The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread (December 2021 - July 2023)

[Issac Newton]

Rare to see a Foreign Language Film, especially Japanese, Topping North American Box Office — God just let it happen. 

[romeross]

It looks like "The Beast" will not earn 10 million OW (((

[Eric is Quiet]

Beast Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	43	108	6362	1.70%

 

Comp

0.458x of Candyman T-3 (869K)

0.114x of Nope T-3 (731K)

[Eric is Quiet]

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	57	967	10201	9.48%

 

Comp

0.880x of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 T-3 (2.53M)

[WrathOfHan]

12 hours ago, filmlover said:

Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like an easy candidate for a sub-$15M total tbh.

Non-Dolby shows are a wasteland here. Miller fans and only Miller fans will see it. Probably another Last Night in Soho.

Edited August 16, 2022 by WrathOfHan

[M37]

One general observation regarding Thursday tracking for the next month (if not longer) with box office totals declinging quickly and schools starting up, stating to see a fair number of even higher grossing locations moving to curtailed/reduced hours on the weekdays, dropping the last (10pm) set of shows, including for previews.
That should have the effect of diminishing Thursday numbers and increasing IMs for the weekend

[filmlover]

Tickets for The Invitation now on sale (for those planning to track it).

[SchumacherFTW]

2 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Rare to see a Foreign Language Film, especially Japanese, Topping North American Box Office — God just let it happen. 

Last one before Demon Slayer was Broly leading Opening Day I think. 

[John2015]

33 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Non-Dolby shows are a wasteland here. Miller fans and only Miller fans will see it. Probably another Last Night in Soho.

I suspect "Three Thousand Years of Longing" will open in less than 1000 theaters; MGM is only airing the TV spot in very few select cities so far.

[John2015]

2 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Rare to see a Foreign Language Film, especially Japanese, Topping North American Box Office — God just let it happen. 

Most theaters will only show the English-dubbed version; general audience will treat this film as an English film.

 

 

 

Edited August 16, 2022 by John2015

[katnisscinnaplex]

11 minutes ago, John2015 said:

I suspect "Three Thousand Years of Longing" will open in less than 1000 theaters; MGM is only airing the TV spot in very few select cities so far.

 

I'm not sure how wide it'll go, but I'm seeing 1,460 already scheduled for next weekend

[misterpepp]

Hearing new NWH More Fun Stuff ticket date is 8/23.

[abracadabra1998]

23 hours ago, abracadabra1998 said:

 

Twin Cities Thursday Previews Report:

 

Dragon Ball (T-3):

Day: T-3	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	45	54	477	6387	7.47

 

Beast (T-3):

Day: T-3	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 12 theaters	27	8	51	3620	1.41

 

Also just started tracking Three Thousand Years of Longing, probably will flop but I owe this to George Miller after the Mad Max movies. T-10 days:

Day: T-10	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 3 theaters	7	36	36	1002	3.59

 

My only comp is Beast, not a good one at all, but they both have Idris Elba I guess: 2.4x Beast (with way less theaters and screens, worth mentioning)

 

Twin Cities Thursday Previews Report:

 

Dragon Ball (T-2):

Day: T-2	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	48	126	603	7242	8.33

 

Beast (T-2):

Day: T-2	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 12 theaters	27	27	78	4035	1.93

 

Three Thousand Years of Longing (T-9):

Day: T-10	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 4 theaters	9	2	27	1822	1.48

 

The drop in tickets for Three Thousand Years isn't real, I just messed up the count yesterday because I'm stupid.

Beast Comp: 1.8x

[el sid]

I remember I promised to change to charts but did not do it yet. Soon.

Beast, counted today at 11am EST for Thursday, August 18:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 48 (3 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 40 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 5 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 2 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 11 (3 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 38 (4 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 32 (3 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 176 (yesterday it were 147).
Comps (both counted on the same day = Tuesday for Thursday): Crawl had 146 sold tickets in 6 theaters

and 47 Meters Down Uncaged had 38 in 4 theaters.

Beast, counted today at 11am EST for Friday, August 19:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 46 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 30 (8 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 7 (5 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 0 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 9 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 20 (8 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 30 (4 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 142 (yesterday it were 111).
Comps (all three counted on the same day = Tuesday for Friday): Crawl had 121 sold tickets in 6 theaters,

47 Meters Down: Uncaged had 18 sold tickets in 4 theaters

and Candyman had 276 in 7 theaters.
Old had on Monday for Friday 150 sold tickets and on Wednesday for Friday 262.

Overall its presales did not explode over the weekend but the numbers are solid. It's pretty much on par (in the same 6 theaters) with Crawl.
 

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, counted today at 11am EST for Thursday, August 18:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 231 (3 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 218 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 77 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 24 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 79 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 107 (4 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 423 (5 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 1.159 (yesterday it were 1.047).
Sorry, I have no good comps for that day. But it's a nice number for sure.

DBS: SH, counted today at 11am EST for Friday, August 19:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 209 (12 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 197 (7 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 73 (5 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 13 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 19 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 93 (8 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 236 (8 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 840 (yesterday it were 734).
Comps : Jujutsu Kaisen 0 had on the same day, Tuesday of its release week, 1.214 sold tickets in 7 theaters

and MHA's final number = on Thursday for Friday, was 565 sold tickets (it makes more sense to use the final number here because MHA had showtimes in only 4 of the 7 theaters on the Tuesday back then).
So 10M+ at the moment judging from my theaters.

[Gokira2012]

Is Idris Elba really gonna lose to a poorly animated 3d Dragonball movie that bombed in Japan (They really hate Non American 3d Animated movies) that doesn't even have Goku in the movie, It's a sad day for my boy Dris

[Issac Newton]

4 hours ago, Gokira2012 said:

Is Idris Elba really gonna lose to a poorly animated 3d Dragonball movie that bombed in Japan (They really hate Non American 3d Animated movies) that doesn't even have Goku in the movie, It's a sad day for my boy Dris

Any film that cross ¥1.0B is commerical success in Japan

 

Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes stand at ¥2.48B. 

 

Now, it's up to you if you still consider it as bombed.

[Issac Newton]

9 hours ago, John2015 said:

Most theaters will only show the English-dubbed version; general audience will treat this film as an English film.

I still find it annoying when people consider Pokemon The First Movie as American production. ----___----

 

Because it is distributed by Warner Bros...

 

9 hours ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Last one before Demon Slayer was Broly leading Opening Day I think. 

Broly‘s first day also beats the Friday openings of such January animated releases as The Nut Job ($4.8M), and live action family pics like A Dog’s Purpose ($5.2M) and Paddington ($4.6M). Bravo Broly.

 

Weekend was interesting to watch for Broly (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)

[John2015]

"The invitation" got PG-13 rating (based on the new TV spot)

 

The film is going to be a good box office hit.  PG-13 horror film is a very easy sell.

[Eric is Quiet]

14 hours ago, Eric the Lion said:

Beast Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	43	108	6362	1.70%

 

Comp

0.458x of Candyman T-3 (869K)

0.114x of Nope T-3 (731K)

Beast Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	48	144	7722	1.86%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 36

 

Comp

0.605x of Jungle Cruise T-2 (1.63M)

0.375x of Candyman T-2 (712K)

0.115x of Nope T-2 (734K)

[ringedmortality]

3 hours ago, John2015 said:

"The invitation" got PG-13 rating (based on the new TV spot)

 

The film is going to be a good box office hit.  PG-13 horror film is a very easy sell.

weird. Thought it looked super gory and bloody