Weekend Thread: Thursday Previews - Spider-Verse $3.5M | Mortal Engines $675K

[Valonqar]

Nothing is doing too hot. People are clearly waiting for Aquaman. 

 

 

[Marathon]

Into the Spider-Verse is going to need a massive domestic performance because the overseas numbers so far are... not encouraging.

[xxoo]

I see grinch pulling a 300 Million considering no more direct competition to it in coming days

[Valonqar]

How Grinch Broke the Internet 

[Eric Duncan]

Deadline updated

https://deadline.com/2018/12/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-mortal-engines-clint-eastwood-the-mule-weekend-box-office-1202520137/

 

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 Saturday AM estimates see Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with a solid weekend start of $37.2M

 

Mortal Engines, directed by his Oscar-winning VFX protege Christian Rivers isn’t one of them with a disastrous domestic opening of $7.7M.

 

Universal can count on the 6th weekend of Illumination’s The Grinch which is looking great with $12.4M at 3,759 theaters in 3rd place, -17%, for a running total of $240.1M. The Grinch is doing so well, he’s one notch ahead of Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet who declines from his three-week No. 1 streak to 4th place with $9.6M in weekend 4.

 

MGM/New Line’s Creed II is looking at a $5.2M fourth weekend which will put the Rocky spin-off at $104.6M, 19% ahead of Creed at the same point in time back in 2015.

 

[a2k]

November has given 4 150+ films - BR, Grinch, FB2, WIR2. Grinch finishing at top and FB2 at bottom out of those, but interestingly, can BR leg it above WIR2? It will be 180.5 after a ~4.25 weekend.

[Deja23]

1 minute ago, CoolEric258 said:

 Saturday AM estimates see Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with a solid weekend start of $37.2M

 

Mortal Engines, directed by his Oscar-winning VFX protege Christian Rivers isn’t one of them with a disastrous domestic opening of $7.7M

Lower than I expected for ME. 

 

And I’m really hoping Spider-Verse gets past $40M. 

[Plain Old Tele]

33 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

Depends on how it legs out

 

 

Gitesh is occasionally a lunatic when it comes to internal multipliers. 

[filmlover]

The Favourite is looking at a great expansion. Green Book is gonna probably end up with another sub-25% drop.

 

Mary Queen of Scots is actually doing decent so far considering the reviews aren’t that great (it’s two points shy of a Rotten score on RT).

[That One Girl]

Damn, what idiot made this club?

 

 

[filmlover]

Mortal Engines won’t cross $30M even with the holidays coming up and appears to be tanking all over the world too. Even laughing at its floppage feels mean.

[Valonqar]

2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Damn, what idiot made this club?

 

 

for the club

 

for bravery. 

[sfran43]

WIDE (1000+)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	$36,000,000	—	3,813	—	$9,441	$36,000,000	1	Sony / Columbia
2	The Mule	$17,500,000	—	2,588	—	$6,762	$17,500,000	1	Warner Bros.
3	Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch	$12,300,000	-18%	3,759	-82	$3,272	$240,009,710	6	Universal
4	Ralph Breaks the Internet	$10,000,000	-38%	3,575	-220	$2,797	$154,875,878	4	Disney
5	Mortal Engines	$8,000,000	—	3,103	—	$2,578	$8,000,000	1	Universal
6	Creed II	$5,600,000	-44%	3,107	-645	$1,802	$105,084,146	4	MGM / Warner Bros
7	Bohemian Rhapsody	$4,300,000	-30%	2,213	-740	$1,943	$180,598,200	7	20th Century Fox
8	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	$3,900,000	-44%	2,606	-845	$1,497	$151,903,410	5	Warner Bros.
9	Instant Family	$3,900,000	-32%	2,860	-566	$1,364	$60,398,054	5	Paramount Pictures
10	Green Book	$2,800,000	-28%	1,215	34	$2,305	$24,680,366	5	Universal Pictures
11	Once Upon A Deadpool	$2,300,000	—	1,566	—	$1,469	$3,583,920	1	20th Century Fox
12	Widows	$1,300,000	-59%	1,228	-933	$1,059	$40,915,656	5	20th Century Fox
13	Robin Hood	$1,300,000	-63%	1,720	-853	$756	$29,883,833	4	Lionsgate / Summit
14	The Possession of Hannah Grace	$1,200,000	-62%	1,307	-991	$918	$13,924,905	3	Sony / Screen Gems

LIMITED (100 — 999)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	The Favourite	$2,600,000	73%	439	348	$5,923	$6,769,903	4	Fox Searchlight
2	A Star is Born	$1,000,000	-59%	842	-789	$1,188	$199,138,074	11	Warner Bros.
3	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	$640,000	-42%	644	-526	$994	$53,741,799	7	Walt Disney Pictures
4	At Eternity’s Gate	$195,000	-39%	178	4	$1,096	$1,453,360	5	CBS Films
5	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	$138,000	-46%	166	-99	$831	$7,262,860	9	Fox Searchlight
6	Anna And The Apocalypse	$138,000	-3%	138	92	$1,000	$138,000	3	Orion Pictures

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Mary Queen of Scots	$680,000	249%	66	62	$10,303	$942,835	2	Focus Features
2	If Beale Street Could Talk	$230,000	—	4	—	$57,500	$230,000	1	Annapurna
3	A Private War	$13,000	-46%	50	15	$260	$1,596,875	7	Aviron Pictures

[narniadis]

Best I can see Spidey do at this point is around 36m. This weekend isnt generally known for family films having outlandish saturdays. As previously noted 44% is among the best for opening family films, plus you have the hefty frontloading that it is already showing. Tracking was right in this regard. 

[Eric Duncan]

The actual chart got an update too.

 

WEEKEND B.O. FOR DEC. 14-16

THUMB RANK FILM DIS. SCREENS (CHG) FRI (% DY) 3-DAY (-%) TOTAL WK 1 …Spider-Verse Sony 3,813 $12.6M $37.2M $37.2M 1 2 The Mule WB/Bron 2,588 $5.8M $17.8M $17.8M 1 3 The Grinch Uni/Ill 3,759 (-82) $2.7M (-17%) $12.4M (-17%) $240.1M 6 4 Ralph Breaks… Dis 3,575 (-220) $2.1M (-40%) $9.6M (-41%) $154.5M 4 5 Mortal Engines Uni/MRC 3,103 $2.8M $7.7M $7.7M 1 6 Creed II MGM/NL 3,107 (-645) $1.5M (-48%) $5.2M (-47%) $104.7M 4 7 Bohemian Rhapsody Fox/NR/GK 2,213 (-740) $1.1M (-32%) $4.3M (-30%) $180.6M 7 8 Fantastic Beasts 2 WB 2,606 (-845) $1M (-43%) $3.9M (-43%) $151.9M 5 9 Instant Family Par 2,860 (-566) $1M (-35%) $3.8M (-33%)   $60.3M 5 10 The Favourite FSL 439 (+348) $836K (+78%) $2.7M (+85%) $6.8M 4 11 Green Book Uni/Part/DW 1,215 (+34) $777K (-30%) $2.7M (-31%) $24.6M 5 12 Once…Deadpool Fox 1,566 $744,5K $2.3M $3.6M 1

 

 

MILES RISES 🙏

[The Panda]

14 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Damn, what idiot made this club?

 

 

Man, what idiot would remind people of his own failed club? 

[Plain Old Tele]

15 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Damn, what idiot made this club?

 

 

 

Do you stand by it?

[The Panda]

Nice to be back in Fort Worth, The a Favourite is playing near me and we’ll probably be getting a Beale Street.  

 

Pretty much means ill I’ll be able to catch all of the major awards contenders before New Years.  Well, all of them except First Man because I kind of slept on seeing that and it was out of theaters quick.

[That One Girl]

6 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

Do you stand by it?

 

Technically, a 36x multi isn't impossible.

Edited December 15, 2018 by That One Guy

[YM!]

3 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Technically, a 36x multi isn't impossible.

Especially with that POWERFUL B- Cinemascore