Weekend Thread (1/21-23) | Asgard 2 says 3.5 Fri for Scream, 3.4 Spider-Man

[Olive]

		Movie	Distr	Gross	%LW	Thr	Thr Chng	Per Thr	Total Gross	W
1	(2)	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Sony Pict…	$14,125,000	-30%	3,705	-220	$3,812	$721,010,988	6
2	(1)	Scream	Paramount…	$12,400,000	-59%	3,666	+2	$3,382	$51,347,929	2
3	(3)	Sing 2	Universal	$5,710,000	-28%	3,434	-147	$1,663	$128,411,630	5
-	(5)	The King’s Man	20th Cent…	$1,779,000	-20%	2,360	-150	$754	$31,510,014	5
-	(4)	The 355	Universal	$1,600,000	-30%	2,609	-536	$613	$11,081,010	3
-	N	The King’s Daughter	Gravitas …	$750,000		2,170		$346	$750,000	1
-	(8)	West Side Story	20th Cent…	$698,000	-25%	1,290	-170	$541	$35,051,495	7
-	(9)	Licorice Pizza	United Ar…	$683,357	-22%	772	n/c	$885	$10,786,005	9
-	(7)	Belle	GKIDS	$550,290	-65%	1,180	-158	$466	$2,744,021	2
-	(11)	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Sony Pict…	$437,188	-43%	1,061	-141	$412	$126,889,727	10
-	(15)	Nightmare Alley	Searchlig…	$236,000	-9%	400	-150	$590	$9,701,281	6
-	(14)	Encanto	Walt Disney	$232,000	-25%	450	-210	$516	$93,401,292	9

[filmlover]

Sing 2 has a good shot at making its way to #6 of 2021 with literally zero competition for the next 2+ months and Croods 2-esque legs. Given the limited ceiling for animation during the pandemic era, I imagine Universal will be more than happy enough with its total to make a third movie.

[EmpireCity]

Seeing the nice legs on The King's Man gets me even more pissed that Disney didn't pull their head out of their ass with it.  Should have been released on Jan. 21st or 28th and it would be doing a lot better.  Same thing goes for American Underdog, especially with how Redeeming Love showed the juice of faith based audience in mid-late January.  

 

The biggest mistake of the re-opening is that all the studios shoved 10 films into a 3 week window and then left only 2 wide releases for January.  If Journal for Jordan is a MLK release, put The King's Man on the 28th, do Nightmare Alley limited and then expand through January, have American Underdog go on Jan. 21st and all of those films would have done way more and made it better for theaters as well.  

 

 

[Joyous Legion]

Everybody wanted that holiday money but in the end only 2 films got it.

[EmpireCity]

Same thing for the Spring is coming up as well.  You have 5 wide releases in March, then ELEVEN shoved into April and 5 in May.  

 

Something should have moved up into Turning Red's spot on March 10th and hit the spring break audience.  Something should move into mid-May and the first week of June is wide open.  

[Krissykins]

Only down ~40% from last weekend despite no new markets. Fantastic. 

[cookie]

 

[john2000]

so 775-780 final for now ?

[Borobudur]

Are they pushing hard to allow GB:A to pass 2016 version? The movie has been holding well in the past few weeks. 

[XXR & Friends]

4 minutes ago, john2000 said:

so 775-780 final for now ?

 

$780,415,708 for 3x OW is the only number that matters now.

 

[john2000]

3 minutes ago, RiddlerXXR said:

 

$780,414,708 for 3x OW is the only number that matters now.

 

imagine if that happened.....muahahahhaha

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by john2000

[babz06]

51 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Seeing the nice legs on The King's Man gets me even more pissed that Disney didn't pull their head out of their ass with it.  Should have been released on Jan. 21st or 28th and it would be doing a lot better.  Same thing goes for American Underdog, especially with how Redeeming Love showed the juice of faith based audience in mid-late January.  

 

The biggest mistake of the re-opening is that all the studios shoved 10 films into a 3 week window and then left only 2 wide releases for January.  If Journal for Jordan is a MLK release, put The King's Man on the 28th, do Nightmare Alley limited and then expand through January, have American Underdog go on Jan. 21st and all of those films would have done way more and made it better for theaters as well.  

 

 

So true. More money for the February movies i guess. 

[babz06]

44 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Same thing for the Spring is coming up as well.  You have 5 wide releases in March, then ELEVEN shoved into April and 5 in May.  

 

Something should have moved up into Turning Red's spot on March 10th and hit the spring break audience.  Something should move into mid-May and the first week of June is wide open.  

This schedule is so stupid right now. No way all of those films do well in April.

[Andy]

54 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Only down ~40% from last weekend despite no new markets. Fantastic. 

How much do you expect it to gross overseas? 

[Tokugennumataka]

Curious to see if Scream reclaims #1 on Monday. Probably NWH might edge out by 50k or so. 

[Valonqar]

Spidey 1B OS next week before weekend or during the weekend? Either way, with dom looking at 770-780M, it's going to pass 1.8B WW. Without China. 

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

Seeing the nice legs on The King's Man gets me even more pissed that Disney didn't pull their head out of their ass with it.  Should have been released on Jan. 21st or 28th and it would be doing a lot better.  Same thing goes for American Underdog, especially with how Redeeming Love showed the juice of faith based audience in mid-late January.  

 

The biggest mistake of the re-opening is that all the studios shoved 10 films into a 3 week window and then left only 2 wide releases for January.  If Journal for Jordan is a MLK release, put The King's Man on the 28th, do Nightmare Alley limited and then expand through January, have American Underdog go on Jan. 21st and all of those films would have done way more and made it better for theaters as well.  

 

 

King's Man has actually done better than I thought it would since it always looked like a bomb in waiting going back to when they started promoting it in Summer 2019 for an early 2020 release that ended up being the first of many release dates it would miss. Hard to tell if its performance looks less pitiful than it would be otherwise since Matrix 4 has put it to shame in the "how the mighty have fallen" department. Journal for Jordan was clearly always destined to be a dumped flop though and would've struggled in any circumstance.

[cookie]

 

Could be a close race between these three for domestic finals.

[Valonqar]

The only underdog here is The King's Men so I'm rooting for it. 

Edited January 23, 2022 by Valonqar

[Joyous Legion]

Yep, M4 going for mid 37s probably, WSS I would peg at mid 37, KM has the most variability still. I think it will go past 38 and win.