The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread: Electric Boogaloo

[filmlover]

Got a feeling the reviews for Cry Macho won't be especially good (hence the complete dump) but hey, there's no way it (or anything, really) will be as unwatchable as The 15:17 to Paris.

[DAJK]

15:17 to Paris is probably the worst movie I have ever seen (that does not include ironically bad movies like The Room).

 

Eastwood is all over the place lol, he can make some really great movies (Million Dollar Baby had be blubbering like a child at the end), and even his mid-tier stuff is solid and well-made (Richard Jewell) but when he misses, he MISSES.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, DAJK said:

15:17 to Paris is probably the worst movie I have ever seen (that does not include ironically bad movies like The Room).

It's gonna combine with Hillbilly Elegy in the future for a "not every person's story deserves to be made into a movie" double feature.

[el sid]

That was an unbelievable bad day for both newbies.
Copshop counted today at 10am EST for Thursday:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 5 (3 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 3 (2 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 0 (2 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 0 (1 showtime)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 0 (2 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 3 (2 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 7 (3 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 18.

Comps: Angel has Fallen had on Monday of its release week 199 sold tickets for Thursday and that without the AMC in NY.
21 Bridges had on Tuesday for Thursday 183 sold tickets.

 

Copshop counted today at 10am EST for Friday:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 4 (4 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 1 (3 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 0 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 2 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 0 (2 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 2 (2 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 2 (3 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 11.

Comps: Angel has Fallen had on Monday of its release week 136 sold tickets for Friday in 6 theaters (again without NY)

and 21 Bridges had on Tuesday for Friday 193 sold tickets.

Yes, AhF was a walk-up beast but that Copshop has sold 1/10 of it at the moment is just a terrible start. At least I remember that Hunter Killer improved a lot (still in Pulse times) over the last 1-2 days and AhF also had a x4 factor.
 

Cry Macho counted today at 10am EST for Friday:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 6 (4 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 1 (2 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 2 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): no showtimes so far
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 0 (2 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 3 (2 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 5 (2 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 6 theaters: 17 .
Very very meager too.

Comps: Because mentioned by @LegendaryBen:
Those Who Wish Me Dead had on Tuesday (the day I started to track again) 72 sold tickets in 4 theaters (the AMCs in NY, Arizona, San Francisco and California so vs 14 sold tickets for Cry Macho),
Reminiscence had on Monday for Friday 119
and Malignant had also on Monday for Friday 100 sold tickets.
I'm not sure if those comps are really the best but it's not that easy to find a fitting comp for Cry Macho anyway.
I also try The Good Liar (5.6M OW) which had on Monday for Friday 26 sold tickets in 6 theaters,
Stillwater (5.2M) which had 17 sold tickets in 5 theaters (so there's some hope left for Cry Macho)

and Richard Jewell (4.7M) which had on Wednesday for Friday 149 sold tickets in 5 theaters.
So many lines on my part today for so few sold tickets .

[CJohn]

27 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

No similar or better alternative to a Clint Eastwood movie.

Cry Macho is LITERALLY available at home

[TheDude391]

20 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Got a feeling the reviews for Cry Macho won't be especially good (hence the complete dump) but hey, there's no way it (or anything, really) will be as unwatchable as The 15:17 to Paris.

I could be misremembering but didn’t they do the same thing for The Mule? Although this has barely any marketing, like all the non tentpole HBO Max films this year.

[CoolioD1]

i see the cry macho trailer and it makes me think Clint Eastwood looks like he's reached a point where he's actually too old to play old people.

[filmlover]

14 minutes ago, TheDude391 said:

I could be misremembering but didn’t they do the same thing for The Mule? Although this has barely any marketing, like all the non tentpole HBO Max films this year.

The Mule's reviews were embargoed until very late but it was aggressively advertised (including a great trailer) leading up to its release. Plus it also had BCoop (who was both coming off of A Star Is Born and reuniting with Clint after American Sniper) and there was a general sense that it might have been what was going to be Clint's swan song (at least as an actor), considering it was his first time in front of the camera in six years (Trouble with the Curve, which fizzled, but that also opened around the same time the infamous "chair" debacle at the RNC made him a punchline so expectations for it were low to begin with) and he's been at the age where each new project carries the risk of being his last for a while. 

Edited September 13, 2021 by filmlover

[Cooper Legion]

3 hours ago, CJ Sarandos said:

Is there anything not tracking poorly tho?

SC’s 4th weekend is tracking pretty good for Sep 24 

[Inceptionzq]

On 9/12/2021 at 4:11 PM, Inceptionzq said:

Venom 2 Thursday Showings Denver

AMC Westminster 24

Total

67

2151

3.11%

AMC Highlands Ranch 24

Total

60

2533

2.37%

 

SEATS SOLD	SOLD PAST DAY	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD	THEATERS	SHOWINGS
308	19	22577	1.36%	15	119

 

Showings added: 2

Seats added: 361

 

AMCs sold	237
Cinemarks sold	44
Regals sold	20
Harkins	7

 

Black Widow day 5 comp: 3.69M

Black Widow comp: 2.90M

Suicide Squad comp: 5.47M

Fast 9 comp: 6.30M

Venom 2 Thursday Showings Denver

AMC Westminster 24

Total

74

2151

3.44%

AMC Highlands Ranch 24

Total

68

2533

2.68%

 

SEATS SOLD	SOLD PAST DAY	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD	THEATERS	SHOWINGS
345	37	22577	1.53%	15	119

 

AMCs sold	259
Cinemarks sold	57
Regals sold	22
Harkins	7

 

Black Widow comp: 3.14M

Suicide Squad comp: 5.94M

Fast 9 comp: 6.57M

[Inceptionzq]

23 hours ago, Inceptionzq said:

Venom 2 Megaplex

 

T-18 days Thursday: 208(+1)/19826 in 15 theaters

 

Black Widow comp: 1.55M

 

T-19 days Friday: 201(+5)/34273 in 15 theaters

 

Black Widow comp: 5.18M

 

Wonder if there were issues with Megaplex's servers during the past 24 hours... Surely it couldn't have been this bad, right?

Venom 2 Megaplex

 

T-17 days Thursday: 241(+33)/19826 in 15 theaters

 

Black Widow comp: 1.74M

 

T-18 days Friday: 218(+17)/34273 in 15 theaters

 

Black Widow comp: 5.33M

[DAJK]

@Shawn any chance there will be a long range forecast coming soon?

[Cooper Legion]

3 minutes ago, DAJK said:

@Shawn any chance there will be a long range forecast coming soon?

We got one just 3 days ago that went through venom, so at best you could get a NTTD update this Friday but I’d guess they’ll wait 2 weeks for HWK.
 

https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-venom-let-there-be-carnage/

[Eric Prime]

Copshop Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	20	6	2997	0.20%

 

Uhhh...yeah, it's not even worth comping. I don't even think we're gonna get preview #s for this, but it is in like 2,500 theaters or something, so...nyehhhhhh.

[Eric Prime]

Cry Macho Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-4 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	33	8	4593	0.17%

 

Too tired and it's not worth comping. But uh...yeah it's not great Bob!

[WrathOfHan]

Vernom is currently at 22 tickets across all its Dolby/IMAX/2D/3D shows at the theater I track. It seems like its selling on par with Suicide Squad so... not fantastic! I'll do a full update over the weekend probably.

[Eric Prime]

On 9/12/2021 at 10:41 PM, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-18 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	88	402	19301	2.08%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 33

 

Comp

0.681x of F9 T-18 (4.84M)

0.256x of Black Widow T-18 (3.37M)

1.887x of The Suicide Squad T-18 (7.74M)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	89	439	19404	2.26%

 

Total Shows Added Today: 1

Total Seats Added Today: 103

Total Seats Sold Today: 37

 

Comp

0.699x of F9 T-17 (4.96M)

0.270x of Black Widow T-17 (3.56M)

1.977x of The Suicide Squad T-17 (8.11M)

0.861x of Shang-Chi T-17 (7.57M)

[Cooper Legion]

So… anybody know the record for one movie’s share of a monthly gross? 

[charlie Jatinder]

24 minutes ago, Legion of the Ten Crores said:

So… anybody know the record for one movie’s share of a monthly gross? 

Black Panther 43% February in recent times.

[Cooper Legion]

4 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Black Panther 43% February in recent times.

Current Sep:

SC 144.5M

nonSC 88M

 

last 6 days (to exclude Labor Mon):

SC 50M

nonSC 26.2M+2.1M+2.2M+2.7M=33.2M  

 

SC will do I suppose 63M. These other holdovers include some that should have even better legs (FG+SC+PP etc) and some that should have worse, call it maybe 40M. Then SC 208 vs nonSC 128M.   
 

Openers:

Tammy Faye — 3M

Blue Bayou — 2M

Copshop — 6M 

Cry Macho — 10M
Dear Evan Hansen — 14M

miscellaneous smallball shit— 4M  

 

SC could do about 208/(208+128+39)=55% of Sep.