mexico Mexico Box Office | $84.3M Tuesday total for Inside Out 2, #2 all-time (lc) topping Mario; here come the Minions!

[Carlangonz]

We'll see about Meg and if it tops $400M but is at least locked to surpass Little Mermaid and $380M.

 

Talk to Me is a standout this week. Great opening considering it's coming from a mid-size distributor and a small campaign compared to previous horror titles like Evil Dead Rise, Insidious 5 or Pope's Exorcist.

 

Oppy loses all IMAX and Dolby shows on Thursday to Blue Beetle. We'll see how it it handles next weekend drop.

 

 

[Purple Minion]

Movers and shakers in the yearly Top 20, latest available numbers from CANACINE:

 

06        363,000,000  The Little Mermaid (2023)

07        350,000,000  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

08        349,700,000  Elemental

09        330,600,000  The Flash

10        330,055,000  Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania

11        284,600,000  Oppenheimer

12        259,000,000  John Wick IV

13        252,300,000  Meg 2: The Trench

 

In the all time front:

 

LC

08    996,060,725    The Lion King (2019)

09    873,800,000    Barbie (2023)

10    858,082,328    Joker (2019)

 

ADMISSIONS

26    12,656,008    Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

27    12,300,000    Barbie (2023)
28    12,190,391    Maleficent (2014)

 

The Turtles sold 674.2K tickets, Talk To Me 422.2K. Other totals: Elemental 5.4M, Meg 2 and Insidious Red Door 3.8M, Oppy 3.5M.

 

The cannibalisation of theatres by under-performing new releases continues.

[Purple Minion]

Films opening this week.

 

Blue Beetle: Hard to predict. It is a "Latin" super-hero with a couple of Mexican actors in supporting roles, but that's not a box office magnet per-se. Will the story be entertaining and appeal to the general audience? I want to believe it will do better than Shazam 2 and reach at least 200M lc.

 

Last Voyage of the Demeter: Apathetic market for Vampires, these are the two best-performing, recent blood-sucking movies:

 

Movie	OW LC	OW Aud	Total LC	Total Aud
Dracula Untold	$      57,382,962	1,200,799	$    183,021,263	4,233,935
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	$      22,679,543	429,405	$      68,562,290	1,454,566

[Purple Minion]

From Gower Street. July 2023 grossed the same as pre-pandemic years.

 

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The International market (exc. China) was +7% ahead of its pre-pandemic July average ($1.855bn), delivering $1.98 billion in the month. Seven of the top 11 International markets also surpassed their July averages for the 2017-2019 years; Mexico was on par (0%).

 

Super Mario's final gross in USD is $85.4M, as reported by Universal; 2nd biggest OS market.

[Carlangonz]

On 8/16/2023 at 5:56 AM, Purple Minion said:

Blue Beetle: Hard to predict. It is a "Latin" super-hero with a couple of Mexican actors in supporting roles, but that's not a box office magnet per-se. Will the story be entertaining and appeal to the general audience? I want to believe it will do better than Shazam 2 and reach at least 200M lc.

Agree on everything. A 'latino in the US' stories are always a tough sale unless they get a boost from local stars (Overboard) but the biggest pull on this one is Damian Alcazar which isn't on the same league as Derbez when it comes to BO mojo. 

 

I'm thinking it opens on par with Shazam 2 (mid 70s) or even manages to overperform close to 90s. It'll be like previous SH titles this year and explode or quickly die by its wom.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Purple Minion]

Ah, how could I forget this Morbin' vampire SH movie, which is a good comparison for both new releases!

 

Morbius made 162.5M lc. If Blue Beetle doesn't reach that, then the DCU will need to seriously shake things up. I doubt Demeter will make a dent, based on the mute response everywhere else.

[Purple Minion]

$2.7M OW for the Beetle, even lower than the Turtles. 46M lc, doubt it'll reach Shazam 2. Ouch. Was it worth taking all those IMAX and premium from Oppy? 

[Carlangonz]

This is disastrous. I have no words.

[Purple Minion]

$53.2M total for Barbie, very close to 900M lc. Brilliant $18.0M for Oppy, ~300M lc. And wow, Meg 2 is now at $18.6M, 315M lc!

 

On the other side of the spectrum, Turtles fading fast with $5M cume.

 

Edited August 20, 2023 by Purple Minion

[Carlangonz]

Seems like losing IMAX and Dolby did had a strong effect on Oppenheimer.

 

Despite that it has now surpassed Top Gun: Maverick and is looking to finish close to/on par with Quantumania and The Flash. 

 

It'll also surpass every single Star Wars title except for The Force Awakens. Have to check but I think it's also the highest grossing title to never top #1.

 

Barbie is quite close to $900M about to join The Lion King as the second title in the range.

[Purple Minion]

Totals from CANACINE:

 

Blue Beetle 46.4M lc, not even 700K tickets.

Meg 2 309.9M lc, 4.7M tickets.

Turtles 85.4M lc

Talk To Me 62.4M lc.

Barbie 898.0M lc, 12.7M ticket.

Oppy 306.1M lc, 3.8M tickets. C

Demeter 11.9M lc, 175K tickets. Oof.

Dead Reckoning 184.1M lc

Elemental 352.7M lc.

 

[Purple Minion]

The battle for #6 of the year is full on! I think a sea creature will win...

 

05        495,400,000  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

06        363,000,000  The Little Mermaid (2023)

07        352,700,000  Elemental

08        349,700,000  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

09        330,600,000  The Flash

10        330,055,000  Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania

11        309,900,000  Meg 2: The Trench

12        306,100,000  Oppenheimer

[Carlangonz]

9 hours ago, Purple Minion said:

Totals from CANACINE:

 

Blue Beetle 46.4M lc, not even 700K tickets.

Meg 2 309.9M lc, 4.7M tickets.

Turtles 85.4M lc

Talk To Me 62.4M lc.

Barbie 898.0M lc, 12.7M ticket.

Oppy 306.1M lc, 3.8M tickets. C

Demeter 11.9M lc, 175K tickets. Oof.

Dead Reckoning 184.1M lc

Elemental 352.7M lc.

Weekend

1. Blue Beetle - $46M

2. Meg 2: The Trench - $33M

3. Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $21.1M

4. Talk to Me - $20.3M

5. Barbie - $13.8M

6. Oppenheimer - $13.4M

7. Demeter - $11,9M

8. Metallica: Live from TX - $3.8M
9. His Only Son - $3.7M
10. Sinkhole - $2.5M

Summer break is pretty much over at this point so it'll be hard for both Blue Beetle and TMNT to keep it up especally after an ugly drop by the latter. Looks like both are going to finish somewhere around $130M.

Meg 2 still going out strong aiming to a close race with Little Mermaid for No. 6 this year.

Talk to Me is this weekend's standout as it barely dropped a third of its opening and it has passed titles such as Everything Everywhere all at Once and Moonfall on its way to surpass Greenland to become its distributor's biggest post-pandemic hit and 4th largest ever. Among comps it has beat The VVith and Hereditary. 

[Issac Newton]

7 minutes ago, Carlangonz said:

10. Sinkhole - $2.5M

Isn't Sinkhole Korean Film or a different one?

[Carlangonz]

4 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

Isn't Sinkhole Korean Film or a different one?

Yes is that one. Moderate release from a relatively unkwown distributor

[Issac Newton]

2 minutes ago, Carlangonz said:

Yes is that one. Moderate release from a relatively unkwown distributor

Wow, took 2 years to reach Mexico

 

Korean Release Date - August 11, 2021. It's the 2nd Highest Grossing Korean Film of that Year!

[Carlangonz]

9 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

Wow, took 2 years to reach Mexico

Yeah distribution is messy even for titles backed by large studios.Broker had a planned release for last year but apparently distributor scrapped it and it all got messy that at the end a smaller distributor took it and released it a few weeks ago. 

On the other hand there have been releases that take just one or two months like Emergency Declaration which made good money and then went on to become a Netflix hit.

[Issac Newton]

$2.2M Gran Turismo 

[Purple Minion]

Another meh opening. Blue Beetle reached $5M.