Weekend Thread - Actuals: H&S 25.3, Scary Stories 20.9, TLK 20.2, Dora 17.4, OUATIH 11.6, Racing in Rain 8.1, Kitchen 5.5

[Waffles]

3 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

What is the point in studios releasing so many movies per week in August? Are they hoping to not make a profit?!🤔

From Deadline:

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Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw isn’t going anywhere and will stay put in No. 1 this coming weekend with $28M-$30M, a decline of 50%-53%. This as five wide entries flood the market: Paramount/Nickelodeon/Walden Media/MRC’s storied IP Dora and the Lost City of Gold, CBS Films/eOne/Lionsgate’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Disney/Fox’s The Art of Racing in the Rain, New Line’s 1978 femme mobster pic The Kitchen and Bleecker Street’s Brian Banks.

 

Why so much stuff? Some of these movies are bound to step on one another demo-wise. Word is many rivals were trying to avoid The Lion King, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Hobbs & Shaw. Another factor slowing down business this weekend: Kids already are going back to school, with K-12 going from 96% out last Friday to 84% this Friday. That number will reduce to 30% K-12 schools out by August 30. Meanwhile, 97% of all colleges continue to remain on summer break per comScore.

 

Of the new stuff, Dora and the PG-13 Scary Stories are expected to knock heads in their targeting of young females and Hispanic audiences. Each is expected to bring in $15M-$17M. It will be interesting to see if Dora, which has the bigger brand power, will overperform, but tracking isn’t showing any kind of crossover. The pic already is 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and likely will remain the best-reviewed pic of the wide entries this weekend. Dora will play at 3,500 theaters. The pic co-financed by Media Rights Capital and Walden Media cost around $49M net.

 

[sfran43]

WIDE (1000+)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	$25,400,000	-58%	4,344	91	$5,847	$108,513,780	2	Universal Pictures
2	Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark	$20,025,000	—	3,135	—	$6,388	$20,025,000	1	CBS Films / Lionsgate
3	The Lion King	$20,000,000	-48%	4,220	-582	$4,739	$473,103,826	4	Walt Disney Pictures
4	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	$17,500,000	—	3,735	—	$4,685	$17,500,000	1	Paramount Pictures
5	Once Upon a Time In Hollywood	$11,100,000	-45%	3,507	-152	$3,165	$99,831,370	3	Sony Pictures
6	The Art of Racing in the Rain	$8,900,000	—	2,765	—	$3,219	$8,900,000	1	20th Century Fox
7	The Kitchen	$5,100,000	—	2,745	—	$1,858	$5,100,000	1	Warner Bros.
8	Spider-Man: Far from Home	$5,000,000	-37%	2,678	-768	$1,867	$370,672,490	6	Sony / Columbia
9	Toy Story 4	$4,500,000	-39%	2,295	-930	$1,961	$419,678,368	8	Disney
10	Brian Banks	$2,000,000	—	1,240	—	$1,613	$2,000,000	1	Bleecker Street

LIMITED (100 — 999)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	The Farewell	$2,100,000	-13%	704	295	$2,983	$10,209,128	5	A24
2	Yesterday	$1,200,000	-51%	866	-971	$1,386	$70,554,730	7	Universal Pictures
3	Aladdin	$785,000	-63%	615	-755	$1,276	$352,740,267	12	Disney
4	Crawl	$730,000	-67%	757	-1328	$964	$38,100,074	5	Paramount Pictures
5	The Secret Life of Pets 2	$450,000	-39%	402	-377	$1,119	$156,618,455	10	Universal
6	Avengers: Endgame	$195,000	-49%	237	-183	$823	$857,914,768	16	Disney
7	Rocketman	$170,000	-42%	181	-173	$939	$95,920,917	11	Paramount Pictures
8	John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum	$118,000	-52%	174	-165	$678	$170,455,567	13	Lionsgate
9	Stuber	$63,000	-89%	110	-970	$573	$22,254,923	5	20th Century Fox

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Dark Phoenix	$33,000	-67%	80	-45	$413	$65,828,828	10	Fox
2	Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable	$1,700	-81%	6	-18	$283	$581,586	5	Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures

Edited August 10, 2019 by sfran43

[cookie]

I think at least one of them could've benefited from moving to same weekend as OUaTiH as a form of counter-programming, though the industry likely expected TLK/Hollywood/H&S to suck up all the air much more than they ended up doing.

 

H&S's been following the first G.I Joe movie more so than M:I5/6.

Edited August 10, 2019 by cookie

[Avatree]

30 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

She has played the exact same character in eveyrthing I saw her play.

One note.

thats my point, some actors just be themselves in their films - and usually they're cast for that reason.

 

think like Jack Black, or Jason Statham. play the same character in every film i.e. they are hired to perform as themselves. doesn't mean they aren't awesome.

[baumer]

27 minutes ago, cookie said:

Why on earth is 47 Meters Down in 3,600+ theaters next weekend?

 

Because the first one was a surprise hit. 

And sharks.

[filmlover]

14 minutes ago, cookie said:

I think at least one of them could've benefited from moving to same weekend as OUaTiH as a form of counter-programming, though the industry likely expected TLK/Hollywood/H&S to suck up all the air much more than they ended up doing.

 

H&S's been following the first G.I Joe movie more so than M:I5/6.

I'm pretty sure OUATIH was the industry's counterprogramming answer considering it's been skewing older. Just that it clearly ended up being more along the lines of Inglourious Basterds and Shutter Island.

[cdsacken]

17 hours ago, Litio said:

@cdsacken ? Where are you?

About reviewing bombing? I haven't paid attention to it. The movie is doing horrible, not sure why people would waste their efforts trolling a film like that.

[CJohn]

37 minutes ago, cookie said:

Why on earth is 47 Meters Down in 3,600+ theaters next weekend?

It is probably a mistake on BOM's part since on the front page they have it on 2.500 theaters, which makes much more sense.

[cookie]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

It is probably a mistake on BOM's part since on the front page they have it on 2.500 theaters, which makes much more sense.

BoPro also says 2,500, so I agree, it's likely an error.

[nguyenkhoi282]

The BTS pic can actually join the top 10 this weekend (again).

[filmlover]

Wasn't the first 47 Meters Down supposed to open in 3,500+ theaters (it ended up in 2,270) according to BOM two years ago as well? One of their more memorable typos .

[Catty]

32 minutes ago, Ipickthiswhiterose said:

She went to Guildhall.

 

She will use standard British active analysis/method of physical actions techniques.

 

No British actor uses method. Or would ever. Indeed Daniel D-L is pretty much the only non-American to use a version of method. The US clinging on to that outdated garbage is the main reason so many non-Americans dominate Hollywood.

Don't forget money - it's always about the money - British actors come cheaper - Toby Stephens admitted it when asked why so many British actors were being hired.  And don't act like all American actors are trained in the Method - that is not true but nice of you to call it "garbage" - seems like it didn't hurt Daniel Day-Lewis's acting career one bit - 3 Oscars & 4 Baftas - not too shabby.  And theater acting & movie acting are two very different forms of acting - Richard Burton was astounded at how good Liz Taylor was after viewing the dailies while making Cleopatra when it looked to him like she wasn't doing much at all - she had that "it" factor - charisma - whatever you want to call it that jumps out on the screen & she knew that less is more on screen - theater actors are used to big gestures.  You just need to look at any list of the best actors & American actors are all over it so stop with the condescension & denigration - it's uncalled for.

 

 

[MeowwoeM]

How did Hobbs and Shaw increase  76%

[jedijake]

Those Friday increases are just horrid for TS4 and TLK. Great for Hobbs and Once Upon. 

[charlie Jatinder]

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, MeowwoeM said:

How did Hobbs and Shaw increase  76%

From that and the dailies it looks like it's skewing older

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, jedijake said:

Those Friday increases are just horrid for TS4 and TLK.

A whole bunch of movies (including competition in the form of Dora) opened. Not that surprising.

[narniadis]

Yeah, the argument for or expectation of good holdover holds was again BOT wishful thinking as seen all summer. Besides the good word of mouth, it should be obvious that some films have had good grosses more because there hasnt been competition as the first time theater counts got zinged they all went ouch lol. 

 

Will also laugh a lot of Lion King never really settles and end up in the 525-530 range so crazy. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

 

[Alex SciChannel]

43 minutes ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

Below $20M weekend headed for Lion King I presume.