2019 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Top 20 per www.boxofficemojo.com

1 1 Captain Marvel BV $69,318,000 -54.8% 4,310 - $16,083 $266,213,933 - 2
2 N Wonder Park Par. $16,000,000 - 3,838 - $4,169 $16,000,000 - 1
3 N Five Feet Apart LGF $13,150,000 - 2,803 - $4,691 $13,150,000 - 1
4 2 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Uni. $9,345,000 -36.4% 3,727 -315 $2,507 $135,643,095 $129 4
5 3 Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral LGF $8,085,000 -35.1% 2,350 -92 $3,440 $59,068,015 - 3
6 N No Manches Frida 2 PNT $3,894,000 - 472 - $8,250 $3,894,000 - 1
7 N Captive State Focus $3,163,000 - 2,548 - $1,241 $3,163,000 - 1
8 4 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part WB $2,135,000 -44.8% 2,046 -884 $1,043 $101,319,713 - 6
9 5 Alita: Battle Angel Fox $1,900,000 -40.9% 1,696 -678 $1,120 $81,821,539 $170 5
10 6 Green Book Uni. $1,277,000 -49.2% 1,320 -777 $967 $82,621,031 $23 18
11 7 Isn't It Romantic WB (NL) $1,265,000 -44.1% 1,366 -857 $926 $46,366,440 - 5
12 10 Apollo 11 Neon $1,226,000 -2.0% 588 +183 $2,085 $5,540,883 - 3
13 9 Fighting with My Family MGM $1,109,003 -49.2% 1,580 -875 $702 $20,900,777 - 5
14 12 The Upside STX $810,000 -21.2% 880 -130 $920 $105,875,578 $37.5 10
15 11 What Men Want Par. $730,000 -41.2% 587 -475 $1,244 $53,437,016 $20 6
16 8 Greta Focus $675,000 -69.2% 980 -1,437 $689 $10,004,700 - 3
17 N Dominirriquenos 2 Spanglish $558,754 - 53 - $10,543 $558,754 - 1
18 17 Badla Relbig. $452,225 -24.2% 115 +65 $3,932 $1,300,623 - 2
19 34 Gloria Bell A24 $394,835 +171.9% 39 +34 $10,124 $584,390 - 2
20 13 Happy Death Day 2U Uni. $349,000 -59.9% 486 -612 $718 $27,528,685 $9 5

 

[Jeff Adkins]

What's the deal with Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase? It doesn't appear that they are reporting box office for it.

 

[Robert Crawford]

What's the deal with Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase? It doesn't appear that they are reporting box office for it.

That's strange, I'm going to see it either tomorrow or Tuesday as one of my A-List selections.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

What's the deal with Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase? It doesn't appear that they are reporting box office for it.

Excellent question! The article from BOM makes zero mention of "Nancy Drew", not even to explain why it's not there.

This is a major studio release that received a lot of publicity, but it's like it doesn't exist in terms of box office!

 

[Wayne_j]

I don't even see it listed in my area.

 

[Malcolm R]

I never knew it existed until it was brought up in this thread.

 

[Wayne_j]

Looking at big cities the only theaters showing it are owned by AMC. The Regal and Cinemark websites don't acknowledge the movie exists.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I never knew it existed until it was brought up in this thread.

Me either.

Sort-of good news for Lego 2 with passing $100m, finally, but it's got to hurt that it took six weeks to get there and The Upside of all things is still higher than it on the yearly chart. The first Lego had made $236.9 million in the same amount of time, so the erosion is extremely significant and I'm sure an issue of great concern for WB. I wonder what they'll do going forward with what they envisioned as a signature franchise.

 

[Malcolm R]

The first Lego had made $236.9 million in the same amount of time, so the erosion is extremely significant and I'm sure an issue of great concern for WB. I wonder what they'll do going forward with what they envisioned as a signature franchise.

Much like Disney and the Star Wars franchise, WB got greedy and diluted their own brand by releasing the Lego Batman Movie and the Lego Ninjago Movie between the films of the main franchise and diluted their own brand. Now they're paying the price.

The low box office of the Ninjago movie and the poor ratings for the Lego Jurassic World holiday TV special were warning signs.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Looking at big cities the only theaters showing it are owned by AMC.

That's a good observation.

I'm not saying this absolutely is the case here -- I don't know -- but sometimes, studios will rent out theaters for a period of time to show their movies. Netflix does this with some of their awards contenders to qualify them for awards. In those cases, the studio pays the theater the amount of money they would have had if the entire theater was sold out for every showing. So, it's possible that the distributor of Nancy Drew has a deal with AMC to rent out the auditoriums in which it is screening, which would make its actual box office performance irrelevant for AMC since they would get paid the same amount either way. Hypothetically, if it is a rental situation, then the distributor wouldn't need to report box office necessarily. Just a guess.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I saw the original Lego Movie in theaters back in Feb 2014, and I found it entertaining enough for an off-season movie. Wasn’t brilliant but was enjoyable enough, and I bought the disc when that came out too.

Saw the Lego Batman movie and thought it was one of the worst things I’d ever paid money to see. That dampened a lot of enthusiasm for a true sequel.

And then, by the time the sequel came out this year, I was just over the whole thing. If they had put out Lego Movie 2 instead of the Batman one, I would have probably seen it then.

 

[Tino]

Me either.

Sort-of good news for Lego 2 with passing $100m, finally, but it's got to hurt that it took six weeks to get there and The Upside of all things is still higher than it on the yearly chart. The first Lego had made $236.9 million in the same amount of time, so the erosion is extremely significant and I'm sure an issue of great concern for WB. I wonder what they'll do going forward with what they envisioned as a signature franchise.

They’ll do nothing. The franchise is dead imo and they only have themselves to blame.

 

[Jake Lipson]

They’ll do nothing.

That would surprise me.

I suspect they'll probably try another spinoff based around another IP -- like Batman was -- so that they can appeal to the fans of whatever that IP is. But I'd be surprised if we never saw another Lego movie. I just think it will be Lego Fill-in-the-Blank instead of Lego Movie 3.

 

[Tino]

I just think it will be Lego Fill-in-the-Blank instead of Lego Movie 3.

Exactly. That’s what I meant.

 

[Mike2001]

I'm curious about Nancy Drew too. I saw it on Friday while my wife was shopping in the mall, since it was the only thing opening that didn't get splatted on Rotten Tomatoes. I thought it was charming and that my 9 year old daughter would enjoy it. So I went back again on Saturday with her. She was riveted throughout. Ain't A-List wonderful?

 

[Jeff Adkins]

I'm not saying this absolutely is the case here -- I don't know -- but sometimes, studios will rent out theaters for a period of time to show their movies. Netflix does this with some of their awards contenders to qualify them for awards. In those cases, the studio pays the theater the amount of money they would have had if the entire theater was sold out for every showing. So, it's possible that the distributor of Nancy Drew has a deal with AMC to rent out the auditoriums in which it is screening, which would make its actual box office performance irrelevant for AMC since they would get paid the same amount either way. Hypothetically, if it is a rental situation, then the distributor wouldn't need to report box office necessarily. Just a guess.

You might be onto something here. I never knew it was only at AMC until it was mentioned earlier in this thread. So it appears that some sort of distribution deal was made between Warner and AMC.

It's possible that WB didn't really want to bother with it and made the deal to get it in theaters just to keep Ellen Degeneres happy. Ellen is co-producer of this film and she obviously makes a boatload of money for WB (the most recent numbers I could find were from 2013 and said $100 million in advertising revenue).

Normally those "4-wall rentals" aren't eligible for A-List, but this one was. I'm assuming that was factored into the deal somehow.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Normally those "4-wall rentals" aren't eligible for A-List, but this one was. I'm assuming that was factored into the deal somehow.

To be clear, I'm not saying that there was a four-wall rental situation here. I legitimately don't know. However, the fact that it appears to be AMC only would suggest something like that.

I looked up after reading about it in this thread and Nancy Drew is indeed at my local single AMC (which I never go to anymore) and nowhere else around here.

I doubt I would have gone to Nancy Drew either way, but it being AMC exclusive means I definitely will not as I am boycotting their theater.

 

[Jeff Adkins]

To be clear, I'm not saying that there was a four-wall rental situation here. I legitimately don't know. However, the fact that it appears to be AMC only would suggest something like that.

I know, but I still think you're probably correct. What's even more strange is that it is playing at one theater not affiliated with AMC.

https://www.malco.com/cinema_shows_new.php?theatre_pick=26

 

[Wayne_j]

This reminds me of 2014's Veronica Mars movie which was also at least mostly shown at AMC theaters.

 

[Malcolm R]

There seemed to be quite a bit of promo "stuff" on the AMC website about the ND movie, so they must have had some sort of exclusive/partnership on the film. Not sure if it's temporary, or if it might be released wider in a week or two?