By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows led the weekend with an estimated $35.3 million debut. Two other films bowed nationally, with better-than-expected results for the drama Me Before You of $18.1 million and a disappointing turn of $4.6 million for boy-band music-and-fame satire Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
Best of new exclusives were single-screen exclusives The Witness with $13,600, and The Fits, generating $10,300. Expansions saw solid returns for Maggie’s Plan and the continued strength of The Lobster is providing the biggest surprise among alternative titles. In the niches, Indian imports saw potent results for Telugu A…Aa of $1.3 million as well as Hindi Housefull 3 with $697,000. Korean occult horror The Wailing ($40 million overseas) bowed with $211,000 at 32 villages and latest Filipino rom-com Love Me Tomorrow grossed $142,000.
Session revenues generated about $135 million and dipped 19% from last weekend. It was flat with 2015 when the debut of Spy was on top with $29.1 million and another freshman, Insidious Chapter 3, was close behind with $22.7 million.
The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie opened on April Fools 1990 to results that surprised everyone. The new-gen reboot in 2014 and follow-up Out of the Shadows provided solid but not spectacular returns. But this has not been a sequel-friendly season as evidenced by new X-Men and Neighbors.
Turtles also opened day-and-date in 40 international territories to an estimated $34 million. Top territories included the UK with $5.3 million, Russia grossing $4.8 million and Mexico celebrating $4.5 million.
On the domestic side the audience tilted 54% male with 52% of the audience aged 25-years and younger per studio exit polling. Data wasn’t available that reflected family attendance.
There was obviously sufficient awareness of Jojo Moyes’ YA novel Me Before You to spur results that bettered tracking indicators and top end industry expectations of $15 million. The three-hankie affair drew an 81% female audience that was 72% aged 25-years and older. The key 17-34-year demo accounted for 36% of viewers.
Me Before You opened in a handful of overseas engagements to an estimated $7.7 million with the Brit tale grossing $2.7 million in the UK. South Korea was also strong with a $1.6 million tally.
It appears that a significant swath of the crowd didn’t get the joke when it came to Popstar… expecting a more conventional musical saga. Expectations were modest, if higher than its opening box office. Its crowd was 60% male with 55% aged 25-years and younger and 75% aged between 17 and 34.
Title | Distributor | Gross (average) | % change * | Theaters | Cume |
TMNJ2 | Par | 35.3 (8,670) | NEW | 4071 | 35.3 |
X-Men: Apocalypse | Fox | 22.3 (5,370) | -66% | 4153 | 116.5 |
Me Before You | WB | 18.1 (6,680) | NEW | 2704 | 18.1 |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | BV | 10.7 (2,850) | -60% | 3763 | 50.8 |
The Angry Birds Movie | Sony | 9.7 (2,790) | -48% | 3484 | 86.6 |
Captain America: Civil War | BV | 7.6 (2,470) | -50% | 3084 | 389 |
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | Uni | 4.7 (1,940) | -50% | 2417 | 48.5 |
Popstar: Never Stop… | Uni | 4.6 (2,000) | NEW | 2311 | 4.6 |
The Jungle Book | BV | 4.2 (2,130) | -40% | 1990 | 347.5 |
The Nice Guys | WB | 3.5 (1,840) | -47% | 1888 | 29.1 |
Love & Friendship | Roadside | 2.1 (2,530) | -14% | 819 | 7 |
Money Monster | Sony | 1.8 (1,370) | -58% | 1323 | 38.2 |
The Lobster | A24 | 1.5 (2,660) | 98% | 560 | 3.6 |
A…Aa | Blue Sky | 1.3 (9,850) | NEW | 134 | 1.8 |
Zootopia | BV | .80 (1,990) | -1% | 400 | 337.2 |
Housefull 3 | Eros | .70 (5,130) | NEW | 136 | 0.7 |
Batman v. Superman | WB | .28 (1,060) | -55% | 270 | 329.9 |
The Man Who Knew Infinity | IFC/Mongrel | .27 (1,350) | -58% | 198 | 3 |
The Meddler | Sony Classics | .24 (1,050) | -54% | 232 | 3.6 |
The Wailing | Well Go | .21 (6,590) | NEW | 32 | 0.29 |
10 Cloverfield Lane | Par | .20 (2,290) | 82% | 86 | 72.3 |
Weiner | IFC | .19 (3,310) | -10% | 58 | 0.53 |
The Darkness | High Top | .18 (870) | -75% | 208 | 10.4 |
A Bigger Splash | Fox Searchlight | .16 (710) | -70% | 220 | 1.7 |
Maggie’s Plan | Sony Classics | .15 (4,450) | 11% | 34 | 0.4 |
Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $128.90 | ||||
% Change (Last Year) | 0% | ||||
% Change (Last Week) | -19% | ||||
Also debuting/expanding | |||||
Love Me Tomorrow | ABS | .14 (2,330) | 61 | 0.14 | |
Iraivi | Praneeth | 85,700 (2,090) | 41 | 0.09 | |
Sing Street | Weinstein Co. | 45,300 (790) | -71% | 57 | 2.9 |
The Final Master | United | 25,800 (1,170) | 22 | 0.03 | |
Into the Forest | Elevation | 19,700 (2,190) | 9 | 0.02 | |
Art Bastard | Cavu | 16,100 (8,050) | 2 | 0.02 | |
The Witness | FilmRise | 13,600 (13,600) | 1 | 0.01 | |
The Fits | Osilloscope | 10,300 (10,300) | 1 | 0.01 | |
Approaching the Unknown | Vertical | 6,200 (560) | 11 | 0.01 | |
Urge | Lionsgate | 4,900 (410) | 12 | 0.01 | |
The President | Corinth | 4,400 (4,400) | 1 | 0.01 | |
Domestic Market Share (January 1 – June 2, 2016) | |||||
Distributor (releases) | Box Office | Market Share | |||
Buena Vista (8) | 1427.3 | 31.30% | |||
20th Century Fox (11) | 865.4 | 19.00% | |||
Warner Bros. (12) | 507.6 | 11.10% | |||
Universal (9) | 375.3 | 8.20% | |||
Paramount (9) | 318.4 | 7.00% | |||
Sony (15) | 289.8 | 6.40% | |||
Lionsgate (12) | 206.5 | 4.50% | |||
Focus (7) | 133.6 | 2.90% | |||
Open Road (4) | 69.2 | 1.50% | |||
Weinstein Co. (7) | 54.4 | 1.20% | |||
STX (3) | 42.4 | 0.95% | |||
A24 (5) | 37.9 | 0.80% | |||
Roadside Attractions (5) | 22.3 | 0.50% | |||
Sony Classics (7) | 20.3 | 0.45% | |||
Fox Searhlight (4) | 18.4 | 0.40% | |||
Bleecker Street (3) | 17.9 | 0.40% | |||
Other * (163) | 155.8 | 3.40% | |||
4562.5 | 100% | ||||
* none greater than 0.35% | |||||
Top Domestic Grossers (January 1 – June 2, 2016) | |||||
Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
Captain America: Civil War | BV | 381,349,157 | |||
Deadpool | Fox | 362,973,734 | |||
The Jungle Book | BV | 343,222,661 | |||
Zootopia | BV | 336,429,682 | |||
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice | WB | 329,619,773 | |||
Star Wars: The Force Awakens * | BV | 284,378,657 | |||
The Revenant | Fox | 182,765,375 | |||
Kung Fu Panda 3 | Fox | 143,213,757 | |||
X-Men: Apocalypse | Fox | 94,173,232 | |||
Ride Along 2 | Uni | 91,251,872 | |||
Daddy’s Home | Par | 85,902,195 | |||
The Angry Birds Movie | Sony | 76,902,726 | |||
10 Cloverfield Lane | Par | 72,082,998 | |||
Allegiant | Lionsgate | 66,184,051 | |||
The Boss | Uni | 62,797,695 | |||
London Has Fallen | Focus/VVS | 62,524,260 | |||
Miracles from Heaven | Sony | 61,143,691 | |||
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | Uni | 59,948,926 | |||
Barbershop: The Next Cut | WB | 53,383,303 | |||
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghai | Par | 52,897,721 | |||
* does not include 2015 revenue | |||||