The Whitney Houston Movie: I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Tristar | December 23, 2022 | Kasi Lemmons directs

[Maggie]

Over 100M easily imo. Let's say 150M. Whitney was beloved. And the movie is pretty good too apparently. I think this could surprise

[filmlover]

This had the best reaction of all the trailers before my Woman King showing today. Underestimate the box office potential for this at your own peril, especially with how barren Christmas is this year besides Avatar.

Edited September 19, 2022 by filmlover

[Jonwo]

Just watched the trailer, think this will do very well domestically. OS is a bit trickier but the UK and Australia love a good musical biopic so I expect it'll do well in those places. 

[wboxoffice]

More competition now with Babylon going wide on Dec. 23 instead of Jan. 6.

 

Wide releases:

 

16 December

Avatar: The Way of Water

Spoiler Alert

21 December

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

I Wanna Dance With Somebody *

23 December

Babylon

25 December

Women Talking

 

[Eric Duncan]

 

[Krissykins]

6 hours ago, Eric Carey said:

 

Love the new name and pic Eric haha

[Eric Duncan]

 

[Eric Duncan]

 

[wboxoffice]

https://people.com/movies/clive-davis-says-whitney-houston-biopic-will-be-honest-about-her-battles-and-struggles/

[wboxoffice]

New small German trailer with a lot of new footage…

 

 

[Cap]

For me the only question is are they using the Thunderpuss remix of “It’s Not Right (But It’s Okay).”  Truly the make or break moment. 

[wboxoffice]

2 hours ago, Cap said:

For me the only question is are they using the Thunderpuss remix of “It’s Not Right (But It’s Okay).”  Truly the make or break moment. 

Yeah hopefully they are!

[wboxoffice]

 

[filmlover]

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

Better than the first trailer. It's still looks to be a very conventional musician biopic, but that's actually quite popular with general audiences, as much as Film Twitter pretends Walk Hard was somehow a game changer for the genre. I think this will do very nicely as Avatar counterprogramming.

[Poseidon]

That's a great trailer. I think this could do well over $150m alongside Avatar over christmas. 

 

 

[Krissykins]

Excellent trailer. 
 

Cineworld posted it on Facebook and the reactions in the comments are overwhelmingly positive. 

[Verrows]

My mom is absolutely ecstatic about this movie! She's a massive Whitney Houston fan, adores "I Will Always Love You" and one of her fav films is The Bodyguard.

 

Needless to say, I will be taking her on December 21, which is saying something because she's very content to wait to see movies. I don't think she saw Top Gun Maverick until August or something, and that was something she really wanted to see too.

[wboxoffice]

The movie release date for the USA has changed from Wednesday the 21st december to Friday the 23rd december.

 

Basically the wide releases are now:

 

16 december - Avatar 2

21 december - Puss in Boots 2

23 december - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

23 december - Babylon

25 december - Women Talking

 

I'm not sure what the recent release date change means... Does a last minute change like that happen often and is it a good strategy for this movie?  Many of the trailers had the date of 21 December mentioned...

 

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by wboxoffice

[Krissykins]

Hmm, that is strange. 
 

It’s the 26th here because cinemas are closed at Christmas. But I know how big a deal it is in the US.