Ready or Not

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 A Wednesday oddities dispatch, August 2019

On the chart Ready or Not (Wednesday opening): ~$1.9M day incl. previews

Expected 'About $900k (including last night) give or take a hundred grand or so' Actual: ~$1.9M implied, the Searchlight experiment ran hotter

In the note A film is doing some decent business for Midweek day, and also Searchlight is opening a movie today. Rush : Cinema Strangiato 2019 - One night only concert film featuring the band Rush is doing some really good numbers, looks like they’ve got about 500 theaters and at this point looks like a decent $1.2 million for the gig. Ready or Not - Another midweek opening today, with a rare wide(ish) opening from Fox Searchlight.

Friday, August 23, 2019 Fourth weekend of August 2019

On the chart Ready or Not (3-day): $8.0M

In the note There wasn’t much new (or good) opening this week last year, so with a well placed sequel we’ve got a decent shot at being about even in the year to year comp derby. So, with the accuracy and quality normally associated with a CFL groundskeeping crew, here’s my best take on the weekend box-office. #1 Angel has Fallen - Yes, there’s still a decent amount of fan-ship for this series, especially in the fly over states. Right now it looks a little better than last night’s preview gross would predict, figure it’s in the very high teens with a decent shot at a head-shavingly good 20/low 20's. #2 Good Boys - Looks pretty normal right now, but since the box office menu is a little short on comedy right now, even though the exits were good not great this might show some legs this weekend. But for now let’s figure a standard 50% drop and a weekend just above 10. #3 - #6 There’s a cluster of films that all look like they’re between 6 and 7 for the weekend, I'm not sure what order they're going to end up in, but here they are in alphabetical order: - Hobbs & Shaw - Figure down about 45% - Overcomer - It’s hard to say where these religious movies are gonna go, since sometimes it’s all presales and they don’t grow. - Ready or Not - Right now it looks consistent with the weekdays, since the exits were nothing special I’m not sure they accomplished anything with the weekday opening. - The Lion King - Actually might be the best of the bunch, and has the best chance of doing a little more than 7. The Peanut Butter Falcon - Expanded to 1000 runs today, although you would think the 47 runs they were in last week would be enough to service the moviegoers who don't hate Shia LeBeouf.

Friday, August 30, 2019 Labor Day weekend 2019

On the chart Ready or Not (wk 2): $5.9M, -26%

Friday, August 25, 2023 National Cinema Day weekend 2023

In the note We’ve got a few lower tier releases this week, and because of the deep roster at the box-office we continue to enjoy, the weekend total should be a little higher than the 10 year norm for the weekend before Labor Day. Same story as the last couple of weeks, we’ll be a good 50% ahead of last year (The Invitation, Three Thousand Years of Longing) and about 15% behind 2019 (Angel Has Fallen, Overcomer, Ready or Not), but most of the deficit when compared to 2019 is the gross difference from the new films this year vs 2019. We do have a little wrinkle this weekend, Sunday is National Cinema Day. If your first reaction is 'WTF is that?’, you’re not alone because the theater owners have done a piss poor job of publicizing this.

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