Weekend Thread | An Asgardian pops in on p.9 ~ HTTYD3 17m, A:BA 3.1m, IIR 2.2m

[Eric Loves Rey]

Runtimes w/out credits and attachments for next week:

 

Madea Family Funeral: 1:42. Five Feet Apart and Long Shot are the attachments

Greta: 1:33. Captive State and Downton Abbey are the attachments

[narniadis]

Overseas totals for foreign films havent been updated on mojo in almost a month, its not just The Wondering Earth. 

 

Also, harder to compare Dragon2 with 1 or 3 since it opened in the middle of summer where the days behave much differently. It also had big previews for the time. 

[MCKillswitch123]

Between the early and Thursday previews (I like to think of both combined in preview numbers, since early previews take away from Thursday's gross after all), this made 5.5M...... more than twice what Lego 2 had with combined previews

 

I wonder if it will be much frontloaded or not, but it definitely should not miss 40M for the 3-days with a 3M Thursday alone. Hopefully it breaks into the 50's and we have the rare trilogy where each entry outopened the previous one.

[Eric Loves Rey]

https://pro.boxoffice.com/long-range-tracking-breakthrough-penguins-the-curse-of-la-llorona/

 

Breakthrough: 12-20M range. 15/56

Penguins: 4-8M range.  4.5/17.5

La Llorona: 15-25M range. 20/45

 

[MrFanaticGuy34]

23 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

Between the early and Thursday previews (I like to think of both combined in preview numbers, since early previews take away from Thursday's gross after all), this made 5.5M...... more than twice what Lego 2 had with combined previews

 

I wonder if it will be much frontloaded or not, but it definitely should not miss 40M for the 3-days with a 3M Thursday alone. Hopefully it breaks into the 50's and we have the rare trilogy where each entry outopened the previous one.

That could be like a complete OW reverse from what the ”Kung Fu Panda”-films did, (where those films made less and less with each one).

[Jonwo]

Universal will be pleased that their first DWA film has opened well, oddly I think the five year gap and the fact it's the final film in the trilogy will have helped rather than hindered. 

 

Fighting with my Family was clearly a passion project for Dwayne Johnson but I'm not surprised it's not taken off in the US but Seven Bucks and Film4 already made a profit through selling to MGM and MGM likely won't lose much or break even since they  sold OS rights. 

[sfran43]

 

[a2k]

Tri-quel expected to be the last chapter will have some front-loading.

 

3.0

11.5 [14.5 OD]

18.0 (+56.5% ; +24%)

12.5 (-30.5%)

= 45.0 OW / 47.5 including 2.5 pre-previews

 

I have used OD = 4.8x the previews. LEGO2 did 4.0x.

Edited February 22, 2019 by a2k

[a2k]

2 hours ago, sfran43 said:

 

ALITA back to 9.0 on Maoyan after 50k ratings. Started at 9.0 and had dipped to 8.9 after 30k.

Edit: @efialtes76 says it started at 9.1

Edited February 22, 2019 by a2k

[TimmyRiggins]

Noice !

[raulbalarezo]

Rank	LW	Title	Distributor	Theater Count	Change	% Change	Est. Screens	Change	Est. Shows	Change	Week #
> NEW RELEASES
1	-	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Universal	4,259	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
13	-	Run the Race	Roadside Attractions	854	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
30	-	Total Dhamaal	FIP	202	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
> EXPANDING
3	2	Alita: Battle Angel	Fox	3,820	+30	+0.8%	-	-	-	-	2
5	4	Happy Death Day 2U	Universal	3,212	+5	+0.2%	-	-	-	-	2
6	67	Fighting with My Family	MGM	2,711	+2,707	+67,675.0%	-	-	-	-	2
14	18	A Star is Born (2018)	Warner Bros.	745	+102	+15.9%	-	-	-	-	21
25	51	Arctic	Bleecker Street	256	+241	+1,606.7%	-	-	-	-	4
29	36	The Wife	Sony Classics	204	+127	+164.9%	-	-	-	-	28
35	68	Never Look Away	Sony Classics	80	+76	+1,900.0%	-	-	-	-	11
36	66	Everybody Knows	Focus Features	71	+67	+1,675.0%	-	-	-	-	3
41	86	Ruben Brandt, Collector	Sony Classics	3	+2	+200.0%	-	-	-	-	2
> NO CHANGE
4	3	Isn't It Romantic	Warner Bros. (New Line)	3,444	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
17	17	Vice	Annapurna Pictures	702	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
> DECLINING
2	1	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part	Warner Bros.	3,833	-470	-10.9%	-	-	-	-	3
7	5	What Men Want	Paramount	2,389	-523	-18.0%	-	-	-	-	3
8	7	Cold Pursuit	Lionsgate/Summit	2,320	-310	-11.8%	-	-	-	-	3
9	6	The Upside	STX Entertainment	2,148	-633	-22.8%	-	-	-	-	7
10	8	Glass	Universal	1,440	-1,135	-44.1%	-	-	-	-	6
11	9	The Prodigy	Orion Pictures	1,331	-1,199	-47.4%	-	-	-	-	3
12	11	Green Book	Universal	1,247	-403	-24.4%	-	-	-	-	15
15	13	Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse	Sony / Columbia	743	-464	-38.4%	-	-	-	-	11
16	10	Aquaman	Warner Bros.	741	-1,461	-66.3%	-	-	-	-	10
18	14	Miss Bala	Sony / Columbia	515	-657	-56.1%	-	-	-	-	4
19	20	They Shall Not Grow Old	Warner Bros.	448	-178	-28.4%	-	-	-	-	10
20	21	Bohemian Rhapsody	Fox	424	-138	-24.6%	-	-	-	-	17
21	15	A Dog's Way Home	Sony / Columbia	417	-463	-52.6%	-	-	-	-	7
22	12	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Buena Vista	406	-948	-70.0%	-	-	-	-	14
23	26	The Favourite	Fox Searchlight	288	-36	-11.1%	-	-	-	-	14
24	19	Escape Room	Sony / Columbia	264	-371	-58.4%	-	-	-	-	8
26	25	The Mule	Warner Bros.	235	-97	-29.2%	-	-	-	-	11
27	24	Mary Poppins Returns	Buena Vista	234	-111	-32.2%	-	-	-	-	10
28	16	Bumblebee	Paramount	228	-560	-71.1%	-	-	-	-	10
31	29	On the Basis of Sex	Focus Features	128	-58	-31.2%	-	-	-	-	9
32	28	Stan & Ollie	Sony Classics	128	-82	-39.0%	-	-	-	-	9
33	30	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna Pictures	127	-38	-23.0%	-	-	-	-	11
34	31	Capernaum	Sony Classics	115	-21	-15.4%	-	-	-	-	11
37	40	Creed II	MGM	39	-16	-29.1%	-	-	-	-	14
38	34	Serenity (2019)	Aviron	22	-61	-73.5%	-	-	-	-	5
39	35	Donnybrook	IFC	8	-72	-90.0%	-	-	-	-	2
40	53	Destroyer	Annapurna Pictures	4	-11	-73.3%	-	-	-	-	9

 

... Why Aquaman is loosing so many theaters ?

Edited February 22, 2019 by raulbalarezo

[Captain Craig]

Aquaman has been out for some two months, it is not that unusual.

At some point a successful film has to give way to new arrivals.

[MrGlass2]

16 minutes ago, raulbalarezo said:

... Why Aquaman is loosing so many theaters ?

I would guess that the theater count wasn't updated last week. It lost 0 theater according to BOM, which seems unlikely.

[efialtes76]

1 hour ago, a2k said:

ALITA back to 9.0 on Maoyan after 50k ratings. Started at 9.0 and had dipped to 8.9 after 30k.

Started at 9.1.

Edited February 22, 2019 by efialtes76

[Bishop54]

Deadline says $52M+ for Dragons and $11.6M for Alita (that's far too low).

[YM!]

DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is looking really good with an estimated$15M today, including last night’s $3M, on its way to $52M-$54M for the weekend. That does not include the $2.5M from Fandango previews. The threequel released by Universal has about 26 Imax hubs and a good deal of PLFs working in its favor out of its 4,259 locations.

 

DHD

[Litio]

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Edited February 22, 2019 by Litio

[YM!]

I wonder if Dragon 3 Can leg it to $200M?

[Jake Gittes]

44 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

I would guess that the theater count wasn't updated last week. It lost 0 theater according to BOM, which seems unlikely.

I remember it was supposed to be down to 1,264 theaters last week. That was the number on the theater counts page. Dunno why it was backtracked after the weekend numbers came in.

 

Bumblebee's numbers are fishy too. Why would it have lost just 188 theaters last week, with its weekend PTA already below 1k? 

[Godzilla]

Ouch 59% drop for Alita.