Weekend Thread: Downton Abbey 31M, Ad Astra 19.2M Rambo 19M, It2 17.2M, Hustlers 17M

[TMP]

11 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

Yay! Now TLK (2019) is the new highest grosser for composer for Hans Zimmer. Great job

Not good!

[Nova]

Seems like we’ve got another solid September in the books. 

[MrFanaticGuy34]

8 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Dark, dark day.

Only to those who hated it, which is basically almost entirely everyone here on BOT. 🙎🏻‍♀️

Edited September 21, 2019 by MrFanaticGuy34

[sfran43]

 

[sfran43]

So the $13.84M includes the earlier preview #s, I was wondering if that was the case...

 

[MrFanaticGuy34]

4 minutes ago, TMP said:

Not good!

To you, since you hate those Disney remakes, even without having seen most of them (my guess).

[MrFanaticGuy34]

@TMP

 

You must be really brainless if you think my words mean jackshit by laughing at them. Just to fuel more of your so called ”facts” about my opinions being wrong.

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

So the $13.84M includes the earlier preview #s, I was wondering if that was the case...

 

So basically $9.5M or so without both sets of previews. Definite frontloading. We'll see how it holds today and tomorrow (although it's already in the black so it's all moot).

[titanic2187]

13 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

So the $13.84M includes the earlier preview #s, I was wondering if that was the case...

 

I was thinking if this is possible the 1st 100m grosser for Focus feature but nah......Looks like it will not, 

 

Still, A cinemascore from older crowd is a good sign of its holding power  

[sfran43]

WIDE (1000+)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Downton Abbey	$35,000,000	—	3,079	—	$11,367	$35,000,000	1	Focus Features
2	Ad Astra	$19,500,000	—	3,460	—	$5,636	$19,500,000	1	20th Century Fox
3	Rambo: Last Blood	$19,400,000	—	3,618	—	$5,362	$19,400,000	1	Lionsgate
4	Hustlers	$17,000,000	-49%	3,525	289	$4,823	$62,545,213	2	STX Entertainment
5	It Chapter Two	$16,200,000	-59%	4,156	-414	$3,898	$178,120,563	3	Warner Bros
6	The Lion King	$2,700,000	-26%	1,978	-387	$1,365	$537,720,304	10	Walt Disney Pictures
7	Good Boys	$2,600,000	-38%	2,025	-711	$1,284	$77,395,605	6	Universal Pictures
8	Angel Has Fallen	$2,200,000	-51%	2,505	-571	$878	$64,489,679	5	Lionsgate
9	Overcomer	$1,600,000	-41%	1,818	-475	$880	$31,667,203	5	Sony Pictures
10	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	$1,500,000	-46%	1,391	-659	$1,078	$170,653,810	8	Universal Pictures
11	The Peanut Butter Falcon	$965,000	-48%	1,128	-362	$855	$16,708,496	7	Roadside Attractions
12	Brittany Runs A Marathon	$910,000	-38%	1,033	276	$881	$5,208,221	5	Amazon Studios
13	The Goldfinch	$800,000	-70%	2,542	0	$315	$4,580,103	2	Warner Bros.

LIMITED (100 — 999)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	$1,400,000	-24%	944	-404	$1,483	$58,544,429	7	Paramount Pictures
2	Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark	$830,000	-51%	932	-562	$891	$65,659,736	7	CBS Films / Lionsgate
3	The Angry Birds Movie 2	$830,000	-30%	730	-454	$1,137	$40,670,591	6	Sony Pictures
4	Once Upon a Time In Hollywood	$670,000	-55%	545	-412	$1,229	$138,183,430	9	Sony Pictures
5	Spider-Man: Far from Home	$380,000	-43%	407	-303	$934	$389,756,018	12	Sony / Columbia
6	Toy Story 4	$345,000	-16%	291	-119	$1,186	$432,807,979	14	Disney
7	Ready or Not	$200,000	-79%	301	-794	$664	$28,260,835	5	Fox Searchlight
8	47 Meters Down: Uncaged	$160,000	-62%	246	-291	$650	$21,790,170	6	Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
9	Aladdin	$135,000	-34%	156	-23	$865	$355,263,942	18	Disney
10	The Art of Racing in the Rain	$130,000	-56%	231	-242	$563	$26,049,886	7	20th Century Fox

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

#	TITLE	WEEKEND		LOCATIONS		AVG.	TOTAL	WKS.	DIST.
1	Chhichhore	$205,000	-54%	98	-97	$2,092	$1,714,692	3	FIP
2	Tod@s Caen	$70,000	-63%	68	-143	$1,029	$2,581,012

[filmlover]

Hustlers is looking set for a $100M+ total. Good Boys has become one of the bigger surprises of the year and will easily cross $80M+.

 

The fact Brittany Runs a Marathon is gonna end up with a higher total than The Goldfinch despite not even playing in half the amount of theaters is truly funny.

[John2015]

Lionsgate paid less than $10 million to acquire "Rambo: Last Blood "

 

https://deadline.com/2019/09/downton-abbey-rambo-last-blood-ad-astra-hustlers-weekend-box-office-1202739525/

 

Lionsgate acquired U.S. for under $10M, and like most of their steak-and-potato action movies, they will make money. For Lionsgate to economically get involved in this pic, they bet that Rambo V would open to at least $15M.

 

 

Edited September 21, 2019 by John2015

[The Futurist]

From What I can gather from Ad Astra s audience reception, it seems the movie is on its way to give the middle finger to big pharma :

 

cure for insomnia is here people.

 

Don't poison you body, stop sleeping pills, whatch Ad Astra.

Edited September 21, 2019 by The Futurist

[Barnack]

On 9/20/2019 at 12:41 PM, LOGAN'sLuckyRun said:

They also spent an ungodly amount on domestic TV spots. Over $40m, that may not sound like a lot but in comparison Minions spent 25m on TV ads.

 

That was pretty much the norm for WB wide release that summer:

 

Comedy like Entourage release budget are quite domestic heavy (often a somewhat 40m-20m kind of split).

[narniadis]

Not sure how DA is supposed to make 35m with 2 days of previews factored into the Friday number..... sheesh seems we have lots of people that forget how these things work. 

[MrGlass2]

18 minutes ago, narniadis said:

Not sure how DA is supposed to make 35m with 2 days of previews factored into the Friday number..... sheesh seems we have lots of people that forget how these things work. 

Deadline predicts 31M?

[Legion Again]

1 minute ago, MrGlass2 said:

Deadline predicts 31M?

BOP has 35 off of the Friday. It’s strange since they’re usually pretty good, but that x3.2 the true Friday is not happening.

[Eric Duncan]

23 minutes ago, narniadis said:

Not sure how DA is supposed to make 35m with 2 days of previews factored into the Friday number..... sheesh seems we have lots of people that forget how these things work. 

 

1 minute ago, Thanos Legion said:

BOP has 35 off of the Friday. It’s strange since they’re usually pretty good, but that x3.2 the true Friday is not happening.

To be fair, the article mentions that the writer was unsure if the pre-preview sneaks were included in there or not. Not sure why they haven't updated it yet, now that we have the information, but whatever.

[Legion Again]

10 minutes ago, Eric! said:

 

To be fair, the article mentions that the writer was unsure if the pre-preview sneaks were included in there or not. Not sure why they haven't updated it yet, now that we have the information, but whatever.

Ah, I did miss that. With a 11.7 True Friday 35 would seem kind of conservative though. 

Edited September 21, 2019 by Thanos Legion

[DAJK]

30 should be the goal for DA. If it comes in at 30-31, people shouldn't suddenly think it's "underperforming".

 

Now, if the weekend number stars with a 2, I could see people starting to call into question its legs.