Carlangonz Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 15, 2023 Author Share Posted August 15, 2023 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 17, 2023 Author Share Posted August 17, 2023 From Gower Street. July 2023 grossed the same as pre-pandemic years. Quote 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. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Newton Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 18, 2023 Author Share Posted August 18, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 20, 2023 Author Share Posted August 20, 2023 $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? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 This is disastrous. I have no words. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 20, 2023 Author Share Posted August 20, 2023 (edited) $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 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 22, 2023 Author Share Posted August 22, 2023 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 22, 2023 Author Share Posted August 22, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Newton Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 7 minutes ago, Carlangonz said: 10. Sinkhole - $2.5M Isn't Sinkhole Korean Film or a different one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Newton Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlangonz Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Newton Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 $2.2M Gran Turismo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Minion Posted August 27, 2023 Author Share Posted August 27, 2023 Another meh opening. Blue Beetle reached $5M. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...