WEEKEND Box Office: BOO-21.6M; Geostorm-13.3M; OTB-6M; Snowman-3.4M

[filmlover]

That's an average start for The Killing of a Sacred Deer and a really weak start for Wonderstruck if the early Deadline numbers hold up. Specialty fare is just struggling this fall if they aren't Oscar contenders (or star Judi Dench).

[MCKillswitch123]

36 minutes ago, John Marston said:

-57% for Blade Runner despite no competition, good hold last week, and good weekdays??????

Yup. I think it's gonna drop a little smaller than that as its Sunday drops have been stronger than expected (even last week's), but it is poised for a steep drop. Because WB was so smart that they gave the IMAX theaters to Geostorm. THAT is why.

 

I'll say this: I still think Disney has a shot at winning the year. Even if Justice League overperforms and does around 450M before the end of the year, as well as Father Figures does Why Him numbers for around 30M+ before 2018 hits, WB will be at around 2.230B. Now, if Thor: Ragnarok pulls around 265M (conservatively), Coco grabs 170-180M, and The Last Jedi goes over 600M (let's not forget it has 3 weeks of release in 2017), that would put Disney at anywhere in the range of 2.437-2.447B. It's a close match, but I think Blade Runner not reaching the sky really kinda set WB back a little bit as far as the gold medal of 2017 race goes.

[WrathOfHan]

Awful holds for everything except Kingsman and AM.

I was surprised how high some people were on The Foreigner this week because the weekdays weren't suggesting a sub-50 drop.

HDD isn't going to have legs. Trash Jigsaw all you want, but it's going to cause another 50%+ drop next week.

 

[YM!]

Yeah. Ninjago and BR2049 underperforming hurt WB’s chances for winning the year.

[TalismanRing]

"Winning" the year by adding up the grosses of all the movie a studio distributes, regardless of whether they financed them or make a profit from them is rather meaningless anyway.

 

BR2049 under-performed and Geostorm is a bomb but WB didn't finance either of them.

 

Or what's the point of adding King Arthur's domestic gross when the movie cost the studio over $100m?

 

Valerian is the second highest grossing film STX has ever released but it cost them money - even as just a distributor  - while lower grosses might have made money

 

 

Edited October 21, 2017 by TalismanRing

[a2k]

Looks like HDD's 2nd weekend won't come close to matching the Friday-the-13th OD (11.7m).

A 2nd weekend of 11.7m would have been a 55.0% drop from the OW (26.0m).

[a2k]

The Foreigner  (5.3m 2nd weekend / 22.7m cume) should end it's run with ~32m dom, which is fine considering the prod budget is only 35m. Additionally it's brought in 88m+ OS (most of it from China; 77m).

[WrathOfHan]

Today at my theater:

 

Spoiler

Madea:

 

10:00: 48/113

11:15: 17/78

12:30: 11/113

1:45: 22/78

3:00: 6/113

4:15: 2/78

5:30: 11/113

6:45: 10/78

8:00: 16/113

9:15: 2/78

10:30: 0/113

 

Geostorm:

 

10:30: 35/78

1:15 3D: 19/78

4:05: 3/78

6:50 3D: 8/78

9:30 3D: 0/78

 

OTB:

 

10:05: 14/78

1:10: 2/78

4:20: 2/78

7:20: 12/78

10:25: 2/78

 

Snowman:

 

10:25: 12/78

1:20: 2/78

4:10: 5/78

7:00: 11/78

9:50: 0/78

 

BR:

 

10:15: 13/67

12:40: 2/69

4:30: 0/67

6:55: 3/69

10:00: 0/78

 

Different:

 

10:40: 7/78

1:30: 5/78

4:20: 2/78

7:10: 0/78

10:30: 0/69

 

Foreigner:

 

10:55: 7/124

1:40: 4/124

4:30: 0/124

6:30: 2/78

9:15: 0/78

 

HDD:

 

11:10: 6/78

1:35: 0/78

4:00: 0/78

7:15: 0/124

9:45: 0/124

 

AM:

 

11:10: 0/60

2:00: 4/60

4:45: 0/60

7:30: 2/60

10:15: 0/60

 

Ninjago:

 

11:30: 2/63

2:00: 4/63

4:35: 0/63

 

MBU:

 

10:00: 3/69

1:45: 0/67

4:15: 0/69

8:00: 2/67

10:45: 0/67

 

It:

 

7:05: 2/63

10:10: 0/63

 

Madea: 145/1,068

Geostorm: 65/390

OTB: 32/390

Snowman: 30/390

BR: 18/350

Different: 14/381

Foreigner: 13/528

HDD: 6/482

AM: 6/300

Ninjago: 6/189

MBU: 5/339

It: 2/126

 

Same Kind of Different might make less today than yesterday, hmm. Pretty much everything else is up from yesterday this morning save for that.

Edited October 21, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[TwoMisfits]

6 hours ago, XO21 said:

Woof, terrible weekend even for holdovers....

I mentioned on the Thursday thread that holdovers were not just losing screens, but were getting huge showing losses (that might not be as apparent as the screen losses), and it would be tough to expect great holds from most holdovers.  One of my 12 locals just tossed most holdover movies, but kept and cut It to a 1/2 screen, while another local literally had 6 of the top 10 holdovers all splitting screens, with the animateds getting 3 showings and the others getting 2.  Going from 5 showings to 2 is gonna hurt most adult-directed holdovers...

Edited October 21, 2017 by TwoMisfits

[a2k]

BoxOfficeReport.com‏ @BORReport  2m2 minutes ago

Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween grossed an estimated $7.47M on Friday. #Boo2 #BoxOffice

 

BOO1 had a 2.57x multi (28.5m ow, 73.2m dom). If BOO2 does 2.4x with 22m ow, will get to about 53m dom.

The lowest Madea movies are A Madea Christmas with 52.5m and Madea's Big Happy Family with 53.3m.

Edited October 21, 2017 by a2knet

[Boxofficerules]

On Double Toasted Korey was saying some people where annoyed that HDD wasn’t the slasher horror is was marketed as, maybe that’s what’s causing the massive drop?

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

On Double Toasted Korey was saying some people where annoyed that HDD wasn’t the slasher horror is was marketed as, maybe that’s what’s causing the massive drop?

Wouldn't they have figured that out from the PG-13 rating?

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

On Double Toasted Korey was saying some people where annoyed that HDD wasn’t the slasher horror is was marketed as, maybe that’s what’s causing the massive drop?

It's possible, but when the trailer is set to a slowed down version of In Da Club, I think people should have realized it was a comedy then  

 

[WrathOfHan]

With the way everything is performing, theaters are going to be begging for Thor and Bad Moms. The only opener next week with a chance at doing solid business is Jigsaw, and that will make like 80% of its money on the first two nights. Every holdover not named TYLER PERRY'S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN is going to be under 6M next weekend, and the other two openers very well might be below that mark too. Even when Orient Express and Daddy's Home open, midsize and large theaters are still going to have a significant portion of their screens filled with empty movies. Sony would be wise to just release Roman Israel wide that weekend instead of waiting one week.

[CJohn]

What a weekend

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

With the way everything is performing, theaters are going to be begging for Thor and Bad Moms. The only opener next week with a chance at doing solid business is Jigsaw, and that will make like 80% of its money on the first two nights. Every holdover not named TYLER PERRY'S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN is going to be under 6M next weekend, and the other two openers very well might be below that mark too. Even when Orient Express and Daddy's Home open, midsize and large theaters are still going to have a significant portion of their screens filled with empty movies. Sony would be wise to just release Roman Israel wide that weekend instead of waiting one week.

I'm positive A24 is gonna be giving The Florida Project a semi-wide push over the next two weeks. They would be wise to do so considering the onslaught of specialty titles in November that actually have a chance of doing well.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I'm positive A24 is gonna be giving The Florida Project a semi-wide push over the next two weeks. They would be wise to do so considering the onslaught of specialty titles in November that actually have a chance of doing well.

Good point. Like I said the other day, its release here was pushed back to November 3, so they might try 1.5k theaters then. 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

28 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

On Double Toasted Korey was saying some people where annoyed that HDD wasn’t the slasher horror is was marketed as, maybe that’s what’s causing the massive drop?

Excuse me? It wasn’t NEVER sold as a slasher.

[WrathOfHan]

Aaaaaaaand Chappaquiddick just got delayed to April 6  http://deadline.com/2017/10/chappaquiddick-entertainment-studios-thanksgiving-holiday-opening-box-office-1202183003/

[grim22]

25 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Aaaaaaaand Chappaquiddick just got delayed to April 6  http://deadline.com/2017/10/chappaquiddick-entertainment-studios-thanksgiving-holiday-opening-box-office-1202183003/

I’m not expecting Polaroid to make that date either. Coco might be the only wide release over Thanksgiving now. Holdovers will do really well as well due to no competition. If movies can keep a decent screen count, the holiday season stretch will be great for all November movies now.