Easter Weekend Thread: Official Weekend Actuals: RPO $41.8M ($53.7M 4-Day), Acrimony $17.2M, BP $11.5M, ICOI $10.4M, PRU $9.4M, IOD $2.9M, GND3 $2.7M

[Eric Duncan]

http://deadline.com/2018/03/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-opening-weekend-box-office-1202318581/

 

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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One got an early start at the Easter weekend with a Wednesday night preview of $3.75m

 

One of the comps here is G.I. Joe 2 which had Wednesday pre-shows before its Easter launch earning $2.6M and then a $51M four-day.

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by CoolEric258

[efialtes76]

RPO previews-$3.75M

[Brainbug]

That seems solid. It all depends on how frontloaded it is.

[Premium George]

 

Is opening weekend thred right? IDK so sorry if it's not needed right now.

[The Panda]

The number’s good enough for a Wednesday preview.  Around a 50m 4-Day would be decent for it, hoping it can break out a bit more

[IronJimbo]

Just now, Brainbug said:

That seems solid. It all depends on how frontloaded it is.

films with without existing fanbases always have poor opening weekends.

We could be looking at 5x legs

[grim22]

That's way better than expected, especially for Wednesday previews.

[75Live]

That's good for a Wednesday preview  

 

should be interesting to see how it plays out from here

Edited March 29, 2018 by 75Live

[Rebeccas]

Not bad considering I didn't even know it opened a day early until like yesterday lol

[filmlover]

I was thinking around $2.5M so this is a great start. Hopefully it's not too frontloaded.

[baumer]

I had no idea this was opening on a Wednesday...nor did I know it was opening in full on Thursday.  That seems like a pretty solid number to me.  I'm going to try and catch it today before work.

[75Live]

@baumer

 

not sure you are interested in RPO but there is definitely one section of the movie that you will probably love  

[baumer]

3 hours ago, 75Live said:

@baumer

 

not sure you are interested in RPO but there is definitely one section of the movie that you will probably love  

 

Oh I'm 100% interested.  This is the Spielberg I've been waiting for since......maybe 25 years ago.

[75Live]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

 

Oh I'm 100% interested.  This is the Spielberg I've been waiting for since......maybe 25 years ago.

 

Hopefully you will enjoy it and then we can discuss more  

[Fancyarcher]

Good start for RPO. Should hopefully make around 50m over the five day weekend. Seeing the film in a few hours, looking forward to it. 

Edited March 29, 2018 by Fancyarcher

[Barnack]

That higher than Star Trek Into Darkness 3.25m (those started at 8pm too), so it does sound like a really good start.

[YM!]

Hoping this can have a $60M four day.

[baumer]

3 hours ago, 75Live said:

 

Hopefully you will enjoy it and then we can discuss more  

 

It's a 140 minute movie....that makes it tight for me to see it today...but I'll try dammit!

[Cap]

I'm curious about the demos and markets?

 

My friend did an evening show in PA.  She said the theater was dead, just her and like four teenage boys in her screening.  I was at my theater last night, and there were about six people in the lobby total.  (I don't have an RPO account, because I was there for another film.  RPO is today with Grandma.)

Edited March 29, 2018 by captainwondyful
Typo

[75Live]

Just now, baumer said:

 

It's a 140 minute movie....that makes it tight for me to see it today...but I'll try dammit!

 

doesn't have to be today   

 

but yeah when you do, we can talk about all the stuff then.  in the meantime, avoid the review thread for this obviously