He's right you know. The Spongebob musical has legitimately amazing set and costume design, and the music's a ton of fun too, especially since a lot of different and unique artists each wrote individual songs.
Book Club
90
1539
5.85%
Deadpool 2
1685
3582
47.04%
Show Dogs
76
852
8.92%
Book Club Comps:
34% of Bad Moms 2's 3-Day ($5.7M)
36% of Daddy's Home 2 ($10.8M)
34% of Orient Express ($9.8M)
187% of 15:17 to Paris ($23.5M)
58% of Life of the Party ($10.3M)
Deadpool Comps:
185% of Thor: Ragnarok ($226.5M)
120% of Justice League ($112.6M)
42% of The Last Jedi ($91.9M)
34% of Black Panther ($68.9M)
41% of Infinity War ($106.1M)
How the weekend is playing out:
Thursday:
430
810
53.09%
Friday:
461
956
48.22%
Saturday:
456
956
53.02%
Sunday:
338
956
35.36%
Show Dogs Comps:
104% of My Little Pony ($9.2M)
21% of Coco's 3-Day ($10.8M)
58% of Ferdinand ($7.8M)
50% of Paddington 2 ($5.5M)
22% of Peter Rabbit ($5.6M)
74% of Sherlock Gnomes ($7.8M)
Deadpool 2's not looking so hot, but maybe this is just my theater as an outlier (BP also severely overperformed, which doesn't help when it comes to making comps). Book Club and Show Dogs seem like they're doing fine relative to their expectations.
Book Club
21
1539
1.36%
Deadpool 2
1185
3582
33.08%
Show Dogs
17
852
2.00%
A 31% jump for DP2 within the past day, although it helps that it got a massive expansion in its showtimes, specifically Thursday.
I don't know if this is the case for other theaters, but Show Dogs isn't getting any Thursday previews, while Book Club is only getting one at 5 PM.
It always amuses me how Nathan Fillion is hailed as some bastion of geekdom and always gets fancasted in nerd projects, and yet years later, is still stuck doing mediocre network procedurals.