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

[keysersoze123]

Cocaine Bear

MTC1 Thursday - 22651/165266 329650.73 1329 shows

MTC1 Friday - 8808/80384 112580.80 717 shows

 

Weird release for sure. its not going to have good internal multi with this kind of release. @katnisscinnaplex will you be tracking show count for this week's release. 

 

Edit: Ignore friday data. that was looking wrong info. That was Jesus friday instead of CB :-)

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by keysersoze123

[misterpepp]

Tickets for A Thousand and One went on sale today, coincides with Focus’ trailer launch. Won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, where I saw it. Very much deserved, highly recommend checking it out when it opens.

 

Additionally, Sony’s comedy The Machine has a live event scheduled for the Thursday night before release (May 25). Tickets for that are also now on sale.

[el sid]

I'm still a bit ill but it's better so first of all some numbers from last week:

Creed III had last Friday (after ca. 24h) 185 and 157 sold tickets for Thursday respectively Friday.
Comps (not the best comps genre-wise but all also counted after 24 hours): Black Phone had 95 and 34 sold tickets,

M3gan had 56 and 43 sold tickets

and Beast had 53 and 27 sold tickets.

Scream VI had last Friday (with 20 and 21 days to go) very good 619 sold tickets for Thursday and very ok 261 sold tickets for Friday.
Comp: Scream had with 14 and 15 days to go 502 and 205 sold tickets.

[el sid]

Cocaine Bear, counted today for today:
 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7):  117 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 42 (3 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): closed due to winter storms
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 9 (2 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 75 (3 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 232 (7 showtimes) 
LA (AMC Universal): 308 (8 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 6 theaters: 783. 
 

Comps: Violent Night (1.1M from previews) had 270 sold tickets in 7 theaters
and Zombieland 2 (2.85M) had 927 sold tickets.

Surprisingly good, as its reviews.
So indeed, also judging from my comps, 2.5M could happen.
 

Cocaine Bear, counted today for Friday:

 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 122 (7 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 15 (8 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 20 (3 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 11 (5 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 49 (6 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 152 (6 showtimes) 
LA (AMC Universal): 215 (9 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 584. 
 

Comps: Violent Night (13.5M OW) had 309 sold tickets,
Ambulance (8.7M) had 391 sold tickets
Free Guy (28.4M) had 624 sold tickets
and Zombieland 2 (26.8M) had 905 sold tickets.
 

So CB seems to be a bit more frontloaded than some of the comps but still, 15M+ OW would be my guess. Also due to the better than expected reviews.

[ChipDerby]

What would help Shazam out is if they would've included the spoiler in more of the film, that way they could've marketed the spoiler.

[cooldude97]

48 minutes ago, ChipDerby said:

What would help Shazam out is if they would've included the spoiler in more of the film, that way they could've marketed the spoiler.

Considering spoilers last movie appearance I highly doubt it would help

[filmlover]

 

Edited February 23, 2023 by filmlover

[DAJK]

Operation Fortune is opening under 3M. Shame, really.

[Eric is Quiet]

18 hours ago, Eric Bear said:

Cocaine Bear Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	50	349	6313	5.53%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 83

 

Comp - T-1

2.407x of Ambulance (1.68M)

1.269x of Unbearable Weight (1.06M)

0.474x of The Black Phone (1.42M)

0.200x of Nope (1.28M)

0.308x of Bullet Train (1.42M)

1.736x of Beast (1.61M)

0.615x of Smile (1.23M)

1.363x of Violent Night (1.5M)

0.715x of M3GAN (1.97M)

0.849x of Knock at the Cabin (1.23M)

Cocaine Bear Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count

	Sellouts	Showings	Seats Sold	Total Seats	Perct Sold
TOTALS	0	50	653	6313	10.34%

 

Total Seats Sold Today: 304

 

Comp

2.148x of Ambulance (1.5M)

1.570x of Unbearable Weight (1.31M)

0.491x of The Black Phone (1.47M)

0.207x of Nope (1.32M)

0.373x of Bullet Train (1.71M)

1.570x of Beast (1.45M)

0.725x of Smile (1.45M)

1.600x of Violent Night (1.76M)

0.586x of M3GAN (1.61M)

0.911x of Knock at the Cabin (1.32M)

 

So ~1.5M? Yeah, ~1.5M

[Krissykins]

So Cocaine Bear might perform like Snakes on a Plane then, unadjusted of course. 
 

Snakes did $15.2m opening weekend. 

[TheFlatLannister]

On 2/22/2023 at 6:01 PM, TheFlatLannister said:

 

AMC FRIDAY NIGHT SHOWINGS - GREATER ORLANDO REGION 

 

SHAZAM!

 

T-22

 

SHOWINGS	TOTAL SEATS SOLD	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD
14	72	2489	2.9%

 

SEATS SOLD TODAY	NEW SHOWINGS ADDED
8	1

 

A nice jump in seats sold overnight and this morning/afternoon. Looks like a new showing was added yesterday evening which helped. I'm expecting it to plateau again during tomorrows check 

AMC FRIDAY NIGHT SHOWINGS - GREATER ORLANDO REGION 

 

SHAZAM!

 

T-21

 

SHOWINGS	TOTAL SEATS SOLD	TOTAL SEATS	PERCENT SOLD
14	75	2489	3.0%

 

SEATS SOLD TODAY	NEW SHOWINGS ADDED
3	0

 

Another meh day. Even Disney Springs AMC is a bit dead (CBM's usually perform crazy there for obvious reasons) 

[keysersoze123]

I think previews for Cocaine Bear have to be higher than 1.5m. its possible that its underperforming in Phily. 

 

At MTC1 its at 33860/169215 482500.78 1366 shows and its just 445PM PST. I think it can do 40-45K. Should do 2m+ I think. 

[vafrow]

Does anyone know why Canada (or at least Cineplex) hasn't been selling advance tickets for Shazam? 

 

In general, I've been finding less advance sale situations. Creed isn't up for example, even though it's a week out.

 

I have a smaller Cineplex near me (8 screens) and they used to always have the Thursday previews. They release showtimes on Tuesday evening, so, I could usually see what's going to play the week after based on previews (and what's being dropped, which I've used to motivate myself to see things before they dropped off)

 

That's stopped outside of Antman recently. Even tonight, there's no Cocaine Bear playing, but it's on tomorrow night.

 

I'm not sure if they're buying more time before committing the screens.

[Firepower]

Shazam had the same test-screening scores as Black Adam. And if recent rumors are true, the movie is not good and WB decided to not spend money on reshoots they wrote and scheduled, and spend those money elsewhere instead. WB just wrote it off.

Edited February 24, 2023 by Firepower

[Dragoncaine]

36 minutes ago, Firepower said:

Shazam had the same test-screening scores as Black Adam. And if recent rumors are true, the movie is not good and WB decided to not spend money on reshoots they wrote and scheduled, and spend those money elsewhere instead. WB just wrote it off.

Black Adam was awful. I sincerely hope that the sequel to Shazam is nowhere near that bad -- the original is in my top 4 DCEU movies.

[Verrows]

1 hour ago, vafrow said:

Does anyone know why Canada (or at least Cineplex) hasn't been selling advance tickets for Shazam? 

 

In general, I've been finding less advance sale situations. Creed isn't up for example, even though it's a week out.

 

I have a smaller Cineplex near me (8 screens) and they used to always have the Thursday previews. They release showtimes on Tuesday evening, so, I could usually see what's going to play the week after based on previews (and what's being dropped, which I've used to motivate myself to see things before they dropped off)

 

That's stopped outside of Antman recently. Even tonight, there's no Cocaine Bear playing, but it's on tomorrow night.

 

I'm not sure if they're buying more time before committing the screens.

Cineplex is always like this. It took forever to finally see Scream VI tickets on sale.

[filmlover]

5 hours ago, DAJK said:

Operation Fortune is opening under 3M. Shame, really.

Wouldn't be surprised if it struggles to make that in total tbh. It's being super-dumped.

[DAJK]

Yup, just looking at a handful of theatres in my region, I'd be shocked if Cocaine Bear didn't reach 2M previews tonight. So far my lowest comp points to 1.9M. Next is 2.2, 2.4, and then 5.5 (which is an outlier that I'm not even going to bother factoring in). 

[ViewerAnon]

1 hour ago, Firepower said:

Shazam had the same test-screening scores as Black Adam. And if recent rumors are true, the movie is not good and WB decided to not spend money on reshoots they wrote and scheduled, and spend those money elsewhere instead. WB just wrote it off.

 

SHAZAM 2 absolutely completed reshoots.

[GOGODanca]

WB has to shift the marketing budget to reshoot budget