I think as sad as I am to admit, I think the Lego franchise is done and wouldn’t be as relevant.
On a side note, a live action HTTYD remake would probably be big.
DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is looking really good with an estimated$15M today, including last night’s $3M, on its way to $52M-$54M for the weekend. That does not include the $2.5M from Fandango previews. The threequel released by Universal has about 26 Imax hubs and a good deal of PLFs working in its favor out of its 4,259 locations.
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As an animation fan, as long as a good animated film breaks out I’m happy not to mention it seems Dragon 3 is the true event of February. (a bit sad Lego 2 had to die for Dragon 3 but I digress)
I do suspect a lot of kids who saw HTTYD as a kid flocked to #3 as young adults. I saw some stuff for it around my campus’ library yesterday., so I suspect the previews would be a bit frontloaded. However this shows how strong Universal is at marketing family films and should bode well for Dreamworks in the future.
Yep, I was somewhat right on the money.
Into The SpiderVerse did $2.2M in previews I believe, so that translates roughly to a $47.2M OW.
I think high $40M-mid $50M seems likely.
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Trisha Gunn (The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) and Mike Rianda (The Mitchells vs The Machines, Gravity Falls) to direct an untitled original for Endless Animation in Y6. More details will arise tomorrow but it’s being described as adventure packed time travel comedy mixed with a Jon Hughes movie, the scale of a Steven Spielberg movie and the humor of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the latter duo will produce the film.
Probably around Captain Marvel is my guess as I suspect we’ll get Endgame a little later and since we know Frozen 2 will be an attachment, and Disney likely focusing Dumbo with Toy Story 4 and The Lion King, Disney will attach it as a sort of last hope.
IF Aladdin underperforms (cause again I think OS will save it), a domestic underperformance looks likely due to very heavy competition and lackluster marketing not racism as Aladdin is a beloved Disney classic.
Just to note Lego 2 (I was missing the pivotal 7:00 in UltraScreen but I doubt it’d sold much) sold 47 tickets where one showing of Dragon sold 55 in UltraScreen which sucks for family films. The Grinch finished with 99 tickets for the night and had 57 for it’s first showing in a regular theater and not limited by UltraScreen.
Dragon 3 has eclipsed Grinch by a ticket (100 > 99)
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
North Shore Cinema
2/21/19
6:00 - unknown
7:00 - 55/301 - UltraScreen
8:00 - 3/98 - RealD
8:35 - 37/146
10:35 - 6/98
120% ahead of Lego 2 ($3.29M previews) and 2% ahead of Grinch ($2.24M previews). In my opinion it’ll lean more towards the latter but this is very good.
I’m a bit late to the preview game for Dragon 3 but it looks like the entirety of the 7:00 UltraScreen seems bigger than all of Lego 2’s Thursday previews and may be a bit bigger than Grinch and it’s doing really good for animation in that format.