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Somewhat interesting that NCD is moving from a Saturday last year to a Sunday this year. Drops should be minimal this week and we might even see some increases from Saturday, except for Oppenheimer which will almost certainly take a hit with AMC and Regal lowering those $20+ IMAX 70mm prices down to $4.
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I wonder if actuals will be enough to push Barbenheimer over $2B. Seems like it just shy of the milestone with current estimates.
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15 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:
That’s $40K+ PTA but considering those 22 screens with 70mm are where the bulk of the money is coming from, I would guess they probably averaged around $55K each with the other 10 maybe hitting $10K each.
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18 minutes ago, Borobudur said:
Is the news of Cinema Day coming next weekend widely spread or known? Some worse than expected hold this weekend and I suppose some demand shifted to CD.
It seems to be a rather low key affair so far to me, considering the lack of spam about it which AMC and Regal usually send. Promotions for it better kick off on Monday or Tuesday or this year won’t be as impressive.
That being said, this year it is a week earlier and there are two new wide releases unlike last year when we only had two re-releases (NWH and Jaws) and one tax write-off release (Honk).
GT will probably be hurt by NCD as people would pay regular price to see it on its opening Saturday but now can pay a reduced price. Everything else should benefit with Barbie, Oppenheimer and TMNT probably benefitting the most. BB may reap some extra ticket sales but compared to its drop from OW and loss is PLFs, it may only stem the tide a little.
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6 minutes ago, MrPink said:
disgusting holdIt lost most of its IMAX screens this weekend to Blue Beetle so it was destined to drop far more than it normally would have.
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3 hours ago, baumer said:
First time I saw the trailer for strays I was kind of mortified. The only hook for the whole movie seem to be animated animals saying fuck and shit. It starts off about dogs that have been abandoned by their owners. Hardly a kid friendly or a pet owner kind of film. I'll never see this piece of shit and I hope it dies a fast and disastrous death.
I think a studio could make a good comedy about foul-mouthed dogs; but it absolutely cannot be centered around human cruelty to animals. They might get by if it were some sort of Home Alone parody and the dogs had to defend their home from burglars. If the dogs were involved in some sort of hijinks or maybe even a caper, it could work. The premise for Strays, however, is simply a non-starter for a lot of people.
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4 minutes ago, elothar said:
NWH isn't a good mobie tbh
The film is 2+ hours of moderate quality fan service and little more. However, the final 5 minutes were superb and the best of the entire movie.
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All of this dogpiling on DC seems to be overlooking or forgetting Pattinson’s The Batman. A sequel is coming and it will likely be very successful, just like its predecessor. The path forward for DC runs through it.
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Oppenheimer has now passed The Hangover to claim the #8 spot on the all-time R-rated list. A Saturday jump comparable to the one from last week will allow it to leapfrog The Matrix Reloaded for #7.
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So most IMAX screens traded one bomb for another this weekend, although the bombs are nothing alike.
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With yesterday’s $2.5M, Oppenheimer now stands atop the all-time never #1 list with $272.5M, passing Sing and its $270.4M.
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Barbie is now $32.4M behind TSMBM which she will pass next week as she keeps zooming to $600M+.
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Good news, everybody! AMC, Regal, Cinemark (and likely others) are offering 7pm Early Access screenings of Strays tonight and there are plenty of good seats everywhere. No need to stress about the shows being sold out and not being able to attend.
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8 minutes ago, cannastop said:
going to demolish Sing's record
It will pass Sing no later than Wednesday. It will pass The Hangover and then The Matrix Reloaded this weekend as it aims for $300M by the end of the month.
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38 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:
Yah Metreon here sold out all good seats very soon after they extended its run. I wonder how long the demand will be there at 70mm Imax screens. For now it makes perfect sense to extend it as long as demand is there. Considering how big those screens are theaters make a killing selling food.
Yeah, this is the 10:30pm showing for Oppy this coming Sunday at the Metreon IMAX. This would be a solid advance sales number five days out for a 7pm Friday showing on opening weekend for most films, let alone a late night Sunday showing for a film in its fifth weekend.
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3 hours ago, abracadabra1998 said:
Let's just get one thing straight. When Oppy drops higher than its previous drops this coming weekend, and it will with its loss of IMAX, pleaaaaaaase no one freak out too much.
Blue Beetle won’t be staying in IMAX theaters for very long and could lose showings before the weekend is over. The Regal IMAX near me has sold a total of 19 tickets for the 7pm IMAX showings on Friday (12 tickets) and Saturday (7 tickets). I attended a 4:30 pm showing of Oppenheimer in there this past Sunday and there were maybe 200 people present.
Oppy will probably be hanging on to all of its 70mm IMAX showings for the foreseeable future. Good seats for the prime time showings in those theaters are still almost impossible to find. For instance, Wednesday’s 8:20pm show at the AMC Rivercenter in San Antonio has already sold around 200 tickets.
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If there had been a full reunion in TFA of the three (four? six?) principals from the original trilogy, the film would have cleared $1B domestically. The nostalgia factor was already through the roof. A reunion of that nature would have sent the gross into orbit.
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2 minutes ago, Eric the Turtle said:
They've had 2PM/7PM previews for GT all this weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And that includes the ones next weekend. That's like...12 preview showings? Around that I think? It's such a stupid idea that, at this point, you might as well have kept it on its original release date.
There were preview screenings last weekend, too, in addition to some AMC Dolby previews on Tuesday (or maybe it was Wednesday) this past week, which were likely scheduled before the film changed release dates.
It has been a fairly common practice for decades to hold a preview screening during a Saturday for a film opening the following week. What GT has done for the past two weekends in combination with next weekend is seemingly unprecedented. Has there ever been a film which has had so many previews? Regardless of what day these preview grosses are rolled into, that second weekend drop, even for it being Labor Day, is going to be atrocious.
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Regal is offering 2pm previews of Gran Turismo today (Sunday) at most of its US locations. Will there be anyone who wants to see this film who has not seen it by the time its opening weekend arrives?
ETA: Looks like Regal is offering the following previews of GT next weekend: 7pm Fri; 3pm & 7pm Sat; and 2pm Sun. I suspect this past weekend was the same schedule. Keep this in mind when the Thursday preview numbers are eventually released, provided all of these previews aren’t rolled into the opening Friday numbers.
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How many days away are we from $2B for Barbenheimer? 5? 6? 7?
Current totals:
Domestic: $790.6M ($526.3M/$264.3M)
International: $1.042B ($657.6M/$384.8M)
Global: $1.833B ($1.184B/$0.649B)
The international numbers alone are higher than what many thought would be their combined global total and it's only been 24 days.
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28 minutes ago, filmlover said:
Will Gran Turismo even pull a double digits opening in two weeks?
Yes. The film has already had four different days with 7pm preview showings including almost all AMC Dolby screens during those showings. There were also afternoon previews yesterday at many theaters. My neighborhood AMC has a 7pm preview for it this coming Friday and Saturday along with a 3pm Saturday preview. I think it falls off a cliff in its second weekend but it should be able to hit at least $20M during its opening weekend. In fact, there is a chance it might gross more from its multitude of previews and its Thursday night shows than it grosses for its true three day weekend.
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Oppenheimer is now $6M from passing Sing for #1 on the all-time never #1 list. If The Theeequalizer wasn’t opening over Labor Day weekend, I’d say it would have had a very slim chance to overtake Barbie that weekend. Otherwise, it’s never going to have a #1 weekend barring an exceptionally long SAG/WGA strike coupled with a resurgence due to a massive showing during awards season.
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11 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:
Movies have had long runtimes since the early 00s or so. Whining about it now is whining 20 years too late.
Gone with the Wind has a running time of 3 hours and 58 minutes.
If you prefer something more recent, Titanic is 3 hours and 14 minutes.
A couple of years prior to that, one of the greatest movies of all time, Heat, was released and it clocks in at 2 hours and 50 minutes.
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I don’t think those sneak previews tonight for Gran Turismo are going well. There is a 2.30 showing of Oppy on the Dolby screen at my nearby AMC and it has sold about 70 tickets so far. The 7:00pm Gran Turismo showing on the same Dolby screen has sold about 60 tickets so far.
Weekend Numbers (actuals) | Aug 18 - 20 | 25.0M BLUE BEETLE | 21.1M BARBIE
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Barbie needs $7.5M or so pass TSMBM to claim #1 for 2023. Small chance it could happen on Tuesday but if not, it definitely will happen on Wednesday. I’m not sure anything on the calendar for the rest of the year will pass $300M so its crown for the year should be secure.