As we wait for box office results note how boy and the heron and kong are smashing the china box office. Boy has just beat Chinas box office for spirited away. Kong still doing great, but boy did chock slam kongs box office a bit in china.
China is getting spy x family movie in a few weeks also and anime is big there right now. Still big win for kong in china.
Domestic looks like American Society of Magical N has been pulled off its box office after just three weeks. Ouch.
Kung fu panda 4 has beat panda 2s domestic box office.
Ghostbusters really hurt by kong. It may have to crawl over the $100m domestic mark.
Edit here we go on the dawn of CinemaCon.
Kong still takes first with $31m.
Monkey man fights to second.Even better than expected results for Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire with a second weekend of $31.7M (-60%) after a second Saturday of $13.8M, +62% over Friday. The twosome are beating their chests to ten-day $135M total.
Ghostbusters scares omen away from 3rd.In second, Universal’s Monkey Man kept steady toward a $10.1M opening, after a $3.58M Saturday, -15% from Friday/previews. If ya think about it, even though this much grittier than any Bollywood film as we know it, it’s on the high-end of where movies for Indians audiences typically open. As a point of reference, Animal, which was a big bloody Hindi action movie last year opened to $6.5M. Typically the audiences for Bollywood movies come out in the first weekend and then fall apart in weekend 2. It will be interesting to see if Monkey Man has any legs off its B+ CinemaScore.
Omen hides behind a tree in 4th.ny’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire owns third with $9M, and a running total of $88.8M in weekend 3 which is trailing 13% behind Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Keep in mind the predecessor was boosted by its play over the Thanskgiving weekend.
Panda takes 5th.Disney’s first wide theatrical release of the year, 20th Century Studios’ The First Omen is blemished with an $8.4M opening (well below projections) after a $3M Saturday, which is $200K less than Friday/preview’s $3.2M.
https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-off...ng-1235876709/Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 is fifth with $7.85M, -24% in weekend 5 with a $166M running total.
Next week civil war must battle don't tell mom the babysitters dead remake, sting, greatest hits, shrek 2, spider-man rerelease, and someone like you for the box office.
Shrek vs spider-man huh?