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Friendly neighborhood reminder that the Most Anticipated Films thread has restarted: https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/667-box-office-theorys-most-anticipated-films/page/398/#comments We definitely need more votes this week. Just post your top 10 films of the next 12 months.

I had actually avoided that trailer for the last few months, so when I saw it in front of New Mutants a few days ago, it was 100% new to me. It played really well on the big screen.

What were the Monday night numbers?

Box Office Theory's Most Anticipated Films – August 21-27, 2020 1 Eternals - 26 2 Black Widow - 21 3 Dune - 17 4 Wonder Woman 1984 - 15 5 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - 11 5 Candyman - 11 7 The New Mutants - 10 8 Raya and the Last Dragon - 9 9 Soul - 7 10 Morbius - 6 11 Venom: Let There Be Carnage - 4 12 Tenet - 3 12 The King's Man - 3 14 The Suicide Squad - 2 15 Snake Eyes - 1 15 Jungle Cruise - 1 The New Mutants exits at #7 NOTABLE PREVIOUS EXITS #1 It: Chapter 2 #1 Knives Out #1 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker #2 Ad Astra #2 Doctor Sleep #2 Frozen II #2 The Invisible Man #3 Joker #5 Parasite #5 Ford v. Ferrari #6 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood #6 Queen & Slim #7 Little Women #7 1917 #7 Dolittle #7 The New Mutants #8 The Hunt #9 Terminator: Dark Fate #9 Jojo RabbitPREVIOUS #1s 1/2/20 Black Widow 1/9/20 Tenet 1/16/20 The Eternals 1/23/20 The Eternals 1/30/20 Black Widow 2/6/20 Black Widow 2/13/20 Dune 2/20/20 Tenet 2/27/20 Dune 3/5/20 Dune 3/12/20 The Eternals 8/27/20 Eternals Click spoiler for list of #1 Exits and Archives

CLOSED The New Mutants Bill & Ted Face the Music The Personal History of David Copperfield Snake Eyes Clifford the Big Red Dog Paranormal Activity 7 OPEN

It wouldn't surprise me if the voices were already recorded for this. A lot of voice acting has a very long lead time these days.

Time to change that thread title: It's Here!

After years and years of anticipation, tomorrow is your final chance to vote for New Mutants in the Most Anticipated Movies thread: https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/667-box-office-theorys-most-anticipated-films/page/398/#comments

They did before, so they do now. I guess the rules haven't changed.

The film may not be great, but this is pretty clearly some entitled reviewer demanding a free movie.

If Unhinged can make 4M, then Tenet ought to easily get past 20M in two weeks. Especially if they try to make Friday a 5-day single-day number. (Meaning the showings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday all magically count as part of Friday too.) Hell, there's a chance it'll be at 20 million BEFORE Thursday night previews even start.

So what numbers can we get our hopes up for today? Will we get a Saturday number for Unhinged, and that's it? Or might we get numbers for other movies too?

1. New Mutants 2. Black Widow 3. Eternals 4. Dune 5, Morbius 6. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 7. Venom: Let There Be Carnage 8. The King's Man 9. Candyman 10. Snake Eyes

Nope, still coming in. 78% after 41 reviews.

Okay, let's try this. Give me your top 10 movies coming out in the next 365 days. Currently eligible movies include: New Mutants, Dune, Mortal Kombat, F9: The Fast Saga, Space Jam: The New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard NO: Avatar 2, Unhinged, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar 4, Avatar 5, The Batman, Halloween Kills, Avatar 2 Go!

Tickets go on sale in 12 and a half hours.

Just to clarify: seats sold or seats newly unavailable?

finally moving in the right direction ← Previous Chart Chart Index Movie Distr Gross %LW Thr Thr Chng Per Thr Total Gross W 1 N The SpongeBob Movie: … Paramount… $900,000 300 $3,000 $900,000 1 2 N Unhinged Solstice … $582,000 299 $1,946 $582,000 1 3 (1) The Tax Collector RLJ Enter… $203,722 -34% 138 +9 $1,476 $634,145 2 - (-) The Rental IFC Films $78,000 -45% 144 -34 $542 $1,357,276 4 - N The Silencing Saban Films $44,803 76 $590 $44,803 1 - (-) The Big Ugly Vertical … $24,000 -67% 14 -22 $1,714 $504,133 4 - (-) Made in Italy IFC Films $21,000 -38% 101 -10 $208 $73,332 2 - (-) The Burnt Orange Heresy Sony Pict… $14,557 -44% 84 -26 $173 $94,638 24 - N Sputnik IFC Midnight $12,000 32 $375 $12,000 1 9 $1,880,082

maybe bring this back in a week or two?

Obviously, comparing New Mutants to any older numbers will be useless. However, having NM numbers, so you can compare future releases to NM, should be useful.

My local Cinemark is opening this weekend. Looks like I know what I'll be using those saved-up Movieclub tickets on!

Goonies has been putting up good numbers week after week. Seems like great drive-in double feature material. Dirty Dancing makes an appearance. Pretty much business as usual. https://deadline.com/2020/08/dave-franco-the-rental-no-1-weekend-box-office-again-1203001768/ 1..The Rental (IFC) 242 theaters (-8), 3-day: $290,3K (-28%)/lifetime cume: $890,4K/Wk 2 2…The Goonies (WB) $208K (+18%), 156 theaters (+30), lifetime cume: $67.6M/Wk 1,835 3…Jurassic Park (Uni) 261 (+18) theaters, 3-day: $192K (+11%),lifetime cume: $409.4M /Wk 1,417 4…Jaws (Uni) 195 theaters (+19), 3-day: $142K (+33%)/lifetime cume: $266.3M/Wk 2,355 5…Grease (Par) 83 theaters (+15), 3-day: $138K (+41%)/cume: $192.2MM/Wk 2,199 6….Back to the Future (Uni) 126 theaters (+13), 3-day: $137K (+19%), lifetime cume: $215.3M/Wk. 1,831 7…Jungle Book (Dis), 148 theaters, 3-day: $127K (-), lifetime cume: $364.2M/Wk 225 8….Dirty Dancing (LG) 67 (+32) theaters, 3-day: $113K (+95%), lifetime cume: $65.99M/Wk 1,198 9…Gremlins (WB), 58 theaters (-1) 3-day: $109,3K (-8%), lifetime cume: $155M/Wk 1,887 10…The Karate Kid (Sony) 202 theaters (-165), 3-day: $109K (-52%), lifetime cume: $91.7M/Wk. 1,885

That might be a part of it. However, it might also be the case that some folks were happy to go see some old classics for a week or three, and are now losing their interest in watching old movies in theaters.

deadline has the weekend chart finalized https://deadline.com/2020/07/dave-franco-horror-movie-the-rental-occupying-no-1-spot-at-weekend-box-office-1202994990/ 1..The Rental (IFC) 250 theaters, 3-day: $403,9K/lifetime cume: $403,9K/Wk 1 2…The Karate Kid (Sony) 367 theaters, 3-day: $225K, lifetime cume: $91.2M/wk. 1,884 3…The Goonies (WB) $176K (-13%), 126 theaters (-12), lifetime cume: $67.1M/wk 1,834 4…Jurassic Park(Uni) 243 (-3) theaters, 3-day: $173K (-8%),lifetime cume: $407.1M /wk no. 1,416 5…The Big Ugly (Vert) 68 theaters, 3-day: $150K/wk no. 1 6…Zootopia (Dis) 137 theaters, 3-day: $124K (-)/cume: $341.6M/Wk 230* 7…Avengers (Dis), 203 theaters, 3-day: $121K, lifetime cume: $623.6M/wk no. 430* 8….Greatest Showman (20th/Dis) 175 theaters, 3-day: $120K, lifetime cume: $174.5M/wk 136* 9…Gremlins (WB), 59 theaters (-5) 3-day: $119K (-22%), lifetime cume: $154.8M/wk no. 1,886 10….Back to the Future (Uni) 113 theaters (+5), 3-day: $115K (+14%), lifetime cume: $215M/wk. no. 1,830