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

[AJG]

14 hours ago, John2015 said:

 

Many Dragonball fans will not be happy to see the films in 3D.

 

 

Crunchyroll (Sony) generally spent less than $10 million P&A on a single Anime theatrical release.  (Deadline reported that "Demon Slayer" P&A was also less than $10 million.)

Crunchyroll (Sony) is keeping making profit on their 2D Anime theatrical releases; otherwise they would not keep releasing them.    And US theaters are mostly happy to show these films in slow box office periods.   

I don’t know how much they spend but I’m pretty sure Sony also buy out the theatrical distribution rights for these DBZ movies from Fox (Disney). That’s why the Fox logo pops up only when you see these films in cinemas.

Edited August 18, 2022 by AJG

[M37]

4 minutes ago, lord diaper said:

Hey people! 

 

Will Beast go over 10? 

[Issac Newton]

To Everyone -

 

Please enjoy Super Heroes, I hope you all will enjoy the fullest 

 

Current RT

[abracadabra1998]

23 hours ago, abracadabra1998 said:

 

Twin Cities Thursday Previews Report:

 

Dragon Ball (T-1):

Day: T-1	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	55	74	677	7186	9.42

 

Beast (T-1):

Day: T-1	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	33	30	108	4220	2.56

 

Three Thousand Years of Longing (T-8):

Day: T-8	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 8 theaters	17	34	61	2443	2.5

 

Comp: Didn't track Beast at T-8.

 

Wooooo my first T-0 day! Exciting stuff (kinda not really with these releases, but oh well)

 

Twin Cities Thursday Previews Report:

 

Dragon Ball (T-0):

Day: T-0	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	57	190	867	7291	11.89

 

Growth Rate:
1-Day:	28.06
3-Day:	81.76

 

Very nice last day, don't have any comps but looking at other users' numbers it will for sure cross 10 million for the weekend.

 

Beast (T-0):

Day: T-0	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	33	19	127	4220	3.01

 

Growth Rate:
1-Day:	17.59
3-Day:	149.02

 

Good numbers in the last week percentage-wise, but the starting number is so low I'm not sure it matters. We'll see how this one does.

[filmlover]

Beast is sitting at 85% with 20 reviews so far on RT. Good thing competition's going to be nonexistent for about a month so maybe it'll develop good legs.

[abracadabra1998]

On 8/17/2022 at 11:49 AM, abracadabra1998 said:

 

Twin Cities Thursday Previews Report:

 

Dragon Ball (T-1):

Day: T-1	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	55	74	677	7186	9.42

 

Beast (T-1):

Day: T-1	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 14 theaters	33	30	108	4220	2.56

 

Three Thousand Years of Longing (T-8):

Day: T-8	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 8 theaters	17	34	61	2443	2.5

 

Comp: Didn't track Beast at T-8.

 

For next week:

 

Three Thousand Years of Longing (T-7):

Day: T-8	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 8 theaters	17	-3	58	2443	2.37

 

The Invitation (T-7):

Day: T-7	Shows	New Seats	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Totals: 9 theaters	22	6	6	3218	0.19

 

Going to be gone in the weekend, will check these again on Monday.

[Krissykins]

35 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Beast is sitting at 85% with 20 reviews so far on RT. Good thing competition's going to be nonexistent for about a month so maybe it'll develop good legs.

Beast has The Invitation next weekend and Barbarian in 3 weeks time. Could eat into some of the horror/thriller audience. Although I think Invitation will be mostly teen girls. 
 

I’m still waiting for both Bullet Train and Super Pets to develop strong legs due to no competition. 

[filmlover]

Just now, Krissykins said:

Beast has The Invitation next weekend and Barbarian in 3 weeks time. Could eat into some of the horror/thriller audience. Although I think Invitation will be mostly teen girls. 
 

I’m still waiting for both Bullet Train and Super Pets to develop strong legs due to no competition. 

Beast and The Invitation should easily co-exist since one is R and the other is PG-13.

[Krissykins]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Beast and The Invitation should easily co-exist since one is R and the other is PG-13.

Yep, I said Invitation will probably skew younger. But, inevitably there will certainly still be some overlap. 

Edited August 18, 2022 by Krissykins

[misterpepp]

Ticket sale dates for some smaller titles:

Brahmastra Part 1 - 8/30

Honk for Jesus - 8/24

Moonage Daydream - 8/23

Edited August 18, 2022 by datpepper

[WrathOfHan]

 

[el sid]

Beast, counted today at 11am EST for today:

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 76 (3 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 48 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 9 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 4 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 16 (3 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 47 (4 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 63 (5 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 263.
Up modest 20.5% since yesterday.
Comps (all counted on Thursday for Thursday): Crawl had 328 sold tickets in 7 theaters,

47 Meters Down: Uncaged had 72 in 5 theaters,

Candyman had 555 sold tickets in 7 theaters

and The Forever Purge had 241 sold tickets, also in 7 theaters.

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

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 86 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 43 (8 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 8 (5 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 6 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 15 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 35 (8 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 55 (6 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 248.
Up not much better 23% since yesterday (horror films normally have way bigger jumps in their last week).
Comps (all counted on Thursday for Friday): Crawl (12M OW) had 269 sold tickets in 7 theaters,

47 Meters Down: Uncaged (8.4M OW) had 63 sold tickets in 5 theaters,

Candyman (22M OW) had 656 in 7 theaters
and Old (16.9M OW) had 500 sold tickets, also in 7 theaters.

To be honest, I expected better jumps. But it's still ca. on par with Crawl and maybe it has very good walk-ups and WOM. E.g. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged was doing way worse presales-wise (of course this movie had a successful predecessor). But the good reviews for Beast should help too. All depends on the walk-ups. I go with 10-12M OW (theoretically also 15M are possible but that's pure speculation).
 

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

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 284 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 288 (4 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 108 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 31 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 111 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 144 (4 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 491 (7 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 1.457.
 

Up 14% since yesterday.
Comp: TSS (4.1M from previews) had for Thursday for Thursday 1.929 sold tickets. So this comp indeed points to 3M from previews but I doubt that DBS: SH will have the same walk-ups. Maybe 2.5M?

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

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 301 (12 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 261 (7 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 91 (5 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 19 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 21 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 115 (8 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 306 (8 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 1.114 .
Up 17.5% since yesterday which is pretty good for that genre. E.g. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 jumped only 10.5% on its last day.
Comps (all counted on Thursday for Friday): Jujutsu Kaisen 0 had 1.571 sold tickets in 7 theaters = 71% at the moment but DBS: SH had the better jump which would bring it to a bit over 75% of Jujutsu tomorrow = 11.25M (which seems a bit too low).

MHA had 565 sold tickets = x1.97 = 12.4M.

Belle had 83 sold tickets = x13.4 = 20.9M

and TSS had 1.560 sold tickets.

 

I don't want to exaggerate again and be too optimistic like I was when it came to MHA so I say low to mid teens judging from my comps.

Edited August 18, 2022 by el sid

[Gokira2012]

3 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

To Everyone -

 

Please enjoy Super Heroes, I hope you all will enjoy the fullest 

 

Current RT

It's pretty sad that Dragonball with 100% name ID is only doing 10-15 million, Dragonball has been around in the U.S. long before my boy Dris has been acting, Dragonball should be a 40 million OW, so it's nothing to celebrate

[DAJK]

39 minutes ago, Gokira2012 said:

It's pretty sad that Dragonball with 100% name ID is only doing 10-15 million, Dragonball has been around in the U.S. long before my boy Dris has been acting, Dragonball should be a 40 million OW, so it's nothing to celebrate

Lol what? Why on Earth would a Dragonball movie open to 40M lmao

[Ronin46]

From Box Office Report:

 

United Artists Releasing will release MGM's Three Thousand Years Of Longing in an estimated 2,500 locations on August 26.

[katnisscinnaplex]

10 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Beast	T-0	Jax	6	26	10	46	3,213	1.43%
		Phx	7	21	21	93	2,819	3.30%
		Ral	8	21	34	92	2,417	3.81%
	Total		21	68	65	231	8,449	2.73%
Dragon Ball	T-0	Jax	6	31	107	563	5,957	9.45%
		Phx	7	24	164	765	4,704	16.26%
		Ral	8	32	114	509	3,860	13.19%
	Total		21	87	385	1,837	14,521	12.65%

 

Beast T-0 comps

 - Dune - .104x (533k)

 - Snake Eyes - .558x (781k)

 - Jungle Cruise - .339x (915k)

 - Bullet Train - .221x (741k)

 - Candyman - .447x (849k)

 - Old - .704x (1.06m)

 - Nope - .116x (745k)

 

Didn't have the day it needed to get to 1m in my opinion.  Sticking with 800k until final check.

 

 

Dragon Ball T-0 comp

 - JJK:0 - 1.05x (3.028m)

 -MHA (Fri) - 1.13x (3.26m)

 

Huge day for Dragon Ball.  Looking like 3m should hit and possibly higher.  To put into another perspective, it has now sold more tickets than Halloween Kills, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Sonic 2 and Lightyear.  Next up to pass are Nope and Dune.

Movie	Day	Area	TC	Shows	New	Sold	Seats	% Sold
Beast	1-Hr	Jax	6	26	60	106	3,213	3.30%
		Phx	7	21	35	128	2,819	4.54%
		Ral	8	21	68	160	2,417	6.62%
	Total		21	68	163	394	8,449	4.66%
Dragon Ball	1-Hr	Jax	6	31	121	684	5,957	11.48%
		Phx	7	24	157	922	4,704	19.60%
		Ral	8	32	130	639	3,860	16.55%
	Total		21	87	408	2,245	14,521	15.46%

 

Beast T-1 hr comps

 - Dune - .143x (731k)

 - Snake Eyes - .574x (803k)

 - Jungle Cruise - .358x (965k)

 - Bullet Train - .265x (888k)

 - Candyman - .424x (805k)

 - Old - .597x (895k)

 - Nope - .136x (868k)

All thriller movies - 989k

All R movies - 832k

All 5pm previews movies - 883k

All movies - 814k

 

Solid walkups tonight.  I'll put my final prediction at 900k

 

Dragon Ball T-1 hr comp

 - JJK:0 - 1.12x (3.23m)

 -MHA (Fri) - missed

All PG-13 movies - 4.52m

All 5pm previews movies - 5.03m

All movies - 4.64m

 

I would almost call >3m a lock, but I don't have enough anime comps to pull the trigger.  I'll go with 3.3m for previews.

[Eric is Quiet]

17 hours ago, Eric the Lion said:

Beast Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	48	201	7722	2.60%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 57

 

Comp

0.642x of Jungle Cruise T-1 (1.73M)

0.334x of Candyman T-1 (635K)

0.115x of Nope T-1 (738K)

Beast Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	48	416	7722	5.39%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 215

 

Comp

0.528x of Jungle Cruise (1.42M)

0.294x of Candyman (559K)

0.132x of Nope (843K)

 

Jungle Cruise isn't a good enough genre comp, and I honestly feel Candyman overperformed in Philly big time, even for the usual fare that overindexes here. So...yeah, the Nope comp makes a good amount of sense. Still kinda feel the movie could have and should have done better than this, but whatever.

[Eric is Quiet]

17 hours ago, Eric the Lion said:

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	58	1315	9963	13.20%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 221

 

Comp

0.958x of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 T-1 (2.76M)

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	58	1847	9963	18.54%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 532

 

Comp

1.128x of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (3.25M)

 

Boy oh boy do people love those dragon ballz

[scabab]

So this $3 million preview figure being mentioned for Dragon Ball....this is for Thursday effectively? But it will officially be included in with Friday's opening day?

[Ronin46]

JJK did 2.88 previews, 18 OW and 33.9M domestic total.

 

If DB is looking at 3-3.5M in previews are we expecting 15M+ in OW. Seems very likely.

 

3.3/16/30 totals?