Weekend Thread - Mortal Kombat 22.5, Demon Slayer 19.5

[titanic2187]

52 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Nomadland is a masterpiece.

I think this is a relatively easy Oscar year where I can easily got my number 1 pick without much hesitation. Sadly we won't see major sweet-sweet Oscar bump this year and this is a big blow for indie art cinema since Oscar season is generally their peak season for business.   

[Eric Duncan]

 

[titanic2187]

With just 26% drop in the face of another r-rated action flick like MK, Nobody is holding great and should pass 30m in the end, making another 30m grosser for pandemic era. And the result is actually quite great considering it is not that far below from first JWs 43m

[lor15]

Raya is having great drops, wom must be very good and i’m not surprised bc it’s amazing.

[Borobudur]

51 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Early number show MK+DS didn't really squeezed out the holdovers and most of them are posting reasonable drop unlike those during GvK. This is really encouraging as it show the market is truly recovering and more products can co-exist.  

Ya this is another good surprise this week with everybody win situation. I guess the go back to cinema momentum is building and the world of mouth about the experience is spreading to the general public.

[filmlover]

6 minutes ago, lor15 said:

Raya is having great drops, wom must be very good and i’m not surprised bc it’s amazing.

It's also benefitting from zero in the way of competition for family audiences: the next movie aimed at that audience is...Spirit Untamed in early June (Cruella will mostly appeal to older kids despite the Disney brand).

[WrathOfHan]

9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

It's also benefitting from zero in the way of competition for family audiences: the next movie aimed at that audience is...Spirit Untamed in early June (Cruella will mostly appeal to older kids despite the Disney brand).

I don't get why Disney didn't move Cruella away from AQP. They have significant audience overlap, and the latter won't be available on streaming for 45 days. Theaters will probably prioritize AQP in PLFs (or do what they did with Raya and Chaos Walking with alternating showtimes in Dolby/IMAX)

[charlie Jatinder]

$55M+ weekend. Reclaimed biggest market in world after an year. China was $24M this weekend.

[titanic2187]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MORTAL KOMBAT<br>$22.51M Weekend (Est.)<br>3,073 Screens / $7,326 Avg.<br>Weekend 1 / New<br>$22.51M Total (North America)<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MortalKombat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MortalKombat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MortalKombatMovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MortalKombatMovie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoxOffice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoxOffice</a></p>&mdash; Boxoffice Pro (@BoxOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/1386340586072981511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 

 

Date	Rank	Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
Apr 23, 2021	2	$9,085,000		3,073	$2,956	$9,085,000	1
Apr 24, 2021	-	$8,665,000	-5%	3,073	$2,820	$17,750,000	2
Apr 25, 2021	-	$4,765,000	-45%	3,073	$1,551	$22,515,000	3

 

 

In the fight between Funimation/Aniplex’s Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train and New Line/Warner Bros./HBO Max’s Mortal Kombat, it is the latter who is the victor with $22.5M while the anime title drew $19.5M.  Demon Slayer‘s Saturday of $6.44M is technically up +13%.

Edited April 25, 2021 by titanic2187

[filmlover]

7 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I don't get why Disney didn't move Cruella away from AQP. They have significant audience overlap, and the latter won't be available on streaming for 45 days. Theaters will probably prioritize AQP in PLFs (or do what they did with Raya and Chaos Walking with alternating showtimes in Dolby/IMAX)

A Quiet Place was moved up several months a few weeks before they made the announcement that Cruella and Black Widow would be doing Premier Access the same day as theaters (deals they were probably working on for a while before the announcements were made).

[SchumacherFTW]

7 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

For funsies I did this

 

AoT better everywhere else except USA, India, UK and Australia.

 

The Manga ending and the "final" season ending with the promise of one more "final" season definitely pushed up awareness there. 

[AN9815]

I thought 'Mortal Kombat' was pretty bad and I didn't particularly care for 'Demon Slayer' but these numbers bring a lot of hope to the box office and I'm glad they are performing well. My biggest concern now is that there are no big movies until 'Spiral' but after that big movies will come starting with 'A Quiet Place 2' and 'Cruella'. Maybe they should have moved one of them a couple of weeks up

[Ms Lady Hawk]

1 minute ago, AN9815 said:

I thought 'Mortal Kombat' was pretty bad and I didn't particularly care for 'Demon Slayer' but these numbers bring a lot of hope to the box office and I'm glad they are performing well. My biggest concern now is that there are no big movies until 'Spiral' but after that big movies will come starting with 'A Quiet Place 2' and 'Cruella'. Maybe they should have moved one of them a couple of weeks up

I completely agree. MK was really bad! It took me all weekend to get through it. Just finished. However, these box office numbers bode well for the future. Maybe Bond, Black Widow, F9 and Top Gun will be okay. They may be able to reach 100+ million opening weekends. 

[PKMLover]

Forbe predict Demon Slayer will be similar frontloaded as Dragonball Super Brolly and will  finish at $31M 

[titanic2187]

1	N	Mortal Kombat	Warner Bros.	$22,515,000		3,073		$7,327	$22,515,000	1
2	N	Demon Slayer The Movi…	FUNimation	$19,500,000		1,605		$12,150	$19,500,000	1
3	(1)	Godzilla vs. Kong	Warner Bros.	$4,200,000	-46%	2,856	-145	$1,471	$86,576,000	4
4	(2)	Nobody	Universal	$1,860,000	-26%	2,252	-153	$826	$21,671,720	5
5	(4)	Raya and the Last Dragon	Walt Disney	$1,680,000	-13%	1,819	-126	$924	$39,844,169	8
-	(5)	Tom and Jerry	Warner Bros.	$650,000	-40%	1,930	-98	$337	$43,472,000	9
-	N	Together Together	Bleecker …	$522,440		665		$786	$522,440	1
-	(8)	In the Earth	Neon	$204,000	-60%	571	-523	$357	$894,665	2
-	(10)	The Croods: A New Age	Universal	$191,000	-37%	1,156	-13	$165	$57,339,623	22
-	(6)	Voyagers	Lionsgate	$170,000	-78%	1,278	-718	$133	$2,956,536	3
-	(-)	Minari	A24	$141,000	+1%	704	-41	$200	$2,710,000	20
-	(11)	Chaos Walking	Lionsgate	$112,500	-46%	1,071	-171	$105	$13,158,685	8

 

 

[titanic2187]

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">GODZILLA VS. KONG<br>$320.0M Overseas Total / 43 Markets<br>$406.6M Global Total <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Godzilla?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Godzilla</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kong</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GodzillaVsKong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GodzillaVsKong</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoxOffice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoxOffice</a></p>&mdash; Boxoffice Pro (@BoxOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/1386350076998602755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MORTAL KOMBAT<br>$27.6M Overseas Total / 38 Markets<br>$50.1M Global Total <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MortalKombat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MortalKombat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MortalKombatMovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MortalKombatMovie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoxOffice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoxOffice</a></p>&mdash; Boxoffice Pro (@BoxOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/1386349895804665856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[TwoMisfits]

8 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

1	N	Mortal Kombat	Warner Bros.	$22,515,000		3,073		$7,327	$22,515,000	1
2	N	Demon Slayer The Movi…	FUNimation	$19,500,000		1,605		$12,150	$19,500,000	1
3	(1)	Godzilla vs. Kong	Warner Bros.	$4,200,000	-46%	2,856	-145	$1,471	$86,576,000	4
4	(2)	Nobody	Universal	$1,860,000	-26%	2,252	-153	$826	$21,671,720	5
5	(4)	Raya and the Last Dragon	Walt Disney	$1,680,000	-13%	1,819	-126	$924	$39,844,169	8
-	(5)	Tom and Jerry	Warner Bros.	$650,000	-40%	1,930	-98	$337	$43,472,000	9
-	N	Together Together	Bleecker …	$522,440		665		$786	$522,440	1
-	(8)	In the Earth	Neon	$204,000	-60%	571	-523	$357	$894,665	2
-	(10)	The Croods: A New Age	Universal	$191,000	-37%	1,156	-13	$165	$57,339,623	22
-	(6)	Voyagers	Lionsgate	$170,000	-78%	1,278	-718	$133	$2,956,536	3
-	(-)	Minari	A24	$141,000	+1%	704	-41	$200	$2,710,000	20
-	(11)	Chaos Walking	Lionsgate	$112,500	-46%	1,071	-171	$105	$13,158,685	8

 

 

Top 10 DOM $51-52M - excellent continued growth for the BO...the Top 10 finally roughly tied the worst weekend of 2019, and we beat GVK weekend, which are both great signs...

[Eric Duncan]

33 minutes ago, AN9815 said:

I thought 'Mortal Kombat' was pretty bad

 

29 minutes ago, Ms Lady Hawk said:

I completely agree. MK was really bad! It took me all weekend to get through it.

 

[titanic2187]

7 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

Top 10 DOM $51-52M - excellent continued growth for the BO...the Top 10 finally roughly tied the worst weekend of 2019, and we beat GVK weekend, which are both great signs...

Both WB and Funanimation have MK and DS drop 45% on sunday. which seem too harsh to me judging from other opening. Won't be surprise if final number added few hundreds thousand bucks

WW84: -41%

Marksman: -35%

T&J: -33%

Chos walking: -46%

Raya: -41%

Nobody: -30%

GvK: -44% (easter sunday where films tend to drop harsher)

 

[PKMLover]

It seems non english spoken movies don't have cinemascore? Could not find the cinemascore for DS.