The Box Office

[Anthony W]

Note dragonball is frontloaded as other anime films and dropped to 5th! You know anime fans if you want studios to really look at anime and you like the film you can go see it more than once! Just saying.

Actually, I think Anime fans are perfectly fine flying under Hollywood's radar. I think they prefer it.

[Gaastra]

You gotta admit when deadline goes on rants during the box office numbers reports it can be more entertaning than the box office numbers. Lol.

[Gaastra]

Sept 3 most theatres tickets will be $3 for one day only.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...1bd1a7aac44434

[Gaastra]

$3 tickets today didn't help much when no new big movies out.

Spider-man looks to take first again!

A 3-D version of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 horror classic “Jaws” was released in IMAX for the first time ever this Friday, and earned $870,000 in theaters.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/spider...of-box-office/

[Wildling]

Watched Lionsgate's Fall and not only loved it, but felt satisfied I got another great horror movie before Barbarian and Smile, if it comes to that.

[Gaastra]

AMC sold 1.6m tickets on cinema day.

Together everyone made $250m.

https://twitter.com/CEOAdam/status/1...-c91F3s2A&s=19

https://twitter.com/meJat32/status/1...OP95w6b3A&s=19

Top gun 2 expected to pass $700m on monday.

Jurassic park near $994.6m. It's almost to a billion!

[Gaastra]

Who is in first?

$3 tickets on National Cinema Day helped drive even more audiences to the highest-grossing movie of the year to date, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, putting the highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie over the $700M mark in its 15th weekend.

However, Saturday’s discount day has many distribution box office analysts confused on what exactly is the No. 1 film for the weekend. They say it’s Top Gun: Maverick. But Sony is calling champs of the sluggish Labor Day frame with their re-release of Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home grossing $7.6M over four days.

While it’s organic in any given weekend for Saturday business to be higher than Friday, the last-minute publicized (the press release dropped a week ago Sunday AM), National Cinema Day fueled movies in the top 10 to see 100%-257% Friday-to-Saturday surges, and in the case of the Jerry Bruckheimer produced Top Gun: Maverick, it was +139% on Saturday, with $2.6M. Paramount is calling the 4-day weekend at $7M.

As far as the results of National Cinema Day, NATO is reporting 8.1M admissions for Saturday vs. box office stat org EntTelligence’s 8M admissions. Saturday’s box office for all movies is estimated around $24.3M, which is +9% from last Saturday, per Comscore. What National Cinema Day did was suction most of the $ business out of Friday and displaced it to Saturday: EntTelligence reports that just under 1M people went to the movies on Friday. In addition the analytics org saw Saturday notching 6x more presales than Friday. Friday to Saturday business for all movies last weekend was +37% versus +96% this weekend over the last two days. The 3-day box office for all titles this weekend is estimated to come in at $53.5M, roughly on par to last weekend.

No one is saying that holding a National Cinema Day with $3 tickets (even cash-strapped Regal was among the three major circuits participating) is a bad idea. Three thousands locations across 30K screens took part. The whole point of the day is to attract those who haven’t been to the movies during the pandemic, in addition to provide life to cinemas at a time when studios don’t have any fresh fare. And headcount-wise, that is a mission accomplished: 8.1M people came out in one day, which is just under the total weekend admissions for the 3-day portion of Labor Day 2019 (8.2M per EntTelligence) and even higher than last year’s 3-day 7.8M, when Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was on the marquee. Moviegoing begets moviegoing.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-off...ay-1235107189/

[SUPERECWFAN1]

2 of the films that likely have benefited from the real lack of films being put out right now is Bullet Train and DC League of Super Pets. Both films had they been released in any period pre-2020 would have slipped down the box office chart. But they have held around due to lack of films and now League of... will in a week or 2 break even domestically at box office. Even with a look it would fail earlier.

Bullet Train itself is a nice deal for Brad Pitt. A quirky assassins film on a train that film this week could have broke even domestically with earning $85+ million domestically. Its one of those films that has a Smokin Aces type quality to it.

[Gaastra]

Thor hits $750m ww!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...y_crossed_the/

Theatres are getting this note about avatar 2. They are expecting a big opening weekend!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...n_theater_got/

[Gaastra]

Not much to say about this weeks box office as it was one of the worst this year.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-off...va-1235114007/

Minions 2 hits $900m ww also.

Looks like black adam may get a china release. Will it help it?

[Gaastra]

$18m for the woman king.

https://variety.com/2022/film/box-of...rl-1235375499/

[Kirby101]

Thor hits $750m ww!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...y_crossed_the/

Theatres are getting this note about avatar 2. They are expecting a big opening weekend!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...n_theater_got/

Since Avatar 1 came out, I have developed a problem with the retina in my right eye. I see fine, but my right eye is blurry, making my left eye dominant. The result is, I don't know if the 3D will work for me. Which is 75% of the Avatar experience.

[mace11]

The Woman King

DOMESTIC (100%)
$19,000,000

WORLDWIDE
$19,000,000

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releas...=bo_da_table_1

[Gaastra]

Don't worry darling expected to make $20m.

https://variety.com/2022/film/box-of...es-1235377847/

[Nods]

I was excited for it and then I saw the reviews...