Comments on: judging a flop Comments on Ask MetaFilter post judging a flop Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:09:17 -0800 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:24:19 -0800 en-us 60 Question: judging a flop What percentage (either of a movie's production budget or of the final receipts) of a movie's box office receipts are expected to be produced in the opening weekend?,2012:site.227772 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:09:17 -0800 goethean flop boxoffice box office bomb By: blazingunicorn I have no idea, but it ranges immensely depending on things like repeat viewings, word-of-mouth, and demographics of the audience.<br> <br> For example, <a href="">The Dark Knight Rises</a> made $160 million in its opening weekend and $447 million overall (domestic), whereas <a href="">Titanic</a>—the extreme on the other end—"only" made $28 million in its opening weekend, but went on to gross over $600 million overall.,2012:site.227772-3296095 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:24:19 -0800 blazingunicorn By: BlahLaLa 50% of the total gross, generally, when you're talking about a studio movies, in the US.,2012:site.227772-3296105 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:28:43 -0800 BlahLaLa By: acidic <a href="">Here</a> you can look at ~1500 opening weekends (navigate using the $ tabs at top) and see the percentage of total gross. Most opening weekends are between 20% and 45% of total gross. Take a look also at the same list when <a href="">sorted</a> from smallest to highest percentage.,2012:site.227772-3296160 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:19:13 -0800 acidic By: southof40 I don't know if you care but many US produced movies make a significant part of their return outside of the USA so talking of the % of their total receipts compared a US 'opening weekend' is a bit confusing.<br> <br> As an example Avatar had <a href="">approx three times the amount of non-US revenues compared to US revenues</a>. So 'opening weekend' (in the USA) was either 10% of total US revenues or 2.5% of worldwide revenues.,2012:site.227772-3296225 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:59:39 -0800 southof40