Marathon

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.

Oops, I forgot about TLM's existence. 😅 On the other hand, no wonder, it had probably one of the most anonymous box office runs of the year.

Haunted Mansion is a fascinatingly huge flop for Disney. Disney in general have had a pretty crazy up-and-down (mostly down) year at the box office. Ant 3 flopped, GotG 3 was a success, Elemental should break even, Indy is a mega-bomb, and Haunted Mansion is a massive flop.

Looks like Haunted Mansion will be a surprisingly huge flop for Disney theatrically. Their ride-to-movie projects could have a better batting average, for sure.

Hopefully with actuals it goes up to $125m.

I wonder if Disney should just combine as many rides as possible into a single movie, something like Haunted Monorail In The Jungle.

Which rides will Disney turn into movies?

Haunted Mansion starts with an 83% Audience Score on RT.

Well, something like Dune makes more sense as an IMAX screening than The Marvels which doesn't seem to offer anything visually that would benefit from IMAX.

Barbiemania!

The release date was indeed the biggest problem (perhaps alongside underwhelming marketing). Paramount need to play their cards leaps and bounds better for the second part...