Weekend Thread | April 28 - 30 | Weekend Actuals | 40.84M THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE | 12.13M EVIL DEAD RISE | 5.10M RETURN OF THE JEDI

[KeepItU25071906]

7 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Impressive late legs

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[Eric Burnett]

17 minutes ago, M37 said:

Meanwhile, Ghosted goes straight to Apple, and (IMO) could have had some box office success, maybe not to Lost City heights, but like of half that seems pretty reasonable

 

It's at 28% on Rotten Tomatoes mah boi.

[filmlover]

18 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

April had 17 wide releases. 3 more than March. It’s just that so many of the April ones were “huh, why’s that going so wide?”

 

14 minutes ago, M37 said:

Most if not all of these titles feel like original films that you'd find on a streaming service, and with that glut of similar content already available, there's just limited impetus to get people to watch in theaters

 

Meanwhile, Ghosted goes straight to Apple, and (IMO) could have had some box office success, maybe not to Lost City heights, but like of half that seems pretty reasonable

 

At some point studios and streamers are going to figure out that spectacle sells in theaters, while the ceiling for drama/comedy/biography is pretty limited, right?

Even before the pandemic, movies that the studios clearly had little faith in were dumped all the time, the COVID era just made it easy for them to justify offloading them to streaming vs. giving theaters something to fill screen space. The majority of these titles would've been right at home during traditional dump periods (January, February, late August), they just chose to let them instantly fade away in April instead.

[kayumanggi]

3 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

 

This is just a 15.5% drop. Has it opened in new territories?

[Krissykins]

10 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Excellent! Will pass Evil Dead (2013) next weekend. 

[Nate]

59 minutes ago, M37 said:

Yeah, but it might be really close. Depends largely on how well it holds (dependent on how much volume it retains) next week with GOTG3 opening 

Seeing as it should land between 95-100, this might be one of those situations where the studio is committed to pushing it over 100 to save face somewhat, assuming next week doesn’t chop it’s legs right off to the point where that isn’t a possibility anymore, which is entirely plausible.

[Pinacolada]

Great DOM and international drops for DnD, but the problem for it is it goes on PVOD on Tuesday. I know everyone here says that PVOD doesn't slash into box office THAT much, but it will still have an effect, and I think it'll give theaters and Paramount an easy reason to gut its Theater Count, especially with Guardians coming next weekend 

[KP1025]

14 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

 

 Japan is aiming to be #1 OS market, #2 pretty much locked.  $75+ million should happen even off the holiday inflated weekend. Going to make more than the rest of Asia combined. 😅 

[Issac Newton]

 

 

 

 

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Edited April 30, 2023 by kayumanggi

[M37]

16 minutes ago, Eric Foreman said:

It's at 28% on Rotten Tomatoes mah boi.

Is it really? Yikes. Ok then maybe Plane numbers instead 😂

 

But my larger point remains, in that you can drive traffic and subs to streaming with exclusive original content better suited for home viewing, rather than the first time a title makes news is when no one shows up to watch it in theaters 

[MovieMan89]

Absolutely massive start in Japan, took down Frozen 2s opening (and 2x Frozen 1). If Mario has legs like non-sequel Japanese breakouts can often have, this is going to be an extremely exciting box office run there. Knew Japan was gonna show up for such a cultural icon. 

[grim22]

33 minutes ago, Eric Foreman said:

It's at 28% on Rotten Tomatoes mah boi.

 

 

[MovieMan89]

Also, the lowest 4th weekend over 40m grosser finishing with $685 DOM is another testament to why over I2 DOM is happening. Movies that get these kind of 4th weekends don’t just fall off suddenly with their legs. 
 

Well OK, TFA did, but that’s a special exception of a box office run. 

Edited April 30, 2023 by MovieMan89

[Eric Burnett]