Marathon

So, 4 splats vs 1 intact red tomato. Not exactly an encouraging ratio to start with.

Looks like this movie will have to take the one-two punch of low opening, and bad legs (at least according to the initial Allocine and CGV scores).

Finland.

The pre-sales in my market are abysmal. Unless it somehow gets out of this world WOM, there's no saving this movie.

It has encouragingly decent pre-sales in my market for the opening day, nice.

Usually I get a localized snippet/short clip about every upcoming (would-be)blockbuster on my social media feed but this time I can't remember seeing anything related to this movie. Unless they are saving it for next week. Nevertheless, the marketing efforts seem muted.

If it loses over two thirds of CM1's OW, that's absolutely crazy. Usually that only happens to sequels coming off of novelty/fad predecessors. Things have really changed for live action superhero stuff on the big screen in quite dramatically short frame of time.

The new footage looks absolutely amazing. Should be breathtaking in IMAX!

The October record was there for the taking. Bleh.

It's a good thing the Turtles brand still has some strength in the domestic market because damn are Mutant Mayhem's numbers woeful overseas...

Damn, not even close to $100m overseas, what an anaemic run. Looks like interest in the property (theatrically) has collapsed overseas since the mid-2010s; either that, or this kind of iteration really is not overseas' cup of tea...

Turtles' run seems underwhelming both DOM and OS. Maybe there are some inherent, box office limiting factors in the foundations of the franchise itself, because the audience metrics are by all accounts good. I don't know if the animated side of Turtle things will fare better with this but the live action side seems allergic to sequelization: despite The Secret of the Ooze coming within a year of the 1990 original, it collapsed from $202m to $78.7m (both worldwide figures), and as we all know, the 2014 reboot did well but the 2016 sequel flopped. Very odd. It seems people are one and done with any one iteration of (live action) Turtles.

The performances of B+ Cinemascore CBMs are kind of all over the place, but interestingly, things seem far dicier already there than at A-.

Well, Blue Beetle needs to do (very) well domestically because there aren't many markets overseas that will give it non-trivial grosses...

It still hasn't shown up in my market's top 10 current best selling movies' list, so unless it has massive walk ups (unlikely), it's a non-starter here. And I guess this applies to the rest of Europe as well.

How much can it make in Saudi Arabia?

Strangely subdued weekend gross for Turtles despite the good audience reception metrics. Paramount are having a really tough year.

If anything, it fared even worse internationally with a $9.1m opening weekend in about half of the marketplace. Granted, with a staggered release pattern things may pick up slightly later on, but the start is abysmal for sure.

It's crazy that Haunted Mansion is such a massive flop but is consigned to a footnote due to mega-bombs like Indy and Flash.

Well, at least it can't go any lower.

Let's bump this up. Do we have any early numbers?

Still hard to believe these figures aren't from the opening week or something. Surreal flop.

Everyone? Really? I personally didn't see even the hashtag trend for once during its run. I gave up on the series after the 2nd episode which was even worse than the already woeful 1st. It set a new record for me giving up on a D+ series. The previous record was held by Falcon & WS (2 and a half episodes).

Not directly related to movie box office, but Secret Invasion was another massive flop for Disney in terms of viewership & reception. This kind of shaky year for Disney is far more interesting than the boring omni-success of 2019. A proper roller coaster ride.