National Cinema Day Draw 8.5m admission | GT $17.4m | Barbie $15.1m | BB: $12.2m | Oppy: $8.2m | TMNT: $6.1m | Meg2: $4.8m

[reddevil19]

Just now, Issac Newton said:

 

 

Well, it will at least go over 100, so...yay?

[Mojoguy]

15 minutes ago, TigerPaw said:

Because it is animated and not live action. Tried to organise for my friends to watch - non were interested cause it is animated..

Yeah, once something goes live action it is very hard for people to be interested again if it goes animated.

 

A Barbie 2 animated movie voiced by Margot Robbie would flop.

[Spidey Freak]

37 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

For those of you who were following back then. Why did Inception not hit 300M?

 

Many films would end up in the 290s including New Moon and Man of Steel. Twilight Saga: Eclipse needed a Bella's Birthday special re-release to touch 300M.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[SchumacherFTW]

4 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

Many films would end up in the 290s including New Moon and Man of Steel. Twilight Saga: Eclipse needed a Bella's Birthday special re-release to touch 300M.

Now that's a deep cut right there! 

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Mojoguy]

1 hour ago, ringedmortality said:

For those of you who were following back then. Why did Inception not hit 300M?

Same reason TLM won't hit 300, the movies just ran out of juice. The studios also have no films to double feature it to which is their usual move to push a movie over certain milestones.

 

TLM isn't hitting 300 either with it coming out on D+ and being free to watch in just a few days on 9/6.

Edited August 27, 2023 by Mojoguy

[Issac Newton]

$17.3M Gran Turismo

$17.1M Barbie

 

Who is winning??

[Spidey Freak]

1 hour ago, TwoMisfits said:

It means Blue Beetle is worth $4 ticket for people, so they should just charge that the rest of its run:)...

 

You kid but I think tiered pricing could genuinely save smaller fare including romcoms and comedies at cinemas. Maybe not as less as $4 though.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Hilts]

https://deadline.com/2023/08/box-office-gran-turismo-barbie-blue-beetle-1235528051

 

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While we won’t have the hards admission stats until tomorrow, box office analytics firm EntTelligence is currently seeing committed 3.1M ticket purchases (not box office, that’s admissions people) for today in terms of presales. Will walk-up business get us to a level of last year’s National Cinema Day, which fell on a Saturday during Labor Day weekend, and clocked 8 million? One studio is betting that we do 8.75M in admissions today.

 

Barbie, as expected, is leading Sunday in admissions with over 504K. Now Warner Bros is projecting that they’ll do $7.75M worth of business today for Barbie. That means Barbie will have to do 1.937M in admissions off of $4 ticket sales. Some don’t see how that’s possible as they believe Barbie will do around $5.8M in National Cinema Day admissions which means 1.45M admissions.

 

Other top presellers in terms of admission so far today are Blue Beetle (501K+), then Gran Turismo (391K), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (322K+) and Oppenheimer (302K).

 

Gran Turismo is projected to do $4.45M today (and rivals agree) which would mean 1.1M admissions.

 

As of this weekend during her entire domestic run, Barbie will have over 50M tickets sold or $594.8M per EntTelligence.

 

EntTelligence says that 40% of National Cinema Day sales are between 1PM and 5PM while 27% are between 5PM-9PM.

 

While exhibition is happy about National Cinema Day as more bodies bring concessions dollars, studios aren’t yippy skippy as it means lesser dollars, especially this year when there’s premium product on the marquee. This wasn’t a big deal last year as there weren’t any new studio wide releases due to the Covid post-production logjam, just re-releases like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Jaws. The thinking by some is that we needed National Cinema Day more last year than this year in regards to encouraging people to come back to cinemas. The whole day boils down to a fight between admissions and dollars: Do you generate enough in admissions that still yields big box office? At the end of the day, didn’t you just crater business on Friday and Saturday in favor of Sunday? One rival studio projection is that National Cinema Day will ring up $35M for all titles (or 8.75M admissions), which is 13% above Saturday’s $31M, and 22% ahead of Friday’s $28.6M for all titles in what’s looking like a $94.6M weekend, +79% over the same frame a year ago.

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by Hilts

[Mojoguy]

2 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

You kid but I think tiered pricing could genuinely save smaller fare including romcoms and comedies at cinemas. Maybe not as less as $4 though.

Tiered pricing will always be a bad idea. No studio wants their movies to be considered less than full value. Something like discount Tues is fine because that is a way for theaters to lure those that were never going in the first place, or getting families which are very price sensitive.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[grumpythepenguin]

18 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

Yeah, once something goes live action it is very hard for people to be interested again if it goes animated.

 

A Barbie 2 animated movie voiced by Margot Robbie would flop.

 

It's definitely hard to pull off, but of course two of the biggest hits of the year managed it. Super Mario Bros. waited 30 years to release an animated movie because of how poorly the live action one did in 1993. And the Spider-Verse movies were great, and very successful, though yes, not as successful as the recent live action movies.

[Cmasterclay]

National Cinema Day is terrific proof that people still love the theatrical model if you make them affordable for families. Too bad the slate of movies now left to December is going to kill half these theaters before they get to turn the ship around due to the greed of the producers.

[ChipDerby]

Less than a 50% weekend drop for Blue Beetle let's GO

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Jonwo]

5 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

Using the 2.5 times rule of thumb, Meg 2 is already profitable for WB. 

[Jonwo]

Just now, Issac Newton said:

 

 

Only $2m away from matching DH2 and becoming the highest grossing WB's movie ever.

[Issac Newton]