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Est. / Act.		Diff	Movie Title (click to view)	Studio	Studio Est. / Actual		Diff	% Diff	Theaters	Est. Total	Actual	Wk
1	1	-	The Lion King (2019)	BV	$185,000,000	$191,770,759	$+6,770,759	+3.7%	4,725	$185,000,000	$191,770,759	1
2	2	-	Spider-Man: Far from Home	Sony	$21,000,000	$21,202,431	$+202,431	+1.0%	4,415	$319,659,412	$319,861,843	3
3	3	-	Toy Story 4	BV	$14,600,000	$15,551,086	$+951,086	+6.5%	3,750	$375,533,349	$376,484,435	5
4	4	-	Crawl	Par.	$6,000,000	$6,095,561	$+95,561	+1.6%	3,170	$23,834,810	$23,930,371	2
5	5	-	Yesterday	Uni.	$5,100,000	$5,020,835	$-79,165	-1.6%	2,662	$57,596,465	$57,517,300	4
6	6	-	Stuber	Fox	$4,000,000	$4,115,279	$+115,279	+2.9%	3,050	$16,081,864	$16,197,143	2
7	7	-	Aladdin (2019)	BV	$3,800,000	$4,085,424	$+285,424	+7.5%	2,105	$340,040,714	$340,326,138	9
8	8	-	Annabelle Comes Home	WB (NL)	$2,660,000	$2,601,687	$-58,313	-2.2%	1,981	$66,582,201	$66,523,888	4
9	9	-	Midsommar	A24	$1,599,155	$1,596,447	$-2,708	-0.2%	1,105	$22,482,183	$22,479,475	3
10	10	-	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Uni.	$1,530,000	$1,535,065	$+5,065	+0.3%	1,380	$151,551,165	$151,556,230	7
11	11	-	Avengers: Endgame	BV	$1,199,000	$1,514,741	$+315,741	+26.3%	985	$854,216,193	$854,531,934	13
12	12	-	The Farewell	A24	$1,171,570	$1,145,320	$-26,250	-2.2%	35	$1,674,997	$1,648,747	2
13	13	-	The Art of Self-Defense	BST	$1,055,658	$1,080,607	$+24,949	+2.4%	550	$1,214,947	$1,239,896	2
14	14	-	Rocketman	Par.	$980,000	$964,239	$-15,761	-1.6%	720	$93,997,371	$93,981,610	8
15	15	-	John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	LG/S	$660,000	$630,393	$-29,607	-4.5%	584	$168,891,227	$168,861,620	10
16	16	-	Men in Black International	Sony	$505,000	$540,683	$+35,683	+7.1%	554	$78,129,108	$78,164,791	6
17	18	+1	Super 30	Relbig.	$445,674	$441,945	$-3,729	-0.8%	189	$1,735,375	$1,731,646	2
18	20	+2	Maiden	SPC	$255,715	$250,630	$-5,085	-2.0%	84	$850,195	$845,110	4
19	19	-	Wild Rose	Neon	$255,000	$260,751	$+5,751	+2.3%	195	$1,169,663	$1,171,678	5
20	21	+1	The Last Black Man in San Francisco	A24	$249,918	$247,677	$-2,241	-0.9%	149	$3,829,483	$3,827,242	7
21	22	+1	Pavarotti	CBS	$230,000	$237,700	$+7,700	+3.3%	143	$3,956,192	$3,963,889	7
22	23	+1	Echo in the Canyon	Greenwich	$207,459	$202,809	$-4,650	-2.2%	133	$2,684,024	$2,679,374	9
23	24	+1	Dark Phoenix	Fox	$183,000	$187,272	$+4,272	+2.3%	185	$65,359,540	$65,363,812	7
24	27	+3	Late Night	Amazon	$153,544	$150,547	$-2,997	-2.0%	146	$15,152,075	$15,149,078	7
25	28	+3	Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love	RAtt.	$122,665	$126,791	$+4,126	+3.4%	55	$369,272	$373,398	3
25	32	+7	Apollo 11	Neon	$75,000	$82,059	$+7,059	+9.4%	107	$9,033,165	$9,039,891	21
26	33	+7	Biggest Little Farm	Neon	$62,750	$65,671	$+2,921	+4.7%	69	$4,062,520	$4,063,417	11
28	35	+7	Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable	ENTMP	$55,000	$60,285	$+5,285	+9.6%	138	$445,024	$450,309	2
30	40	+10	Dumbo (2019)	BV	$44,000	$34,712	$-9,288	-21.1%	65	$114,714,281	$114,704,993	17
31	38	+7	David Crosby: Remember My Name	SPC	$41,050	$43,483	$+2,433	+5.9%	4	$41,050	$43,483	1
32	48	+16	Free Trip to Egypt	INDEP	$8,140	$9,090	$+950	+11.7%	1	$13,336	$14,286	6
34	50	+16	A Faithful Man	KL	$7,617	$7,321	$-296	-3.9%	1	$7,617	$28,679	1
33	56	+23	Rosie	Blue Fox	$2,970	$2,942	$-28	-0.9%	2	$2,970	$2,942	1
34	63	+29	I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians	BWP	$2,176	$2,083	$-93	-4.3%	1	$2,176	$2,083	1
36	82	+46	Halston	Orch.	$947	$467	$-480	-50.7%	3	$143,690	$143,210	9
37	84	+47	Meeting Gorbachev	1091	$453	$321	$-132	-29.1%	2	$242,600	$242,468	12

[That One Girl]

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Edited March 1, 2022 by That One Guy

[Ororo Munroe]

1 hour ago, Mekanos said:

Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and Lion King are sort of the core four Disney renaissance classics. BATB and Lion King will both have cleared a billion easily and Aladdin will get there despite bad initial marketing/publicity and a shitton of competition. Mermaid will surely get there unless the public revolts against these remakes suddenly. 

Of all the live-action remakes, I think TLM will be most interesting and revealing. If Disney can make a billion with a movie that asks the audience to fall in love with a brown-skinned Ariel (with locs, potentially), that will show the power of Disney's brand more than anything else. However, I am enough of a realist to know that this may be the very thing that prevents it from making 1B. Anything over 800M would be a big win to me. 

[Chaz]

TLK soundtrack is bombing. No one is buying/streaming it. 

 

Per HDD:

 

NEW RELEASES: WHERE THE BATTLE IS

At this point it appears that Ed Sheeran will repeat at #1 in his second week, and Beyoncé's inspired-by set, Lion King: The Gift, will battle a resurgent Billie Eilish—now approaching her 17th week—for the #2 spot. As for Disney’s actual Lion King soundtrack, so far the film's explosive box office has not translated into mega-streams and/or sales, but we'll keep a close eye on the situation. That said, Bey's Gift is #1 at iTunes and the official ST is #4.

Beyoncé - Lion King: The Gift (Parkwood/Columbia) 50-70k total activity, 13-18k album
The Lion King (Walt Disney) 17-20k, 11-14k
Nas (Mass Appeal/Def Jam) 17-20k, 5-7k


hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=317255&title=NEW-RELEASES%3A-WHERE-THE-BATTLE-IS

[sfran43]

 

[JB33]

What would be a normal Monday drop for a movie like The Lion King at this point in the calendar? 55%?

[KP1025]

7 minutes ago, JB33 said:

What would be a normal Monday drop for a movie like The Lion King at this point in the calendar? 55%?

That sounds about right. Would be the same Monday drop as Incredibles 2 if that happens. 

[jedijake]

35 minutes ago, Chaz said:

TLK soundtrack is bombing. No one is buying/streaming it. 

 

Per HDD:

 

NEW RELEASES: WHERE THE BATTLE IS

At this point it appears that Ed Sheeran will repeat at #1 in his second week, and Beyoncé's inspired-by set, Lion King: The Gift, will battle a resurgent Billie Eilish—now approaching her 17th week—for the #2 spot. As for Disney’s actual Lion King soundtrack, so far the film's explosive box office has not translated into mega-streams and/or sales, but we'll keep a close eye on the situation. That said, Bey's Gift is #1 at iTunes and the official ST is #4.

Beyoncé - Lion King: The Gift (Parkwood/Columbia) 50-70k total activity, 13-18k album
The Lion King (Walt Disney) 17-20k, 11-14k
Nas (Mass Appeal/Def Jam) 17-20k, 5-7k


hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=317255&title=NEW-RELEASES%3A-WHERE-THE-BATTLE-IS

Doesn't look like anyone buys ANY albums these days. WOW! Which number represents sales? I remember the 80's when albums would sell millions upon release!

[JB33]

11 minutes ago, KP1025 said:

That sounds about right. Would be the same Monday drop as Incredibles 2 if that happens. 

Yeah, so I'm hoping for anywhere between $23M and $24M.

[Taruseth]

33 minutes ago, Chaz said:

TLK soundtrack is bombing. No one is buying/streaming it. 

 

Per HDD:

 

NEW RELEASES: WHERE THE BATTLE IS

At this point it appears that Ed Sheeran will repeat at #1 in his second week, and Beyoncé's inspired-by set, Lion King: The Gift, will battle a resurgent Billie Eilish—now approaching her 17th week—for the #2 spot. As for Disney’s actual Lion King soundtrack, so far the film's explosive box office has not translated into mega-streams and/or sales, but we'll keep a close eye on the situation. That said, Bey's Gift is #1 at iTunes and the official ST is #4.

Beyoncé - Lion King: The Gift (Parkwood/Columbia) 50-70k total activity, 13-18k album
The Lion King (Walt Disney) 17-20k, 11-14k
Nas (Mass Appeal/Def Jam) 17-20k, 5-7k


hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=317255&title=NEW-RELEASES%3A-WHERE-THE-BATTLE-IS

Her Album seriously does amazingly well, like wow.

 

 

To be honest nearly more surprised that Beyonce's album isn't #1, kinda expected TLK soundtrack to not be #1, because it's just mostly old songs and this doesn't have speechless or anything like that.

[Taruseth]

2 minutes ago, jedijake said:

Doesn't look like anyone buys ANY albums these days. WOW! Which number represents sales? I remember the 80's when albums would sell millions upon release!

The former numbers (50-70k) for Beyonce are total units, that means album sales (incl. digital), Streaming and all that. To be fair the highest debut week ever was Adele's 21 in 2015 with more than 3m and that album had like 3 more weeks or so above a million (and since 1991 there only where 19 other albums who all only had one week above 1m). So theoretically there still can be an insane amount of sales but it rarely happens. And Billie Eilish new album is holding really well so there at least is the potential to be big (somewhat big).

[cdsacken]

Anyone who calls it's even an underperformer is crazy. It's exploding.

 

Did it do the unbelievable like it could have? Nah but it shouldn't anyways, it's just a decent film not great.

Edited July 22, 2019 by cdsacken

[Hilderic]

It seems that Aladdin (unusually for a Disney release) was hurt rather than helped by the arrival of a new Disney film. Of course, Toy Story 4 (perhaps also Avengers: Endgame) may be the reason why this happened, but Disney has been able to "help" multiple films simultaneously before. I wonder whether the "Disney effect" might materialise next week, as it did with Beauty and the Beast (which dropped -25.5% when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opened, but then -5.5% a week later).

Edited July 22, 2019 by Hilderic

[thedast]

14 minutes ago, Taruseth said:

Her Album seriously does amazingly well, like wow.

 

 

To be honest nearly more surprised that Beyonce's album isn't #1, kinda expected TLK soundtrack to not be #1, because it's just mostly old songs and this doesn't have speechless or anything like that.

To be fair, she hasn't had a #1 album in a while. Her last few releases have not done great. In what is becoming typical, the noise people make for her on social media doesn't reflect on the charts.

[Porthos]

5 minutes ago, Hilderic said:

It seems that Aladdin (unusually for a Disney release) was hurt rather than helped by the arrival of a new Disney film. Of course, Toy Story 4 may be the reason why this happened, but Disney has been able to "help" multiple films simultaneously before. I wonder whether the "Disney effect" might materialise next week, as it did with Beauty and the Beast (which dropped -25.5% when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opened, but then -5.5% a week later).

Aladdin got decimated on screens, if not theaters.  At least locally it did.

 

Plus the double feature effect went to TS4 this time around.  Those two reasons might be explanation enough.

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Alex SciChannel said:

Jeez just asking. I'll wait for actuals

 

Those will be by about Tuesday afternoon at 5pm.

[narniadis]

18 minutes ago, Hilderic said:

It seems that Aladdin (unusually for a Disney release) was hurt rather than helped by the arrival of a new Disney film. Of course, Toy Story 4 (perhaps also Avengers: Endgame) may be the reason why this happened, but Disney has been able to "help" multiple films simultaneously before. I wonder whether the "Disney effect" might materialise next week, as it did with Beauty and the Beast (which dropped -25.5% when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opened, but then -5.5% a week later).

Wouldnt surprise me if it had a more "normal" hold since only 1 film is really opening, but aside from double features, age and screan count really do matter and it lost a bunch nationally as Porthos already noted. Sometimes it cannot be helped, especially when the 2nd position went to another film for the doubles. 

It should be thankful it didnt pull a SLOP2 or something worse than the 40% this weekend. 

[PenguinHyphy]

18 minutes ago, thedast said:

To be fair, she hasn't had a #1 album in a while. Her last few releases have not done great. In what is becoming typical, the noise people make for her on social media doesn't reflect on the charts.

Her last album was in 2016, and it is the highest selling album that year and still one of the best-selling catalogue albums, so your post is a bunch of projecting. 

[Porthos]

16 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

Those will be by about Tuesday afternoon at 5pm.

I think there's been a bit of a misunderstanding here.  What I think @Alex SciChannel was talking about is sometimes early Monday morning there is an update to the Estimated Weekend Numbers before the Actual Weekend Numbers  come out.  Two to three hours before the actuals, IIRC.

 

 

Edited July 22, 2019 by Porthos

[narniadis]

1 minute ago, Porthos said:

I think there's been a bit of a misunderstanding here.  What I think @Alex SciChannel was talking about is sometimes early Monday morning there is an update to the Estimated Weekend Numbers before the Actual Weekend Numbers  come out.  Two to three hours before the actuals, IIRC.

 

 

Correct, but its very very rare and typically only for WB (who also tends to do the estimates on weekdays before their actuals). However, the way the question was asked was definitely about todays numbers - as written - which I think is where the problem came in at.