Official Weekend Estimates: Maze Runner - 30.3M | Black Mass - 23.4M | Everest - 7.5M | The Visit - 11.4M | Perfect Guy - 9.7M

[Wafflecakes]

Sat looking like

MRST 12.2, BM 8.8,TV 5.3,TPG 4.6, Ever 3,WR 2.5,WITW 1.2,MI5 1, Captive 430k,SOC 890k

As much as MRST isn't doing as well as I had hoped... I take solace in the fact that BM didn't live up the hype some here had either.

[SchumacherFTW]

Everest over $5m already! Really good start! I hope this is a sign of a good weekend coming up for it, it really deserves it.

[picores]

Meh increases all around. Everest is the best news of the weekend, followed by Black Mass OK opening. Neither Scorch Trials or Black Mass will come close to 100m DOM.

 

Maze Runner decline is in line with the Divergent series. Somewhat expected. OS should increase a bit over the original.

[Ryan Reynolds]

nothing broke out this weekend, decent for Everest but may not hold up in expansion

[VictorHugogui]

So with these numbers:

 

The Maze runner : 30.3

Black Mass: 22.7

[picores]

So with these numbers:

 

The Maze runner : 30.3

Black Mass: 22.7

 

Sounds right.

[DAJK]

And to think I said 40+ for black mass....

Well, this weekend, I guess we all learned not to trust MT all the time.

[Maxmoser3]

Black Mass at the end of the day is a hit considering that Depp hasn't had one in years.

[DAJK]

Black Mass at the end of the day is a hit considering that Depp hasn't had one in years.

Of course it's a hit. Even the mixed WOM (and I use "mixed" loosely) at least at my theatre, even people who didn't quite rave about it said that Depp himself was incredible.

[Empire]

Sat looking like

MRST 12.2, BM 8.8,TV 5.3,TPG 4.6, Ever 3,WR 2.5,WITW 1.2,MI5 1, Captive 430k,SOC 890k

Glad MRST increased!

[picores]

Glad MRST increased!

 

It was meant to. Increase is lower than expected though.

[tonytr87]

Maze Runner was surprisingly good. Like, leagues better than crap like Twilight or Divergent. It's second only to THG as far as YA movies go. 

[DAJK]

Oh, and in case anyone cares, here's DAJK's theatre's report for the night (I'm going to ignore matinee numbers, although they were strong across the board).

Scorch Trials decreased less than 10% Friday-to-Saturday, which is much stronger than Insurgent's 23% drop and MockingJay's 25%. It's still ahead of Kingsman, and continues to run neck and neck with MI5. I don't have official numbers for anything before Oct 20, 2014 but I asked my boss and he said Scorch Trials is bigger all around than Maze Runner was last year, that movie had an (odd) large increase from Friday to Saturday on opening weekend.

Black Mass actually doubled from yesterday. While a few people aren't liking the movie, most people are, and I gues WOM is spreading. I'm not sure what the Sunday drop will be, but Black Mass is certainly doing well for itself.

The Visit actually had it's strongest day (minus Tuesdays) ever tonight, which is strange, because WOM has been mixed at best. Walk In the Woods is slowing down, but it had been pretty consistent for the past few days. And Jurassic World is obviously just filler, and only sells to around 15% capacity for each showing

Edited September 20, 2015 by DAJK

[tonytr87]

It was meant to. Increase is lower than expected though.

 

Erm, not really. Many had it pegged to decrease today. 

[tonytr87]

Oh, and in case anyone cares, here's DAJK's theatre's report for the night (I'm going to ignore matinee numbers, although they were strong across the board).

Scorch Trials decreased less than 10% Friday-to-Saturday, which is much stronger than Insurgent's 23% drop and MockingJay's 25%. It's still ahead of Kingsman, and continues to run neck and neck with MI5. I don't have official numbers for anything before Oct 20, 2014 but I asked my boss and he said Scorch Trials is bigger all around than Maze Runner was last year, that movie had an (odd) large increase from Friday to Saturday on opening weekend.

Black Mass actually doubled from yesterday. While a few people aren't liking the movie, most people are, and I gues WOM is spreading. I'm not sure what the Sunday drop will be, but Black Mass is certainly doing well for itself.

The Visit actually had it's strongest day (minus Tuesdays) ever tonight, which is strange, because WOM has been mixed at best. Walk In the Woods is slowing down, but it has been pretty consistent. And Jurassic World is obviously just filler, and only sells to around 15% capacity for each showing

 

WOM for The Visit is good, unless you mean where you live it's been mixed. 

[DAJK]

WOM for The Visit is good, unless you mean where you live it's been mixed.

Yes where I live I've worked quite a few days the past few weeks, so I've gotten a lot of reactions.

One thing I forgot to mention is that looking back, The Visit is actually 2015's top horror movie at our theatre.

[babz06]

Sat looking like

MRST 12.2, BM 8.8,TV 5.3,TPG 4.6, Ever 3,WR 2.5,WITW 1.2,MI5 1, Captive 430k,SOC 890k

So it looks like none of the openers really broke out. Black Mass is going to be on par with The Town ; after massive pre-release hype from the trades. The reviews are mixed at best, and WOM seems to be mixed as well. I doubt it's getting any Oscar noms, except maybe Depp. Legs will be interesting to watch as a barrage of adult action/dramas hit in October. 

[BenedictL11]

nothing broke out this weekend, decent for Everest but may not hold up in expansion

Everest did better than expected. WOM will spread well into doing well next weekend in wide release. However, I agree MR2 AND BM underperformed.

[DAR]

I'd say 76% from critics 80% from the audience is a slightly better than mixed reaction

[efialtes76]

Deadline:

 

MR2:$12.7m

BM:$9.08m

TV:$5.35m

 

Everest:$3.3m

 

http://deadline.com/2015/09/maze-runner-the-scorch-trials-black-mass-everest-captive-box-office-1201533896/

Edited September 20, 2015 by efialtes76