Shazam!

Friday, March 17, 2023 Third weekend of March 2023

In the note The box office will continue to improve off last year, and even though the entertainment press will probably dwell on a ‘glass half empty’ narrative (because that's what they do) and focus on Shazam (more on that below), we’ll still see a 20% surplus off the same weekend last year.

Friday, March 24, 2023 Fourth weekend of March 2023

In the note Of course some of you might say ‘what what about Shazam last week?’.

Friday, March 31, 2023 Final weekend of March 2023

In the note We’ve got another solid weekend at the box office this week, and similar to what we saw a couple of weeks ago with Shazam; Paramount was battling the same ’the Movie business is Hard’ forces this week, but more on that below. Falling into the same pattern that we’ve been seeing the last couple of weeks, we’ll be up about 20% from the same last weekend in 2022, but still a good deal short of where we were in 2019 before the shutdown. Often some of you will ask me ‘why don’t you have a Podcast or a Blog and monetize this' (the drivel I spout out on a weekly basis).

Friday, April 7, 2023 Easter weekend 2023

In the note It’s a sunny sunny day in the Theatrical sector, we’re going to have a monster 3 days this weekend; and we’ll be up a stunning 50% or so from the same weekend last year (Sonic 2, Ambulance and the wide on Everything Everywhere), and we’ll even be up from the same weekend in 2019 (Shazam and Pet Sematary) by about 10%.

Friday, June 16, 2023 Father's Day weekend 2023

In the note Although WB did a nice job of putting the variations of Batman and other top shelf DC characters up front, this is still a movie with a Title character at the same level as Black Adam or Shazam.

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