The first weekend of the year, which at its peak in 2016 earned $ 219.5 million from the heat of Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, an estimated $ 13 million for the entire weekend. It is in a continuing shortened exhibition market that will reopen in 2021.
Warner Bros. ‘theater release of Wonder Woman 1984, which is also available on HBO Max for the next 21 days $ 5.5 million, -67%, for a current domestic BO of $ 28.5 million. From that kind of drop, it sounds like the audience that is there is finally getting the message that they can watch the movie at a cheaper price for the family on HBO Max. Warners still need to provide hard numerical details about the increase in subscribers or viewers WW1984. This is in contrast to other photographs that respect a theater window.
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Despite the awful New Year’s weekend, some photos saw the weekend-to-weekend gains in their gross income from the previous Christmas-3-day, i.e. Monster Hunter, Fatale, Croods 2, Pinocchio, war with grandpa, come play, or decent hold, ie Promising young woman and News from the world. In addition, the daily box office operations of Saturday for most of the top 10 films are on average + 11% more than Friday.
While Warner hits the drums on the worldwide beat, now at $ 118.5 million, which, let’s be honest, would be significantly higher if the studio awaited this tent pole at a healthier time in the market, the box office analysts believe that the Patty Jenkins film will disappear about $ 40 million in a local market where 60 % of all 5.5 K theaters were closed. Warner’s Tenet, with the Regal No. 2-chain that was open for most of the photo, it was stopped at $ 57.9 million. A reminder that the majors with fewer DMAs on the box keep their usual spending on tent poles.
In the meantime, read the @HBOMaxHelp Twitter feed and you will see that power outages continue for the DC sequel, specifically the Roku device. Here is just one public example of the weekend:
Shark @HBOMaxHelp, what’s up with WW84? All your other content looks good. I try to watch this movie and it stutters everywhere. Completely invisible. 🤔
– They Call Me Nels (@TheyCallMeNels) 1 January 2021
Although it has already been reported that critics have soured a lot about the movie, their Rotten Tomatoes score from 89% on December 16 to a current 60% freshly certified, as well as the audience response (i.e. current B + for sequel versus first photo’s). A)). RelishMix, social media analyst, noted that the recent social media chats of the DC series scored a 4.5 out of 10 in his conversation meter.
‘Convo before release was extraordinarily in the shell for the next chapter. But since the opening, conversations have been very mixed, with questions about the exceptional powers of ‘The Dreamstone’, the rebirth of Chris Pine’s character, to the transformation of Kristen Wiig. Review sites go deeper into the pace of the storyline, as well as Wonder Woman moments throughout the film. Fans are hoping for a 2021 return to the big screen with popcorn, ASAP, “reports RelishMix.
That said, the pressure on social media for the photo, especially by star Gal Gadot, was amazing. ‘The social channels for WW84 on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, with the official pages for the film (3.9M), the studio (53.8M) and DC channels (8.2M) – the Social Media Universe of Gal Gadot (60.5M) is the strongest driver of involvement since opening. Specifically, the activity on Gadot Instagram during the week recorded more than 8 million preferences. ”
Since Christmas Day, the hottest Gadot message has taken fans behind the scenes, which they clearly enjoy, with 2.7 million preferences and more than 10,000 comments on the image:
About TikTok, Gal Gadot and her marketing / glam group have not missed a beat with continuous posting to expand to another 1.2 million fans.
Other statistics on WW1984 for the weekend, Canada includes an additional $ 6.2 million. The exhibition situation is so bad in the Great White North, the sequel has a simultaneous release of PVOD.
The top 10 places for the weekend were: 1. Cinemark West Jordan SLC, 2. AMC Disney Springs Orlando, 3. Paramount Drive-In Los Angeles, 4. District Megaplex South Jordan SLC, 5. Santikos Palladium San Antonio, 6. Cinemark Pharr Town Center, 7. Cinemark Majestic Meridian Boise, 8. Estrella Falls Phoenix, 9. Cinemark University Mall Orem SLC, and 10. Victoria Ward Honolulu
And the top 10 DMA markets were 1. Salt Lake City, 2. Dallas, 3. Phoenix, 5. Greater New York Metro area (NJ, CT and Upstate NY theaters), 4. Houston, 6. Orlando, 7. Atlanta , 8. Tampa, 9. Miami, and 10. Las Vegas.
Elsewhere, Universal and Focus, as usual, filled four spots in the top 10, eight in the top 20. Their DreamWorks Animations Croods: A New Age has not stopped on the big screen since its Thanksgiving debut, as it is currently available on PVOD, with a sixth weekend of $ 2.18 million in the 2nd, + 25% for a running total of $ 34.5 million . The sequel’s worldwide gross is $ 115 million.
Uni western News from the world filed 2, -25%, a third of $ 1.69 million over the weekend for a total of ten days of $ 5.4 million. Focus Features’ Promising young women slots 6th with $ 660K, -8%, for a 10-day $ 1.9 million.
Promising young womanThe top theaters and markets for the first weekend of 2021 are in line with last week’s results. New York is moving up to become the second largest market of the photo. “The market share in New York without the New York City theaters did not occupy such a high position during the pandemic, so you can see that the film really has an impact,” reads the morning release of Focus. ‘Austin and Washington DC also have exceptionally high market share in this pandemic period Promising young woman. ” The largest markets were Dallas (6.4% of the BO), NY (5.4%), Phoenix (5.1%), Houston (4.4%), Atlanta (2.8%), Austin (2 , 8%), Salt Lake City (2.7%)), Orlando (2.5%), Miami (2.3%) and Washington DC (2.1%).
We are building the top 10 chart for 1-3 January 2021:
1.) Wonder Woman 1984 (WB) 2,151 theaters /$ 5.5 million (-67%) / Total: $ 28.5 million / week 2
2.) Croods: A New Age (Uni) 1 751 theaters (+25), three days: $ 2.18 million(+ 25%), total: $ 34.5 million per week 6
3.) News from the world (Uni) 1,928 theaters (+28), three-day: $ 1.69 million (-25%)/Total: $ 5.4 million /Wk 2
4.) Monster Hunter (Sony) 1807 theaters (-10), three days: $ 1.25 million (+ 11%) / Total: $ 6.3 million / week 3
5.) Fatal (Lionsgate) 1,183 theaters (+15), three-day: $ 700K (+ 6%), total: $ 3.09 million / week 3
6.) Promising young woman (Focus) 1333 theaters (+23), 3-day: $ 660 thousand (-8%) / Total: $ 1.9 million /Wk 2
7.) Pinocchio (RSA) 795 theaters (+9), three days: $ 284 thousand (+ 4%) / Total: $ 772.8K / week 2
8.) The war with grandpa (101) 305 theaters (-210), three-day: $ 114K (+ 27%), total: $ 18.7 million / week 13
9.) Alien (20de) 505 theaters, 3-day $ 75K/ Total: $ 81.9 million / week 505
10.) Come play (Foc / Amb) 110 theaters (-13), 3-day: $ 55K (+ 28%) / Total: $ 9.56 million / week