Based on Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #52 is now on pace for $168 million, very similar to the outlook yesterday. However, Django Unchained and Les Miserables continue to move in opposite directions. Yesterday, it looked like both films would be around $29 million for the weekend (with Les Mis only $400,000 behind Django). But based […]
OPENINGS: THE LITTLE MERMAID (Disney) began its run with $95.5M over the 3-day weekend, projected to $117.5M with the Monday holiday. That’s within the range of pre-release projections, and if the numbers hold, it would be slightly higher than the $116.8M earned over the 2019 4-day Memorial Day weekend by Aladdin. However, it’s a […]
OPENINGS: POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU (Legendary/Warners) started strong in the US with $58M, not that far off the $69.1M launch of The LEGO Movie. Pikachu may not have that movie’s legs, especially with Aladdin just 2 weeks away, but it should total $175-200M here. Pokemon in general is a more worldwide phenomenon than LEGO, which […]
OPENINGS: ETERNALS (Marvel/Disney) opened at the low end of expectations with $71M, not a surprise given its lousy reviews (48% on Rotten Tomatoes, unprecedented for the MCU) and blah audience exit polls. Even so, that makes it the #4 US opening of the pandemic era, and all of those quartet members are Marvel movies. […]
OPENINGS: We won’t really know the order of the weekend’s closely-bunched Top 3 movies until final numbers are released tomorrow, but since the default position of any studio with a new opening is to claim victory, the fact that AMERICAN MADE (Cross Creek/Universal) is currently in 2nd place with $17M can’t be a good […]
OPENINGS: The news was good and bad for POWER RANGERS (Lionsgate). Its US opening was very solid at $40.5M (even if that number turns out to be a bit overstated, with an ambitious Sunday estimate). But it carries at least $200M in production/marketing costs, and to reach profit, it also needs to be strong […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #35 of 2014 looks like $86 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, now 1% above the norm for this weekend ($85 million) but 8% below this weekend last year (detailed track below). Opening at 2,639 theaters, As Above/So Below from Universal grossed $3.2 million Friday and $2.8 million […]
OPENINGS: THE NEW MUTANTS (20th/TSG/Disney) was DOA long before the world was engulfed by a pandemic, repeatedly postponed as first 20th and then Disney tried to figure out what to do with it. The only reason it’s having a theatrical release at all is that 20th’s pre-Disney co-financier TSG had the contractual right to […]