2022 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

The general lack of new product this week might have actually helped Everything Everywhere All At Once as people who haven't gotten around to it yet look for something to see.

My local AMC finally got Everything Everywhere All At Once this week. I had too much going on in the last few weeks to drive to another theater and see a nearly two and a half hour movie but since it was near me, I saw it and me and a friend thought it was fantastic.

 

[Tino]

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ Seeing $85M+ Opening Day – Midday Update​

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$185,000,000		4,534		$40,803	$185,000,000	1
2	(1)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$9,770,000	-40%	3,839	-203	$2,545	$57,572,485	3
3	(2)	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	Paramount Pi…	$7,100,000	-38%	3,358	-443	$2,114	$170,801,471	5
4	(3)	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	Warner Bros.	$3,950,000	-52%	3,051	-911	$1,295	$86,009,171	4
5	(5)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$3,323,297	-40%	1,542	-671	$2,155	$41,565,896	7
6	(4)	The Northman	Focus Features	$2,770,000	-56%	2,413	-871	$1,148	$28,048,585	3
7	(7)	The Lost City	Paramount Pi…	$2,500,000	-35%	1,897	-698	$1,318	$94,389,264	7
8	(6)	The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent	Lionsgate	$1,525,000	-61%	3,036	n/c	$502	$16,388,403	3
9	(8)	Memory	Open Road	$1,220,000	-61%	2,433	-122	$501	$5,492,665	2
10	(9)	Father Stu	Sony Pictures	$800,000	-64%	1,265	-1,211	$632	$19,235,742	4
11	(10)	Morbius	Sony Pictures	$625,000	-59%	1,726	n/c	$362	$72,557,763	6
-	(-)	Ambulance	Universal	$235,000	-80%	424	-1,013	$554	$21,651,920	5
-	(-)	Petite maman	Neon	$186,000	+214%	224	+193	$830	$342,301	3
-	(-)	Uncharted	Sony Pictures	$90,000	-72%	428	n/c	$210	$146,614,202	12
-	(-)	Y Como Es El	Pantelion Films	$59,139	-80%	72	-253	$821	$1,247,696	3
-	N	Happening	IFC Films	$34,000		4		$8,500	$34,000	1
-	(-)	Vortex	Utopia	$31,212	+86%	39	+38	$800	$52,664	2
-	(-)	The Automat	A Slice of P…	$5,500	-50%	6	-6	$917	$202,667	12
-	(-)	We’re All Going to the World’s Fair	Utopia	$3,201	-76%	9	-17	$356	$88,733	4
		19		$219,227,349

 

[Jake Lipson]

Charts with Dan for this week with an interesting note about the CinemaScore for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness:

 

[steve jaros]

Glad to see "Dr Strange" have a strong debut, I saw it in IMAX 3D and Dolby over the weekend and enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$61,003,000	-67%	4,534	n/c	$13,455	$291,862,523	2
2	(2)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$6,900,000	-28%	3,788	-51	$1,822	$66,284,110	4
3	(3)	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	Paramount Pi…	$4,550,000	-24%	3,116	-242	$1,460	$175,699,375	6
4	N	Firestarter	Universal	$3,820,000		3,412		$1,120	$3,820,000	1
5	(5)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$3,302,720	-6%	1,726	+184	$1,914	$47,103,580	8
6	(4)	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	Warner Bros.	$2,420,000	-43%	2,578	-473	$939	$90,045,688	5
7	(7)	The Lost City	Paramount Pi…	$1,730,000	-37%	1,675	-222	$1,033	$97,149,828	8
8	(6)	The Northman	Focus Features	$1,700,000	-41%	1,934	-479	$879	$31,157,855	4
-	(8)	The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent	Lionsgate	$1,050,000	-34%	1,076	-255	$976	$18,217,570	4
-	(17)	Uncharted	Sony Pictures	$550,000	+500%	1,253	+1,087	$439	$147,192,769	13
-	(9)	Memory	Open Road	$440,000	-68%	785	-1,648	$561	$6,724,481	3
-	(10)	Father Stu	Sony Pictures	$410,000	-53%	936	-329	$438	$20,028,142	5
-	(11)	Morbius	Sony Pictures	$315,000	-50%	313	-411	$1,006	$73,015,837	7
-	(13)	Ambulance	Universal	$260,000	-5%	279	-145	$932	$22,058,590	6
-	(14)	Petite maman	Neon	$105,200	-49%	222	-2	$474	$574,924	4
-	(18)	Y Como Es El	Pantelion Films	$74,350	n/c	72	n/c	$1,033	$74,350	4
-	(19)	Happening	IFC Films	$59,000	+77%	186	+182	$317	$100,305	2
-	N	Montana Story	Bleecker Street	$20,104		4		$5,026	$20,104	1
-	N	Pleasure	Neon	$17,274		2		$8,637	$17,274	1
-	N	The Innocents	IFC Films	$12,500		32		$391	$12,500	1
-	N	Mau	Greenwich	$7,500		2		$3,750	$7,500	1
-	(30)	The Automat	A Slice of P…	$6,246	+30%	5	-1	$1,249	$213,074	13
-	(26)	Lux Aeterna	Yellow Veil …	$5,600	-37%	5	+4	$1,120	$17,400	2
		23		$88,758,494

 

[Jake Lipson]

With those estimates, the total domestic gross since April 14 of The Secrets of Dumbledore is now equal to what Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made in its first weekend 21 years ago, ignoring inflation.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

With those estimates, the total domestic gross since April 14 of The Secrets of Dumbledore is now equal to what Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made in its first weekend 21 years ago, ignoring inflation.

Is that bad? That sounds bad.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Is that bad?

I'm not sure how to look at the results for The Secrets of Dumbledore as anything other than a failure for Warner Bros., especially in North America.

 

[Wayne_j]

I'd say that if your total after 4 weeks is less than opening weekend of a film in the same franchise that came out 20+ years ago it is a very bad sign.

 

[Malcolm R]

Yep. As I said elsewhere, they could have had a fun franchise if they'd concentrated on Newt and the titular "Fantastic Beasts," but instead turned it into a dull treatise on the history of wizard politics. This likely turned off a lot of the audience, including myself. They should have ignored the HP franchise as much as possible and concentrated on creating an adjacent world centered on Newt and his creatures, perhaps with short cameos from HP characters.

This is no longer "Fantastic Beasts". This is "Dumbledore: The Early Years".

 

[Wayne_j]

They should have dropped the Fantastic Beasts title after the first movie, that leads people to expect much more beasts than they are getting.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

I'm not sure how to look at the results for The Secrets of Dumbledore as anything other than a failure for Warner Bros., especially in North America.

Ya see, the laughing emoji offered a sign I knew it was bad and was joking.

 

[Jake Lipson]

They should have dropped the Fantastic Beasts title after the first movie

I agree with you based on content but I think they felt obligated to keep it because of branding. Lots of studios, including Warner, seem to believe that audiences won't connect a sequel with a previous film unless they put the franchise title at the front. For example, Catching Fire couldn't just go out as Catching Fire as the book did; it had to be The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I think that underestimates the audience, James Bond movies don't put his name in front of every title and people still know what they are.

they could have had a fun franchise if they'd concentrated on Newt and the titular "Fantastic Beasts," but instead turned it into a dull treatise on the history of wizard politics.

I watched the first two films back-to-back the day before the third one opened here. Watching all three films in a row demonstrated how much the series has shifted its creative direction, and not for the better. I wouldn't go so far as to say that a series about wizard politics wouldn't work, but I do think that this series as it is currently bing executed doesn't work anymore, and it does feel like a bait-and-switch from what was originally presented as opposed to what it has turned into.

To be totally fair, the first film did start with the issue of Grindelwald's whereabouts right off the bat with the newspaper headlines opening. But it quickly presented Newt as the protagonist of that story and Grindelwald as someone who was operating in the background. Newt is no longer the protagonist of the films; instead, he and the other characters introduced in the first film seem like they just kind of have to be there because of some kind of franchise-minded obligation. If Dumbledore vs. Grindelwald was really the primary story that the filmmakers were interested in telling, they should have led with that in the first place instead of with Newt. The wizard world is a big place and could fit lots of stories. They did a movie about Newt and his creatures. They could go on to do Quidditch Through the Ages as a sort of wizard world sports biopic movie. Instead, having everything come back to characters from the existing lore makes the world feel smaller and inherently limits their ability to branch out and do different things therein.

I know that there are some fans of the series on this board, and I really wish I could join in their enthusiasm. I really don't mean to sound like a wet blanket here. But I think that it is clear from the box office returns that the wider general public opinion of the Fantastic Beasts series has fallen off dramatically and I don't see how WB can justify continuing it in its current iteration.

 

[Jake Lipson]

On another note, here is a particularly good episode of Charts with Dan for this which has some deep dive analysis of the numbers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Walt Disney	$31,600,000	-49%	4,534	n/c	$6,970	$342,080,485	3
2	N	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Focus Features	$16,020,000		3,820		$4,194	$16,020,000	1
3	(2)	The Bad Guys	Universal	$6,100,000	-13%	3,705	-83	$1,646	$74,365,375	5
4	(3)	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	Paramount Pi…	$3,940,114	-15%	2,943	-173	$1,339	$181,002,000	7
5	N	Men	A24	$3,293,030		2,212		$1,489	$3,293,030	1
6	(5)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$3,135,928	-6%	1,576	-150	$1,990	$52,263,484	9
7	(6)	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	Warner Bros.	$1,905,000	-25%	1,923	-655	$991	$93,066,161	6
8	(4)	Firestarter	Universal	$1,900,000	-50%	3,413	+1	$557	$6,959,900	2
9	(8)	The Lost City	Paramount Pi…	$1,499,977	-12%	1,396	-279	$1,074	$99,267,000	9
10	(7)	The Northman	Focus Features	$1,020,000	-42%	1,263	-671	$808	$33,041,330	5
-	N	2000 Mules	D’Souza Media	$765,000		415		$1,843	$765,000	1
-	(-)	The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent	Lionsgate	$765,000	-28%	821	-255	$932	$19,500,610	5
-	(-)	Uncharted	Sony Pictures	$285,000	-49%	467	-786	$610	$147,650,103	14
-	(-)	Father Stu	Sony Pictures	$275,000	-35%	525	-411	$524	$20,515,063	6
-	(-)	Memory	Open Road	$240,000	-47%	370	-415	$649	$7,198,115	4
-	(-)	Morbius	Sony Pictures	$165,000	-46%	207	-106	$797	$73,222,907	8
-	(-)	Ambulance	Universal	$145,000	-40%	201	-78	$721	$22,245,570	7
-	(-)	Y Como Es El	Pantelion Films	$40,600	-19%	38	-12	$1,068	$1,400,018	5
-	(-)	Petite maman	Neon	$37,400	-66%	83	-139	$451	$700,048	5
-	(-)	Pleasure	Neon	$30,000	+83%	44	+42	$682	$51,509	2
-	(-)	Montana Story	Bleecker Street	$18,899	+9%	24	+20	$787	$41,181	2
-	(-)	Lux Aeterna	Yellow Veil …	$15,445	+158%	19	+14	$813	$35,343	3
-	(-)	Vortex	Utopia	$10,252	-55%	24	-23	$427	$120,275	4
-	(-)	The Automat	A Slice of P…	$2,500	-73%	5	n/c	$500	$225,886	14
		24		$73,209,145

 

[Jake Lipson]

Charts with Dan for this week with more interesting analysis:

 

[Malcolm R]

Thursday previews for Top Gun: Maverick were $19.3 million.

 

[Wayne_j]

Top Gun Maverick is destroying Cruise's previous high opening weekend of $64.9 million for War of the Worlds. According to Deadline Maverick is heading to a 3 day weekend of $123 million and a 4 day weekend of $150 million. Industry projections prior to release topped out at $100 million for the 3 day weekend.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Thursday previews for Top Gun: Maverick were $19.3 million.

I was happy to contribute to that total.