OPENINGS: GET OUT (QC/Blumhouse/Universal) had a remarkable Saturday performance for a horror movie, rising 17% in a genre that usually drops sharply on its 2d day of release. That’s better than the 13% bump for Day 2 of Split, and also better than the 14% increase for Insidious, one of the leggiest of recent horror […]
OPENINGS: JIGSAW (Lionsgate) had a better Saturday hold than Saw VI (down 21% instead of 32%), and that saved it from having the lowest opening weekend of the franchise. However, its $16.3M start is still far below the $24.2M for the last installment Saw 3D, which killed off the series for 7 years. Jigsaw […]
OPENINGS: JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM (Legendary/Perfect World/Universal) is claiming a round-number $150M US opening (actually $150.001M, which is cute), a number that relies on an extremely strong Sunday projection. If it goes down by a million or two tomorrow in finals, it won’t be a meaningful change except for PR purposes, and the result […]
OPENINGS: A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL (Lionsgate) launched at $27.1M, and with the exception of the outliers Madea Goes To Jail ($41M) and A Madea Christmas ($16M), that puts it in the standard $21-30M range of the franchise. It should be headed for $65M in the US, and that’s the only number that counts, since […]
OPENINGS: After several weeks of big-studio disappointments, FROZEN 2 (Disney) performed as the blockbuster it was expected to be, with $127M in the US. Comparisons to the first Frozen in 2013 are a bit dicey, because that opened wide on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. It earned $93.5M over the 5-day weekend, with an ultimate […]
OPENINGS: There were no new wide openings for New Year’s weekend. HOLDOVERS: Word of mouth still operates in a pandemic, and it wasn’t at all friendly to WW84 (DC/Warners) which crumpled by 67% to $5.5M from one holiday weekend to the next. It now seems highly unlikely to reach Tenet‘s $57.9M in the US […]
OPENINGS: The spectacular success of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (Marvel/Columbia/Sony) may have less to say about the box office overall than some would like to think. No Way Home vaporized all pandemic-era records with a $253M weekend that was 2.8x the previous Covid high ($90M for Venom: Let There Be Carnage), becoming the #1 […]
OPENINGS: BODIES BODIES BODIES (A24) went wide after last week’s NY/LA launch and is now in 1290 theaters, with more expansion scheduled to come. A24 is reporting a $3.3M weekend, although it should be noted that this estimate assumes an extremely strong Sunday hold despite a steep drop on Saturday. No international release thus […]