Weekend Thread | October 18-20 | 23M SMILE | 9.3M TERRIFIER

[AMC Theaters Enjoyer]

I very rarely have felt as out of sync with moviegoers than with the Smile movies. 

[HummingLemon496]

~675K weekend for Deadpool & Wolverine, yeah it's passing Barbie LFG

[AniNate]

Glad I only had to argue with a couple people this time about PVOD's lack of legs impact.

[HummingLemon496]

Just now, AniNate said:

Glad I only had to argue with a couple people this time about PVOD's lack of legs impact.

Is this in reference to Deadpool 3?

[MightyDargon]

Just now, AniNate said:

Glad I only had to argue with a couple people this time about PVOD's lack of legs impact.

Would've been more impact full if Joker 2 hadn't sucked butt nuts and the owners were clearly putting Wild Robot in more Plf slots again.

[HummingLemon496]

Barbie is locked, final-final DOM milestone is 2x Deadpool 2 ($636,982,852). 

 

Will require around ~700K after this weekend, will probably DRAG over that milestone

[AniNate]

God help us if there is ever a time a movie does actually have a rough PVOD weekend drop by sheer coincidence. All the internet morons will be saying "SEE! SEE!" and we'll have to do the whole song and dance again.

[titanic2187]

47 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

 

If Gitesh's estimate of $300K for Anora on Friday is anywhere near actuals, it will earn closer to $1M for the weekend than $700K. Definitely an outstanding opening. The rollout will be interesting to follow if only to see if this film can transform from an arthouse caterpillar to a mainstream butterfly.

 

In pre-Covid time yes absolutely. But I doubt that now. As we may have observed that legs in the post-Covid marketplace seem to be better, one genre seem NOT to benefit from this development is, Drama fare or small movie. Their expansion is weaker now and that low base number doesn't give them advantage to leg out better either. A lot of platform releases now have terrible Saturday hold in their limited release debut.

 

Holdovers (-35%), Saltburn (51%), Zone of Interest (36%), Priscilla (44%), Kind of kindness (45%), anatomy of a fall(41%).

[AniNate]

I'd be fine if Anora caps out at like $20mil. It'd still be Sean Baker's biggest box office earner by a significant margin.

[JimmyB]

Deadline Saturday weekend chart:

1. Smile 2 (Par) 3,619 theaters Fri $9.4M, 3-day $23M/Wk 1
2. The Wild Robot (DWA/Uni) 3,829 (-25) theaters, Fri $2.8M (-27%) 3-day $10.7M (-24%), Total $102.3M/Wk 4
3. Terrifier 3 (Icon/Cinev) 2,762 (+248) theaters, Fri $3M (-64%), 3-day $9.8M (-48%), Total $36.7M/Wk 2
4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (WB) 3,251 (-157) theaters, Fri $1.38M (-30%) 3-day $5M (-31%) Total $284M/Wk 7
5. We Live in Time (A24) 985 (+980) theaters, Fri $1.8M (+1671%) 3-day $4.3M (+1551%), Total $4.6M/Wk 2
6. Joker: Folie à Deux (WB) 2,857 (-1245) theaters, Fri $655K (-70%), 3-day $2.2M (-68%), Total $56.4M/Wk 3
7. Piece by Piece (Foc) 1,873 (+8) theaters, Fri $590K (-61%), 3-day $2M (-48%), $7.5M/Wk 2
8. Transformers One (Par) 2,169 (-589) theaters, Fri $510K (-49%) 3-day $2M (-47%) Total $56.6M/Wk 5
9. Saturday Night (Sony) 2,336 (+27) theaters, Fri $560K (-58%) 3-day $1.8M (-47%) Total $7.6M/Wk 4
10. Nightmare Before Christmas (Dis) 1,860 (+160) theaters, Fri $377K (-50%) 3-day $1.3M (-46%) Lifetime cume $92.6M/Wk 2 (re)
11. Hocus Pocus (Dis) 1,480 theaters, Fri $287K, 3-day $940K, Lifetime total $50.2M/Wk 1 (re)

[MightyDargon]

Aww yeah Transformers is gonna STOMP that stupid Todd Phillips movie in US gross!!!! YOU GOT THE TOUCH YOU GOT THE POWWWEEERRRR YYYYEEEAAAHHHH

[AniNate]

Rough drop for TFOne, probably is gonna start losing theaters in earnest now. It may indeed not get to $60mil.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

51 minutes ago, HummingLemon496 said:

~675K weekend for Deadpool & Wolverine, yeah it's passing Barbie LFG

Barbie: $636,238,421

 

After that, Deadpool 3 will be sitting comfortable as the 12th highest grossing movie DOM of all time. Will be a while until the next $600M+ DOM grosser comes.

[WebSurfer]

What ultimately killed Tone was its release date. It should’ve released in August. Though, I could be wrong.

Edited Saturday at 05:13 PM by WebSurfer

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Look at that $92M DOM lifetime gross for The Nightmare Before Christmas! 🎅🏻

 

Wonder where the final total might end at? 👩🏻‍💼

[MrFanaticGuy34]

2 minutes ago, WebSurfer said:

What ultimately killed Tone was its release date. It should’ve released in August.

I kinda think that “should’ve been released in” talk does honestly get a bit repetitive for almost every new well-received popcorn movie. 😅

 

Sorry, guys…but that’s just how I feel. 😅🤷🏻‍♀️

Edited Saturday at 05:16 PM by MrFanaticGuy34

[emoviefan]

Paramount really should have released Gladiator 2 on Vet Day Weekend. The fact the studios gave up on a 4 day holiday weekend is kind of crazy. Unless there is wide spread violence and martial law has been started people are not going to just sit at home watching election stuff even if the election has not been called Harris or Trump. Gladiator 2 will still do well over holidays as counterprogramming as long as WOM is good to great but they would have had 2 weekends at number one now they will get none. Oh well Paramount going to Paramount with their release decisions.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

20 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

should have released

You too. 
 

It triggers me, lol. 

Edited Saturday at 05:42 PM by MrFanaticGuy34

[charlie Jatinder]

2 hours ago, LonePirate said:

 

If Gitesh's estimate of $300K for Anora on Friday is anywhere near actuals, it will earn closer to $1M for the weekend than $700K. Definitely an outstanding opening. The rollout will be interesting to follow if only to see if this film can transform from an arthouse caterpillar to a mainstream butterfly.

 

That 300k includes 200k from Thu. Weekend will just about cross 600k.

 

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[AniNate]

40 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:

I kinda think that “should’ve been released in” talk does honestly get a bit repetitive for almost every new well-received popcorn movie. 😅

 

Sorry, guys…but that’s just how I feel. 😅🤷🏻‍♀️

 

Certainly if the point has already been made multiple times with no new insight being added to it, and people are just saying it because they like to see themselves talk.