I'm still not confident in a nomination. I could see it happening, which would be awesome to see a blockbuster/comic book movie being recognized in this way. But even with a nom, a WIN would be a long shot.
Watching Plane, I could definitely see it costing in the 20M range as opposed to 50M. If it really did cost 50, I have no clue where that $ went, because it certainly isn’t up on the screen.
Lol my friend who manages a movie theatre sent me a snapchat last night telling a story.
One of the staff members called her on the radio saying: "Hey could you come downstairs? There's a fight happening?"
"Where?"
"Theatre 19."
Fights are common enough. You get a PG-13 horror movie, and the rowdy teenagers are always scrapping. You know what movie they have playing in theatre 19?
Otto is a beast locally, not just at my local theatre, but pretty much everywhere I’m looking in pacific British Columbia. If I had no other data on how it’s doing domestically, I’d be looking at these numbers and assuming this was a 30M opener.
This wasn’t bad. I wouldn’t go as far as @CJohn but, at the very least, as far as January action films go, you could do a lot worse. Felt like mid-tier post-Taken Liam Neeson imo, not as bad as Taken 3 or Blacklight, but not as good as The Grey.
Plane is just an ok movie. Walkups weren’t awful for it, but I can’t see it having stellar WOM that really propels it. 700k just Thursday previews (850 including sneaks) and 9M for the 4-day seems about right.
I loved Otto, and so did the (heavily walkup) crowd I saw it with. Over 75% of tickets for my screening were bought within 30 minutes of start time. Wouldn’t be surprised with 15M 4-day.
I just realized Searching only made 26M domestic in 2018. For some reason I thought that was a 75M hit or something lol. Can't see this opening to more than 5M. If it makes half of what the original did, that would almost be a win for it.
See quoted post below, it's having the patterns more of a four-quadrant film rather than a "kids" film, which is why I feel like weekend increases may be slightly muted. That being said...
EDIT FROM WHAT I SAID EARLIER: I didn't realize Puss's last weekend was 13.5M. Thought it was 12M lol, so my 8.5 prediction is definitely too low. Thinking 9.5 or 10.
I mean... you might be kind of right Showman's Wed gross on Jan 10 was 1.32M, which is 16% ahead of Puss's number today. Over MLK weekend, Showman did 12.5M 3-day and 16.2M 4-day. If Puss can match that, I will be all on board the "Greatest Showman" train. Although I'm thinking it will be closer to 8.5/11 or somewhere around there.
If this can match the last film's gross, I would consider that a huge win. I do wonder though if Jenna is actually going to be a bigger draw for 2023 audiences than Neve Campbell would have been (I know that sounds blasphemous but just speaking box office-wise).