Weekend Thread - 16-18/09/22 | The Woman King $19M, Pearl $3.12M, See $3.10M

[CJohn]

Theaters in Portugal struggling to meet the demand for Ticket to Paradise. They were not prepared. 400 seats screens sold out with lot of time left until the shows start. It is insane. I saw it in a special preview on Tuesday. WOM is gonna be throught the roof. My girlfriend loved it. People were non-stopping laughing.

[Maggie]

52 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Theaters in Portugal struggling to meet the demand for Ticket to Paradise. They were not prepared. 400 seats screens sold out with lot of time left until the shows start. It is insane. I saw it in a special preview on Tuesday. WOM is gonna be throught the roof. My girlfriend loved it. People were non-stopping laughing.

People are STARVED for movies!!!

[LonePirate]

I just purchased a ticket to see Confess, Fletch which starts in 30 minutes or so. Mine was the sixth ticket sold. Given the low theater count, it will be lucky to hit $500K for the entire weekend if my showing is anywhere close to average.

[DAJK]

Ticket to Paradise about to become the highest grossing comedy since... Pitch Perfect 2? 22 Jump Street? Am I forgetting any from the last 10 years?

[Eric Duncan]

Just now, DAJK said:

Ticket to Paradise about to become the highest grossing comedy since... Pitch Perfect 2? 22 Jump Street? Am I forgetting any from the last 10 years?

People say Crazy Rich Asians isn’t a comedy for some reason, but I think that one totally counts

[CoolioD1]

16 minutes ago, The Eric King said:

People say Crazy Rich Asians isn’t a comedy for some reason, but I think that one totally counts

because it's not funny. it barely has jokes.

[Grebacio]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

Ticket to Paradise about to become the highest grossing comedy since... Pitch Perfect 2? 22 Jump Street? Am I forgetting any from the last 10 years?

Bad Moms is the last straight comedy to cross 100M dom that I can remember

[Grebacio]

 

2 hours ago, DAJK said:

Ticket to Paradise about to become the highest grossing comedy since... Pitch Perfect 2? 22 Jump Street? Am I forgetting any from the last 10 years?

Now that I remember, The Martian and Get Out were 2 of the last succesful comedies.

[CJohn]

43 minutes ago, Grebacio said:

 

Now that I remember, The Martian and Get Out were 2 of the last succesful comedies.

The Martian counts as a comedy as much as any MCU movie. And Get Out? Really? It is a straight up horror thriller with some humor, but not exactly a comedy...

Edited September 16, 2022 by CJohn

[Flopped]

3 hours ago, CJohn said:

Theaters in Portugal struggling to meet the demand for Ticket to Paradise. They were not prepared. 400 seats screens sold out with lot of time left until the shows start. It is insane. I saw it in a special preview on Tuesday. WOM is gonna be throught the roof. My girlfriend loved it. People were non-stopping laughing.

 

Do you know why they opened so in advance of the US?

 

On RT it has a 73 from 30 reviews. Decent but nothing that indicates the confidence to open early and screen embargo-free for critics.  Odd. 

[Gokira2012]

how will #BoycottWomanKing affect Box Office?

 

 

Edited September 17, 2022 by Gokira2012

[Flopped]

Where are the Pearl numbers? 

[LonePirate]

12 minutes ago, Flopped said:

Where are the Pearl numbers? 

 Hidden in an oyster at the bottom of the bay?

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

59 minutes ago, Flopped said:

 

Do you know why they opened so in advance of the US?

 

On RT it has a 73 from 30 reviews. Decent but nothing that indicates the confidence to open early and screen embargo-free for critics.  Odd. 

Ticket to Paradise looks like a throwback to the 1990s-2000s, the critics were not really here for studio romcoms back then. Many big, beloved 2000s hits of that type (The Proposal, 50 First Dates, Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Maid in Manhattan) are no where close to being fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The Wedding Planner is 17 percent on RT and TBS is scheduled to show it four times in the next 10 days!

 

If it was too much of a "chick flick" or not "subverting the genre" somehow or wasn't an Oscar hopeful, critics just didn't care for the conventional romcom. Now, today's critics are probably so grateful to see a new Julia Roberts comedy instead of another cinematic universe entry, that their reviews are probably a bit generous.

 

Anyway, 73 percent fresh for a mainstream romcom is pretty good, unless it has some unconventional twist, a score in that range should have good WOM.

 

 

Edited September 17, 2022 by BoxOfficeFangrl

[ringedmortality]

Ticket to Paradise is at 49 on MC. That's about in-line with The Proposal's 48. Take out the bloggers that have been added on RT and not a lot has changed.

Edited September 17, 2022 by ringedmortality

[Cmasterclay]

Woman King is doing terrific around me BUT this is an area that overindexes black films so still feeling about 15-17 to be safe.

[Nikostar]

 Just got back from sold out show of TWK. I will be shocked if it doesn't get an A+ Cinamascore.

[ringedmortality]

It's crazy that this became the center of an online culture war when like two weeks ago nobody besides industry followers knew it existed.

[grey ghost]

Anyone see The Woman King?

 

Did they depict African Kingdoms at war to avoid become slaves themselves. Basically if you weren't helping European slave traders and gaining power that way you were at risk of becoming POW's who were sold into slavery.

 

But the conversation is basically just "look at the inaccuracy, blacks were really the biggest slave traders".

 

Very little is being being discussed about the silver or led dynamic.

[crazymoviekid]

Looking at my local theaters, The Woman King is looking at a True Friday of $6.33M.  This is from using The Northman as a comp.

When added in with Thursday, TWK is looking at a Th+Fri $8.03M.  Let's see if that comes true.