James

A Star Is Born gets a solid A CinemaScore tonight and a 90% on PostTrak and 4.5 stars. Who doesn’t love the movie? Females turned out at 66% to guys’ 34%; both gave it a solid A. Over 50 bunch at 42% graded it A. Under 25ers may have been small in their turnout at 14%, but they loved the Cooper-directed movie the most with an A+. Those over 25 who made up 86% of the audience gave A Star Is Born an A. https://deadline.com/2018/10/venom-a-star-is-born-weekend-box-office-lady-gaga-1202476614/ Wow, this is skewing soooo old. The legs will probably be phenomenal.

I am always stalking but only comment for interesting weekends haha. ASIB+VENOM is just to much not too. Actually the next few months look more interesting to me BO wise than the Summer was.

Was is the old trailer or a cut version of the new one?

Doubtful, but I think it will lose (maybe Sat and) Sunday.

How much longer till we get official midnights?

I just saw on Twitter that Vue won't show it (yet) because of a negotiation confllict with WB. Isn't that a major chain?

Venom (4,250 theaters) - $60.0 M A Star is Born (3,686 theaters) - $42.0 M Smallfoot (4,131 theaters) - $15.0 M Night School (3,019 theaters) - $14.4 M The House With A Clock In Its Walls (3,456 theaters) - $6.3 M A Simple Favor (2,408 theaters) - $3.9 M The Nun (2,264 theaters) - $3.0 M Crazy Rich Asians (1,466 theaters) - $2.7 M Hell Fest (2,297 theaters) - $2.7 M The Predator (1,643 theaters) - $1.6 M https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4443&p=.htm BOM predictions. I think both ASIB and Venom can go higher than that. From the ASIB-Oceans 8 comparison I see the midnight number coming at over 5m.

Does A Star Is Born have any chance of being released in China?

The fact that this is beating Venom even in presales...

So, mods, can we have an early weekend thread for this?🤩

This weekend will be glorious. Better than Marvel vs DC. Holy sh*t. 😂😂😂

The marketing for this went so off the rails I kinda feel bad for Sony lmao. They should just stop this promo tour because at this point the actors seem to do everything they can to distance themselves from this (potential?) mess.

The fact that a movie like ASIB can keep up with a CBM in terms of presales is mighty impressive. And I know someone here mentioned the Lady Gaga fanbase but I don't think that makes such a huge difference. Diehards would have bought tickets by now and if that fanbase was so big then the numbers on Youtube for the trailers and music video would be bigger, especially since ASIB is basically new music from Gaga. But they are not coming even close to Venom's. I think 60m might happen for ASIB.

Yes but let's be real here. CBMs are known for having bigger presales than any other genre. ASIB doesn't strike me as a presales heavy movie.

Oh, and the Conjuring universe has officially surpassed 1.5b in WW revenue. It might actually cross 1.6b by the time The Nun is done or at least come very close to it. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=conjuringfranchise.htm

According to Deadline the first Conjuring was the 7th most profitable movie of that year and it cost the same as The Nun. But the Nun will do much more WW and even the DOM difference won't be big. For comparison, TC2 was #14 in 2016, Annabelle 2 was #11 in 2017 (it actually made more profit for WB than TC2, probably because it was also way cheaper). I can find no data on the first Annabelle and I think that is a mistake by Deadline. No 20 that year was Interstellar with 40m smth in profits. I don't see how Annabelle making 257m on a 6m budget doesn't make more profit than that.

Wow, this sounds good.

With the Nun, TC Universe will surpass 1.5b WW on a combined 103m budget, And just think of all the money in the ancillary market with streaming being as huge as it is. And anyone thinking The Nun wont get a sequel is out of their minds.

People are really overreacting with The Nun's reception. TC universe will survive just fine. And this will do 350-400m on a 20m budget, It is so incredibly profitable.

Finally caught MI6 this weekend and it was easily the best movie I've seen so far this year! And imo, the best of the franchise. It deserves all the money it can get.

Am I the only one thinking 50m could happen?

I can't with y'all clamoring over every stupid comic book movie and saying THIS looks ridiculous. LMAO. It looks like a blast. If it is half as good as AC bring it on.

Any chance anything beats Infinity War for the year? On Insidekino I see IW sold about 3.32m tickets and Fantastic Beasts sold 3.47m back in 2016 so maybe that?

Does FB2 have a shot at £65m? The first one did 55m and I am thinking the addition of Dumbledore and Hogwarts being back might boost the hype even more.