Jul 27, 2015 Weinstein Co. is over the moon with the results of Antoine Fuqua’s boxing film Southpaw, which came in right about where they were expecting with $16.5M at 2,772. Those are amazing results considering that Southpaw cost a net $25M after Pennsylvania tax credits (original cost was $30M). Southpaw drew an even 50/50 male-to-female crowd. Early test screenings indicated that females would take to the pic. 60% of the crowd was under 35. TWC remains very hopeful about the film’s prospects in the wake of its A CinemaScore. The film in a second set of exit polls earned an 89 with a 77% definite recommend, syncing with early test poll results. “That’s as good as any Weinstein Co. awards contending film,” beamed TWC distribution chief Erik Lomis, “Antoine Fuqua shot a great film and Jake Gyllenhaal is magnificent in it.” Giving Southpaw a big boost was A-list rapper Eminem who was behind the pic’s soundtrack, and pushed the film across his social media. He wrote all the songs and performed the end credits tune “Kings Never Die” with Gwen Stefani. TWC also held tastemaker screenings with the boxing and sporting community; one of the biggest spots for Southpaw they bought preceded May’s Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. 24% of those watching Southpaw were Latino with African Americans repping 21% of all ticket buyers. http://deadline.com/2015/07/pixels-paper-towns-southpaw-trainwreck-ant-man-box-office-1201484974/
Jul 27, 2015 No, those are bad numbers for a soundtrack that features new material from a popular artist Obviously it wasn't going to do 8 Mile numbers, but it didn't even come close to, say, the Great Gatsby soundtrack Edit: and yes, Yelawolf sold over 50k 1st week
Jul 27, 2015 ^d---. Well I did my part. I bought the soundtrack. Not sure about seeing the movie though.
Jul 27, 2015 Definitely not true that he "wrote all the songs" to the soundtrack. What a stupid thing to say.
Jul 27, 2015 The Great Gatsby: Opening Weekend: $50,085,185 Production Budget: $105 million Southpaw: Opening Weekend: 16,5m Production Budget: 25m The Great Gasby OST was released in May, now it's August Small movie low sales for the ost aint that hard to get
Jul 27, 2015 As ive said before. Eminem since MMLP2 is losing popularity & as well as releasing terrible music. I hope it makes him make better music. Shady XV flopped too. Looks like Rosenberg is actually going to have to find a way to properly promote now.
Jul 27, 2015 It wont happen despite the times u keep telling yourself, shadyxv wasnt a flop either Im sorry to sound like a stan but y'all are annoying af
Jul 27, 2015 You can't judge his popularity by the sales of Shady XV and the Southpaw Soundtrack. These were projects that only his hardcore fans knew he was involved with. Guarantee if he dropped a new solo album it'd go multi-platinum quick as usual.
Jul 27, 2015 It's pretty clear there's a big difference between actual interscope promo and shady records promo.
Jul 27, 2015 Watch it, bro. There was a lot of unwarranted hate towards it. It was definitely worth my two hours.
Jul 27, 2015 Wow, me and 4 friends walked out that theater, 3 saying it's one of the best movies they have ever seen. The other saying it's the best he's seen in years. Jake did amazing, and the version of Phenomenal they used was perfection. Fantastic movie. (Just walked out the movies so I'm amped haha)
Jul 27, 2015 Gonna check movie tomorrow I think. Never was gonna buy the soundtrack lol, but I did like it for most part.
