SATURDAY PMSony’sBullet TrainAt -56%, you will experience a more comfortable second weekend than you expected. $13.3MThis weekend is No 1. It has a low wattage August frame of around $64M. All movies are included. That’s -2% less than the same weekend last year. This weekend is also the worst of summer 2022. When the May 20-22 frame was created. Downton AbbeyOpened at $16M, a rebound from the previous weekend’s low this summer with all titles grossing $75.6M.
That’s not great when you consider how this summer’s weekend-to-weekend box office has rallied over last year’s. But, again, that’s not because nobody wants to go to the movies. It’s because there isn’t a movie that’s intriguing enough which merits a trip to the cinema.
A24 chose to go wider but not too wide. Bodies Bodies Bodieswhich has a lower Rotten Tomatoes audience score at 78% and only 3 stars/63% on CinemaScore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak. It is clear that the studio has created a new divide between moviegoers (80% certified fresh) and critics (90% Certified Fresh), who are both fans of this horror social satire. Pete Davidson’s title is still available. $3MFor the weekend, 1,285 theaters will be open after a $960K Saturday that’s 27% down from Friday’s $1.3M. This guy is skewing R-rated movies at 52% men, while 78% of those aged 18 to 34 played the best in cities (i.e. LA, NY, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Austin, DC, Boston and Seattle and fared quite well in the Alamo Drafthouses which notched seven of the pic’s top ten runs. 48% Caucasian, 23% Latino, Hispanic and 13% Black were the diversity demos. 16% Asian/other was also included.
While Lionsgate did have something to offer to exhibition during this theatrical dry period, they didn’t go wide on their YA title Fall,This film actually earned a B CinemaScore but lower PostTrak scores at 69% positive, and 44% recommend. Participants who attended. Autumn53% were men, 56% boys between 18 and 34. The pic’s most notable business was in the South and West but didn’t wow with less than 100 theatres of its 1,548 run cracking $1K on Friday. Saturday grossed $835K, -10% from Friday’s $923K, in what looks like a $2.3M opening. The film is challenging for No. 10 with Universal’s second weekend of Jo Koy’s Amblin family comedy,Easter Sunday
Paramount offers Hindi subtitlesForrest Gump RemakeLaal Singh ChaddhaAdvait Chandan. Booked in 516 theaters across 154 markets, the movie has solid numbers in Toronto, Vancouver and Houston. $580K on Saturday, +33% over Friday’s $435K, will get this movie to a $1.47MWeekend and $1.8MMore than 5 days. Rotten Tomatoes receive twenty five reviews.
Universal’s Imax re-release ofE.T.is seeing $310K on Saturday, -37% from Friday’s $490K for a $1MFSS should be taken over
Gravitas Ventures’ Diane Keaton-Taylour Paige comedy,Mack & Rita,didn’t impress with a D+ CinemaScore and 61% PostTrak and low 46% recommend. Pic made $370K for Saturday’s a $988KOpening at 2,000 theaters. The West and Southeast had the most daring to spend very little.
Mid-August is usually a good time to launch a horror movie. It will carry the domestic box office through the fall. Don’t Breathe($89.2M or more)Annabelle Creation ($102M). Perhaps Universal’s campy Idris Elba lion hunt movie,Beast,It will do the trick next weekend.
Weekend estimates:
1.)Bullet Train4,357 theatres, Fri$3.8MSat$5.5M, 3-day $13.3M (-56%)/Total $54.4M/Wk 2
2.)DC League of Super-Pets3.803 (-529) Theaters, Fri $1.955MSat $2.9M 3-day $6.8M (-38%)/Total $57.9MWk 3
3.) Maverick: Top Gun(Par) 3.181 (+421) theaters Fri $1.94MSat$2.8M, 3-day $6.7M(-4%), Total $673.3M/Wk 12
4. ) Nope(Uni) 2,760 (-256) theatres, Fri $1.56MSat $2.2M/3-day $5.3M (-38%)/Total $107.5M/Wk 4
5.) Thor: Love and Thunder(Disney) 3,175 (-225) theaters, Fri. $1.4MSat $2.2M, 3-day $5.2M (-33%)/Total $325.2M/Wk 6
6.) Rise of Gru the Minions(Uni), 3,068 theatres (-120), Fri $1.37MSat$2.1M,3-day$4.9M (-30%), Total: $343.7M/Wk 7
7.)Where the Crawdads Sing(Sony) 3,164 Theaters (-362), Fri$1.2M, Sat$1.6M, 3-day $4M (-29%)/Total $72.1M/Wk 5
8.)Bodies Bodies Bodies (A24) 1,285 (+1.279) theaters Fri $1.3MSat $960K, 3-day $3M (+1223%), Total $3.3M/Wk 2
9.)Elvis (WB) 2,211 (-200) Fri $740KSat $1M, 3-day $2.5M(-36%), Total $141.2M/wk 8
10.) Fall(LG) 1,548 theatres, Fri $923K; Sat $835K. 3-day $2.3M/Wk 1
10.) Easter Sunday(Uni/DW), 3,176 (+1) theatres, Fri $660KSat $900K, 3-day $2.3M (-58%)/Total $9.8M/Wk 2
Notables:
Laal Singh Chaddha (Par) 516 Theaters, Fri $435KSat $580K– 3 days $1.47MTotal $1.8M/Wk 1
E.T.(Uni), 389 theaters Fri $490KSat $310K, 3-day $1M/Total $483.2M/Wk 1. Re-release
Mack & Rita(Grav), 2,000 theaters in Fri $400kSat $370K, 3-day $988K/Wk 1
FRIDAY PM Those cricket noises you’re hearing are the sounds of the summer box office slowing down.
Sony’s No. 1 movie from a week ago, David Leitch’s Bullet Train,will hold the top spot again this weekend in a session that technically doesn’t have any uber-wide releases backed by a multimillion-dollar major studio campaign spend. Brad Pitt’s action title is on the horizon $12.6 millionFor the frame, 58% off week over week after a $3.75M Friday in 4,357 theaters.
The pic by the end of the weekend is eyeing $53.6M through 10 days, with some rival distributors believing it has a shot at $100M by the end of its run, and that it might even hold better than what we’re seeing here this weekend.
A24 has a Pete Davidson horror comedy going all over the placeBodies Bodies Bodies,but not super wide as it stokes word of mouth; it stands at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes’ audience score with a 90% certified fresh rating. The movie about the millennial meltdown is in consideration $1.3MToday at 1,275 venues for the second weekend of $3MIn what appears to be a sixth-place ranking, +1.224% from last week and good for a total of $3.3M over ten days. (A24’s Everything at onceThe spring saw an increase of around 1,200 performances in its third weekend. It grossed $6M after the first weekend in 10 theaters.
Lionsgate owns the Scott Mann-directed YA movie FallOn sale in 1,548 theaters. It’s an experimental release for the studio: a pic not exactly prime for streaming but that tested well with audiences and intended for a big-screen release. The thriller currently ranks at 71% with Rotten Tomatoes’ critics, and has an 84% audience score.
Logline: Life for Becky (Grace Caroline Currey), and Hunter (Virginia Gardner) is all about conquering your fears and pushing the limits. They find themselves stuck at the top of an abandoned radio tower after climbing 2,000 feet. Their climbing skills will now be put to the test as they try to survive the elements, lack of supplies and vertigo-inducing heights. No m.g. No m.g. 47 Meters down franchise (Jamie Harris and Mark Lane) and a low $4M P&A spend on a 46-day window; a title for exhibition in what is the start of a 2 1/2-month desert on the marquee. FallWhat does it look like $800,000today and anywhere between $1.75M-$2Mat the lower end the top 10 charts.
RelishMix observed on social media, that the buzz was for Fall “runs mixed-leaning positive as fans are wondering the extent and the complexity of the storyline — or if it’s a one note, with a predictable outcome. Fans are very intrigued with the outrageous visual hook of the trailers, while some are questioning the CGI. Chatter is onboard the reminder that “Fall drops into theatres on August 12th.”RelishMix also noted, “On an 8 week digital ramp-up for Fall since the first trailer drop, the studio has 5 videos which have clocked moderate counts and moderate viral reposting. Page engagement on Facebook and Instagram for the show are also on the light side for the genre.”
Universal has the Imax 40th anniversary reissue E.T. Extra-Terrestrial Which is seeing $430,000today at 389 auditoriums for a $1MThe total running cost for the three-day event was $438.2M. The pic’s 20th anniversary release in 2002 racked up $35.3M domestic, $69M worldwide. It’s the first time the Steven Spielberg-directed movie is being presented in Imax. JawsAlso hitting Imax, RealD September 2nd
All the way down the chart is Gravitas Ventures’ femme comedyMack & RitaWith an estimated budget of $1.5 million, it stars Taylour Paige, Diane Keaton, and Elizabeth Lail. $300KToday and tomorrow, as well as three days of $865K.Rotten Tomatoes currently has 29 critics. The audience is not impressed at 46%. “Awareness tracks light on social networks with few materials in rotation and light engagement momentum across Facebook, Instagram and YouTube,”RelishMix monitors social media chatter and reports it to RelishMix “been there, done that”This is how the photo looks BigAnd 13 Going on to 30.
In the movie, a 30-year-old self-proclaimed homebody Mack Martin (Lail) reluctantly joins a Palm Springs bachelorette trip for her best friend Carla (Paige), and her inner 70-year-old is released — literally. The troubled writer and influencer miraculously transforms into her future self, Aunt Rita Keaton. Freed from the constraints of other people’s expectations, Rita comes into her own, becoming an unlikely social media sensation, sparking a tentative romance with Mack’s adorable dog-sitter Jack (Dustin Milligan).