Box Office: Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga's 'A Star Is Born' Earns Huge $43M

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37 minutes ago, Admin said:

Wait is not Sunday a part of the weekend in the US?

These numbers include the Sunday estimates. 

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So proud of Gaga! 

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57 minutes ago, Biagio2103 said:

Second biggest opening for a musical ever, only behind 'Beauty and the Beast' and for obvious reasons.

Yeah I mean there is no Justin Bieber song with a title similar to A Star Is Born, it's obvious Beauty and The Beast got a better start... 

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I'm bored don't come at me 

 

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It's above $40M so I'm satisfied. 

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Happy for them

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1 hour ago, Biagio2103 said:

Second biggest opening for a musical ever, only behind 'Beauty and the Beast' and for obvious reasons.

biggest non-disney opening for a musical ever sounds better haha.

[That J 12,166]

To answer a few questions...

In North America, alot of bigger named films get what we call an "advanced screening" which would be the Thursday before the full blown opening which is Friday.  So that counts with the weekend numbers.  It runs from that to a Sunday estimate.  

The $40plus weekend gross includes the estimate today (Sunday) will garner. 

Full true numbers will be released Monday but we do look to be on par with $42-43 million which covers the budget of the film. It cost roughly $38millon to get this film on the screen.

 If we wish to play numbers, we could argue the money made in this upcoming week will pay for the advertising budget. However, we have an international gross as well. 

Basically we have a hit on our hands and the budget is paid back, advertising will be paid back as well. 

The rest is profit.  

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50 minutes ago, kaojen said:

And you can tell they’ve spent a pretty penny on marketing! People at my work are commenting on how they’ve seen this movie EVERYWHERE haha

It's gonna pay off at the end for sure! And I am so glad they did, it only proves that everyone believed in the film from the start

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Where’s the thread saying the “overhype” hurt ASIB? 

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[DrewPa 3,762]

So, it started pretty well, now fingers crossed the word of mouth will be all positive.

[S0436 10,215]

So added to the international gross they broke even already and anything from Monday onwards will be profit.  I would love $200m worldwide gross.

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55 minutes ago, That J said:

To answer a few questions...

In North America, alot of bigger named films get what we call an "advanced screening" which would be the Thursday before the full blown opening which is Friday.  So that counts with the weekend numbers.  It runs from that to a Sunday estimate.  

The $40plus weekend gross includes the estimate today (Sunday) will garner. 

Full true numbers will be released Monday but we do look to be on par with $42-43 million which covers the budget of the film. It cost roughly $38millon to get this film on the screen.

 If we wish to play numbers, we could argue the money made in this upcoming week will pay for the advertising budget. However, we have an international gross as well. 

Basically we have a hit on our hands and the budget is paid back, advertising will be paid back as well. 

The rest is profit.  

not entirely true... box office gross is split between theaters and WB.   You will need about 2x the current gross for WB to be breaking even on production costs.

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2 hours ago, Boyboi12 said:

How can Sunday be included in those numbers and today is Sunday? How does that work? 

Historically, most of the tickets sold on Sunday are prepurchased. The estimates today include Sunday’s prebought tickets which give a good idea of the totals for the weekend.  They will have final numbers either tomorrow or Tuesday and could be off by $1-2M

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https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=astarisborn2018.htm

$56million worldwide 

Foreign takings seem low but maybe it doesn’t include Sunday and it isn’t released in some markets yet.