial announcement about Finding Nemo 2, and you can go to that subforum to hear all the few juicy details about the leak/rumor. I would suppose they should have reported this just before September 14th, in conjunction with the release of the 3-D version of Finding Nemo. It didn’t make any sense for the info to come out 7 weeks before the release. Too bad about leaks, they really are annoying.