UPDATED: Green Lantern Opens With $53M For The First Weekend

UPDATED: Green Lantern Opens With $53M For The First Weekend

Well, the final numbers are here...And it's not looking that good for Warner Bros and Martin Campbell's comic book adaptation Green Lantern because it seems that film finished with only $53M. More after the jump.

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By WolvieCBM - Jun 19, 2011 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Green Lantern
Source: Deadline



Here are the final numbers for this box office weekend. Martin Campbell-directed comic book adaptation Green Lantern finished #1 with $53M, way below that previously expected. Film was getting a lot of negative reviews, with couple of good ones here and there (you can check out Josh and Mark's reviews HERE and HERE).


UPDATE: Below are the actual numbers for this weekend (including Sunday):

1. Green Lantern 3D - Friday $21.6M, Saturday $16.8M, Weekend $52.6M

2. Super 8 - Friday $6M, Saturday $8M, Weekend $21.2M, Cume $72.7M

3. Mr. Popper's Penguins - Friday $6.4M, Saturday $6.5M, Weekend $18.2M

4. X-Men: First Class - Friday $3.3M, Saturday $4.4M, Weekend $11.5M, Cume $119.9M.

For full box office report follow the link at the bottom of the page.


From Deadline:

"Warner Bros' 3D Green Lantern ($21.6M Friday, dropping -21% for $17.1M Saturday, and only a $53M weekend) underperforms, unable to meet even the studio's lowered expectation for North America despite the higher 3D ticket prices. Green Lantern had well-known actor Ryan Reynolds playing the superhero, yet won't come near that other non-sequel Thor's recent $65.7M opening weekend for Marvel yet starring a complete unknown."


Next week Green Lantern will go against new PIXAR film, Cars 2. Expect a big drop, since it's not getting good buzz and as for international numbers, Deadline says:

"Competitors also told me that the foreign day-and-date opening grosses were off to a "very soft start". Though UK opened #1 with £717k (US$1.2M) from 907 situations, that's less than this summer's openings of X-Men: First Class, Fast Five, and Thor. And the Russia and South Korea debuts weren't strong.




I have to say, it's not looking good for Green Lantern. Well, that's it for this weekend. What do you think of the overall Green Lantern box office performance?

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PaulRom
PaulRom - 6/19/2011, 7:31 AM
Fail.
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 6/19/2011, 7:32 AM
My thoughts on GL:

Moron
Moron - 6/19/2011, 7:33 AM
Yes!!! This movie sucked, it deserves this
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 6/19/2011, 7:39 AM
@arminies
on my twitter page I posted a video where right after I saw GL I said those exact words and went to see First Class. God bless that trainwreck of a movie *GL that is*. It makes me sad that I was REALLY looking forward to Gl and it ended up dissapointing me.
Hellsing
Hellsing - 6/19/2011, 7:43 AM
you know what the most frustrating thing about this movie and this coming from some one who isn't that much of GL fan is the fact that it had potential to be really good. But some shit dialogue, character decisions that don't make sense at times and weak story just killed it.
Hellsing
Hellsing - 6/19/2011, 7:44 AM
Arminies - 6/19/2011, 8:24 AM

u all know whats funny?


goes to show you all fanboys DC cant make a good film unless it has Batman.


@Coldblood6
we can all hope, but sadly Toys and idiots will bring on a sequel







That's some terrible logic you have there. Good Filmmakers make good movies... not Batman. If Chris Nolan made Green Lantern you know you would be singing a slightly different cynical tune. I don't know why you would hope for this to fail? Unless you're a MARVEL fan boy or hate CBM in which case why are you here commenting on something you don't care about. Oh right... cynics have nothing better to do. My mistake.
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 6/19/2011, 7:45 AM
@Arminies
Zarina_Romanoff
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 6/19/2011, 7:54 AM
This need to make over $400M globally just to break even, looks like a loss for WB.

I'll still check it out, I just won't expect much out of it.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 7:54 AM
Thor only dropped 47% on its second week, that's a really low drop and that's whay its managed to do considerably well despite the following onslaught of big movie releases and remain in the top ten.

GL will be snuffed out like a cigarette snub the minute Cars 2 drives by! Expect a drop of around 65%-70% or so similar to what The Hulk movie had. Flicks with Bad word of Mouth disappear quick in the summer and don't expect a sequel!

Look on the bright side GL fans, it'll be on home video before the summer is over! :-)
bfprimetime
bfprimetime - 6/19/2011, 7:56 AM
I really hope it can do well enough for a sequel. I think since the director isn't coming back the next one will be better. Also we will never see other DC heros besides Batman and Supes,unless we support this one.
Superman75
Superman75 - 6/19/2011, 7:56 AM
53 million is not that bad considering all the bad reviews about it. Some people didnt even think it would make 50 million.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 8:01 AM
Are you kidding, $53 million is EXTREMELY bad regardless of good or bad reviews. Thisis a movie business not a fan contest, Warner put $300 million in to this movie and for two weeks they get the lionshare of the ticket sales margins. That's not exactly much when your film opens at $53 million, it means you stand to loose about %200 million by the end of the films run unless you get a minor miracle!

And forget Sequels, it needed an opening of around $100 million to even continue sketching plans for a sequel. This isn't going to make even as much as Superman Returns and you know how that sequel went don't ya?
Fantine
Fantine - 6/19/2011, 8:02 AM
I hate the fact they always refer to Thor as an unknown, yes he may be an unknown to comic fans, but people still know he him as the Norse god. People may have went to see the film not even knowing its based a comic book, thinking its just a adaption of the Thor myth. While Green Lantern is an unknown, I live in Northern Ireland and people apart from the small (and I mean SMALL) comic book fans here, know who Green Lantern is. In the films defense, it was not worth all the horrible reviews, I liked it.
CapFan79
CapFan79 - 6/19/2011, 8:02 AM
I hit that right on the head in the prior gross thread.

And V, $53 is terrible considering how much it cost and how much it'll fall off in subsequent weekends.. It won't out gross First Class in the US and if the foreign take is equally sucky it'll be a big bomb.
canvilella
canvilella - 6/19/2011, 8:03 AM
I thought sunday counted for the weekend numbers...
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 8:05 AM
@leeholland - The crappy Fantastic Four flick was almost as bad you're right but that film cost only $100 million, opened with $56 million weekend (yes, MORE than GL) and made over $330 million world wide including $154 million in the US.

Again, forget sequel, prequel and reboot talk. Warner will can this and move on to something guaranteed to make back the money their recent comic film has lost them in great abundance!
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 6/19/2011, 8:05 AM
Shit. There goes the Justice League movie.
randymongoose
randymongoose - 6/19/2011, 8:08 AM
It's a shame, I always want all CBM's to do well.
The only hope for DC fans is if they decide to risk it with Flash.
They might do because Flash is still quite a well known hero, and people who don't read comics may be more inclined to watch a Flash movie than a Green Lantern one, but if they do I expect they'd give Flash a considerably lower budget than if GL had done well.
canvilella
canvilella - 6/19/2011, 8:08 AM
@catwomanlover unknown meaning chris hemsworth as opposed to ryan reynolds, not thor vs GL
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 8:08 AM
@canvilella - This is an 'estimated' weekend sum made up from Friday, Saturday and projected Sunday takings. Tomorrow they get the official Sunday takings and review the estimate for the 'actuals' and that more times than not is usually less than the estimate so expect that box office to be even less!
Niuhll
Niuhll - 6/19/2011, 8:11 AM
Cinema i work at has reflected this, we're only a small town cinema, but we've been taking like 10-15 people per show. Where as Thor had about 40 per show (And kept growing through word of mouth) and X-Men had about 70 per show.

Even with the elevated 3D prices, it's not doing anything. Which i don't mind, less work, easy weekend.
canvilella
canvilella - 6/19/2011, 8:11 AM
@ceejay ok, thx for clearing that up
Superman75
Superman75 - 6/19/2011, 8:16 AM
If this means less films of major characters than this is not great.
BanthaSkull
BanthaSkull - 6/19/2011, 8:17 AM
I didn't think it was as bad as everyone is making it out to be. I went in expecting something along the lines of the Daredevil movie. This was a pretty good CBM.
Supersonicboobs
Supersonicboobs - 6/19/2011, 8:19 AM
i was expecting a great movie from Martin Campell, but i guess he's a one hit wonder with Casino Royale!

it's only Nolan and Goyer that is keeping Warner Bros. alive right now! after TDKR, all the cards will be on Man of steel! They better get that right!
Green Lantern should have been made with a Serious Tone!
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 8:19 AM
@TheGODDAMNSUPERGUY - Sriously, the scenes on OA were pretty but any more of that and they would have distanced the audience even more. The problem with the film is the lack of significant plotting on the Earth scenes to validate the space trooper stuff. You need the human story to get your joe-average's to relate to the character otherwise he might as well be a cartoon. They don't make movies to just appeal to fanboys, fans make up less than 1% of the viewing audience, they need to capture a general public! Straight to home video cartoons like monthly comics are made for fanboy audiences and that's why these things don't get cinema releases. The last time anything like that happened it was called Transformers the Movie in 1986 and it made a total of $5million bucks for its entire run!
JorEl77
JorEl77 - 6/19/2011, 8:19 AM
I thought Sunday was still considered the weekend too? The theatres haven't even opened up yet today in my area.I'm going to see it here in less than 2 hours.Maybe it will make a good bit today because a lot of people like myself wait to see movies on Sunday.Sunday is actually a day that you have off and can relax and actually go do something,and besides that,I hate going to see a movie opening night when the theatre is packed as hell.
Niuhll
Niuhll - 6/19/2011, 8:20 AM
I still say they should of made a Flash film first, more people know the Flash outside of comics, especially Dads, who would take their kids to hide the fact they wanna see it. So more ticket sales there.

That said, if this movie was better it would of done better, so.
jf11mm
jf11mm - 6/19/2011, 8:22 AM
@canvilella Sunday does count as the weekend these dc haters seemed to have forgotten that gee i wonder why.
JWStubner
JWStubner - 6/19/2011, 8:22 AM
Welll ... so much for seeing the Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Shazam!, Green Arrow, The Spectre, Blue Beetle, The Atom or any other DCU character on the big screen. It's fair to say Warner Bros. wont be wasting hundreds of millions of dollars adapting anyone else unless they're The Batman or Superman....bummer...maybe if they focused on making a great film like Batman or Superman instead of a campy, overproduced superhero movie with little motion or meaning. Today is a day of mourning for us who hoped to see the DCU get adapted to the big screen. It's a sad day for the world.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 6/19/2011, 8:23 AM
@JorEl77 - as I stated above, Sundays takings are included and are normally based on a projected estimate, the actual takings for the weekend are released tomorrow evening. And just for the record, Sunday is the day that takes the least amount of box office ALWAYS!
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