2022 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Malcolm R]

More than $10.7 million in Thursday previews for Minions 2.

The first film grossed $6.2 million in previews and opened to $115.7 million.

 

[Jake Lipson]

More than $10.7 million in Thursday previews for Minions 2.

It's worth noting that "previews" started at 2:00pm local time yesterday. So Minions had almost an entire extra day to make that money that will be rolled into the Friday number. They're still calling it previews, but it wasn't just early evening previews as was the custom a few years ago. By moving the "preview" start time up earlier and earlier, they are essentially making the film's opening day Thursday, even though it "opens Friday." I don't know what time the previous Minions movie started previews, but it was probably later in the day than 2pm. If so, they almost certainly had more showtimes available yesterday for the new one.

 

[Malcolm R]

Illumination/Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru is hauling in some serious cash with a $109.5M 3-day, and $129.2M 4-day. The expected worldwide debut of $196.6M ($202.1M with holdovers) is decimating our earlier projection of $150M.

from Deadline.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$108,510,000		4,391		$24,712	$108,510,000	1
2	(2)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$25,540,000	-14%	3,843	-105	$6,646	$564,015,367	6
3	(1)	Elvis	Warner Bros.	$19,000,000	-39%	3,932	+26	$4,832	$67,320,011	2
4	(3)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$15,650,000	-41%	3,801	-432	$4,117	$331,814,935	4
5	(4)	The Black Phone	Universal	$12,300,000	-48%	3,156	+6	$3,897	$47,464,325	2
6	(5)	Lightyear	Walt Disney	$6,574,000	-64%	3,800	-455	$1,730	$105,362,663	3
7	N	Mr. Malcolm’s List	Bleecker Street	$851,853		1,384		$616	$851,853	1
8	(8)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$551,974	+5%	607	+83	$909	$67,015,157	15
9	(6)	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$390,000	-78%	590	-1,265	$661	$410,541,349	9
10	(7)	Jugjugg Jeeyo	Moviegoers E…	$320,000	-47%	150	-168	$2,133	$1,540,000	2
-	(-)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$258,438	+62%	22	+16	$11,747	$481,450	2
-	(9)	The Bob’s Burgers Movie	20th Century…	$205,000	-59%	275	-315	$745	$31,517,167	6
-	(10)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$168,000	-63%	535	-498	$314	$96,023,335	11
-	(11)	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Focus Features	$164,000	-58%	269	-476	$610	$43,748,035	7
-	(-)	Official Competition	IFC Films	$145,000	+173%	173	+147	$838	$268,684	3
-	(-)	Mad God	Shudder	$20,000	-18%	40	+13	$500	$153,069	4
-	(-)	Lost Illusions	Music Box Films	$12,184	+26%	13	+1	$937	$78,461	4
-	(-)	Facing Nolan	Utopia	$10,430	-73%	25	-45	$417	$386,294	2
-	(-)	Watcher	IFC Midnight	$4,000	-82%	12	-44	$333	$1,951,184	5
		19		$190,674,879

 

[Wayne_j]

Another great hold for Maverick and Elvis also had a good 2nd week drop off. With the release of Minions, Lightyear has died.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Maverick is gonna haul in $600 million domestically in a few weeks. That's pretty amazing.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

They did the hard work of making a good movie and got the luck of releasing it at just the right moment - it’s an incredible result. And for what it’s worth, I actually liked the sequel more than the original.

 

[Jake Lipson]

got the luck of releasing it at just the right moment

I think a lot of credit for this can go to Tom Cruise and probably Jerry Bruckhimer too for using their considerable clout to ensure Paramount held the movie for two years. Without that, Paramount may very well have tried to sell this off to a streamer as they did with a lot of their smaller movies. It took a lot of patience to let this one sit on the shelf as long as it did, but that decision is certainly paying off for everybody involved.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Absolutely. But it’s also the right movie for this moment - I don’t know that it would have hit as big as it did had there been no pandemic and had it opened as originally scheduled. I’m sure it wouldn’t have flopped, but i don’t think it would have done this.

At a time of tremendous uncertainty worldwide, political upheaval at home and abroad, and enough doom and gloom to go around, this movie seems like the perfect anecdote. It looks back while also suggesting a path forward, and while it doesn’t specifically name the enemy country, it’s obvious who the bad guys are and it satisfies some wish fulfillment to see us sticking it to them. That’s the kind of stuff you can’t really plan out. In a normal 2020 (or, if it had just come out in 2019), it seems like a well made but not really asked for Tom Cruise sequel, but at this exact moment in 2022, it seems to speak to so much of what’s going on in our lives and the world. That’s what I meant by luck.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Yeah, they caught lightning in a bottle with Top Gun: Maverick.

I think it would have exceeded expectations regardless of when it came out, but all of the stars really aligned and sent it into the stratosphere with this release date.

Pre-pandemic, we were getting a major blockbuster basically every week. Top Gun: Maverick found a moment closer to how things were when the original movie came out, with the space to breathe and let word of mouth really fuel its legs.

I don't see any other movie catching it this year, but the other blockbusters that are crowdpleasers to do better than expected for similar reasons. Thor: Love and Thunder is already way more ubiquitous in the public's consciousness than Ragnorak was a week before release.

Is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever still scheduled for November? If they stick the landing with honoring Chadwick Boseman and T'Challa while passing the mantle to a new hero, that could be positively massive.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever still scheduled for November?

Yes. Friday, November 11 (which means Thursday, November 10 "previews.")

 

[Tino]

Deadline 4-Day update.

Weekend estimates updated as of Monday morning:

1.) Minions: Rise of Gru (Uni) 4,391 theaters, Fri $48.3M, Sat $32.6M, Sun $26M, Mon $18.1M, 3-day $107M, 4-day $125.1M/Wk 1

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2.) Top Gun: Maverick (Par) 3,843 (-105) theaters, Fri $7.1M, Sat $9.7M Sun $8.9M, Mon $7.2M, 3-day $25.8M (-14%), 4-day $33M, Total $570.9M/Wk 6
At $1.1 billion, the sequel is now producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s highest grossing movie of all-time worldwide, outstripping 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest which did $1.066 billion.

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3.) Elvis (WB) 3,932 (+26) theaters, Fri $5.3M, Sat $6.8M, Sun $6.3M, Mon $5M, 3-day $18.4M (-41%) 4-day $23.5M, Total $71.8M/Wk 2
Great hold here. But it’s not the young kids who are propelling this movie in weekend 2 PostTrak exits. Rather, it’s the continued flow of older women. Females 25+ repped half the audience (+5%). The over 55 crowed showed up at 33% this weekend (+2%), while the under 25 at 18% (-3%).

4.) Jurassic World Dominion (Uni) 3,801 (-432) theaters, Fri $4.7M, Sat $6.1M, Sun $5.2M, Mon $3.7M, 3-day $16M (-40%), 4-day $19.7M, Total $335.8M/Wk 4

5.) The Black Phone (Uni) 3,156 (+6) theaters, Fri $3.9M, Sat $4.5M Sun $3.7M, Mon $2.2M, 3-day $12.2M (-48%), 4-day $14.4M,/Total $49.6M: Wk 2
Typically horror films drop like a rock in weekend 2, more than -60%. Not this one.

6.) Lightyear (Dis) 3,800 (-455) theaters, Fri $2M, Sat $2.4M , Sun $1.9M, Mon $1.49M, 3-day $6.37M (-65%), 4-day $7.86M, Total $106.6M/Wk 3

7.) Mr. Malcolm’s List (BST) 1,384 theaters, Fri $311K, Sat $285K, Sun $231K, Mon $175K, 3-day $826,3K, 4-day $1M/Wk 1

8.) Everything, Everywhere All at Once (A24) 607 (+83) theaters, Fri $141K, Sat $209K Sun $202K, Mon $121K 3-day $552K (+4%), 4-day $673K, Total $67.1M/Wk 15

9.) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Dis) 590 (-1,265) theaters, Fri $108k, Sat $152K, Sun $131K, Mon $92K, 3-day $391K (-78%), 4-day $483K, Total $410.6M/Wk 9

10.) Jug Jugg Jeeyo (Moviegoer) 318 theaters, Fri $98,6K, Sat $112K, Sun $99,4K, Mon $81K 3-day $310K (-57%), 4-day $391K, Total: $1.5M/Wk 2

11.) Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (A24) 22 theaters (+16), Fri $92K, Sat $85K Sun $82K, Mon $49,6K, 3-day $258,4K (+62%), 4-day $308K, Total $530,7K/Wk 2

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$143,000,000		4,375		$32,686	$143,000,000	1
2	(1)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$45,550,000	-57%	4,427	+36	$10,289	$210,078,580	2
3	(2)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$15,500,000	-40%	3,513	-330	$4,412	$597,406,113	7
4	(3)	Elvis	Warner Bros.	$11,000,000	-40%	3,714	-218	$2,962	$91,122,702	3
5	(4)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$8,410,000	-49%	3,251	-550	$2,587	$350,325,830	5
6	(5)	The Black Phone	Universal	$7,660,000	-37%	2,559	-597	$2,993	$62,312,410	3
7	(6)	Lightyear	Walt Disney	$2,900,000	-55%	2,090	-1,710	$1,388	$112,322,200	4
8	(11)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$340,000	+30%	48	+26	$7,083	$963,416	3
9	(9)	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$262,000	-37%	140	-450	$1,871	$411,062,441	10
10	(7)	Mr. Malcolm’s List	Bleecker Street	$245,416	-70%	1,057	-327	$232	$1,638,979	2
11	(8)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$241,188	-56%	286	-321	$843	$67,632,747	16
12	(-)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$232,000	+24%	318	-217	$730	$96,369,975	12
13	(-)	The Bob’s Burgers Movie	20th Century…	$165,000	-17%	200	-75	$825	$31,778,589	7
-	(-)	Official Competition	IFC Films	$102,000	-30%	166	-7	$614	$458,253	4
-	N	Both Sides of the Blade	IFC Films	$25,000		4		$6,250	$25,000	1
-	N	Fire of Love	Neon	$22,328		3		$7,443	$40,686	1
-	(-)	Mad God	Shudder	$19,000	-49%	25	-12	$760	$215,737	5
-	N	Murina	Kino Lorber	$6,702		1		$6,702	$6,702	1
		18		$235,680,634

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Is it just me or does it seem crazy that the dropoff from #7 to #8 is so massive?

 

[Jake Lipson]

Is it just me or does it seem crazy that the dropoff from #7 to #8 is so massive?

Well, the #8 movie is only playing in 48 theaters. So I think that explains it.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Is it just me or does it seem crazy that the dropoff from #7 to #8 is so massive?

It seems like that’s been the case every week of late, it just charges which numbers the big drop off happens between.

It’s interesting being back in the suburbs after decades in cities. Cities are great for moviegoing variety but they don’t really reflect the choices that most of the country has at their local multiplex. #1-5 I can see at my local six screen complex that’s a five minute drive away. #6-7 are still playing at a couple of the larger multiplexes (a dozen screens or so each), but those require a 20-30 minute drive to reach. Everything else, I’d have to go into NYC to see. If that experience more or less matches the choices other people have across the country, then that split seems pretty logical to me.

 

[Malcolm R]

I agree with Josh. The local theaters around me seem to only want to play the very biggest studio films, having some of them on multiple screens at the expense of other titles. Though it's done pretty well, the local theaters here passed on The Black Phone which actually opened at the local art house theater this weekend. The mainstream theaters would rather put extra shows of Minions, Elvis, or Top Gun 2 on their screens. Spread that across the country and it creates a pretty exclusive Top 5 each week, with big drop offs in the lower part of the Top 10.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

The Black Phone did play at my local sixplex for its first week, but disappeared in favor of a second screen for Minions. I get it. It wasn’t really moving tickets here and it’s likely that just about everyone in this neighborhood that was interested in seeing it caught it then.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Well, the #8 movie is only playing in 48 theaters. So I think that explains it.

Yeah, I know - not relevant to the discussion.

My point was that there was a large gap between 7 and 8 regardless of # of theaters...

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$46,000,000	-68%	4,375	n/c	$10,514	$233,271,136	2
2	(2)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$26,000,000	-44%	4,111	-316	$6,324	$262,567,505	3
3	N	Where the Crawdads Sing	Sony Pictures	$17,000,000		3,650		$4,658	$17,000,000	1
4	(3)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$12,000,000	-23%	3,292	-221	$3,645	$617,962,568	8
5	(4)	Elvis	Warner Bros.	$7,600,000	-32%	3,305	-409	$2,300	$106,200,411	4
6	N	Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	Paramount Pi…	$6,250,000		3,475		$1,799	$6,250,000	1
7	(6)	The Black Phone	Universal	$5,310,000	-32%	2,271	-288	$2,338	$72,046,175	4
8	(5)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$4,950,000	-42%	2,647	-604	$1,870	$359,709,000	6
9	N	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Focus Features	$1,900,000		980		$1,939	$1,900,000	1
10	(7)	Lightyear	Walt Disney	$1,300,000	-58%	1,350	-740	$963	$115,498,750	5
11	(8)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$575,370	+79%	153	+105	$3,761	$1,695,817	4
12	(11)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$146,530	-39%	170	-116	$862	$67,930,040	17
-	N	Gone in the Night	Vertical Ent…	$121,000		136		$890	$121,000	1
-	(12)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$85,000	-64%	272	-46	$313	$96,553,760	13
-	(13)	The Bob’s Burgers Movie	20th Century…	$79,000	-49%	180	-20	$439	$31,896,686	8
-	N	Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down	Briarcliff E…	$75,000		302		$248	$75,000	1
-	(10)	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$72,000	-71%	80	-60	$900	$411,196,771	11
-	(-)	Fire of Love	Neon	$63,362	+183%	14	+11	$4,526	$117,523	2
-	N	The Killer	Wide Lens Pi…	$50,000		56		$893	$72,096	1
-	(-)	Both Sides of the Blade	IFC Films	$37,000	+93%	81	+77	$457	$67,346	2
-	(-)	Official Competition	IFC Films	$24,000	-75%	72	-94	$333	$526,890	5
-	(9)	Mr. Malcolm’s List	Bleecker Street	$21,962	-91%	158	-899	$139	$1,845,495	3
-	N	Anonymous Club	Oscilloscope…	$10,275		3		$3,425	$10,275	1
-	(-)	Murina	Kino Lorber	$7,822	+30%	10	+9	$782	$25,337	2
-	N	Costa Brava, Lebanon	Kino Lorber	$4,450		1		$4,450	$4,450	1
		25		$129,682,771