Weekend Thread | Est. Renaissance $21M, TBOSS $14.5M, Godzilla -1.0 $11.03M, Trolls 3 $7.60M, Wish $7.41M, Napoleon $7.13M, Animal $6.14M, The Shift $4.36M &The Marvels $2.51M

[Eric Loves Rey]

Just now, Brainbug said:

Fingers crossed that Godzilla Minus One crushes it this weekend. Just came back from seeing it and if it was possible to marry a film, i would propose to it.

I thought you were gonna propose to me.

[Brainbug]

2 minutes ago, Eric Wonka said:

I thought you were gonna propose to me.

 

I woudnt want to stand between you, happiness and Timotheeeeeeeeee

[TwoMisfits]

Deadline's predicts:

True Friday

Beyonce $6-7M

HG: Boss $4.1M

Animal $3M (I knew a foreign film multi-screened at my locals usually is one of the bigger ones)

Godzilla $2.9M

Napoleon $2.3M

Wish $1.8M

Trolls $1.6M

[keysersoze123]

Thankfully Renaissance walkups today have been much better. Make me optimistic for weekend. I think Saturday will be even better for walkups. Should be good for low 20s OW. 

 

Great for Zilla as well. Almost 3m true friday guarantees double digit OW. 

 

Not bad at all for Wish. Its going to have a good drop this weekend. May be the D+ deal at $5 is working after all. 

Edited December 1, 2023 by keysersoze123

[TwoMisfits]

Just now, keysersoze123 said:

Thankfully Renaissance walkups today have been much better. Make me optimistic for weekend. I think Saturday will be even better for walkups. Should be good for low 20s OW. 

 

Great for Zilla as well. Almost 3m true friday guarantees double digit OW. 

 

Okay, then I didn't send Shawn the wrong way when I said high teens/low twenties...phew:)...

[Kon]

6 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

Not bad at all for Wish. Its going to have a good drop this weekend. May be the D+ deal at $5 is working after all. 

 

If the predictions are correct, I don't think a 61% drop for Wish (which is an animated movie) will be a good thing.

[keysersoze123]

Just now, Kon said:

 

If the predictions are correct, I don't think a 61% drop for Wish (which is an animated movie) will be a good thing.

I think it will go higher than 7.6m from 1.8. I would ignore weekend projections from deadline :-)

[Eric Loves Rey]

15 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

I woudnt want to stand between you, happiness and Timotheeeeeeeeee

 

HIS SHIRT HIS SHIRT HIS SHIRT WHY IS HE SO FASHIONABLE AHHHHHHH

[Mulder]

Great for Beyonce considering there was some rumbles in the tracking thread of under 20 being possible, and insane for Minus One. It almost making back its budget in a US OW is insane.

[RyneOh1040]

really hoping the renny estimate holds would be great IM for the immediacy this had with core fans.

[Brainbug]

3 minutes ago, Mulder said:

Great for Beyonce considering there was some rumbles in the tracking thread of under 20 being possible, and insane for Minus One. It almost making back its budget in a US OW is insane.

 

I think it makes a lot of sense that Toho is going all-out in the international (non-Japan in this case) promoting. Unless im mistaken, Shin Godzilla grossed 1,9M in the US in 2016, this one will do 10 times that amount, thats amazing.

[Mulder]

5 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

I think it makes a lot of sense that Toho is going all-out in the international (non-Japan in this case) promoting. Unless im mistaken, Shin Godzilla grossed 1,9M in the US in 2016, this one will do 10 times that amount, thats amazing.

Yep it did 1.9 in the US unadjusted, this will do way more. Though admittedly Minus One has way more theaters+PLF but still.

[Giorno]

Legendary should get the director of Minus One to do a english language version of the film for them, with that marketing budget and lack of foreign language barrier, could do crazy numbers 

[MovieMan89]

That’s the same Friday drop Strange World had for Wish and the # is only 700k ahead of it. Not impossible it gets down to matching SW’s comparable grosses in a week or so at this rate… 

 

Renaissance number seems decent considering tracking was looking like a disaster might happen. 

[Eric Loves Rey]

More DL updates

 

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Angel Studios’ The Shift at 2,450 theaters is seeing a $1.9M Friday, $5.2M opening. Critics believed they are suffering a Job fate by sitting through it at 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

Lionsgate’s John Woo action movie, Silent Night isn’t loud by any means at 1,870 theaters with a Friday of $950K, 3-day of $2.5M.

 

[Bob Train]

Wow. Great openings for the 2 foreign films.

[Krissykins]

1 hour ago, Eric Wonka said:

 

HIS SHIRT HIS SHIRT HIS SHIRT WHY IS HE SO FASHIONABLE AHHHHHHH

Just watched him on Graham Norton, so likeable. He was with Cher, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks, a great lineup. 
 

27 years old and 5 of his films have already been nominated for Best Picture. Amazing. 

[Cookson]

That’s a crazy number for -1.

[MovieMan89]

We have reached a place where Japanese movies in America are now grossing more than Hollywood movies in Japan. Wild. 

[ListenHunnyUrOver]

13 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

We have reached a place where Japanese movies in America are now grossing more than Hollywood movies in Japan. Wild. 

US movies have been getting stale. Especially blockbusters lack spark and innovation.