Weekend Thread: Free Guy 18.79M (34% drop!) | PAW Patrol 13M, Jungle Cruise 6.2M | Protégé 2.9M, Night House 2.87M, Legendary Flop Reminiscence 2M (Worst opening for a movie in 3K theaters!)

[WrathOfHan]

We finally have a number!

 

 

[Eric Duncan]

What the heck was taking Disney (and also Lionsgate) so long?

[WrathOfHan]

Reposting from the buzz thread:

 

10 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Looking at a few theaters, Night House/Protégé/Reminiscence are selling on the same level. Night House is faring better than the other two but not by a wide margin. I'm gonna guess 2-4M for all of them. Paw Patrol is also doing well with group sales like Space Jam did (maybe a quarter of its sales though, especially without Regal), but it varies market to market. 

 

A couple other observations:

 

Free Guy isn't doing too well in PLFs tonight from the few theaters I'm looking at, but with so many screens, the crowds are dispersed. (Side note: Disney Springs cancelled all Dolby shows today; I was planning to see it until that happened  )

 

Jungle Cruise is selling well for a film in its fourth week, but Respect is looking dead. I would not be surprised if FG, PP, and JC are the only movies over 5M this weekend.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Reminiscence and Night House are nearly identical but IMAX will probably give Reminiscence the edge. Protege leads both 

[CJohn]

Very ugly weekend approaching. I was hoping for some good holds for holdhovers at least, but not even that. The market really cant sustain itself.

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

Reminiscence and Night House are nearly identical but IMAX will probably give Reminiscence the edge. Protege leads both 

Agree with this. Protégé will probably fare better with matinees on Sat and Sun to get it over Night House.

 

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

Very ugly weekend approaching. I was hoping for some good holds for holdhovers at least, but not even that. The market really cant sustain itself.

At least 40-50M looks good for Shang-Chi...

 

Next weekend will be a traditional end of August desert and feel like one of the worst weekends we've had during the pandemic.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Even losing IMAX, it would be very bad if Free Guy didn’t hold well. That and Paw Patrol will combat for #1 with like 14m?

 

Thankfully Candyman has potential for a solid weekend next week and then Shang-Chi will blow the doors off. 

[Legion Again]

15 minutes ago, Free Eric said:

What the heck was taking Disney (and also Lionsgate) so long?

Instead of the pile of cash being too large to count, it was too small to find  

[Legion Again]

10 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Very ugly weekend approaching. I was hoping for some good holds for holdhovers at least, but not even that. The market really cant sustain itself.

It will be a good weekend for Free Guy and Jungle Cruise, also Paw Patrol (vs expectations from a few weeks ago, going to underperform hopes from like 5 days ago).   
 

The rest is absolutely carnage, but looks like pretty normal August product doldrums with a dash of streaming. I don’t know that I’d expect these to be much higher with the same release dates and distribution models even if covid had never happened to begin with.

[Nikostar]

Boring weekend. Bring on Candyman.

[DAJK]

Protege is easily beating Reminiscence in this area. Paw Patrol above both combined though lol.

[grey ghost]

Paw Patrol coming for that Frozen 2 WW record for an animated movie.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Reminiscence and Protege still don't have an RT audience score yet

 

Currently, 99% for Paw Patrol, 63% for Night House

 

It's a given Night House would have terrible audience scores considering it's an indie arthouse horror but after seeing last night, I think it might even go under C. It has all the trademarks to piss the mainstream off: slow-moving and inconclusive ending

[Legion Again]

Tired: Free Guy will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  
Wired: Paw Patrol will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  

 

 

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

C+ Cinemascore for Reminiscence 

[charlie Jatinder]

50 minutes ago, Lokis Legion said:

Tired: Free Guy will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  
Wired: Paw Patrol will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  

 

 

But will kids like it?

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

C- for The Night House

[Porthos]

PAW PATROL: THE MOVIE (2021)

PROTEGE, THE (2021)

Edited August 21, 2021 by Porthos

[grim22]

2 hours ago, Lokis Legion said:

Tired: Free Guy will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  
Wired: Paw Patrol will be the first post-pandemic wide A+  

 

 

Post-pandemic?

[EmpireCity]

Paw Patrol and Free Guy doing well.