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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    8 hours ago, Boxofficerules said:

    What is the highest grossing unrated movie?

     

     

    (Editing my reply since I got my concert movies mixed up!)

     

    Post-pandemic, the biggest opening weekend for a Not Rated movie is for Renaissance, and I believe it's also the highest-grossing one in total domestically post-COVID.

     

    All time NR is tricky since some movies that were NR when they came out were later rated down the line. If you go by The-Numbers, it's The Jungle Book '67, which I guess wasn't rated when it released (although Gone with the Wind surely wasn't rated when it came out in 1939, so I think that's the real top grosser for a movie that released without an MPA rating, but then we should consider if movies that were approved to follow the production codes of that time are considered "rated" or not). If you're only counting movies that were NR when they came out and are still NR, it's the IMAX Space Station documentary. Worldwide, the title belongs to Wolf Warrior 2.

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    Weekend Thread August 23rd-25th

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    7 hours ago, AniNate said:

    Seems this weekend's top 10 did come out ahead of last year but the overall weekend finished behind, which I guess speaks to how little interest the specialty options are drawing

     

    I actually think they were pretty neck-and-neck, with this year's weekend slightly ahead. There are some numbers in ComScore that BOM for some reason isn't recording, including the $547,291 Trafalgar's "Seventeen Tour Follow Again to Cinemas" made over the weekend, the $1.5m Stree 2's second weekend made, the $532,450 that Fathom's Rear Window event generated, and the $47,917 that Ryan's World's second weekend pulled in. Plugging that in gets this weekend to $91,536,623 while the 34th weekend of 2023 should be $91,552,581 if Mastaney's $649,399 is included that BOM also overlooked.

     

    200% Wolf came out this weekend from Viva in quite a few hundred theaters. Viva's usually pretty consistent at reporting numbers, so I wouldn't be surprised if that shows up later and gives it well over the last ~$16k or so to push this year over last year.

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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    AMC "Fan Fave" re-releases:

     

    For Hispanic Heritage Month:
    Encanto - Sep 13
    Blue Beetle - Sep 20
    Pacific Rim - Sep 27
    Furious 7 - Oct 4
    Coco - Oct 11

    For the weekend of Batman Day (All open Sep 20):

    Batman '89
    Batman Forever
    Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

     

    Also, if you miss Shaun of the Dead in Dolby for its 20th anniversary on the weekend of Aug 30, you can still see it in standard auditoriums for the "Fan Fave" pricing starting Sep 6.

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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    40 minutes ago, wattage said:

    I figured it was too late to put it on those dates, I'm just confused as to why they didn't lock down a date months ago. I'm not sure where the breakdown happened that caused it to just not happen, were there discussions and they fell apart or was it just not really on the table in the first place to do the event this year? I was wondering if someone had some inside info on that part. 

     

    Right, apologies, I intended to respond to the latter part of your post but got sidetracked!

     

    I don't have very much info on the particulars of "why", but based solely on my own speculation from how the previous events were handled, I think it just comes down to the difficulty of making everyone happy. I don't think the studios particularly like having to work around it on the release schedule, the exhibitors aren't always in agreement on when it should be or how it should be conducted (there have been rumblings in the past about disagreements among theater operators on the price of NCD tickets, I'm sure there are good reasons the price went up last year), and lower-level management and staff don't enjoy the problems that working this day has brought.

     

    This is my own opinion, but I wouldn't even count on it being on the second weekend of a big blockbuster. If Joker 2, Venom 3, and/or Moana 2 are huge, they won't want to undercut their potentially big second weeks, regardless of if they're otherwise deserted on the new release front.

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    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

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    16 minutes ago, wattage said:

    I feel like this weekend or next would've been the perfect time, I'm not completely sure why they didn't do it now. Is it the theater chains holding this up or the studios? Is there any word on the potential problems making it possibly not happen? 

     

    Too late for it to be this weekend, theaters are already prepped and tickets are already on sale. In fact, there's already pre-sales up for a few movies for next weekend as well. In the case of the past two years, most studios and exhibitors held off on putting tickets on sale for the proposed date for NCD. To get an event like this going for this coming Labor Day weekend, they would have to rush something together really fast, much quicker and with less time to prep than they did for the past two NCDs. You'll know for sure by the 27th, but I'm feeling pretty certain it isn't happening. Again, nobody on the exhibition side has been told anything is set so far.

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