Weekend Numbers | May 31-Jun 02, 2024 | actuals | 14.01M GARFIELD | 10.78M FURIOSA | 10.51M IF | 8.97M APES

[Spidey Freak]

1 hour ago, ringedmortality said:

Yeah I see what you mean. I suppose Millennials were the last generation where radio play was a thing and those artists all had hit songs in the early 2010s that would play on Top 40 radios. I wonder how Eillish and Rodrigo were even able to build up their standing enough to be widely known. I only started listening to Rodrigo last year too, so it's not like I was always on the ground floor with them.

 

Eilish blew up thanks to... believe it or not, SoundCloud and YouTube.

 

Rodrigo was a Disney Channel (High School Musical remake) star whose first pop song was a breakout hit. It then translated to the success of her debut album.

 

So yeah, not "heard it on the radio" career starts for either.

[ringedmortality]

10 minutes ago, Eric Lasagna said:

Capitalism. Easy answer for everything terrible.

 

Millennial twitterisms are the answer, we're so fucked in every which way

[SchumacherFTW]

The games industry is in a weird place, the AAA space is pretty much creatively inert now with very little in terms of new IP and innovation. Indies on the other hand are on fire and getting greater reach than ever. 

[AniNate]

Been vibing at the Biltmore estate in Asheville today. Nice place.

 

They got me to buy a bottle of wine from them. 

 

 

Edited May 31 by AniNate

[Maggie]

‘Garfield’ Has Upper Claw Over ‘Furiosa’ With $12M+ Second Weekend – Friday PM Update

 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Alcon/Sony’s The Garfield Movie is showing his teeth against Warner Bros’ Furiosa in a second weekend faceoff between the two, $12M+ to $11.3M.

Today Garfield is looking at $3.3M at 4,018 theaters, while Furiosa has $3M at 3,864. Garfield‘s week two hold is -53% off the 3-day, while Furiosa isn’t shabby at -57%. By Sunday, Garfield‘s running total will stand at $49.5M, while Furiosa will be at $50.2M.

Furiosa still has Imax auditoriums, but Crunchyroll/Sony’s Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle has some of those, that pic looking at a No. 5 slot with $2M today and around $4M for the weekend. Remember when it comes to these anime movies, the U.S. market is simply gravy money, much like domestic is for Bollywood movies. Dumpster Battle has already made $75M from Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Hong Kong.

Paramount’s IF in weekend 3 is seeing $2.6M today at 3,783 theaters, and a 3-day of $9.8M, -39% for a running total of $79.4M by Sunday.

20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is seeing a fourth Friday of $2.1M at 3,450 theaters, 3-day of $7.8M, -41%, and running total of $138.9M. By Sunday through weekend 4, the sequel’s cume will be pacing 7% ahead of previous chapter War for the Planet of the Apes, that movie ending its run at $146.8M.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/box-office-garfield-furiosa-haikyu-dumpster-battle-1235945804/

Edited May 31 by Maggie

[Eric is Quiet]

https://deadline.com/2024/05/box-office-garfield-furiosa-haikyu-dumpster-battle-1235945804/
 

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Alcon/Sony’s The Garfield Movie is showing his teeth against Warner Bros’ Furiosa in a second weekend faceoff between the two, $12M+ to $11.3M. 
 

Today Garfield is looking at $3.3M at 4,018 theaters, while Furiosa has $3M at 3,864. Garfield‘s week two hold is -53% off the 3-day, while Furiosa isn’t shabby at -57%. By Sunday, Garfield‘s running total will stand at $49.5M, while Furiosa will be at $50.2M. 

 

Furiosa still has Imax auditoriums, but Crunchyroll/Sony’s Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battlehas some of those, that pic looking at a No. 5 slot with $2M today and around $4M for the weekend. Remember when it comes to these anime movies, the U.S. market is simply gravy money, much like domestic is for Bollywood movies. Dumpster Battle has already made $75M from Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Hong Kong

 

Paramount’s IF in weekend 3 is seeing $2.6M today at 3,783 theaters, and a 3-day of $9.8M, -39% for a running total of $79.4M by Sunday. 
 

20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is seeing a fourth Friday of $2.1M at 3,450 theaters, 3-day of $7.8M, -41%, and running total of $138.9M. By Sunday through weekend 4, the sequel’s cume will be pacing 7% ahead of previous chapter War for the Planet of the Apes, that movie ending its run at $146.8M.

 

Outside the top 5, IFC’s horror movie In a Violent Nature is looking great. Last night the movie posted the best previews for an IFC movie ever at $410k for what’s shaping up to be a $1M. While their Late Night With the Devil posted IFC’s biggest opening ever at $2.8M and looks to be their highest grossing horror movie ever at $10M, In a Violent Nature is eyeing a very strong opening with an estimated $2.2M in 1,426 locations.

 

 

[cannastop]

15 minutes ago, AniNate said:

Been vibing at the Biltmore estate in Asheville today. Nice place.

 

They got me to buy a bottle of wine from them. 

 

 

I've been there too.

[John Marston]

2 hours ago, CJohn said:

Xbox has tanked beyond belief and Microsoft is turning into a publisher. Playstation sales have come to a halt and it is starting to fall behind the PS4. Switch sales are also crashing with the Switch 2 looming. Overall 2024 has been an atrocious year for console gaming.

Next year the biggest entertainment event will be a video game at least. GTA 6

[Travod]

Seeing Hitman tonight

[Potiki]

2 hours ago, CJohn said:

Xbox has tanked beyond belief and Microsoft is turning into a publisher. Playstation sales have come to a halt and it is starting to fall behind the PS4. Switch sales are also crashing with the Switch 2 looming. Overall 2024 has been an atrocious year for console gaming.

Console gaming peaked in the 2000's with the likes of the PS2, Nintendo DS, Wii, 360 and PS3 before mobile came in with the introduction of the iPhone. Gaming is still doing incredibly well but with things like Fortnite and Roblox which are available on PC or Console but also mobile which is the biggest share of gaming revenue. 

 

This post from Mat Piscatella (gaming sales analyst at Circana/formally NPD group) on LinkedIn breaks it down in the US Market from March: 

 

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Here's the March 2024 US Video Game market breakdown from Circana. Check a 👀!

 

- Projected total US spending on video game hardware, content and accessories gained 4% in March 2024 vs YA, reaching $4.9B. Mobile content spending grew 15%, offsetting a 32% drop in hardware. (Mobile source: Sensor Tower)

 

- Mobile’s strong performance was supplemented by a 3% increase in Console Content spend, along with a 2% gain in the PC, Cloud and Non-Console VR Content segment. Mobile accounted for 89% of the total year-on-year growth in video game content spending during the month.

 

- Dragon’s Dogma II debuted as the best-selling premium game of March and the 3rd best-selling game of 2024 YTD. With just one month in market, Dragon’s Dogma II has already surpassed the life-to-date tracked dollar sales of Dragon’s Dogma and Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen combined.

 

- Helldivers II remains the best-selling premium game of 2024 year-to-date after placing 2nd in March. Helldivers II currently ranks 7th in lifetime US dollar sales for Sony published titles after just two months in market.

 

- Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth remained the 4th best-selling game of 2024 year-to-date, despite falling 5 spots in the monthly rankings to 7th in March after placing 2nd in February.

 

- Sensor Tower reports the top 10 games by US consumer spending in March and the change in rank vs Feb as: MONOPOLY GO!, Royal Match, Roblox, Candy Crush Saga, Coin Master (+1), Whiteout Survival (+1), Last War: Survival (+4), Pokémon Go (-3), Township (+1) and Clash of Clans (-2).

 

- “The highlight this month is Last War: Survival, which grew 40% to overtake Pokémon GO, Township, and Clash of Clans,” said Samuel Aune of Sensor Tower. “Last War: Survival is now right on the heels of fellow 2023 4X Strategy launch Whiteout Survival (+14% MoM)."

 

- March video game hardware spending fell 32% when compared to a year ago, to $391 million. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Switch spending each declined a minimum of 30% year-on-year. Hardware spending finished the first quarter down 24% versus the first quarter of 2023.

 

- PlayStation 5 led the hardware market in unit and dollar sales during both March and the first quarter. Nintendo Switch once again finished 2nd in unit sales across both time periods while Xbox Series ranked 2nd in dollars.

 

- March spending on Accessories increased 9% when compared to a year ago to $242M, helped by 8% growth in headset/headphone spending.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matpiscatella_heres-the-march-2024-us-video-game-market-activity-7191437347043876864-GUi_

 

Also really hard to find a Mobile/Console/PC breakdown of revenue worldwide as most are just guesstimates but hopefully this one comes close to showing reality: 

 

 

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/50-years-of-pc-vs-console-gaming-revenue-visualized-pc-maintains-lead-over-consoles-vr-mobile-and-handheld-market-data-included

 

In app purchases are still doing great but traditional games (excluding those from Nintendo and the occasional big title like GTA 6) are really struggling, Game Pass isn't nearly as adopted as something like Netflix as most gamers are super casual and only buy and handful (at most) games a year compared to shows and movies which get watched at a far higher rate. 

 

Switch has actually done amazing, PS5 and Xbox Series have both underperformed in terms of sales though compared to PS4 and Xbox One. 

[Kon]

1 hour ago, Eric Lasagna said:

https://deadline.com/2024/05/box-office-garfield-furiosa-haikyu-dumpster-battle-1235945804/
 

 

Well, it's Deadline. We can't be sure if Garfield will really be over Furiosa (yet).

[emoviefan]

3 hours ago, Maggie said:

Oh. I'm not worried about BB4. BB3 was similarly tracking low and surprised everybody.

Yeah this will be fine. 3 was tracking to do 40-45 for the 4 day MLK weekend and did 73. The walkups were unreal. Yes this will probably not explode anywhere near that due to just the current marketplace woes but 50 should easily be a lock. If not then yeah shit really is terrible.

[VanillaSkies]

IF will have a good chance to cross 100 million domestic now with that hold, and the fact that summer weekdays are starting as more schools get out for the summer each week in June. Nice to see it recover a bit.

[Eric is Quiet]

lol what movie is this

[ringedmortality]

I hate that I can't watch Hit Man in theaters. I can already tell that's gonna be a 9/10 for me.

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, Eric Lasagna said:

lol what movie is this

 

 

They should have put Academy award winners Cuba Gooding Jr

[ChipDerby]

5 hours ago, CJohn said:

Thrilling Summer weekend incoming. Will the number 1 movie do 12.5M? This is box office now. 

 

Yeah man

[Eric is Quiet]

5 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

 

They should have put Academy award winners Cuba Gooding Jr

The Brett Favre review quote SLAYED ME lmfao

[Flopped]

Useless fact but today I learned that until Jurassic Park, Ghost was the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time worldwide with $517.6M. 

[HowSway]

4 hours ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

haven't consistently followed console sales in close to decade, but switch makes sense, but is 60 million ps5s after 3.5 years really bad, cant imagine it behind that far behind the ps4

xbox might look very bad, but if it follows current trajectory, then it'll only miss the xbone by a few million 

 

It's not bad in a vacuum but when investors expect yoy growth every year, it is definitely seen as disappointing not to be able to outsell previous generations. To be fair though, consoles have mostly become avenues to sell first party games. Though with Sony and Microsoft porting all of their big hits to the PC, it's definitely lost some of its importance.