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[BadOlCatSylvester]

Is Shang-Chi seriously about to outdo Black Widow?

[Menor the Destroyer]

80+ depends on the Saturday. I'm not sure if it will have quite a big enough bump to do so. Still F9 is toast for sure. 

[JWR]

Theater I saw this in was absolutely packed. Is $60M looking more like a low ball, now?

[Krissykins]

7 minutes ago, JWR said:

Theater I saw this in was absolutely packed. Is $60M looking more like a low ball, now?

From a $30.75m+ Friday? Yes, it would need a dreadful multiplier to land in the 60’s now. 

[Valonqar]

8 minutes ago, JWR said:

Theater I saw this in was absolutely packed. Is $60M looking more like a low ball, now?

 

Blowing past it big time. See:

 

13 minutes ago, Menor said:

80+ depends on the Saturday. I'm not sure if it will have quite a big enough bump to do so. Still F9 is toast for sure. 

 

 

[katnisscinnaplex]

2 hours ago, Lokis Legion said:

Okay, one last useful (kinda) comment in before I’m unconscious. I’ve seen SC/FG, SC/JC, and SC/BW — but unsure on the ratios. @katnisscinnaplex might know more

Looks like:

Free Guy ~70%
Black Widow ~10%

Jungle Cruise ~10%
Paw Patrol ~ 5%
Don't Breathe 2 ~5%
 

[TwoMisfits]

33 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:

Well I sure as hell feel silly for yesterday.

Nah, don't feel silly...as someone else mentioned, if this is unrepeatable by other studios and films this year, it's a one off like F9 and Black Widow.  One film every two months doesn't convince theaters to go back to Monday-Friday 10am-midnight hours...especially when that film probably took 60%+ of the box office revenue (or did Cheap-o Chapek's Disney actually keep to their day and date 50-50 deal?)...

 

I mean, F9's weekend could have been the "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't (although it was close WW)...

Black Widow's weekend could have been "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't...

 

So, "hurray everything's great and we're ready to go" is a little premature...wake me when my theaters add back their morning and some, even their early afternoon and late night, weekday showings on school days...

 

While thankfully the big chains are all planning to be open this fall (unlike last fall), they are not planning on having all of their outlets run "normal" hours, so we can't be normal yet...

 

 

[titanic2187]

7 minutes ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Looks like:

Free Guy ~70%
Black Widow ~10%

Jungle Cruise ~10%
Paw Patrol ~ 5%
Don't Breathe 2 ~5%
 

Wow, they pair this up with FG more, a more recent release?? I thought BW would make more sense.  

[SnokesLegs]

6 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

wake me when my theaters add back their morning and some, even their early afternoon and late night, weekday showings on school days...

 

While thankfully the big chains are all planning to be open this fall (unlike last fall), they are not planning on having all of their outlets run "normal" hours, so we can't be normal yet...

 

 

It’s already back to normal in terms of show times in the UK so the US probably isn’t too far behind.

 

Great for Shang Chi and as a Kim’s Convenience fan I’m absolutely thrilled for Simu Liu! (Also, if you like him in SC, definitely give Kim’s Convenience a shot on Netflix, it’s the best sitcom of the last decade for me).

[cheesypoofs]

What were BW preview numbers in comparison?

[EmpireCity]

34 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

Nah, don't feel silly...as someone else mentioned, if this is unrepeatable by other studios and films this year, it's a one off like F9 and Black Widow.  One film every two months doesn't convince theaters to go back to Monday-Friday 10am-midnight hours...especially when that film probably took 60%+ of the box office revenue (or did Cheap-o Chapek's Disney actually keep to their day and date 50-50 deal?)...

 

I mean, F9's weekend could have been the "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't (although it was close WW)...

Black Widow's weekend could have been "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't...

 

So, "hurray everything's great and we're ready to go" is a little premature...wake me when my theaters add back their morning and some, even their early afternoon and late night, weekday showings on school days...

 

While thankfully the big chains are all planning to be open this fall (unlike last fall), they are not planning on having all of their outlets run "normal" hours, so we can't be normal yet...

 

 

 

Again, you keep saying this but not realizing that the lack of hours or full schedule from a lot of theaters is due to labor issues, not necessarily film inventory.  

 

I can tell you with 1000% certainty multiple real world examples where theaters are running at reduced hours or capacity or have screens dark because they can't hire staff or keep staff when they do hire them.  

[Valonqar]

6 minutes ago, cheesypoofs said:

What were BW preview numbers in comparison?

Friday	1	$39,510,446	-	-
Jul 10, 2021	Saturday	1	$23,305,929	-41%
Jul 11, 2021	Sunday	1	$17,549,937	-24.7%

 

 

preview was 13.2M on Thursday.

[john2000]

8 minutes ago, cheesypoofs said:

What were BW preview numbers in comparison?

13,2

[Krissykins]

36 minutes ago, SnokesLegs said:

It’s already back to normal in terms of show times in the UK so the US probably isn’t too far behind.

 

I was going to say that too, UK cinemas have been back at normal hours for months.
 

Our box office is doing consistently well, too, not just two or three big films. We’ve had 11 films do the equivalent of $90m+ since the end of May. Not even including Shang-Chi. 

[titanic2187]

2 hours ago, RRA said:

Is it really too late for Sony to move V2 back? 

It would be funny to have the first thing heard in the morning is Venom 2 moving back instead of SC2 announcement. 

[titanic2187]

57 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

Nah, don't feel silly...as someone else mentioned, if this is unrepeatable by other studios and films this year, it's a one off like F9 and Black Widow.  One film every two months doesn't convince theaters to go back to Monday-Friday 10am-midnight hours...especially when that film probably took 60%+ of the box office revenue (or did Cheap-o Chapek's Disney actually keep to their day and date 50-50 deal?)...

 

I mean, F9's weekend could have been the "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't (although it was close WW)...

Black Widow's weekend could have been "hurray, movies are back"...and then it wasn't...

 

So, "hurray everything's great and we're ready to go" is a little premature...wake me when my theaters add back their morning and some, even their early afternoon and late night, weekday showings on school days...

 

While thankfully the big chains are all planning to be open this fall (unlike last fall), they are not planning on having all of their outlets run "normal" hours, so we can't be normal yet...

 

 

The box office market should consistently make more than 100m during weekend for theater to be profitable to operate in the normal working hour. 

[CJohn]

@EmpireCity this is exactly the type of box office numbers you promised me we would jerk off too. What a day. I should have trusted you from the beginning.

 

 

 

[Borobudur]

I thought WB would have some advantage in the theater thanks to their first mover advantage...but turns out we still need disney. 

[john2000]

4 minutes ago, CJohn said:

@EmpireCity this is exactly the type of box office numbers you promised me we would jerk off too. What a day. I should have trusted you from the beginning.

 

 

 

um ....you had to make it weird ..didnt you

Edited September 4, 2021 by john2000

[Gopher]

Guys, I'm not sure I'd believe those Shang Chi opening day numbers if I were you... I keep being told movie theaters are dead.