Interesting.. but not all that surprised
With today's news and other recent events, Black Phone isn't exactly a cheer me up type of movie.
But, I think Top Gun: Maverick is more impacted by Elvis since that's taking more of the older crowds.
Still, both are looking at solid weekends.
I still think it could push it to $7m for tonight, and take a nice jump for Saturday.
But yeah, It would still be a good debut.
Blumhouse always keep it cheap.
Lot of theatres dropped it this week. Went from 2,465 to 1,855.
Could apply it to having two fairly large releases this week.
My local theatre (Ontario) has given it the smallest room, but it's still selling okay.
Think there was about 20-25 tickets sold for it Today.
Black Phone is actually doing great for a horror movie in Ontario.
Typically, it seems that horror is less successful in Canada in general.
Extremely walk-up friendly at my local theatre.
It's had an amazing run. If it stopped making money now, It would still be insanely successful.
It's probably hurt a bit with Elvis and Black Phone coming into the marketplace.
That's interesting... I'm surprised they're moving it.
The first and second Creed both did really well in that November slot.
I wonder if it just needs more time in production...
So what is The Black Phone looking at for this weekend?
I see some people saying it's too close with subject matter in comparison to recent events, but I think it's a little far fetched.
I really don't get why people are considering The Black Phone to be going too deeply in subject matter. It just seems far fetched.
I definitely think Universal is trying to stay away from going crazy with marketing like I'm sure was originally planned, but still keeping it there. It's going in about 3,200 theatres so that's normal.
Me too. It's going to be the "Father's Day" movie of the year.
I mean, Lightyear will be the one for father's with young kids though.
No one is going to take there 4 year old to Top Gun lol
Lightyear is having one of the best walk-up sales for a movie that I've seen in the last 5 years
But still, I think it's going to be a big underperformer.
I feel like Jurassic is going to benefit greatly from Father's Day so It might be able to avoid -65%+ drop.
Overall, I think we are headed towards a "meh" weekend
$132 million seems like a big lowball... and I'm not just saying that as a Jurassic fan
Pre-Sales look fantastic for tonight in my area, I don't see under $140 million honestly...
Anyone ever find out where the $125m OW prediction came from?
It definitely looks Friday is way better than Thursday.
$125m is the floor in my opinion. But, $200m is far out the window.