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Wkd Box Office - 9•21-23•18 - Bombs. Bombs everywhere. But Eli Roth scores personal best.

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This is ResetEra's weekend box office thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies, we typically discuss box office throughout the week as well when notable films are playing. New threads are are posted each Sunday morning, between 8-10am PST.



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'The House With A Clock In Its Walls' Sounding Near $27M Alarm; Counterprogramming Still In Deep Sleep

Matinees proved magical for Amblin/Universal's The House With a Clock In Its Walls which pulled in an estimated $11.5M on Saturday, which repped a huge 47% surge over Friday's $7.8M (which included Thursday night's $840K previews). With a revised opening estimate of $26.9M, the haunted family title easily ranks as director Eli Roth's best opening over–the first time he's crossed over into the PG genre as a filmmaker–besting 2006 horror title Hostel which opened to $19.55M. Among his feature-length directorial credits, House is also Roth's best reviewed at 68% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Imax drove $2.5M of House's business at 400 houses with a new Imax version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video playing before the pic.

Family titles like House can be Rotten Tomatoes-proof, but not weepy melodramas like Dan Fogelman's Life Itself which made $780K Saturday, about even with Friday, for a $2.1M three-day reported by Amazon.

NEON/AGBO's Assassination Nation was slightly higher today than Friday, with an estimated $460K to $418K which is pushing it to $1.1M over FSS. NEON boss Tom Quinn has no regrets over the Sundance pick-up and believes history will be on the side of the teenage rebellion satire: "Sam Levinson has created a bold, visionary and ultimately cathartic response to the dumpster fire that is 2018. We're admittedly disappointed more people didn't come out this weekend, but those that did were loud and overwhelmingly positive. It's going to take more time for Assassination Nation to find its audience, but even Heathers wasn't made in a weekend (total domestic B.O. $1.1M)."

Bleecker Street's Keira Knightley drama Colette about Gigi Nobel-prize winning novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette posted a $39K theater average at four NY and LA venues or $156,7K. Measured against the two-time Oscar nominated actress' previous limited launches, that screen average is below The Imitation Game's $119K but ahead of Never Let Me Go ($27,9K) and Begin Again ($26,8K).

Annapuran's Sisters Brothers was also solid drawing $122K or $30K per location at four NY and LA runs. Both Sisters Brothers and Colette had excellent RT scores respectively with 82% and 92% certified fresh; ratings you need to have when it comes to launching specialty fare during awards season.

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DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE



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WORLDWIDE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE


The Incredibles 2 - $1.195B
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - $778M
The Meg - $516M
Hotel Transylvania 3 - $508M
Mamma Mia 2 - $388M
The Nun - $293M
Crazy Rich Asians - $206M
The Equalizer 2 - $184M
Disney's Christopher Robin - $165M
The Predator - $95M
BlacKkKlansman - $76M
Alpha - $73M
Searching - $54M







Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix

Thread Archive

Web links to box office resources

Explanation of Box Office Terms, Abbreviations, and Concepts
 
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Nun cracked 100M. 292M WW

Wan must be banking off this universe. Jesus!
 
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Predator will be out of the top 5 next week then. Sad that the movie didn't turn out well. Wanted to like it.
 
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Predator added 33 theaters and it still dropped 65%. Oof.

I guess Eli saw that his shitty horror films were becoming a dead end for him.
 
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Grimm Fandango said:
$807 per theater average for Life Itself. Holy shit. Reality check for Fogelman.
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Life Itself's Sunday estimate is optimistic. There's a good chance it ends up with the worst PTA ever for a film released in >2500 venues. It also has an outside shot at having the worst opening ever for a film with that level of rollout. The current record is $2.008M.

Amazon paid $10M for Life Itself. They probably were not expecting reviews on par with an Adam Sandler comedy.
 
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The clock movie is a curious case saw advertising for it for a while but it seemed like such a weird thing. The main stays for this end of summer are doing alright. Wonder what the chances are that Fallout cross $800 million?
 
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Wow i had no idea Eli "gore porn" Roth directed Clock in the walls. They certainly didnt advertise that fact. My kid loved it.


And Assassination Nation is a good movie. Will be a cult classic.
 
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Principate said:
The clock movie is a curious case saw advertising for it for a while but it seemed like such a weird thing. The main stays for this end of summer are doing alright. Wonder what the chances are that Fallout cross $800 million?
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Probably not that great given the fact that it has opened everywhere. But a $100M increase over Rogue Nation this deep into the franchise is impressive.
 
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House with a Clock in its Walls was surprisingly decent fun family movie, hope it makes enough to warrant a sequel
 

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People who want to see Kyle MacLachlan having a lot of fun with a role should check out Clock. Saw it yesterday: easily Roth's best movie (not hard), but actually even though it's fairly uneven it's pretty fun.
 
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mreddie said:
Is Walls even gonna make the budget back?

Is anyone waiting for Venom?
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House with a clock is a family film with decent enough reviews. The only direct competition is Smallfoot next weekend, and then Goosebumps 2 (which looks like it should have been a DTV/streaming release) a few weeks after. I'd guess $75Mish for it based on this start and the reviews/reception. Plus whatever it does overseas. The budget was $40M.


These threads are waiting for Venom. Last week was our first time under 200 posts since Era started.
 
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Yeah I wanted to go to the cinema the other day, but it's the first time I can think of for ages that there's been literally nothing I want to go and see out, given that I've already seen The Predator (which sucked).
 
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3.1 million for fahrenheit 11/9 seems surprisingly low given how charged the political climate in the US is
 
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Assassination Nation and Life Itself... I don't even know what to say. The big Sundance deal for Assassination Nation never made sense to me, and it now joins the ranks of Revenge in the "female led, bloody, thrillers that bombed hard at the box office" ranks of NEON (at least Three Identical Strangers did real well for them). And Life Itself has a real shot at becoming the worst 2500+ theatre opener.
Also God Bless the Broken Road had a really nasty drop, and The Predator took a pretty decent stumble as well, I think that franchise is dead for now.

Seeing $30+K PTA openers for both Colette, and The Sisters Brothers is great though. Hopefully they'll expand well.
The Wife is still steaming ahead, very happy for SPC. Speaking of Sony indie hits, Searching is now worldwide at nearly 11x what SPWA picked it up for at Sundance, and is now the number 2 film to come out of Sundance this year and will likely remain as such unless there is some film I have forgotten about. Searching is also just $1.1M shy from overtaking Incredibles 2's $21.9M South Korea take.

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Neon paid $10 mil for Nation...
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At least that's worldwide and they split it with with the Russo bro's AGBO company thing.

... Amazon paid $10+M for the U.S. rights only with Life Itself. eek
 

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Finally got around to watching The Predator. The movie's story is stupid and it does fall apart in the 3rd act, but I enjoyed it. One of those guilty pleasures. -_-
 
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The Conjuring Universe's success makes me so happy. Really glad Wan is doing well and we have a super solid Horror CU.
 
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Crazy Rich Asians did so well in the states but I guess it's not fairing well around the world? Thought the WW box office numbers would be higher.
 
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Saw The House with the Clock in its Walls, it was not ok.

Saw A Simple Favor, it was ok.
 
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janusff said:
Crazy Rich Asians did so well in the states but I guess it's not fairing well around the world? Thought the WW box office numbers would be higher.
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Trainwreck only did $30M overseas, versus $110M domestic. Overseas territories don't really go for American romantic comedies. That's one of those genres that are easy to do locally.
 
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janusff said:
Crazy Rich Asians did so well in the states but I guess it's not fairing well around the world? Thought the WW box office numbers would be higher.
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Warner is being a bit weird with it. It's straight up not opening at all in some territories, and is getting lower profile releases in others.
However it's also getting a staggered release so there are still some big territories to come.
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I don't think it released in China yet. Might do well there.
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It is not likely to get a China release.
 
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janusff said:
Crazy Rich Asians did so well in the states but I guess it's not fairing well around the world? Thought the WW box office numbers would be higher.
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How well do romantic comedies usually translate to foreign BO, literally and otherwise?

I don't think they've historically been very big outside of their own territories. Of course, this one has some different elements that might have been expected to fare better.
 
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If James Wan manages to turn Aquaman into a hit, I imagine he'll be a hot director moving forward. The dude's basically raking in the dough with everything he touches.
 
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vhoanox said:
He already directed $1.5B movie in Furious 7, I dont think he need Aquaman to prove anything. WB actually need him to make Aquaman a hit.
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Yeah, but the Fast & Furious franchise was already a mega hit. He just managed to elevate it to an even bigger success. This is his first time he's tackling a series that has been struggling in some highly discussed ways. I think if Aquaman is a hit, then it's a big boon for WB, but also likely sets Wan's career for the foreseeable future.
 
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kswiston said:
Overseas territories don't really go for American romantic comedies. That's one of those genres that are easy to do locally.
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How well do romantic comedies usually translate to foreign BO, literally and otherwise?

I don't think they've historically been very big outside of their own territories. Of course, this one has some different elements that might have been expected to fare better.
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Eh. It's more of a decidedly mixed bag if you look at recent(-ish) mainstream fare

What to Expect When You're Expecting did do slightly better internationally than domestic
How to Be Single did noticeably better internationally
Blended did a lot better internationally

The Big Sick did noticeably worse internationally
Overboard slightly worse internationally
About Last Night barely got an international release
in addition to aforementioned Trainwreck

I think WB might have been able to push CRA harder internationally and gross more, but opportunity cost and all that.
 
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