Weekend Thread | Official Estimates: Moana - 55.5/81.1M; Fantastic Beasts - 45.1M; Doctor Strange - 13.4M; Allied - 13/18M; Arrival - 11.3M; Trolls - 10.3M; Bad Santa 2 - 6.1/9M

[terrestrial]

Scott Mendelson ‏@ScottMendelson 

Friday #BoxOffice: #FantasticBeasts Tops $355M WW, #DoctorStrange Passing $200M U.S. via @Forbes by @ScottMendelson http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/11/26/friday-box-office-fantastic-beasts-tops-355m-global-doctor-strange-passing-200m-u-s/ …

[grim22]

Moana will have a similar 5 day to Toy Story 2 with a very similar calendar configuration but with more competition in December. The grosses between Strange, Beasts and Moana look like they will be really close in the end.

[kayumanggi]

$27.4M intl FRI for #FantasticBeasts incl $11.1M opening day in China. Cume at $227.1M, global rises to $357M, smashing $400M today.

— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) November 26, 2016

[filmlover]

Also, Lion is off to a very a mediocre start. Pales heavily in comparison to other prestige pictures that also launched on Black Friday (The King's Speech, The Artist, The Imitation Game, The Danish Girl), and it's awards buzz isn't anywhere nearly as loud as it was for any of those films. More trouble for Weinstein.

[CoolioD1]

Lion looked lazy even by Weinstein Oscar bait generator standards. I'm sure i'll see it for rooney even though i hear her role is pretty small. meh. I just don't know what the audience appeal of that flick is.

[DAJK]

Think I predicted around 240 for Moana in the game. Glad that won't be too embarrassing in the long run.

[filmlover]

Also seems like only an ok start for Miss Sloane. Not that I expect it to do well either way since who the heck wants to see a movie about politics right now?

[terrestrial]

BO.com updated their mostly 3day list

http://pro.boxoffice.com/tuesday-night-report-moana-bad-santa-2-allied-rules-dont-apply/

1. Moana ($55 million 3-day / $80.6 million 5-day)
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ($45 million 3-day)
3. Doctor Strange ($13.5 million 3-day)
4. Allied ($12.5 million 3-day / $17.5 million 5-day)
5. Arrival ($11.5 million 3-day)
6. Trolls ($10.3 million 3-day)
7. Almost Christmas ($5.8 million 3-day)
8. Bad Santa 2 ($5.7 million 3-day / $8.6 million 5-day)
9. Hacksaw Ridge ($5.5 million 3-day)
10. The Edge of Seventeen ($2.9 million 3-day)
11. Loving ($1.7 million 3-day)
12. Rules Don’t Apply ($1.545 million 3-day / $2.145 million 5-day)
13. The Accountant ($1.0 million 3-day)
14. Bleed for This ($925,000 3-day)
15. Nocturnal Animals ($860,000 3-day)
16. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ($200,000 3-day)
17. Lion ($115,000 3-day)

[DAR]

2 hours ago, La Binoche said:

Edge of 17 can become a B-level teen classic, like Some Kind of Wonderful (which I personally like better than Mean Girls). 

 

 

Some Kind of Wonderful is great

[Jake Gittes]

Billy Lynn might be the first movie to lose a thousand theaters on the post-Thanksgiving weekend even though nothing of real note is opening.

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Billy Lynn might be the first movie to lose a thousand theaters on the post-Thanksgiving weekend even though nothing of real note is opening.

Every theater around me showing it has dropped it to 1 show a day so I won't be surprised if it's in less than 100 theaters next weekend.

[terrestrial]

And THR also has an article

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/thanksgiving-box-office-moana-bad-santa-friday-rules-dont-apply-allied-950543?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Quote

Overall domestic box office crossed the $10 billion mark on Friday. It’s the fastest time it’s ever reached that level — in 2012 and 2013, it reached $10 billion on Dec. 8 and Dec. 7, respectively, and last year, which registered a record $11.13 billion by Dec. 31, the domestic box office didn’t reach $10 billion until Dec. 18. So 2016 is shaping up as a banner year.

 

Hmm not the first article mentioning Doctor Strange crossing $200m dom today, but not that it will cross $600m this weekend (I think)

[grim22]

16 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Every theater around me showing it has dropped it to 1 show a day so I won't be surprised if it's in less than 100 theaters next weekend.

 

@CJohn when the theater count numbers are released for the weekend

 

[filmlover]

[CoolioD1]

14 hours ago, grim22 said:

NOT THE SEX THREAD

 

[Mr Terrific]

Couldn't holdovers have ok holds next week given that Incarnate shouldn't do much business at all?

 

[grim22]

1 minute ago, CoolioD1 said:

 

 

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

 

[terrestrial]

4 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

@CJohn when the theater count numbers are released for the weekend

US dom? Thursday acc BOM

[Dementeleus]

1 minute ago, Mr Terrific said:

Couldn't holdovers have ok holds next week given that Incarnate shouldn't do much business at all?

 

 

Everything will drop hard. It's the nature of the first weekend after Thanksgiving. 

[Webslinger]

Really good for Moana, even if it obviously isn't as out-of-this-world as Frozen was three years ago. After playing second fiddle to YA franchises over this weekend in 2010 and 2013, the brass have to be feeling great about finally nabbing another #1 opener over Thanksgiving weekend.