SUNDAY AM Writethru: After all the alleles about the return of the theater to CinemaCon last week, the big studios jumped to program all the new broadcasts this weekend. All this leads to a market that accounts for approximately $ 68 million in total ticket sales, down 28% from last weekend. As for when the major players will stay away again this year, it’s June 3rd and probably August 12th (Searchlight keeps the date untitled).
D Disney
If you feel like a desert in the multiplex, get ready for the monsoon on Thursday night with Disney / Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness, which is expected to rain $ 150 million to $ 200 million on its first weekend.
Tracking sees it at a minimum of $ 150 million; it won’t be shocking if the photo reaches $ 200 million, but Disney doesn’t want to ski. Dr. Strange 2 now sees the best pre-sales of the year, higher than Batman, at $ 42 million. All this is the beginning of a very rich summer and after the violent reaction of Top Gun: Maverick left CinemaCon, Tom Cruise must be ready for the biggest global and domestic opening of his career, ahead of War of the Worlds ($ 64.8 M, his highest local) and The Mummy ($ 172.3 million, the world’s biggest Oscar nominee for the third time).
As such, this weekend we will see Universal / DreamWorks Animation’s Bad Guys again at No. 1 on Weekend 2, with $ 16.1 million, -33%, for a total of ten days of EOD $ 44.4 million. That’s better than the $ 14 million Uni noticed yesterday. And all other family tariffs remain in their first places, ie. Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was better than expected in the fourth weekend of $ 11.35 million on the 2nd, -27%, with a current total of $ 160.9 million, and Warner Bros. ‘ Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets, with approximately $ 8.3 million in Weekend 3 in 3rd place, -41%, with current revenue of $ 79.6 million from EOD.
A24
Continuing to show proof that there is an appetite for an original price at the box office is the incredible retention of the A24 over the weekend. . What is the extra juice here? In addition to an increase in the number of cinemas by 80, the film, directed by Daniels, returned to Imax in 256 hubs in a special extended edition, cutting $ 850,000. This AGBO production easily goes to $ 40 million +. Forget it, some say $ 50 million, which could mean it can download the biggest-grossing A24 movie of all time, Uncut Gems ($ 50 million).
“Memory” Briarcliff Entertainment
Open Road is heading to the top of the big studio, releasing them extensively in Liam Neeson’s action film, Memory, directed by Martin Campbell, which debuted at $ 3.1 million in 2,555 theaters. While I’m sure the show is grateful for the new product, what’s disappointing here is that in an improved market, the feature works similar to what other photos of the Neeson Open Road did when New York and Los Angeles were closed. time of Covid, i.e. The Marksman ($ 3.1 million) and Honest Thief ($ 4.1 million).
The top five Memory markets on the day of its $ 1.1 million opening on Friday were Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago, with the highest-grossing movie of the day being Fulton Market’s iPic Theater. Manhattan.
Well, it’s all about home aids and dudes for these Neeson cookie cutter action titles. Critics were fed up with Neeson-with-a-gun photos at 29% Rotten, and those who decided to show up and sit in the dark and eat popcorn for nearly two hours gave him 66% and 49% on Comscore, respectively. / PostTrak on Screen Engine. My God!
Turnout was male at 51%, 84% over 25 and 46% over 45. The diverse demonstrations were 49% Caucasian, 20% Hispanic and Latino, 20% Black and 11% Asian / Others. Most of the money this photo sees comes from the West and the Southeast. RelishMix says that the awareness on social media about Memory “is well below the norms of the action thriller genre at 18.6 million on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
Prior to the opening, the Social Media Analysis Corporation said: “The tent is mixed, with expectations that are crystal clear – for any Neeson film, assuming that someone will be kidnapped and that ‘we will bring him back.’ The plot and components of the film are random for those super fans who also think Neeson would be the perfect Batman with his voice, as well as other chatterboxes about his stockpile of hotlines. Super fans also described Neeson and Denzel Washington as “ironically the best action stars of recent times.” Fans reveal the secret algorithm behind this film; Taken + Unknown = Memory … and, Memory ÷ Unknown = Memory. “
Focus Features’ Viking epic Northerner is expecting a second weekend of -49%, with $ 6.3 million in ten days from $ 22.8 million.
Lionsgate
Lionsgate’s Nic Cage satire “Unbearable Burden of Huge Talent” expects $ 3.9 million over the weekend 2, -45%, a 10-day $ 13.5 million for what looks like a final domestic gross of $ 20 million when it all comes down to said and done.
Some thoughts from CinemaCon: Despite the disappointing start of the film after its lively world premiere at SXSW, competing distributors who have worked with a similar product believe that this film has excessive indexing in home entertainment, which is Cage’s bread with butter.
Although Cage is probably on the rise in terms of his career, publishing his critique of Pig, he has been mad at the box office for quite some time; his last pillar for a live tent is the 2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets ($ 220 million for the internal market, $ 459 million for World War II). Hence the limited scope for this great, critically acclaimed (87% certified fresh) comedy, which excites the audience, which finally turns out to be for it. If Neeson made a comedy of self-parody, we would expect similar results.
However, thumbs up to Lionsgate that released this movie theatrically, not throwing it into PVOD or streaming. Why so? Chances are that the story will be on the side of Unbearable Weight and will become a cult classic of the same spirit as This Is Spinal Tap ($ 4.7 million for the 1984 domestic standards market) and The Big Lebowski (18 , $ 2 million in dollars since 1998). If this picture was directly for the home, there would be no such resonance.
Also trying to fill the gap this weekend is the action drama in Telugu Acharya, which is now poised to win approximately $ 1 million in 396 cinemas in 117 markets after being loaded with $ 832,000 on Friday and on Saturday. price of 100,000 dollars. The photo showed some big numbers in New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Charlotte and Baltimore. The screenplay and director of the film “Coratala Shiva” focuses on a naxalite who has become a social reformer who is fighting a donation department over the misappropriation of temple funds and donations.
1.) The Bad Boys (Uni) 4,042 (+34) cinemas, Friday $ 3.7 million (-54%), Saturday $ 7.5 million, Sun $ 4.87 million, 3-day $ 16.1 million (-33%) / total 44.4 million dollars / week 2
2.) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Par) 3801 (-8) cinemas, Friday $ 2.5 million (-37%), Saturday $ 5.37 million / Sun $ 3.48 million, 3-day $ 11.35 million (-27 %) / total $ 160.9 million / week 4
3.) Fantastic Beasts … Dumbledore (WB), 3962 (-283) cinemas, Fri $ 2.1 million (-47%), Saturday $ 3.7 million, Sun $ 2.4 million, 3-day $ 8.3 million (-41%) / total $ 79.55 million / week 3
4.) The Northman (Foc) 3234 (+50) cinemas, Friday $ 1.8 million (-64%), Saturday $ 2.7 million, Sun $ 1.77 million, 3-day $ 6.3 million (-49%) / total $ 22.8 million / week. 2
5.) Everything Everywhere Once (A24) 2,213 (+80) cinemas, Friday $ 1.56 million (+ 1%), Saturday $ 2.2 million, Sun $ 1.7 million, 3-day $ 5.5 million (+2 %) / total $ 35.4 million / week 6
6.) Unbearable weight of the huge talent (LG) 3 036 cinemas, Fri. 1.1 million dollars (-62%), Saturday 1.7 million dollars, Sun 1.1 million dollars, 3-day 3.9 million dollars (-45%) / total 13.5 million dollars / week. 2
7.) The Lost City (Par) 2 595 (-233) Theater Fri. $ 1 million (-21%), Saturday $ 1.78 million, Sun $ 1.1 million, 3-day $ 3.9 million (-10%) / $ 90.78 million / 6 weeks
8.) Memory (Open Road) 2,555 cinemas, Fri. $ 1.1 million, Saturday $ 1.2 million, Sun $ 790,000, 3 days $ 3.1 million / week 1
9.) Father Stu (Sony) 2476 (-229) cinemas, Friday $ 615,000 (-40%), Saturday $ 940,000, Sun $ 655,000, 3 days $ 2.2 million (-33%), total $ 17.55 million / seven 3
10.) Memory (Sony) 1,726 (-580) cinemas, Friday $ 388,000, Saturday $ 685,000, Sun $ 427,000, 3-day $ 1.5 million (-34%), total $ 71.4 million / week. 5
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