By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
Weekend Estimates
The Conjuring 2 manifested an estimated $40.4 million, with game-inspired Warcraft at $24.3 million, while Now You See Me 2 prestidigitated $22.8 million. The session’s only significant expansion was Maggie’s Plan.
In the niches, Hindi Te3n opened an okay $263,000. In exclusives a pair of docs—The Music of Strangers and the auto-portrait De Palma—proved potent. Literary biopic Genius wrote a good start of $102,000 at 16 venues.
Revenues for the frame generated close to $160 million and surpassed last weekend by 15%. It was however 44% behind 2015 when the opening of Jurassic World grossed a record-breaking $204.6 million.
Tracking clearly favored The Conjuring 2, the follow up to 2013’s surprise chiller success. The spooky tale out-performed expectations that were in the mid-$30 million level and cemented the appeal of high gloss, modestly-budgeted horror fare. Studio exit polling pegged the opening crowd with a slight female tilt of 52% with 57% of viewers aged 25-years and older. Roughly half the audience was aged between 17 and 24-years old.
The Conjuring sequel also opened in 44 international territories to a hefty estimated $50 million. The focus was Latin America with Mexico posting top returns of $9 million. Other top locations included South Korea with $4 million and Australia posting $2.7 million.
Warcraft may be the videogame adaptation that finally breaks through the genre’s movie jinx. It’s already opened extensively internationally where the gross climbed to $80 million after two weeks. On the domestic front tracking expectations were also on the low side in the area of $20 million to $22 million. It was decidedly the session’s boy movie with 66% of viewers with 54% of eyes aged 30 years and younger.
The film opened to a staggering $157 million in China with a total overseas weekend gross of $186 million to easily lead as the global box office champ.
Also inspired by a left field success Now You See Me 2 was expected to finish second behind The Conjuring 2 in the neighborhood of $25 million. It brought in a crowd that was 52% female and 60% aged 25-years and older.
| Weekend (estimates) June 10 – 12, 2016 | ||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (average) | % change * | Theaters |
| The Conjuring 2 | WB | 40.4 (12,100) | NEW | 3343 |
| Warcraft | Uni | 24.3 (7,150) | NEW | 3400 |
| Now You See Me 2 | Lionsgate | 22.8 (7,060) | NEW | 3232 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Par | 14.7 (3,610) | -58% | 4071 |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Fox | 10.1 (2,810) | -56% | 3585 |
| Me Before You | WB | 9.2 (3,340) | -51% | 2762 |
| The Angry Birds Movie | Sony | 6.8 (2,200) | -34% | 3083 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | BV | 5.6 (1,940) | -50% | 2898 |
| Captain America: Civil War | BV | 4.4 (2,080) | -44% | 2101 |
| The Jungle Book | BV | 2.7 (1,830) | -38% | 1496 |
| Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | Uni | 2.1 (1,340) | -56% | 1581 |
| The Nice Guys | WB | 2.1 (1,840) | -39% | 1147 |
| Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | Uni | 1.7 ((740) | -63% | 2313 |
| Love & Friendship | Roadside Attractions | 1.5 (1,790) | -31% | 826 |
| The Lobster | A24 | .96 (1,710) | -34% | 560 |
| Money Monster | Sony | .71 (970) | -62% | 731 |
| Maggie’s Plan | Sony Classics | .66 (2,110) | 361% | 311 |
| Zootopia | BV | .57 (1,460) | -24% | 391 |
| A…Aa | Blue Sky | .36 (3,580) | -72% | 101 |
| Te3n | Big Pictures | .26 (2,530) | NEW | 104 |
| Housefull 3 | Eros | .22 (1,980) | -68% | 112 |
| Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice | WB | .19 (870) | -34% | 215 |
| Weiner | IFC | .18 (2,520) | -11% | 71 |
| The Man Who Knew Infinity | IFC/Mongrel | .17 (1,380) | -43% | 124 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $151.30 | |||
| % Change (Last Year) | -44% | |||
| % Change (Last Week) | 15% | |||
| Also debuting/expanding | ||||
| The Wailing | Well Go | .13 (3,660) | -41% | 35 |
| The Meddler | Sony Classics | .13 (950) | -50% | 136 |
| Genius | Roadside Attractons | .10 (6,380) | 16 | |
| Sing Street | Weinstein Co. | 66,200 (600) | 41% | 111 |
| A Bigger Splash | Fox Searchlight | 58,700 (1,030) | -64% | 57 |
| De Palma | A24 | 29,100 (9,700) | 3 | |
| The Music of Strangers | Orchard | 25,400 (8,470) | 3 | |
| Puerto Ricans in Paris | Focus | 22,900 (560) | 41 | |
| Blackway | FreeStyle | 16,300 (1,020) | 16 | |
| Diary of a Chambermaid | Cohen Media | 10,800 (5,400) | 2 | |
| Oka Ammayi Thappa | Tollywood | 5,900 (270) | 22 | |
| From Afar | Strand | 5,200 (5,200) | 1 | |
| Germans & Jews | First Run | 4.200 (4,200) | 1 | |
| Be Somebody | 71 Studio | 3,000 (300) | 10 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 1 – June 9, 2016) | ||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office | Market Share | ||
| Buena Vista (8) | 1463.2 | 30.70% | ||
| 20th Century Fox (11) | 897.8 | 18.90% | ||
| Warner Bros. (13) | 542.8 | 11.40% | ||
| Universal (11) | 392.7 | 8.30% | ||
| Paramount (9) | 362.8 | 7.60% | ||
| Sony (13) | 307.3 | 6.50% | ||
| Lionsgate (13) | 208.3 | 4.40% | ||
| Focus (7) | 133.9 | 2.80% | ||
| Open Road (4) | 69.3 | 1.50% | ||
| Weinstein Co. (7) | 54.5 | 1.10% | ||
| STX (3) | 42.4 | 0.90% | ||
| A24 (5) | 40.1 | 0.85% | ||
| Roadside Attractions (5) | 25.3 | 0.50% | ||
| Sony Classics (9) | 21 | 0.45% | ||
| Fox Searhlight (4) | 18.7 | 0.40% | ||
| Bleecker Street (3) | 17.9 | 0.40% | ||
| Other * (170) | 161 | 3.40% | ||
| 4759 | 100% | |||
| * none greater than 0.35% | ||||
| Top Limited Releases (January 1 – June 9, 2016) | ||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | ||
| Eye in the Sky | Bleecker/eOne | 18,455,324 | ||
| Hello, My Name is Doris | Roadside Attractions | 14,301,689 | ||
| The Lady in the Van | Sony Classics | 10,021,175 | ||
| Carol * | Weinstein Co. | 8,910,357 | ||
| Love & Friendship | Roadside Attractions | 8,016,875 | ||
| The Danish Girl * | Focus | 6,607,578 | ||
| The Lobster | Mongrel/A24 | 4,598,123 | ||
| 45 Years | IFC/Mongrel | 4,563,579 | ||
| A Hologram for the King | Roadside Attract/eOne | 4,154,086 | ||
| Where to Invade Next | Drafthouse/Mongrel | 3,827,261 | ||
| The Meddler | Sony Classics | 3,771,153 | ||
| Midnight Special | WB | 3,712,282 | ||
| Anomalisa | Par | 3,683,877 | ||
| Everybody Wants Some!! | Par | 3,442,160 | ||
| The Mermaid | Sony | 3,229,457 | ||
| Green Room | A24/D Films | 3,200,431 | ||
| The Man Who Knew Infinity | IFC/Mongrel | 3,132,460 | ||
| Sing Street | Weinstein Co. | 2,918,919 | ||
| 2016 Oscar Nominated Shorts | Magnolia | 2,816,816 | ||
| Ip Man 3 | Well Go | 2,758,588 | ||
| * does not include 2015 revenue | ||||
