If my math is correct, this is the second best second weekend drop for a $100m+ opener, behind only Top Gun Maverick.
it narrowly beats weekend 2 of Spider-Man (2002)
Still too early to write off D&D, the drop honestly could have been worse, WOM is good and Par won’t give up on the IP, there’s still a franchise here, they know they got unlucky.
The big conventions in Orlando and Chicago probably had a small effect, seems like once the cons wrapped for the day the business picked up at the theaters.
Nothing is doing very well in Orlando right now, because MegaCon is in town.
Several of the theaters are nearish the convention center, most of the DND shows are fairly empty, but so is Wick and everything else.
Dnd is doing better at Disney Springs, especially in Dolby and Dine In
Avatar keeping most of the PLFs this deep into the run should have been a bad sign.
For real, I love the Dolby but I’ve only gotten to see two movies in it the last ten or so weeks, and I’m sure people feel the same.
Austin shouldn’t be in there, seems to be an error, they have it opening to $17 million when it actually opened over $50 million and it definitely was #1 for a week.
Maybe if almost everything in theaters now wasn’t at least somewhat downbeat.
Even Puss in Boots is about dealing with mortality.
Is Violent Night the most upbeat movie out there right now?
As of 6pm at Disney Springs…
Babylon had four shows remaining, with 66 seats sold.
Whitney had 4 shows remaining, with 46 seats sold.
Violent Night had 2 shows remaining, with 51 seats sold.
As of midnight at Disney Springs, Light had sold 18 tickets for Saturday, as many as Maverick and two fewer than Polar Express.
as of right now:
Empire: 24
Maverick: 28
Polar 31
could be worse, Father Stu has three empty showtimes and the other has five sold