April 14th-16th 2023 Weekend Thread | $900K previews for Renfield

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5 hours ago, JayPrimetown said:

Is it any surprise that the two films that released earliet did "better" than the films that released later when the marketplace became more crowded?

Shaazam doesn't have that excuse...and why did wick fall in week 2 when d and underperformed?

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Not even a 100 million 2nd weekend?

FlOP

[stripe]

Crazy things to remember:

-Just two months ago some were thinking that 2023 could be the first year since 2014 with no movie over 400M DOM (not counting 2020 for obvious reasons).

-Looking at release schedule, no one thought that 2023 would have a juggernaut DOM run like Maverick or Avatwo.

-In Christmas many claimed that animation was theatrically dead.

-April 2023 schedule was considered to be weak.

 

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

6 minutes ago, screambaby said:

Shaazam doesn't have that excuse...and why did wick fall in week 2 when d and underperformed?

No one wanted to see the Shazam sequel. And, Wick, being the 4th film in the franchise, was obviously frontloaded. It's still going to finish with more DOM than Wick 3 though. Ceiling for that franchise might be number of admissions of Chapter 3/Chapter 4. Scream is riding good word of mouth and Ortega being huge after Wednesday to having better admissions than the previous Scream. Dipped pretty hard this weekend with a few other horror openers though.

[titanic2187]

1 hour ago, KP1025 said:

So despite the amazing OS weekend, it looks like DOM still managed to edge it out slightly depending on actuals. OS gross should overtake DOM when South Korea and Japan open.

Actually this is an issue with Hollywood movies post-Covid. The domestic portion is getting bigger and bigger. Remember back then people complained TFA was very very domestic heavy at 45%? Today it is very common to see a major film that have domestic gross >40%. Even those fall behind 40%, they are very close to 40%.   

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, stripe said:

Crazy things to remember:

-Just two months ago some were thinking that 2023 could be the first year since 2014 with no movie over 400M DOM (not counting 2020 for obvious reasons).

-Looking at release schedule, no one thought that 2023 would have a juggernaut DOM run like Maverick or Avatwo.

-In Christmas many claimed that animation was theatrically dead.

-April 2023 schedule was considered to be weak.

 

 

People claimed this even after Rise of Gru did nearly 1B WW over the summer? Why?

[thajdikt]

1 minute ago, titanic2187 said:

Actually this is an issue with Hollywood movies post-Covid. The domestic portion is getting bigger and bigger. Remember back then people complained TFA was very very domestic heavy at 45%? Today it is very common to see a major film that have domestic gross >40%. Even those fall behind 40%, they are very close to 40%.   

Isn´t China kinda moving on from Hollywood a big reason for that?

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10 minutes ago, stripe said:

Crazy things to remember:

-Just two months ago some were thinking that 2023 could be the first year since 2014 with no movie over 400M DOM (not counting 2020 for obvious reasons).

-Looking at release schedule, no one thought that 2023 would have a juggernaut DOM run like Maverick or Avatwo.

-In Christmas many claimed that animation was theatrically dead.

-April 2023 schedule was considered to be weak.

 

 

Yeah other them covid re  emerging or world War 3 I doubt we will ever see another year l with a sub 400 domestic

[kayumanggi]

wtf this movie 🤣🤣🤣

[TwoMisfits]

Sometimes it feels good to be both so right "directionally", and so close overall, and yet still surprised by how you still didn't go QUITE far enough in how amazingly high a weekend could go.

 

 

[kayumanggi]

May the holdovers have better Sundays as well. 🙄

[TwoMisfits]

As for the Sunday hold, I'm reminded of Coco.  The Hispanic audience would really turn out on Sundays...and this movie, while all 4 quadrants, does still have a slight skew to the Hispanic audience...

[kayumanggi]

MARIO is just 2% away from a fresh on RT. 🤣🤣🤣

[titanic2187]

6 hours ago, JayPrimetown said:

Is it any surprise that the two films that released earliet did "better" than the films that released later when the marketplace became more crowded?

Actually March is a disappointing month IMO, as a month where consensus have it as a crowded month. March generated $640m at the BO. That is only 70% of what typical March gave us in pre-pandemic time. That isn't really a crowded marketplace. The problem lies with the underutilised standard screen hall. The recovery still isn't ideal.

 

April is a different picture than. Thanks to Mario, April is on track for $800m. That is exactly how a "back-to-normal" should look like although overall BO still very top heavy.  

[MightyDargon]

So, about that whole "can't outgross Lion King '19" thing...

[Jiffy]

18 minutes ago, thajdikt said:

Isn´t China kinda moving on from Hollywood a big reason for that?

Yes China was gassing up the OS percentage on a lot of these blockbusters.

[Warmaster506]

Mario stomping that ass. 

[TwoMisfits]

27 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

People claimed this even after Rise of Gru did nearly 1B WW over the summer? Why?

 

I know why - the belief was families were the last to come back...and that was, and still is, probably true.  Gru turned out a huge non-traditional teen/young adult audience for animated.  

 

Puss 2 finally showed families would trickle in...and Mario showed they'd flood in with a holiday and a great family concept...

 

And part of the reason people thought animated was dead was b/c Disney and Pixar underperformed so hard all 2021/2022...and no one, save Universal, was really profiting on anything...that's actually still true, although Universal now has 2 big animated brands doing well, which is what Disney used to have...

Edited April 17, 2023 by TwoMisfits

[TwoMisfits]

5 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Actually March is a disappointing month IMO, as a month where consensus have it as a crowded month. March generated $640m at the BO. That is only 70% of what typical March gave us in pre-pandemic time. That isn't really a crowded marketplace. The problem lies with the underutilised standard screen hall. The recovery still isn't ideal.

 

April is a different picture than. Thanks to Mario, April is on track for $800m. That is exactly how a "back-to-normal" should look like although overall BO still very top heavy.  

Animateds do very well in the non-PLF halls...and there weren't any to book.  That did hurt March...

[Austin]

3 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

 

I know why - the belief was families were the last to come back...and that was, and still is, probably true.  Gru turned out a huge non-traditional teen/young adult audience for animated.  

 

Puss 2 finally showed families would trickle in...and Mario showed they'd flood in with a holiday and a great family concept...

 

And part of the reason people thought animated was dead was b/c Disney and Pixar's underperformed so hard all 2021/2022...and no one, save Universal, was really profiting on anything...that's actually still true, although Universal now has 2 big animated brands doing well, which is what Disney used to have...

Make that 3 with the new Shrek 5 announcement coming after Puss in Boots 2.