May 5, 2024
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Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
| Friday | Screens | % Chg | Cume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Gross | Thtr | % Chgn | Cume |
| Venom | 33 | 4250 | NEW | 33 |
| A Star is Born | 15.7 | 3686 | NEW | 15.7 |
| Smallfoot | 3.5 | 4131 | -46% | 31.3 |
| Night School | 3.5 | 3019 | -63% | 37.9 |
| The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls | 1.8 | 3463 | -43% | 49.5 |
| A Simple Favor | 1 | 2408 | -50% | 46.6 |
| The Nun | 0.75 | 2264 | -52% | 111.5 |
| Hell Fest | 0.6 | 2297 | -70% | 7.4 |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 0.6 | 1466 | -51% | 167.6 |
| The Predator | 0.25 | 1643 | -77% | 49.3 |
| Also Debuting | ||||
| The Hate U Give | 0.17 | 36 | ||
| Shine | 85,600 | 609 | ||
| Exes Baggage | 75,900 | 62 | ||
| NOTA | 71,300 | 138 | ||
| 96 | 61,600 | 62 | ||
| Andhadhun | 55,000 | 54 | ||
| Afsar | 45,400 | 33 | ||
| Project Gutenberg | 36,000 | 17 | ||
| Love Yatri | 22,300 | 41 | ||
| Hello, Mrs. Money | 22,200 | 37 | ||
| Studio 54 | 5,300 | 1 | ||
| Loving Pablo | 4,200 | 15 |
| 3-Day Estimates | Weekend | % Chg | Cume |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Good Dead | 24.4 (11,230) | NEW | 24.4 |
| Dolphin Tale 2 | 16.6 (4,540) | NEW | 16.6 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 7.9 (2,550) | -23% | 305.8 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 4.8 (1,630) | -26% | 181.1 |
| The Drop | 4.4 (5,480) | NEW | 4.4 |
| Let's Be Cops | 4.3 (1,570) | -22% | 73 |
| If I Stay | 4.0 (1,320) | -28% | 44.9 |
| The November Man | 2.8 (1,030) | -36% | 22.5 |
| The Giver | 2.5 (1,120) | -26% | 41.2 |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2.5 (1,270) | -21% | 49.4 |
Review: Little Women (no spoilers) - The Hot Blog
Box Office First Look - The Hot Blog
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree - The Hot Blog
The “American Sniper” per-screen average is way off.
The three things that will stand out to box office analysts based on just looking at the 2014 yearly charts:
*5 of the top 11 domestic grossers were Marvel Comics properties.
*For the first time since 1997, which was during the transition from traditional to computer, no animated movie cracked the Top 10 worldwide (Frozen, admittedly, did a lot of business this year).
*The top grossing movie worldwide didn’t crack the Top 5 domestically, and the Top movie domestically didn’t crack the top 4 or 5 worldwide. This one says a lot about the changing landscape.
EtGuild: It looks like Transformers: Age of Extinction was #1 worldwide in 2014, but it was #5 domestically.
Not to get all TOLDJA about a pretty minor issue but rather a simple economics note about opening a movie pre-Christmas. Annie’s $16 million opening was initially talked about here as the movie not getting much past $60 million, if that. But it’s hit $72 million and even if it craters now that the holidays are over (which is not necessarily how it goes in January), it’s got another $10 million in the tank. If it doesn’t, it’ll be more like $20-25 million. So looking at around $85 million domestic? I guess maybe Sony was expecting/hoping it would be more like $125 million, but doesn’t seem like too bad of a number to me. I guess Night at the Museum will be in better shape because of foreign? But that movie doing about its (large-ish) budget domestically seems a bit worse than Annie exceeding its (half as large) budget…
Box office openings in Dec are terrible predictors of final box office — almost everything opens smaller than people expect, and in most cases goes on to have a higher multiple than any other month. It freaks out studios every single year, and it makes media members call film “flops/underperformers” way too prematurely.
For instance, the best December opening ever is the first Hobbit, which is only good for the #59 best movie opening of all times, and of course Avatar and Titanic both opened in December to a “weak” $77 mil and $28 mil respectively.
@Joshua, “The Hobbit” will knock it out of the Top 5 within a couple weeks.