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[JJ-8]

Thanks to MPDAA for these numbers. 
 

 Weekend This Week

Week Ending 12-Aug-20

#	Film Title	Distributor	Box Office
1	UNHINGED	STUDIOCANAL	882,103
2	THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM	ROADSHOW	333,936
3	THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND	UNIVERSAL	144,711
4	RED SHOES AND THE SEVEN DWARFS	RIALTO	94,937
5	TRAIN TO BUSAN 2 - PENINSULA	MAGNUM FILMS	90,187
6	SONIC THE HEDGEHOG	PARAMOUNT	71,459
7	23 WALKS	RIALTO	62,351
8	THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY	SONY PICTURES	62,108
9	FOLLOW ME	STUDIOCANAL	60,791
10	WE'LL END UP TOGETHER	PALACE	56,245

 

[JJ-8]

Not bad- unhinged down 20% from last week. Probably shows the real impacts. Movies will play for longer than that Initial big opening. 
 

peninsula looks like it’s DOA here. Looks low even for the current market. 

[JJ-8]

The big test will be in 2 weeks when tenet opens.  Remember this is all happening without Victoria right now. Hoping NSW can avoid the same fate as VIC. appears QLD is avoiding for now 🤞

[DeeCee]

Star Wars crushes Inception. 
 

 

[Rthmessiah]

Tenet of cause previewing this weekend, doubt figures will be released before it official opens 

[DeeCee]

It looked like many theatres had Tenet on 60-75% of screens on Saturday and Sunday night.

[charlie Jatinder]

TENET not reported

 

#	Film Title	Distributor	Box Office
1	UNHINGED	STUDIOCANAL	320,101
2	MADE IN ITALY	MADMAN	214,095
3	TRAIN TO BUSAN 2 - PENINSULA	MAGNUM FILMS	95,048
4	FORCE OF NATURE	ICON	83,358
5	THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM	ROADSHOW	79,506
6	LA BELLE EPOQUE	RIALTO	56,227
7	RED SHOES AND THE SEVEN DWARFS	RIALTO	54,221
8	SAINT JUDY	HERITAGE	44,738
9	GROWN UPS (2010) (RE: 2020)	SONY PICTURES	37,862
10	SONIC THE HEDGEHOG	PARAMOUNT	30,527

Edited August 24, 2020 by charlie Jatinder

[john2000]

59 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

TENET not reported

 

#	Film Title	Distributor	Box Office
1	UNHINGED	STUDIOCANAL	320,101
2	MADE IN ITALY	MADMAN	214,095
3	TRAIN TO BUSAN 2 - PENINSULA	MAGNUM FILMS	95,048
4	FORCE OF NATURE	ICON	83,358
5	THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM	ROADSHOW	79,506
6	LA BELLE EPOQUE	RIALTO	56,227
7	RED SHOES AND THE SEVEN DWARFS	RIALTO	54,221
8	SAINT JUDY	HERITAGE	44,738
9	GROWN UPS (2010) (RE: 2020)	SONY PICTURES	37,862
10	SONIC THE HEDGEHOG	PARAMOUNT	30,527

see @RthCorona above

[DeeCee]

That’s down from about 440k the previous weekend. Pretty good for Unhinged against the opening of Tenet. 
 

I just commented on the performance of a holdover against a new opening. It’s been a while. 

[charlie Jatinder]

Unhinged is at A$2.795mn, guess may reach A$4mn. Pretty good legs from A$800k opening weekend.

 

[DeeCee]

6 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Unhinged is at A$2.795mn, guess may reach A$4mn. Pretty good legs from A$800k opening weekend.

 

And without 20% of the country. 

[DeeCee]

AUD3.97m total including previews. 

[JJ-8]

2.5m start is pretty good given this is without Victoria (20-25% of the market) and capacity is limited to 50% in most of the country. 
 

in normal times I feel like this would like a 8m ow. It’s all about legs from here...

 

 

[lab276]

I've already seen it twice and to be honest I understood it less the second time round. However as there's nothing much else coming out for the rest of September, I'm probably gonna watch it again and maybe even again after that.

[JJ-8]

ok so previous weekend and weekly updates....

 

 

 

 

 

So from the previous week we had a 34% decline from the opening weekend.  given that was likely muted slightly from the previews, i'm not seeing this as a great hold in this enviroment - the belief that while the OW was lower due to COVID impacts (no victoria currently, and limitations on capaciity) , while it's broughts the amounts down, i guess the hope here was it the film would hold better and longer - that hold isn't much better than normal for films like this here.    

 

Anyway, Bill & Ted Face the music opened on Thursday (and no we don't have the streaming option here) so will be interesting how this all plays out.

[DeeCee]

Empire Strikes Back has more screenings then Bill & Ted. 

[JJ-8]

not bad considering we still don’t have VIC open and limitations on tickets. 
 

Tenet up to nearly 10m here (like making 100m normally in the US. still probably running less than half or even a third of what it could make here. But a reasonable result in that context. 
 

Trolls closing on 3m so far. Having a neat little run.
 

Prob stay as top 2 (trolls/tenet) until honest thief opens on the 22nd (assuming it holds there). 

 

Also are MGM trying troll us here. No Time to die release date in Australia.... April 1st, 2021 🤔🤦‍♂️
 

 

Edit - 1 week old data 😂. No weekend results till tomorrow (long weekend everywhere accept Victoria )🤦‍♂️

[charlie Jatinder]

TENET

 

Week 0: $1,485,951

Week 1: $3,161,346

Week 2: $2,057,581 (-35%)

Week 3: $1,376,020 (-33%)

Week 4: $1,108,737 (-19%)

Week 5: $989,378 (-11%)

 

6th Weekend: $630,000 (-8%)

 

Total: $10,808,968

 

20% drops will take it to $14.5mn. That's a great result considering 30% of market is closed, adjusting for that, it will be equal to Interstellar $21mn closing. Also, 6th weekend is almost par Interstellar $680k. Lack of competition helping it big time.

[JJ-8]

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

TENET

 

Week 0: $1,485,951

Week 1: $3,161,346

Week 2: $2,057,581 (-35%)

Week 3: $1,376,020 (-33%)

Week 4: $1,108,737 (-19%)

Week 5: $989,378 (-11%)

 

6th Weekend: $630,000 (-8%)

 

Total: $10,808,968

 

20% drops will take it to $14.5mn. That's a great result considering 30% of market is closed, adjusting for that, it will be equal to Interstellar $21mn closing. Also, 6th weekend is almost par Interstellar $680k. Lack of competition helping it big time.

You feel like it would be a different narrative rn  if Tenet had been able to perform at a similar level in the USA.  Sadly it hasn’t...  really not sure how theatres here will survive if cinemas are starved of major Hollywood releases for a long period. 

[charlie Jatinder]

6 minutes ago, JJ-8 said:

You feel like it would be a different narrative rn  if Tenet had been able to perform at a similar level in the USA

Yeah definitely. The narrative is sadly built by Domestic box office, with rarely international box office on center stage. In fact if say Dom had done well but OS so-so, the narrative would have been positive. Instead of 60:300, if it was say 140:220, media would have been very positive.

8 minutes ago, JJ-8 said:

really not sure how theatres here will survive if cinemas are starved of major Hollywood releases for a long period.

can't blame studios either. US is slowest responder to reopening all across. Even Canada has done much better at it. if US don't work, studios won't release films.