Now That's How You Sposed to Open a Summer Blockbuster! | The Domestic Box Office Thread | Jun. 7-9

[Lootpack]

Really solid pull for Talk to Me, flick was pretty damn good too. A24 keeps churning out them indie hits.

Warner Bros realizing how much of a goldmine they had in Barbie after wasting so much money with DC

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

I really wonder how executives can sit in a room and think making decisions like releasing a Haunted Mansion movie in July or releasing a Easter Sunday movie in August is a good idea.

 

[Red Shield]

Pretty much summers last weekend. Don't see the top 10 changing too much over august. TMNT might do well if it's good and wom is good.

 

[Red Shield]

I really wonder how executives can sit in a room and think making decisions like releasing a Haunted Mansion movie in July or releasing a Easter Sunday movie in August is a good idea.

I think disney expected it to bomb regardless

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I really wonder how executives can sit in a room and think making decisions like releasing a Haunted Mansion movie in July or releasing a Easter Sunday movie in August is a good idea.

I went down a rabbit hole earlier today about how Disney intentionally sabotaged Treasure Planet (and Home on the Range) in the early 2000s so they could shutter their 2D animation department, and how they intentionally sabotaged Strange World (and possibly Lightyear) last year so that they wouldn't have to make movies with LGBTQ characters.

I think a case could be made that Disney is intentionally sabotaging Haunted Mansion (and probably did the same with Soul) so they don't have to make movies with too many black leads.

 

[humminbird]

I'm hearing that TMNT is really good so I'm curious how it does BO wise

 

[FlyRy]

can we remove that old poll from last year?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

damn another bomb for disney

 

[8WON6]

I actually saw Haunted Manion, it would have been fine as just a D+ release. Should have never been released in theaters.

Talk To Me was good, but not great.

Going to see The Meg 2 Thursday. Might see if I can get a Turtles ticket for wednesday.

edit: Turtles actually out today. Discount Tuesday at AMC too.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Billy Barb by the end of the week. 'Barbie' surpassed $800M yesterday.

 

[humminbird]

I actually saw Haunted Manion, it would have been fine as just a D+ release. Should have never been released in theaters.

Talk To Me was good, but not great.

Going to see The Meg 2 Thursday. Might see if I can get a Turtles ticket for wednesday.

edit: Turtles actually out today. Discount Tuesday at AMC too.

Should've been on streaming day 1

 

[Won Won]

Should've been on streaming day 1

In October

 

[humminbird]

In October

yeah that's why they released it now

 

[Avisible Man]

What's at the Movies this Weekend (Aug. 4-6)​

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Another week, another couple of new movies released in the wake of Barbenheimer. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make their return to the big screen with you can Mutant Mayhem. It was actually released on Tuesday for previews and officially released yesterday. Paramount did the same thing with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 so this one will have a 5-day opening as well. It's already made $10.2 million and is trying to get close to $30M this weekend. It's got an A CinemaScore. How's that TOMATOMETER looking?

It's tryna beat Elemental's $29.6M opening from June. It should easily best, DC League Super-Pets' $23 million debut from last July.




The other new release which is Jason Statham's The Meg 2. The first one, which I still haven't seen, opened to $45.4 million in 2018 in route to $145.4 million domestically and $527.2 million worldwide. There's no way in hell this is going to do $45.4 million with competition. The sequel is looking at half that opening. That'll give Warner Bros. 2 of the top 4 finishers this weekend. We'll have to see it on how this one holds on. The first one had a B+ cinemascore, which is solid for that type of film. The first Meg had a 46% rotten on the tomatometer. The Meg 2 is sitting pretty with a sweltering 23%.

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The Holdovers ​

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Barbie actually loses a few theaters but it's still all good. It's closing in on $400M. It's already the 46th highest grossing film ever domestically. After this weekend, it could pass Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and its $474.5M for 22nd place. Its $823.8M global running total passed Wonder Woman to become the 93rd highest grossing movie of all time.

With $194.2M, Oppenheimer, will go well past $200M this weekend. It's blown past Dunkirk's $190M. It extended its IMAX stay for another week so the PLF money will continue to flow while the trinity explosion continues to blow. And after this weekend, Nolan should pass the Russo brothers to become the 4th highest grossing director at the domestic box office.

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What's Playing​

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Movie​	Distributor​	Theaters​	Previous Theaters​	Gross​	Projection​
Barbie	Warner Bros.	4,178​	4,243​	$394,576,906​	$62,500,000
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Paramount	3,858​	3,513​	$10,202,275​	$28,800,000
Haunted Mansion	Disney	3,740​	3,740​	$31,362,657​	$11,000,000
Oppenheimer	Universal	3,612​	3,647​	$194,286,505​	$30,200,000
The Meg 2: The Trench	Warner Bros.	3,503​	​	New​	$23,400,000
Sound of Freedom	Angel Studios	3,001​	3,411​	$155,000,017​	$8,000,000
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One	Paramount	2,422​	3,191​	$143,350,787​	$6,600,000
Talk to Me	A24	2,340​	2,340​	$10,431,720	$5,300,000
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	Disney	1,190​	2,165​	$168,705,790​	$2,400,000
Elemental	Disney	1,160​	2,105​	$146,657,883​	$2,000,000
Insidious: The Red Door	Sony	824​	1,914​	$79,311,978​
Theater Camp	Searchlight Pictures	555​	295​	$1,785,021​
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Sony	435​	83​	$379,412,026​

 

[Avisible Man]

Barbie Ken't be Stopped; Banks a Billy: Weekend Box Office Results (Aug. 4-6)​

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What a weekend for Warner Bros. Barbie has reached the billion dollar club in 17 days.
Fresh off a $53 million weekend. It's crossed the $450 million dollar mark with $459.3 million.
That makes it the 24th highest grossing movie of all time domestically. It just passed Age of Ultron's $459.0 million. Star Wars Episode 4, is next to fall with its $460.9 million.

With $1.031 billion, it is the 45th highest grossing movie of all time. It's 3 and 1/2 million away from surpassing Despicable Me 3's $1.034 billion.

Barbie is really crushing her closest competition. That is The Super Mario Bros. Movie and last year's Top Gun: Maverick, both of which are billion plus dollar earners. Mario had made $390.3 million through 17 days. So the doll is 17.8% ahead of the plumber Bros. at the same time in their runs. And she is 16.4% ahead of Maverick's $395.1 million after 17 days.

Barbie wasn't the only Warner Bros. property that cleaned up this weekend. With $30 million, Meg 2, improbably, finished in second place. It's even better internationally, with another $112 million, bringing it's global opening to $142 million. That's just a good old-fashioned shark-fueled summer blockbuster.

That $30 million opening is down 33.9% from The Meg's $45.4 million, but it opened in 615 fewer theaters. That's a win no matter how you slice it. Just you try and stop Statham.

Oppenheimer took 3rd with $28.7 mill. With $228.5 million, it becomes Nolan's 4th highest grossing movie, behind The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. Inception made $292.5 million so we'll see if that is the next to fall. Oppenheimer's $555.8 global running total passes Dunkirk's entire run of $512.3 million.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem had a nice $28 million opening, bringing its 5-day total to $43 million. It was just 5.4% off of Elemental's $29.6 million opening. Who is a different story compared to the 2016 Ninja Turtles movie. It opened up 20.7% lower than that movies 35.3 million. Go Ninja, go Ninja, go?

Disney's Haunted Mansion rounded out the top-5 with $8.9 million. That's a very Marvel-like 62.7% drop in its second weekend. That brings its total up to $42 mill after two weeks. The original The Haunted Mansion made $45.9 in the same time. So that puts the remake 8.5% off the pace. And The Haunted Mansion went on to make $75.8 million. Gotta think positively.

That's right.

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Notables​

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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, fell out of the top five but it's up to $151 million domestically and $493.8 million globally. Rogue Nation had made $157.5 million after four weeks. Dead Reckoning is lagging by 4.1%.

Talk to Me had an outstanding second weekend with a 39.9% hold and 6.2 million. I've heard nothing but great things and I've noticed that @Lootpack thread is generating some good discussion. I may have to go see this one.
With $22.1 million, it's on the verge of overtaking other A24 horror movies including The Witch and its $25.1 million and Midsommar which made $27.4 million.

With $80.6 million, Insidious: The Red Door, is on the verge of overtaking Chapter 2's $83.5 million to become the highest grossing domestic entry in the franchise.

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The Top Ten​

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Rank​	LW​	Movie​	Gross​	%± LW​	Theaters​	Total Gross​	Weeks​	Distributor​
1	1	Barbie	$53,000,000	-43%	4,178	$459,381,000	3	Warner Bros.
2	-	Meg 2: The Trench	$30,000,000	-	3,503	$30,000,000	1	Warner Bros.
3	2	Oppenheimer	$28,700,000	-38.6%	3,612	$228,568,620	3	Universal
4	-	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	$28,000,000	-	3,858	$43,073,468	1	Paramount
5	3	Haunted Mansion	$8,971,000	-62.7%	3,740	$42,020,808	2	Disney
6	4	Sound of Freedom	$7,031,662	-45.1%	2,975	$163,472,260	5	Angel Studios
7	5	Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One	$6,450,000	-39.3%	2,422	$151,002,770	4	Paramount
8	6	Talk to Me	$6,272,232	-39.9%	2,370	$22,135,092	2	A24
9	7	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	$1,521,000	-61.7%	1,190	$170,640,059	6	Disney
10	8	Elemental	$1,211,000	-65.1%	1,160	$148,298,938	8	Disney