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by Brad Brevet
February 24, 2019
The 2019 box office has finally received a boost with an impressive $ 55.5 million debut album for DreamWorks Animation How to train your dragon: the hidden world. The performance led the weekend box office, wrapping up the last weekend as the first two months had been tough for the national box office this year. The weekend was also marked by the development of MGM Fight with my family, which debuted at the low end of industry expectations, while Roadside Running the race it's found in the top ten in 853 places.
With an estimate $ 55.5 million, Universal Title DreamWorks Animation Released How to train your dragon: the hidden world delivered not only the No. 1 movie at the box office this weekend, but also the biggest debut of the year so far, exceeding Glass more than $ 15 million. The opening is also the most important beginning in the How to train his dragon franchise, exceeding the opening of $ 49.4 million for How to train your dragon 2 In 2014, the overall national performance of the film is more than $ 58 million, taking into account the $ 2.5 million it brought from an exclusive Fandango event held earlier this month. this. The question is now to ask how the film will perform from here.
After opening $ 43.7 million, the first film exceeded $ 217.5 million in 2010, a multiplier of almost 5 times. The second film, although still strong, yields a multiple of 3.58x and a little over $ 177 million for its domestic production. Like its predecessors, Hidden world received an "A" CinemaScore and was well received by critics, achieving a 91% score at RottenTomatoes. It is interesting to note that this is the first franchise film to be presented to an audience that inclines more men than women, even if only to a small extent, men representing 51% of the population. audience of the opening weekend, against 45% and 47% for the first film. last two films. He is also slightly younger with 39% of the total coming audience aged 25 or older, compared to 51% and 44% respectively for his predecessors.
In the future, the use of the multipliers of the first two films gives us a range of $ 198 million to over $ 277 million and the film faces a gender competition in the relatively close with Wonder Park opening in three weeks. That said, a national performance of more than $ 200 million seems to be a safe bet at the moment. This is great news for Universal, whose first launch since the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation in 2016 cost $ 3.8 billion. Hidden world carries the lowest price among the three franchise movies, with an announced budget of $ 129 million, up from $ 165 million for the original and $ 145 million for the first suite.
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And although the second film may not have lived up to its predecessor nationally, it more than made up for it abroad, surpassing the first film of more than 167 films. millions of dollars internationally and The hidden world seems to do the same. After opening in only two markets six weeks ago, the film entered its seventh weekend of international release this weekend. It is now presented in 53 territories, including nine new markets this weekend. The first weekend race was the No. 1 opening in Russia with $ 11.2 million, followed by Spain, where it also debuted at the top of the charts with an estimated 2.8 million of dollars. The most important market for the film is the UK, where it has already grossed more than 20 million dollars. Next weekend, he will continue his launch with a first album in China on March 1st, followed by a release in Japan on August 23rd. To date, the film has grossed $ 216.9 million abroad, representing a global total that $ 275 million.
In second place is Fox Alita: Battle Angel, who managed to exceed expectations last weekend, but had a setback this weekend. The film plunged healthy -58% in its second-year frame for a $ 12 million three days, for a national total exceeding $ 60 million after 11 days of release. Internationally, the film is better behaved, debuting in China with an estimated $ 62.2 million budget for first place and contributing for a significant portion of its weekend. Overseas worth $ 92.4 million. At this point Alita reported more than $ 202 million abroad for a total volume of more than $ 263 million.
Warner Bros. came in third with The movie LEGO 2but he also found himself struggling with the most recent Dragon feature as he dipped -52% this weekend for an estimate $ 10 million three days and 17 days totaling $ 83.6 million. Internationally, the film is also experiencing difficulties, adding only $ 10.3 million in 73 markets this weekend, for an international total of $ 53 million. In total, the global total stands at $ 136.6 million, with Australia remaining the only market to be unveiled, where the film will debut on March 21st.
Fourth, we come to MGM's expansion of comic drama Fight with my family. After opening in four theaters last weekend, the film spread to 2,711 locations and delivered a $ 8 million performance.
The release of New Line from WB Is not it romantic completed the top five with an estimate $ 7.5 million, pushing its domestic consumption to nearly 34 million dollars.
Elsewhere in the top ten, STX The rise taken and estimated $ 3.2 million this weekend, for a turnover that only represents $ 100 million, the film should take a major step Monday. Internationally, the film has raised $ 10.8 million from 52 markets published to date.
Arriving in the top ten, Roadside published the Tim Tebow-product Running the race, which debuted in 853 theaters with an estimated $ 2.27 million. The film was presented to an audience made up of 53% of women and 77% of the total audience is 25 years old or older.
In limited version, Fox's Total Dhamaal open in 202 theaters with an estimate $ 950,000 (A $ 4,703) and Santa Rita's The iron orchard debuted in eight theaters with $ 49,250 ($ 6,156 PTA).
Next weekend sees the release of Focus's thriller Greta in about 2,000 theaters Tyler Perry come back with his last Do one functionality in Funeral of the Madea family, debuting in ~ 2350 theaters.
You can check out all the estimated results of this weekend right here and we will update our charts with the actual data of the weekend Monday afternoon.
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