BEAUTY AND THE BEAST WEEKEND THREAD | Late Sunday Numbers (Asgard) - 48-49M | Official Weekend Estimate: 170M; OS OW: 180M; WW OW: 350M

[ACSlater]

Disney in the long term is fine...I knew them in the 90s when they were in real trouble...

 

Now I will agree, ESPN is dragging them down but I really believe we will figure it out...

[titanic2187]

Batb may get best picture nomination for 90th oscar.......

[Biggestgeekever]

Deadline updated the OD to $65.3M

 

Given today was St. Patrick's Day, I wouldn't be surprised if Saturday increases are a bit better than expected.

[ACSlater]

14 minutes ago, KGator said:

 

ESPN is going to start hemorraging money over the next 5 years or so.  They are locked into some pretty hefty sports contracts signed before it became obvious that the loss of viewers was not isolated but would become a constant, yearly occurrence.  They have no real way of making up the loss in subscriber fees which gets worse every year while contract payouts to leagues and conferences remains steady or increases.

 

At this rate, their collapse seems inevitable due to a shortsighted business model.

 

Want to be an analyst?

[dxmatrixdt]

why no Belko cinemascore?

[ACSlater]

5 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:

Deadline updated the OD to $65.3M

 

Given today was St. Patrick's Day, I wouldn't be surprised if Saturday increases are a bit better than expected.

 

The pick up depends on Saturday...thats all the parents saying right now...

[The Panda]

If you need a break from all of the shitposting and BATB slaying the BO away, "The Panda's First Date Story" is told on Number 67 on my list here

 

 

[BadAtGender]

21 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Batb may get best picture nomination for 90th oscar.......

 

WTF?

[Maxmoser3]

A $177 million start for Beauty & The Beast is fantastic! If the estimates hold up, the blockbusters are already in full swing and it's not even summer yet. 

I bet you Guardians 2, Alien, Baywatch, DM3, Wonder Woman, Apes, and Dunkirk are going to do decent to huge numbers this summer!

[Jason]

28 minutes ago, somebody85 said:

Okay maybe this is just Cinemascore but that 72% is not that far away from Twilights 80% female demo. That's not a 60/40 split (I realize more realistic numbers won't be available until tomorrow - so in the end it very well could be but there's no mention of it here).

 

Those of us who have been saying BatB will be a 60/40 split are using the gender split over the course of the entire run, not just the OD. A lot of the films that finished with a 60/40 male-female split had a ~70/30 split on OD.

[POTUS 2020]

1.) Beauty and the Beast(Disney), 4,210 theaters  / $65.3M Fri. (includes $16.3M in previews) / 3-day: $169M-$177M /Wk 1

2.) Kong: Skull Island (20th/Leg), 3,846 theaters (0)  / $7.36M Fri. (-63%) / 3-day: $26M(-57%)/Total: $107.9M/Wk 2

3.) Logan (Fox), 3,687 theaters  (-384)/ $4.7M Fri. (-54%) / 3-day: $16.7M (-56%)/Total: $183.3M/Wk 3

4.) Get Out (UNI), 2,979 theaters (-164) / $3.7M Fri. (-37%) / 3-day: $12.8M (-38%)/Total: $132.7M/Wk 4

5.) The Shack (LG), 2,825 theaters (-63) / $1.6M Fri. (-40%) / 3-day: $5.8M (-42%) /Total: $42.3M/Wk 3

6). The LEGO Batman Movie (WB), 2,735 theaters (-568) / $1.2M Fri. (-27%) / 3-day: $5.1M (-32%) / Total: $167.9M/Wk 6

7.) The Belko Experiment (BHT/ORN), 1,341 theaters  / $1.55M Fri. (includes $306K in previews) / 3-day: $3.77M /Wk 1

8.) Hidden Figures (FOX), 1,162 theaters (-259)/ $409K Fri. (-43%) / 3-day: $1.5M (-45%) / Total: $165.6M / Wk 13

9.) John Wick: Chapter 2(LGF), 1,065 theaters (-966) / $262K Fri. (-62%) / 3-day: $999K (-63%) / Total:$89.6M / Wk 6

10.) Before I Fall  (OR), 1,551 theaters (-795) / $242K Fri. (-74%) / 3-day: $766K (-74%)/Total: $11M/Wk 3

11.) Lion (TWC) 621 theaters (-339)/$173K (-49%)/3-day: $656K (-50%)/Total: $49.9M/Wk 17

NOTABLES:

T2 Trainspotting (Sony/Tri-Star), 5 theaters  / $45k Fri. /PTA: $26,3k/ 3-day: $132k/Wk 1

[MrMarosa]

ESPN, St. Paddys...hm...maybe it's just the fim itself, youy know?

[ACSlater]

I need that to increase by ~23M...

[Jake Gittes]

Some of these new emojis you guys got going are the stuff of nightmares. 

[MrPink]

Random note but that's a really great hold for Lego Batman if that holds 

[titanic2187]

the holding power of get out suddenly get diminish.........

[MrMarosa]

And why are people desperately clinging to «this is no Twilight!!! The demo split will be more even!!! Trust me!!!»  What is so awful about heavily skewing female, like Twilight? I’ll tell you what is awful about that: absolutely nothing. Many of you seem to keep forgetting that this is an animated musical romance about an independent young woman who falls in love with a handsome prince (who is trapped within a beastly exterior)  inside an enchanted castle. Were you truly expecting theaters to be filled with men for this?

[Rthmessiah]

So low end for initial set numbers 65-68 and high end for revised 63-65

[elcaballero]

Ouch, John Wick got (will get?) hit hard this weekend.

[Chewy]

Coming for that March record I see