Ghostbusters 2021 weekend Nov 19-21: Afterlife $44M OW | E: $10.8m | RD: $8.1m

[filmlover]

Venom 2 is really old news at this point after being out for nearly two months and there's a trio of releases coming out in two days that are going to force theaters to drop things that are no longer selling. Being released for home viewing as it's making its exit makes complete sense.

[wildphantom]

12 minutes ago, Eric Venkman said:

I keep on seeing this stuff about how "OMG ITS ON DIGITAL THE MOVIES GONNA DROP LIKE A ROCK DIGITAL AND STREAMING ARE EVILLLLLLLLLLLLL" when for the past year, that's just not the case. If you want to exclude the first quarter of the year, where movies just stuck around because there was nothing to replace it with, a good chunk of movies when they hit PVOD/digital stores don't really get impacted by legs at all.

 

A Quiet Place 2's weekend drops post-digital: 29%, 46%, 47%

Cruella's weekend drops post-digital: 21%, 37%, 1%

F9's post-digital: 45%, 55%, 57%

Forever Purge's post-digital: 42%, 52%, 54%

Black Widow's post-digital: 51%, 41%, 29%

Jungle Cruise's post-digital: 20%, 42%, 11%

Free Guy's post-digital: 45%, 45%, 48%

Don't Breathe 2's post-digital: 50%, 42%, 31%

Respect's post-digital: 40%, 45%, 59%

Candyman's post-digital: 26%, 27%, 50%

No Time to Die's post-digital: 25%, 40%

 

Do some movies have better holds after PVOD than others? Yes. However, and this is a big however, it's not like this is the only factor at play here. There's the issue of competition, which will take away screen space for these movies, as well as some movies, simply put, just not being very good. F9, Forever Purge, and Respect all had middling reception behidn them, so even if they went onto digital stores 6 months from their release date, I sincerely doubt their legs here would be that much better. Free Guy's first three weeks after digital was the 1-2-3 punch of Venom, NTTD, and Halloween Kills. That's gonna impact any movie.

 

Sure you can argue that people are just not used to early digital drops and that in the future movies will drop like a stone, but honestly, it reads to me people will still go to the theaters if it's an option and won't opt for digital right away, especially since it'll likely cost less to go to the theater than paying $20 to own/rent it.

Agree with much of this. 
If anything it’s proven that at the very least 30-45 day windows going forward are not the death knell exhibitors thought they were going to be. 

[charlie Jatinder]

10 hours ago, Eternal Legion said:

Speaking of V2, convincingly dethrones FG for 8th weekend record:  

 

 

OW — Venom LTBC 90M

2nd wknd — SC 34.7M

3rd — SC 21.7M

4th — SC 13M

5th — SC 6.1M

6th — FG 5.1M (SC has now dropped below FG’s weekends)

7th — FG 4.1M

8th — V2 2.77M

9th — Croods2 1.8M

10th — Croods2 1.8M

11th — Croods2 1.7M

12th — Croods 2 2.1M

13th — Croods 2 1.7M  

 

9th should be easy with holiday. 10th no chance, only an amazingly received NWH can hope to challenge the powah of the Grug Moment.

7/13 Ryan Reynolds.

[andersonhoran]

Eternals still the #1 here

 

[Hatebox]

Ghostbusters: Remember That Reference? did quite well in the end. I'm sure it'll pass Sony's low bar for a sequel.

[Napoleon]

1 hour ago, andersonhoran said:

Eternals still the #1 here

 

Ghostbusters behind the 5th Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone re-release ☠️

[Mojoguy]

1 hour ago, Hatebox said:

Ghostbusters: Remember That Reference? did quite well in the end. I'm sure it'll pass Sony's low bar for a sequel.

Just rewatched the first GB and am now ready for the new one. 

[von Kenni]

5 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Ghostbusters behind the 5th Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone re-release ☠️

Yeah, that's the most gruesome market for GA and with Japan where GA releases in Feb 2022, most challenging ones. $0.56m OW compared to $2.15m G2016. Even though the ER was about 50% higher in 2016 still it would have done around half of G2016's total run and now perhaps a third. I guess the market is otherwise challenging too since Dune underperformed BR2049 about 40% there whereas in Mexico is overperforming almost 70% (plus overperforming well almost anywhere else in LATAM BR2049 comp).

[Felandria]

2 hours ago, filmlover said:

Venom 2 is really old news at this point after being out for nearly two months and there's a trio of releases coming out in two days that are going to force theaters to drop things that are no longer selling. Being released for home viewing as it's making its exit makes complete sense.

Disney Springs is dropping Venom, NTTD, and French Dispatch among others.

 

they’re only running ten movies TG weekend.

 

Encanto

gucci

resident

belfast

cmon cmon

ghostbusters

king richard

Eternals

dune

clifford

[efialtes76]

Brazil boxoffice is in a coma.

[Felandria]

https://www.the-numbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart
 

Afterlife hit its number.

[Porthos]

Actuals:

Weekend Domestic Chart for November 19, 2021

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Chart Index

		Movie	Distr	Gross	%LW	Thr	Thr Chng	Per Thr	Total Gross	W
1	N	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Sony Pict…	$44,008,406		4,315		$10,199	$44,008,406	1
2	(1)	Eternals	Walt Disney	$11,084,855	-59%	4,055	-35	$2,734	$136,077,018	3
3	(2)	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Paramount…	$8,121,777	-51%	3,628	-72	$2,239	$33,534,612	2
4	N	King Richard	Warner Bros.	$5,406,033		3,302		$1,637	$5,406,033	1
5	(3)	Dune	Warner Bros.	$3,174,916	-43%	2,467	-815	$1,287	$98,301,904	5
6	(5)	Venom: Let There be C…	Sony Pict…	$2,910,607	-26%	2,230	-308	$1,305	$206,610,673	8
7	(4)	No Time to Die	United Ar…	$2,765,272	-39%	2,407	-460	$1,149	$154,748,399	7
8	(8)	The French Dispatch	Searchlig…	$1,000,091	-43%	805	-420	$1,242	$13,324,025	5
9	(7)	Belfast	Focus Fea…	$945,425	-47%	584	+4	$1,619	$3,441,435	2
10	(6)	Ron’s Gone Wrong	20th Cent…	$942,066	-57%	1,520	-910	$620	$22,152,788	5
-	(9)	Spencer	Neon	$709,589	-53%	954	-311	$744	$6,122,979	3
-	(10)	Antlers	Searchlig…	$371,644	-67%	690	-1,135	$539	$10,333,469	4
-	(-)	Last Night in Soho	Focus Fea…	$234,110	-72%	389	-952	$602	$9,968,465	4
-	(-)	Halloween Kills	Universal	$212,880	-80%	627	-1,367	$340	$91,902,930	6
-	N	India Sweets and Spices	Bleecker …	$170,629		343		$497	$170,629	1
-	(-)	The Addams Family 2	United Ar…	$168,215	-74%	507	-815	$332	$56,323,197	8
-	N	C’mon C’mon	A24	$134,447		5		$26,889	$134,447	1
-	N	The First Wave	Neon	$60,511		11		$5,501	$60,511	1
-	(-)	Shang-Chi and the Leg…	Walt Disney	$48,964	-78%	120	-215	$408	$224,503,046	12
-	(-)	The Last Duel	20th Cent…	$42,436	-62%	165	-85	$257	$10,795,746	6
-	(-)	Julia	Sony Pict…	$42,335	+135%	47	+42	$901	$66,315	2
-	N	Youngest Evangelist A…	Atlas Dis…	$27,300		223		$122	$27,300	1
-	N	Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuc…	IFC Films	$26,426		69		$383	$26,426	1
-	(-)	Free Guy	20th Cent…	$17,880	-62%	65	-20	$275	$121,601,809	15
-	(-)	Jungle Cruise	Walt Disney	$8,000	-55%	38	-22	$211	$116,987,516	17
-	N	Bad Luck Banging or L…	Magnolia …	$7,672		2		$3,836	$7,672	1
-	(-)	Délicieux	Mongrel M…	$4,155	+61%	10	-1	$416	$254,789	11
-	N	The Feast	IFC Midnight	$3,620		22		$165	$3,620	1
-	N	Below the Fold	Mutiny Pi…	$2,600		1		$2,600	$2,600	1
-	(-)	What do we See When w…	MUBI	$2,096	-82%	2	n/c	$1,048	$17,016	2
-	(-)	Mass	Bleecker …	$778	-73%	4	-9	$195	$145,007	7
-	(-)	I’m Your Man	Bleecker …	$763	-57%	3	-4	$254	$274,410	9
-	(-)	Breathless	Rialto Pi…	$728	-48%	1	-1	$728	$47,067	3,172
-	(-)	The Beta Test	IFC Films	$638	-76%	6	-5	$106	$30,245	3
-	(-)	Wife of a Spy	Kino Lorber	$536	-89%	1	-2	$536	$68,839	10
-	(-)	Azor	MUBI	$256		2		$128	$53,296	11
-	(-)	Bergman Island	IFC Films	$255	-84%	2	-5	$128	$145,191	6
-	(-)	Luzzu	Kino Lorber	$186	-65%	2	n/c	$93	$32,997	6
-	(-)	Petite fille	Music Box…	$103	+129%	1	n/c	$103	$9,949	10
		39		$82,659,200

 

 

Edited November 23, 2021 by Porthos
Updated w/WB

[WrathOfHan]

Belfast is doing fairly well without going wide yet. I don't think 15M before Oscar nominations is a stretch if the Thanksgiving expansion goes well.

[CJohn]

Hopefully this Thanksgiving fucks. We need it to. Encanto and House of Gucci need to perform well, plus a strong hold for Ghostbusters.

[CJohn]

19 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Belfast is doing fairly well without going wide yet. I don't think 15M before Oscar nominations is a stretch if the Thanksgiving expansion goes well.

Your girl is coming for us this Wednesday, and she is gonna send an arrow straight into my heart.

[Legion Again]

15 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Your girl is coming for us this Wednesday, and she is gonna send an arrow straight into my heart.

The real event of the holiday, gonna get more engagement than Encanto Gucci and raccoon combined 

[tonytr87]

I hate to admit this, but after watching Afterlife and reading some of these reviews compared to the previous movie...maybe the trolls were right in 2016 about critics having an agenda. 

[MikeQ]

22 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

I hate to admit this, but after watching Afterlife and reading some of these reviews compared to the previous movie...maybe the trolls were right in 2016 about critics having an agenda. 

Please let’s not start this again. I’m tired of the 2016 vs 2021 Ghosbusters comparisons. Who cares? It’s not a particularly productive or compelling conversation to be had.

 

 So far the thread has been mostly focused on how this is a good/solid start for Ghostbusters, and the box office continuing to return to a sense of normal. Hopefully it will leg it’s way out with strong WOM and the aid of Thanksgiving to a great total, all things considered, and that our openers this week will do great too. Can we pretty please keep the conversation focused on this? Just my two cents.

 

Peace,

Mike

 

 

[Legion Again]

30 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

I hate to admit this, but after watching Afterlife and reading some of these reviews compared to the previous movie...maybe the trolls were right in 2016 about critics having an agenda. 

It is obvious that critics have agendas sometimes, but that whole conversation is so intertwined with some toxic elements that it’s hard to have a reasonable back and forth about it (and the mods don’t seem inclined to let people try).

Edited November 23, 2021 by Eternal Legion

[lorddemaxus]

32 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

I hate to admit this, but after watching Afterlife and reading some of these reviews compared to the previous movie...maybe the trolls were right in 2016 about critics having an agenda. 

Nah, the ending to this movie and what they do to Harold Ramis is worse than anything in 2016 (both are bad movies). And movie sits at a 62% on RT? Critics have been nice to it if anything.