ListenHunnyUrOver Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Abigail seems like a movie that’ll break out on streaming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJG Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) Between M3gan, Exorcist and Abigail, I have to wonder why Universal are so invested in movies where little girls kill people. Edited April 19 by AJG 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Ministry seems to be selling pretty well at my local Cinemark. They gave it the XD screen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flopped Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1. Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M previews) and $9M-$11M at 2,845 theaters, but many see the movie, which is 92% with Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences, in third place. https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-office-abigail-civil-war-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-1235890123/ Edited April 19 by Flopped 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1. Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M previews) and $9M-$11M at 2,845 theaters, but many see the movie, which is 92% with Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences, in third place. https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-office-abigail-civil-war-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-1235890123/
Flopped Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I don't see word of mouth helping Abigail. Good first 30 and then it's a numbing Netflix movie, a gimmick stretched for an additional 90 minutes. I'm sure the Cinescore will be fine, in the B range, but this won't pop theatrically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissykins Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 3 minutes ago, Flopped said: I don't see word of mouth helping Abigail. Good first 30 and then it's a numbing Netflix movie, a gimmick stretched for an additional 90 minutes. I'm sure the Cinescore will be fine, in the B range, but this won't pop theatrically. That’s good you still went to see it despite riding the film for a few weeks and saying “this looks BAD”. I actually thought the opposite of you, dragged 30mins then it picked up. But overall I was pretty let down. 3/5. 9 minutes ago, Flopped said: FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1. Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M previews) and $9M-$11M at 2,845 theaters, but many see the movie, which is 92% with Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences, in third place. https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-office-abigail-civil-war-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-1235890123/ Ungentlemanly Warfare cost $60m before P&A. Sensible decision to send it straight to streaming internationally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1. Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M previews) and $9M-$11M at 2,845 theaters, but many see the movie, which is 92% with Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences, in third place. https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-office-abigail-civil-war-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-1235890123/
AniNate Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Hoped it would hold better but given... everything Civil War could've had a worse fate than a 50% drop from the last true weekend. Pretty much looking like another Annihilation performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Tashi Duncan gonna make us all cream our pants next week. She can't come fast enough to save us from this dreadful box office. 1 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Even if Challengers is a decent breakout it's the only movie of significance next weekend. Not gonna be doing much saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyB Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 April's box office is awful. Which was expected. All the movies released this month have good to great reviews but your average joe doesnt care. They'll wait for these movies on Netflix or whatever streaming service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Maybe we'll finally get those cheaper prices everyone has been demanding if my local Regal is anything to go by. Desperate times call for desperate measures. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainbug Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, AJG said: Between M3gan, Exorcist and Abigail, I have to wonder why Universal are so invested in movies where little girls kill people. On that note, its also a trope of ghost/haunted house horror movies that usually little girls get posessed and do the spooky things/kill people. Ive read somewhere that one explanation for this trope is that little girls represent basically the most innocent form of human beings as a whole and twisting that perception into something murderous like little killer girls leads to people finding the murders more disturbing than when it would have been done by a grown woman or man for example. I dunno how much sense this makes honestly, but ive always found this theory interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I think Abigail looks like a blast, but honestly, I still think this was the kind of horror movie that needed an actual "name" actor to headline it in order to give it a profile boost because it didn't have much going for it from a marketing perspective beyond the "ballerina vampire child attacks kidnappers" concept. People like Barrera or Stevens (nobody is seeing Godzilla x Kong for him) were never going to move the needle much. As such it's looking like it's going to end up making similar numbers to what Radio Silence's previous non-Scream entry (2019's Ready or Not) did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadOlCatSylvester Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 What a huge shame for Abigail. It's great, and deserves to make a whole lot more money than it's about to. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babz06 Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) 55 minutes ago, filmlover said: I think Abigail looks like a blast, but honestly, I still think this was the kind of horror movie that needed an actual "name" actor to headline it in order to give it a profile boost because it didn't have much going for it from a marketing perspective beyond the "ballerina vampire child attacks kidnappers" concept. People like Barrera or Stevens (nobody is seeing Godzilla x Kong for him) were never going to move the needle much. As such it's looking like it's going to end up making similar numbers to what Radio Silence's previous non-Scream entry (2019's Ready or Not) did. Horror films don’t really need ‘name’ actors. The GA go for the scares and thrills. The child vampire was the draw here, it just wasn’t a very big draw for whatever reason. Edited April 19 by babz06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 11 minutes ago, babz06 said: Horror films don’t really need ‘name’ actors. The GA go for the scares and thrills. The child vampire was the draw here, it just wasn’t a very big draw for whatever reason. Depends on the type of horror movie though (although plenty of the starrier ones tend to also fall into the "old school thriller" gray area). Feel like the decision to make the vampire girl a ballerina made it look like a wannabe M3GAN to some heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emoviefan Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 If Ministry does over 10 million this weekend , after it feels like Lions gate dumped it like every non Hunger Games and John Wick movie they have released lately, feels like a small victory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Theaters Enjoyer Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 4 hours ago, CJohn said: Tashi Duncan gonna make us all cream our pants next week. She can't come fast enough to save us from this dreadful box office. my brother in Christ have some decorum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ListenHunnyUrOver Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Going to see Abigail again. Not letting this movie flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 5 hours ago, Krissykins said: Ungentlemanly Warfare cost $60m before P&A. Sensible decision to send it straight to streaming internationally. Guy Ritchie films do well in Europe IIRC. They do best in Russia but guess that’s not happening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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