Jovan

Another release date wouldn't have changed the mediocre to poor audience reception. The only thing that could have been different is less of a weekend 2 drop to maybe 50% or so. This was always going to be a flop (more or less) no matter what Sony did here.

Like, this is a pretty alarming number for Ghostbusters. When was the last time a mid $40M OW movie got such a drop? Not counting the epic disaster that was The Marvels.

Deadline is surely lowballing GxK, I'd be surprised if the actual numbers are around this.

Deadline with more numbers. What a disaster for Ghostbusters, oof... Sony’s second Friday of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is $5.1M at 4,345 theaters, -68% from a week ago, for what’s shaping up to be a second frame of $14M, -69% for a running total of $71.4M. Third is DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s Kung Fu Panda 4 at 3,582 sites which is seeing a fourth Friday of $4.3M, and fourth weekend of $10.8M, -35%, for a running total of $152.2M. Legendary and Warner’s also own the No. 4 spot with the fifth frame of Dune: Part Two which is looking like $10.5M, -40%, for a running total of $251.7M. Nice hold at 3,136 theaters, and that’s without a ton of Imax screens. Friday is at $3.6M, -18%. Fifth is NEON’s Immaculate at 2,362 theaters with a second Friday of $1M, -50%, and a second frame of $2.8M, -48%, for a running total of $10.7M.

Decent drop for TMNT, but man, it's still underperforming a lot. I was told to on this forum that this movie would easily breeze past 120M-130M domestic and beyond to the point it'd be pushing close to 300M (yes, 300M) worldwide. What happened is that it's going to struggle to get to its 2.5x usual breakeven number/175M WW! If there wasn't the National Cinema Day weekend to help the legs at the end a bit, this would have been even worse. PVOD and toys sales will obviously help but I think Paramount still expected quite more from this theatrically.

Yeah, MI is pulling some great late holds, love to see it.

Deadline guessed this one correctly, a dissapointing drop.

Yeah, internationally it looks disastrous. I don't think Paramount expected that. They better hope it gets some worldwide buzz after the digital release in advance for the sequel.

I'm sorry, Deadline's early weekend estimations were $10-12M here: https://deadline.com/2023/08/blue-beetle-barbie-strays-box-office-1235520300/

Paramount’s third weekend of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is at $2.2M for Friday, -45% from a week ago, a $8.4M 3-day, -45%, for a running total of $88.1M by EOD Sunday. Underwhelming, hoped it would have better legs than this... The early weekend projections were $10-12M.

That's an insane day gross for Coraline, wow! TMNT did well despite that, a very decent growth for it.

https://deadline.com/2023/08/blue-beetle-barbie-strays-box-office-1235520300/ Blue Beetle, is poised to halt Barbie‘s three-weekend streak with a $28M-$32M opening. Barbie, meanwhile per industry sources, is looking at a $22M-$24M fourth weekend, -30%. Strays, from director Josh Greenbaum and produced by Lord Miller partners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and Picturestart founder and CEO Erik Feig. The Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, Will Forte and Randall Park voiced comedy looks to do in the teens. Universal’s fourth weekend of Oppenheimer looks to do $12M-$13M per industry sources. Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in weekend three is eyeing $10M-$12M.

Actuals are out (besides the WB movies), almost everything kept the same number as the preliminary estimations, except for TMNT Mutant Mayhem, down from 15.7M to 15.2M (making the weekend to weekend drop -45% now)

Over 300M WW might be a bit too much, it doesn't appear to be an amazing overseas performer so far in 60% of the markets it launched at. Korea/Japan will influence a lot though, and they launch in a month. Realistically, 220M-250M is gonna be a ceiling on this one, which is still good. Anyways, a really good Mission Impossible domestic hold this week. It won't matter much in the end, but it's nice to see legs on this one.

15.75M TMNT (-44%) 4.66M Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One (-29%)