The Box Office

[Gaastra]

Quiet place up to $60m in america and it still has one more day!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1234961031/

[Castle]

Quiet place up to $60m in america and it still has one more day!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1234961031/

Those are amazing numbers. Cinema is BACK.

[Gaastra]

Over $70m ww for qp2 so far. Today counts as the weekend also so we have to wait till tuesday to see the full weekend numbers.

https://deadline.com/2021/05/a-quiet...ce-1234766618/

[luprki]

Those are amazing numbers. Cinema is BACK.

At least for opening weekend blockbusters, the overall box office numbers are still severely down.

[Gaastra]

American theatres made $100m this weekend!

For uk. Peter rabbit 2 and conjuring 3 is king. Demon slayer came in 4th with £693,081.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/pet...160149.article

The Sony animation-live action hybrid took £2m across the weekend – a 47% drop on its previous session, which is a reasonable result given the climate, taking £3,512 on average from 606 locations. It added a further £737,434 on Bank Holiday Monday for £8.2m after 15 days in cinemas.

With schools now breaking for half term across most of the UK, the film will look to perform strongly on every day in the coming week.

Also uk gets the studio ghibili film earwig and the witch in theatres. Many were let down by the film.

[luprki]

$100 million is fairly low with two blockbusters opening and a 4 day weekend.

[Jim Kelly]

[Gaastra]

Well quiet place 2 AND cruella (the film did not do as well but looks like disney thinks a part 2 will do better i guess.) have another film in the works aready!

https://deadline.com/2021/06/a-quiet...te-1234769832/


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ne-1234963423/

Well will quiet place 2 hurt conjuring 3 at the box office? (they are both monster films)? We don't know yet till they release thurs and friday numbers for it.

Spirit 2 thurs has been released on box office mojo. $6,800,000 so far. People were expecting less for it's thurs showings.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weeken...?ref_=bo_hm_rw

Even free on disney plus raya has beat tom and jerry and ww84 at the box office.

https://thedisinsider.com/2021/05/30...tom-and-jerry/

[Gaastra]

Conjuring 3 looks like will make first place. Of course the hbo max shadow of "it would have made more not free on hbo max" looms over it like all this years films. Plus the other trouble.

From deadline--

Throughout the summer, I’m sure there will be countless pieces written about whether this availability of a film in the home and in theaters at the same time is good or not for the business. Those studios practicing experimental windows need to get their heads around the fact that all these clean copies available on the web only opens the door for piracy.

Saturday AM: New Line’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is beating Paramount’s second weekend of A Quiet Place Part II, with an estimated $23.5M to $22M. But there shouldn’t be any doubts: It’s a solid weekend at the box office, especially as the pandemic calms. Even the No. 3 title, Disney’s Cruella, is doing well, on its way toward a $11.3M second weekend, -47%, after a $3.28M Friday, -57%. Ten-day total for Cruella looks to land at $43.7M.

Conjuring 3 made $9.84M on Friday to A Quiet Place 2‘s $6.2M (-68% from a week ago – remember, Thursday previews were rolled into Friday). A Quiet Place 2‘s second weekend hold of -54% is very respectable for a horror movie. By the end of its second weekend, the John Krasinski-directed sequel will stand at $91.1M. 2018’s A Quiet Place crossed the $100M threshold by the end of its second frame.

What’s clear this weekend is that audiences continue to show a theatrical appetite, and the abundance of product at the multiplex makes for great business. The overall weekend looks to come in at $70M+, which would be 13% off from last weekend’s $80.1M. That’s with a domestic marketplace which has 73% of 5,88K theaters in operation, with Canada’s Ontario movie theatres shuttered, Manitoba 3% open, with British Columbia and Alberta 6% and 3% open. Canadian aorta exhibitor Cineplex only has 33 of its 162 locations open in the Great White North. With the country’s exhibition infrastructure in shambles, Warners is making Conjuring 3 available on PVOD up there.

Spirit 2 did so far what people expected from a aimed at young girls animated film. Then again the my little pony movies was a hit at the box office.

Meanwhile, the weekend’s second wide entry, Universal’s DreamWorks Animation’s sequel Spirit Untamed, made an estimated $2.4M yesterday at 3,211 theaters for what looks to be a $7M 3-day in fourth place. CinemaScore audiences gave the movie an A. We’ve seen better from animated family fare during the pandemic: Uni shelled out big for P&A on Croods: A New Age, which translated into a $9.7M 3-day, $14.2M 5-day on its way to $58.3M domestic take, while Warner Bros.’ Tom & Jerry did $14.1M over its first Friday-Sunday. Heck, even Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon‘s opening weekend of $8.5M was higher than Spirit Untamed, and it didn’t have No. 3 Cinemark in its opening mix.

In all fairness to Spirit Untamed, the above movies appealed to both boys and girls, while the DWA horse sequel is largely aimed at girls. Women were the majority on Friday, making up 68% of the audience, with 45% under 17. Social media metrics, per RelishMix, on this part 2 to an animated film that came out 19 years ago (but has rallied on TV and Netflix streaming in spinoff series) are low, with the Spirit YouTube channel counting 743K subscribers before opening. This number is fed into the Peacock Kids YouTube channel with 8.8M subs. Spirit Untamed‘s buzz is tame, says RelishMix: “Convo swings mixed, with frustrations about the general storyline and repetition and with many kids’ titles, while the studio trailers and materials have comments turned off.” Diversity demos were 52% Caucasian, 25% Latino, 13% Black and 10% Asian/other. Best region for the pic was the South, with Comscore/Screen Engine PostTrak moviegoers giving the pic 87% overall positive score and a 66% definite recommend.

Fifth place belongs to United Artists Releasing/MGM/Miramax’s 5th weekend of Wrath of Man, which grossed $335K yesterday (-38%) for a projected 3-day of $1.2M, -44%, for a $24.6M running total.

We won't get the full numbers till sunday of course.

https://deadline.com/2021/06/conjuri...ce-1234769966/

Fast 9 hits $200m in china even with it's fight with doraemon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...h=52e511642878

[Gaastra]

Stand by me doraomon 2 is also about to hit $200m in china. It and fast 9 are in battle there!

[Jim Kelly]

Did you watch last week's "Charts with Dan" video that I posted? At 4:49, he attempts to estimate what Disney netted from CRUELLA on their service vs. in the theatres.

[Gaastra]

Not yet.

So for todays box office conjuring 3 takes first place with $26m and $57m. Quite place 2 makes $19.2m and ww $138m.

Spirit made as expected with $6m.

Cruella made another $18m. Up to $87m ww.

Fast 9 up to $250m ww.

Doraomon nears $500m.

Demon slayer passes the $500m mark!

Detective conan up to $88m!

https://deadline.com/2021/06/quiet-p...ce-1234770121/

[AnthonyO'Brien]

A "Quiet place" spinoff is in the works for 2023, ....A Quiet City perhaps?

[Gaastra]

In the heights expected to make $20m this weekend. However don't count out peter rabbit 2. Didn't care for the first but tons of kids did. It's made over $40m ww so far so don't count it out yet!

So it's dancers vs rabbits this weekend!

Also it's getting reported some theatres are going to start filling up the theatres again. No more half only screenings. So far amc and regal are not on that list yet. Will that effect the box office?

Luca comes out on streaming next week here but some places overseas get it in theatres! Disney told america screw you so we don't get it in theatres here other then a few LA showings so it will count as a "theatre film." A trick used to get films on the academy awards list.

Maybe disney will release it in theatres later like wb did scoob? We can only hope.

[Castle]

Not yet.

So for todays box office conjuring 3 takes first place with $26m and $57m. Quite place 2 makes $19.2m and ww $138m.

Spirit made as expected with $6m.

Cruella made another $18m. Up to $87m ww.

Fast 9 up to $250m ww.

Doraomon nears $500m.

Demon slayer passes the $500m mark!

Detective conan up to $88m!

https://deadline.com/2021/06/quiet-p...ce-1234770121/

On a regular day, Fast 9 should have gone over a billion by now. We will just have to wait longer for the first billion dollar film in a post COVID ERA.