Weekend Thread: Friday #s - Onward 12.1, Invisible Man 4.3, Way Back 2.6 | Blame It On the Roni

[sfran43]

 

Edited March 6, 2020 by sfran43

[lor15]

Ouch,  that's sad, hope it recovers in the weekend

[AdrianL]

Anything over 50m would seem decent to me. Onward looked really unappealing.

 

40s would be eh. Below 40 eek. 

Edited March 6, 2020 by AdrianL

[RealLyre]

doesn't seem like COVID-19 is affecting the domestic box office yet lol 

 

40-50M opening for Onward is p good 

[Curtis1986]

Below 45. Ouch. One of Pixar's worst openings

[Jonwo]

For Pixar's first Spring release that isn't during holidays. $2m seems decent especially considering it had previews on Leap Day. 

 

Anything for The Way Back?

[stripe]

Not bad. It's just previews from an original animated film. Kids still at school. And some upfront demand burnt with Leap day screenings.

 

HTTYD3 had 3M Thursday last year and it was the end chapter of an established franchise appealing also to young adults. The OW was 55M

[Maxmoser3]

$2 million for a Disney family film? That’s not horrendous, no need to panic. Spring Break isn’t in session just yet for families and Onward will play well on the weekend  like Saturday and Sunday matinees. So north of $50 million or so would be a reasonable start.

 

The Way Back it”ll all depend with tomorrow with matinees as well, as it’s an adult oriented movie. 

[AdrianL]

4 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

For Pixar's first Spring release that isn't during holidays. $2m seems decent especially considering it had previews on Leap Day. 

 

Anything for The Way Back?

Had no previews.

[filmlover]

Seems on track for the $45-50M range it was expected to hit.

[sfran43]

 

[charlie Jatinder]

Awful PS. May be even 10mn OD is struggle. Let's see how are Walkups.

[Krissykins]

Sub $50m wouldn’t be very good and can’t be spun. 

[RealLyre]

2 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Awful PS. May be even 10mn OD is struggle. Let's see how are Walkups.

10M OD including previews and sneaks? (which were 2M and 0.65M iirc)

[Legion Again]

32 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

doesn't seem like COVID-19 is affecting the domestic box office yet lol 

This take is not gonna hold up well in 72 hours.   

[The Fast and the Furiosa]

1 minute ago, Arendelle Legion said:

This take is not gonna hold up well in 72 hours.   

Wasn’t this movie tracking 40-50 3 weeks ago? 

[filmlover]

6 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Sub $50m wouldn’t be very good and can’t be spun. 

Tracking started in the $40M range so no one can claim they didn't see this coming. The movie always looked like "Minor Pixar" anyway.

[charlie Jatinder]

I will taake 40 from here unless we are seeing a miracle in next two days.

[Blaze Heatnix]

16 minutes ago, AdrianL said:

Had no previews.

Why would they do that? Is the movie bad?

 

You don't do that to a movie unless you think it's not getting good word of mouth. Critics are quite good for this one. No idea what's happening to WB...

[RealLyre]

1 minute ago, Arendelle Legion said:

This take is not gonna hold up well in 72 hours.   

25-35 would be cause for worry but anything in the 35M-50M range should mean the virus has little to no effect yet.  

 

weird how when it's a Disney movie that doesn't break records, everybody starts finding excuses for the average grosses. maybe the interest for this movie is just not there? the reviews are already weaker than standard pixar lol.