![]() The August Wilson adaptation earned a smashing $6.688 million opening day, the third-biggest Christmas day gross of the year. expanded the Denzel Washington/Viola Davis drama Fences to 2,223 theaters yesterday after keeping it in limited release for the last 10 days. In other "new wide release" news, Paramount/Viacom Inc. I hope it sticks around, as despite my distaste for the movie I'd rather write about a breakout video game movie as opposed to another failed try. But we shouldn't expect legs from this one, especially as it's the only wide opener that made less on Christmas ($4.3m) than it did in its debut ($4.6m) Wednesday. To be fair, the $10.2 million Fri-Sun/$15.1m Fri-Mon/$22.4m Wed-Sun frame isn't a disaster. We'll see.įox's other Christmas release, Assassin's Creed, got a comparative lump of coal for Christmas. It's not insane for a movie like this to leg its way to $50m+ under cover of much more higher-profile biggies. ![]() It was a slightly late bloomer, which is encouraging considering those "school's out" legs for the next week and change. The $38 million James Franco/Bryan Cranston comedy earned $5.395m yesterday for a $11.05m Fri-Sun and likely $16.715m holiday frame. But if it sticks around here and abroad, that may just be trivia.Ģ0th Century Fox's Why Him? kicked into gear over its Friday-t0-Monday holiday debut. This is a very different conversation if the film comes in at $75m. It's no blow-out smash, but honestly, I'd argue the biggest problem for this one was cost. ![]() It's not insane to hope that overseas audiences (star power+sci-fi) will ride to the rescue. There is still precedent for a $100 million+ domestic total, as was the case with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (another "unconventional" adult-skewing Sony Christmas release that cost way too much) back in 2011. It's not a barnburner, but optimism argues that it will catch fire (relatively speaking) this week now that the holiday is over and the adults can get back to seeing stuff they want to see. The $110m-budgeted Jennifer Lawrence/Chris Pratt sci-fi thriller earned a solid $7.5m Christmas for a $14.5m Fri-Sun weekend, $23.1m Fri-Mon frame and $30.4m Wed-Sun debut. The demos were 52% Caucasian, 24% Hispanic, 13% African-American, 7% Asian and 4% "other.” Oh, and it earned another $54m overseas for a $130.7m worldwide cume.įor what it's worth, Sony saved a little face this holiday by getting Passengers over the $30 million mark over its six-day debut. Kids under the age of 13 made up 39% of the audience, which is encouraging in this era of "kids films for adults" franchises. The film earned an "A" from Cinema Score, played 51% male and had 61% "family moviegoers" among its ranks. Or, conversely, it could just play like a "normal" opened on a super-long weekend Christmas title and end up with something closer to the $214m earned by The Lorax (from a then-eye popping $70m debut) back in 2012.Īgain, this is all academic, and I'm giving this relative triumph short shrift because there are a bazillion other releases to discuss. Now the only question, and it may be purely trivia, is if opening in December with a much lower-than-normal (for Illumination) debut weekend translates into huge holiday legs and a domestic gross close enough to Despicable Me ($256 million back in 2010) to not be of much concern.
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