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

[Nikostar]

4 minutes ago, crazymoviekid said:

I think my heavy African American audience didn't think of it that way as they were applauding at a lot of stuff throughout the movie, including the credits and the Wakanda Forever trailer.

Exactly

[Gokira2012]

4 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

Review-bombing WK is the dumbest thing ever cause the movie does everything right re:diversity - it doesn't appropriate European history but depicts African history, doesn't race and/or gender bend historical figures cause they are African historical figures, doesn't have token non-African Agojie, as for Dahomay slavery it doesn't gloss over it either (never trust trailers!), has an actual African actress in a co-lead role (Thuso Mbedu). Point being, if you don't like race-bending, historical appropriation, tokenism, than you have to be consistent and support movies that don't do it. But...you know. 

maybe they should have made a black american story, there's plenty

[Gokira2012]

2 minutes ago, Nikostar said:

Exactly

you may not know but generally Africans and African Americans don't like each other

[Cruel Summer]

12 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

Seems like sub-40% to me, really excellenc hold 

 

Could try 35-40M DOM 

excellent when its expanded its theatres??

 

the movie is a sure success tho compared to malignant, x and company

 

tragic numbers for pearl. will it even do 10m total??

Edited September 17, 2022 by Cruel Summer

[M37]

5 minutes ago, Legion By Night said:

This is gonna be a great week for me unless the bottom half screws me. Just need beast to collapse.

I'm expecting it to collapse, even lower than your $840K prediction. Weak w/w hold, pulled like half its theaters and showtimes, plus likely losing some potential audience overlap with WK. Easy 50% drop, I'm thinking more around 60%

[cookie]

6 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

excellent when its expanded its theatres??

But Barbarian didn't expand its theater count, it was always at 2,340.

[ringedmortality]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

 

 

I knew the day would come

[narniadis]

Usual request to not feed the trolls.... always annoying that when I block the trolls I can still see their racist crap in everyones quotes....

[Valonqar]

14 minutes ago, Gokira2012 said:

maybe they should have made a black american story, there's plenty

 

And plenty movies are made too. Upcoming ones October 14 - Till. Dec 21 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody. 

 

 

EDIT: posted right before @narniadis post.

Edited September 17, 2022 by Valonqar

[The Dark Alfred]

-	(1)	Barbarian	20th Century…	$1,963,000	+153%	-49%	2,340	$839	$16,578,433	8
-	N	Pearl	A24	$1,317,815			2,935	$449	$1,317,815	1
-	N	See How They Run	Searchlight …	$1,086,000			2,404	$452	$1,086,000	1
-	(4)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$630,000	+130%	-25%	2,604	$242	$707,504,523	113
-	(10)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$440,000	+419%	-11%	2,756	$160	$86,125,007	50
-	(7)	Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva	Fox Star India	$319,000	+117%	-83%	810	$394	$5,988,739	8
-	(12)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$260,000	+273%	-20%	1,970	$132	$363,039,540	78
-	(9)	Beast	Universal	$230,000	+136%	-52%	1,664	$138	$30,176,160	29

[cookie]

No Friday #s for Bullet Train? It was at a little over $6m away from the $100m mark as of Thursday

Edited September 17, 2022 by cookie

[Valonqar]

so what lifetime total can we expect for TGM? 

[filmlover]

The Woman King is likely going to have very good staying power between both glowing WOM (A+ CinemaScore) and the fact it doesn't have much in the way of direct competition coming up (majority of the wide releases over the next month or so are rated R). Wouldn't be shocked if it ends up having a similar run to Crawdads with everything it has going for it. Definitely a much-needed win for the box office after a dull several weeks.

 

Pearl and See How They Run are nonstarters as expected but Barbarian is looking at a rather strong hold. Headed for a nice little run for a movie that seemed to be dumped.

[Flopped]

Am I the only one who enjoyed Beast? It's a fun B-movie time. Honestly the lion CG was more effective than a lot f what I've seen from Marvel 

[Issac Newton]

The Woman King grossed an estimated $6.85M on Friday (from 3,765 locations), including Thursday previews.#TheWomanKing #BoxOffice @SonyPictures @WomanKingMovie

— BoxOfficeReport.com (@BORReport) September 17, 2022

[Doffy]

4 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

so what lifetime total can we expect for TGM? 

720m finish 

[Issac Newton]

14 minutes ago, cookie said:

No Friday #s for Bullet Train? It was at a little over $6m away from the $100m mark as of Thursday

$700K (-21% L.Fri)

[Valonqar]

4 minutes ago, Doffy said:

720m finish 

 

Absolutely incredible!

[TwoMisfits]

17 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

Looks like it will be sub-$20M for the weekend...

 

Edit to add: Deadline agrees with $18M estimate...https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-the-woman-king-viola-davis-1235120586/

 

Demo breakdown:

 

"As expected women are the majority at Woman King at 60% with 58% over 35 and 39% over 45, another promising sign for an older demographic that was reluctant to head out during the height of the pandemic. Black moviegoers turned out at 59%, with Caucasians at 19%, Latino and Hispanic at 12% and Asian/other at 10%. The Woman King saw its best business in the East and South where seven of the top ten runs came from. LA’s AMC Burbank and the Grove also ranked along with the Country Club in Chicago. PLF screens and Imax auditoriums are repping 43% of Woman King‘s weekend ticket sales at this point in time. Best markets were NY, Atlanta, DC, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philly, Miami, Baltimore, Orlando, Detroit and Tampa."

 

And total weekend...

 

:All of these wide releases spell for a weekend that’s estimated at $51M for all titles. While +16% from last weekend, it’s the fourth worst weekend YTD."

Edited September 17, 2022 by TwoMisfits

[Doffy]

4 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

$700K (-21% L.Fri)

100m locked now 105 seems right for bullet train.