2018 At The Boxoffice (1 Viewer)

[Vic Pardo]

Thanks, Josh. I figured you would know.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Ask a NYC movie theater question and I’ve got you covered!

 

[Malcolm R]

Halloween's previews at $7.7 million.

Universal is calling Miramax/Blumhouse’s Halloween at $7.7M in Thursday night previews which began at 7PM, at 3,200 venues, still a fantastic result for a horror pic even though our estimates overshot. Last night’s take bests The Nun‘s $5.4M preview and it’s just under the $8M of Paranormal Activity 3‘s midnight previews.

 

[Wayne_j]

1 N Halloween (2018) Uni. $77,501,000 - 3,928 - $19,730 $77,501,000 $10 1
2 2 A Star is Born (2018) WB $19,300,000 -32.2% 3,884 +176 $4,969 $126,376,246 $36 3
3 1 Venom (2018) Sony $18,105,000 -48.3% 3,887 -363 $4,658 $171,125,095 $100 3
4 4 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Sony $9,715,000 -38.5% 3,521 - $2,759 $28,804,812 $35 2
5 3 First Man Uni. $8,565,000 -46.5% 3,640 - $2,353 $29,999,050 $59 2
6 9 The Hate U Give Fox $7,500,000 +331.8% 2,303 +2,055 $3,257 $10,641,873 $23 3
7 5 Smallfoot WB $6,615,000 -27.0% 3,032 -574 $2,182 $66,366,035 - 4
8 6 Night School (2018) Uni. $5,000,000 -35.5% 2,296 -484 $2,178 $66,906,825 $29 4
9 7 Bad Times At The El Royale Fox $3,300,000 -53.7% 2,808 - $1,175 $13,341,801 $32 2
10 15 The Old Man & the Gun FoxS $2,050,000 +123.4% 802 +574 $2,556 $4,200,856 - 4

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

That Halloween opening haul has to go a long way toward softening the fallout from First Man's underperformance over at Universal. After three days, it's already the highest grossing picture in the franchise's long history.

Even adjusting for inflation, it'll top all but the original Halloween by the end of next weekend.

 

[TravisR]

That Halloween opening haul has to go a long way toward softening the fallout from First Man's underperformance over at Universal.

I know they've spent a ton of dough promoting the hell out of Halloween but I would think that $75 million makes the movie already profitable.

 

[Tino]

Bo analysis from boxoffice guru.com

THIS WEEKEND Fans rallied for fight night to see Jamie Lee Curtis take on Michael Myers in an epic rematch as the horror sequel Halloween crushed the competition at the North American box office opening at number one with a colossal $77.5M, according to estimates. It was the second largest opening weekend ever in October behind only the $80.3M of Venom from just two weeks ago. Halloween also posted the second biggest debut of all-time for any horror movie trailing just the $123.4M of last year's It. This was a monster premiere.

Universal's R-rated chiller averaged a sensational $19,730 from 3,928 locations and marked the second biggest opening this year for an R film beating The Nun's $53.8M and A Quiet Place's $50.2M and ranking only behind Deadpool 2's $125.5M. The horror genre is alive and well with three of its largest opening weekends of all-time occurring all within this year.

Halloween had so much going for it as it entered the marketplace. Curtis provided starpower in this role, reviews were terrific, the brand was still potent, the Blumhouse name added excitement, and the film arrived just two weeks before the titular holiday when fans are in the mood for terror. Competing studios steered clear and did not program any other major new releases for this weekend.

Plus paying audiences have been quite happy with the product giving a B+ grade with CinemaScore, a great mark for this genre. Studio data showed that the crowd was 53% male, 59% over 25, and 53% non-white. With no new horror movies opening next weekend and the Halloween season creeping up upon us, the days ahead look promising with this eventually becoming the third $150M+ blockbuster to come out of this month.

Still showing nice legs in its third weekend was the Oscar contender A Star is Born which dropped only 32% to an estimated $19.3M holding onto second place for a third week in a row. The Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper hit has now taken in a stellar $126.4M for Warner Bros. If it can continue to hold this well, then it has a good shot at breaking $200M and that's before any re-release after Academy Award nominations are announced.

Dropping down from first to third was the comic book smash Venom with an estimated $18.1M witnessing a reasonable 48% decline. Sony has banked $171.1M to date and the Tom Hardy flick will soon crack the top ten movies of 2018 - a rarity for October releases. A final domestic of around $210M seems possible. Overseas markets collected an estimated $32.3M this weekend sending the international take to $290.7M and the worldwide tally to a hefty $461.8M. China opens on November 9 which should help send the final gross well past the $600M mark and possibly beating big films like The Martian, Logan, and this past summer's MCU film Ant-Man and the Wasp. The entire Spider-Man movie franchise has now grossed a phenomenal $5.3 billion since it began in 2002.

Studios programmed Halloween, A Star is Born, and Venom into the typically slow month of October and found out that summer-like grosses are possible at any time if audiences are given what they really want. The three films have already amassed over $750M worldwide in under three weeks and are well on their way to taking in over $1 billion during the fall box office. That means tons of people are seeing trailers and posters for the upcoming holiday season titles.

 

[Malcolm R]

Studios programmed Halloween, A Star is Born, and Venom into the typically slow month of October and found out that summer-like grosses are possible at any time if audiences are given what they really want.

But will the studios heed this lesson and spread out their tentpole event releases? No, they won't. They'll still try and crowd all of their event films into the periods from April 1 to July 4, and Nov/Dec.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It's worth noting that the Joker movie is in the same slot as Venom for next year, so WB is going to attempt to serve the comic book audience next October. We'll see how that goes. I personally don't really want a Joker origin story, but maybe that's just me.

Also, as I said in the First Man thread, its -46.5% drop this weekend is very troubling and indicates that any hope they might have had for a leggy run throughout awards season is misplaced.

Maybe Universal is so delighted with the mega-success of Halloween that they won't notice? Only half-kidding here, but at least they have that one working for them right now financially speaking because First Man unfortunately certainly is not.

 

[Tino]

Halloween will top out at about $200 million domestic.

 

[Wayne_j]

1 1 Halloween (2018) Uni. $32,045,000 -58.0% 3,990 +62 $8,031 $126,698,400 $10 2
2 2 A Star is Born (2018) WB $14,145,000 -25.8% 3,904 +20 $3,623 $148,722,400 $36 4
3 3 Venom (2018) Sony $10,800,000 -40.1% 3,567 -320 $3,028 $187,282,314 $100 4
4 4 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Sony $7,500,000 -22.8% 3,723 +202 $2,015 $38,348,809 $35 3
5 N Hunter Killer LG/S $6,650,000 - 2,728 - $2,438 $6,650,000 - 1
6 6 The Hate U Give Fox $5,100,000 -32.9% 2,375 +72 $2,147 $18,300,005 $23 4
7 5 First Man Uni. $4,935,000 -40.7% 2,959 -681 $1,668 $37,880,080 $59 3
8 7 Smallfoot WB $4,750,000 -27.8% 2,662 -370 $1,784 $72,591,050 - 5
9 8 Night School (2018) Uni. $3,255,000 -33.5% 1,991 -305 $1,635 $71,451,025 $29 5
10 20 Mid90s A24 $3,000,000 +1,062.1% 1,206 +1,202 $2,488 $3,350,170 - 2

 

[Tino]

That’s a great hold for Halloween.

Looks like a domestic finish of $180 million plus now. Enough to be Blumhouse’s biggest hit surpassing Get Out.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Unless it totally crashes after October 31.

 

[Wayne_j]

1 N Bohemian Rhapsody Fox $50,000,000 - 4,000 - $12,500 $50,000,000 $52 1
2 N The Nutcracker and the Four Realms BV $20,000,000 - 3,766 - $5,311 $20,000,000 - 1
3 N Nobody's Fool Par. $14,000,000 - 2,468 - $5,673 $14,000,000 $19 1
4 2 A Star is Born (2018) WB $11,100,000 -20.9% 3,431 -473 $3,235 $165,634,566 $36 5
5 1 Halloween (2018) Uni. $11,015,000 -64.9% 3,775 -215 $2,918 $150,408,705 $10 3
6 3 Venom (2018) Sony $7,850,000 -26.3% 3,067 -500 $2,560 $198,663,348 $100 5
7 8 Smallfoot WB $3,805,000 -20.1% 2,002 -660 $1,901 $77,484,301 - 6
8 4 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Sony $3,700,000 -49.2% 2,828 -895 $1,308 $43,832,316 $35 4
9 5 Hunter Killer LG/S $3,525,000 -47.0% 2,720 -8 $1,296 $12,965,116 - 2
10 6 The Hate U Give Fox $3,400,000 -33.4% 1,507 -868 $2,256 $23,460,924 $23 5

 

[Tino]

Top 10 boxoffice mojo

1 N Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) Uni. $66,000,000 - 4,141 - $15,938 $66,000,000 $75 1
2 1 Bohemian Rhapsody Fox $30,850,000 -39.6% 4,000 - $7,713 $100,010,548 $52 2
3 N Overlord Par. $10,100,000 - 2,859 - $3,533 $10,100,000 $38 1
4 2 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms BV $9,565,000 -53.0% 3,766 - $2,540 $35,256,534 $120 2
5 N The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story Sony $8,015,000 - 2,929 - $2,736 $8,015,000 $43 1
6 4 A Star is Born (2018) WB $8,010,000 -27.2% 2,848 -583 $2,813 $178,020,388 $36 6
7 3 Nobody's Fool Par. $6,540,000 -52.4% 2,468 - $2,650 $24,276,108 $19 2
8 6 Venom (2018) Sony $4,850,000 -38.4% 2,351 -716 $2,063 $206,233,603 $100 6
9 5 Halloween (2018) Uni. $3,840,000 -64.5% 2,717 -1,058 $1,413 $156,810,845 $10 4
10 10 The Hate U Give Fox $2,070,000 -38.3% 1,108 -399 $1,868 $26,705,883 $23 6

 

[Tino]

Great hold for Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Great hold for Bohemian Rhapsody.

You and I disagree on the merits of that film, but you're 100 percent right about this.

 

[benbess]

What are the top box office letdowns for this year relative to costs? As we all know Solo: A Star Wars Story lost money. What are the other big budget, medium-budget, and even smaller budget money losers this year? I need to look up some figures, but I think a fair number of the movies I liked this year probably didn't earn back their costs....

 

[benbess]

This movie was kind of cracked, and nutty as four fruitcakes.....

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Domestic Total as of Nov. 11, 2018: $35,256,534 (Estimate)
Distributor: Buena Vista Release Date: November 2, 2018
Genre: Adventure Runtime: 1 hrs. 39 min.
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: $120 million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $35,256,534 36.5%
+ Foreign: $61,400,000 63.5%
= Worldwide: $96,656,534

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I wonder if Sony is disappointed in their Dragon Tattoo reboot numbers. I know this was made on a smaller scale than the Fincher film, but I gotta believe they were hoping for better than $8 million.

I almost saw it this weekend but couldn’t find a convenient showtime/theater combo - it seemed to be in less NYC theaters than you’d expect for a studio movie on opening weekend.