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Compared to 2017, this weekend was marked by a sharp increase of $ 10 million at the box office. However, it is unlikely to keep this pace.
There is always room for a familiar hit at the box office. The Grinch, from the animated division of Universal Illumination Entertainment, beat two live action studio releases. This is the fifth adaptation of a Dr. Seuss classic over the past 18 years. It proved to be the best combination for the World War II zombie movie "Overlord" and "The Girl in the Spiderweb", the second adaptation in English Lisbeth Salander, by a margin of 350 percent .
With $ 66 million from "The Grinch", that represented about 40% of the $ 161 million gross total on the weekend. Compared to last year, this is an improvement of $ 10 million, but the pace will be difficult to maintain: last year there was still "Justice League", "Coco" and a movie of Star Wars.
"The grinch"
Photo credit: Illumination and U
"The Grinch" is the third-largest opening among Dr. Seuss's films, behind the live-action version of 2000 and "The Lorax" in 2012. Its release date is not necessarily paramount for a movie (although justified by the Veterans Vacation and Thanksgiving just before). Coming up, there will be a major competition, including "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" on November 16th and "Ralph Breaks the Internet" a week later. But with his promising debut, A-Cinemascore, and ahead of the pack, he could record a gross of $ 200 million.
Universal's animated films are massive overseas and account for 70% or more of their activities around the world. It has only opened in 12 territories, with most of the main ones coming. In the UK and Ireland he started in front of "Frozen", "Coco" and "Moana".
The studio did a great job in maximizing its release dates. "The Grinch" became the studio's fourth title to open first place in the last eight weeks (the others being "The house with a clock in its walls", "Night School" and "Halloween").
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
20th Century Fox
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is the real deal, with only a 40% drop in its second weekend. That's $ 100 million in 10 days; among rock-themed biopics, it's already the biggest. This could become the biggest pop music biopic since "Coal Miner's Daughter" and eventually overtake "Straight Outta Compton" and "Walk the Line." Expect his success to spark interest in developing future music biopics, or to revive those who languish in the downturn.
"Suzerain"
The last time Hollywood combined zombies and history was "Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter" in 2012. With an opening (adjusted) of $ 18 million and a budget of about $ 75 million, it's was not a success. This one, which contains zombies until the Second World War, cost 38 million dollars, but with 10 million dollars of opening, what he has the best to say is that it does not was not the worst game of the week.
He missed the younger crowd that a genre film needs; nearly seven out of ten ticket buyers were men and / or were over 25 years old. Paramount compares the audience's composition to Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight," but that was a major disappointment; he could not even handle $ 60 million. The world war did little harm to Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds", but it had major stars, a strong director and many critics.
"The girl in the spiderweb"
Nadja Klier
It took Sony seven years to continue the mysterious Swedish sensation of "The Dragon Tattoo Girl". The previous film was directed by director David Fincher, a Christmas release, a much higher budget, and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, an Oscar nomination. It's about director Fede Alvarez ("The Evil Dead"), Claire Foy (a rising actress, but not a theatrical drawing), a cast otherwise unknown to Americans and mediocre to negative critics .
The sparse international openings that began last week do not suggest a bailout abroad. If this franchise continues, it may be better to downgrade to low budget streaming sites. For theaters, the thrill is gone.
"A star is born"
Warner Bros.
Our predictions for the "One star is born" deductions have been insufficiently optimistic. We were expecting a 33% drop per weekend; it's been three weeks now and the 27% drop this weekend is the largest ever. It's great, and all the more impressive that he lost nearly 600 theaters. It is now likely that he is playing in good theaters through Thanksgiving, and that some are staying at Christmas. Final result? It could be $ 225 million.
"The Grinch" made life even more problematic for "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", which had a disastrous 53% drop (Disney movies like this one rarely drop as much). It will be a chance to win $ 55 million.
Tyler Perry's "Nobody's Fool" has also fallen by more than half and is expected to bring in about $ 30 million, which would be one of the worst performers of his highly successful career.
Sony continues to do well with the "venom" of Marvel. Week 6 saw a 38% drop for a total of $ 206 million. More importantly, it has opened for China at $ 111 million, near the high number of Marvel outings in this country.
The top 10
1. The grinch (Universal) NEW – Cinemascore: A-; Metacritic: 50; Is. budget: 75 million dollars
$ 66,000,000 in 4,141 theaters; APT (average per theater): $ 15,938,000; Cumulative: $ 66 million
2. Rhapsody of Bohemia (20th Century Fox) Week 2; Last weekend: # 1
$ 38,850,000 (-40%) in 4,000 theaters (no change); PTA: $ 7,713; Cumulative: $ 100,010,000
3. Lord (Paramount) NEW – Cinemascore: B; Metacritic: 58; Is. budget: 38 million dollars
$ 10,100,000 in 2,859 movie theaters; PTA: $ 3,533; Cumulative: $
4. The Nutcracker and the Four Kingdoms (Disney) Week 2; Last weekend: # 2
$ 9,565,000 (-53%) in 3,766 movie theaters (no changes); PTA: $ 2,540; Cumulative: $ 35,257,000
5. The girl in the spider's web (Sony) NEW – Cinemascore: B; Metacritic: 44; Is. budget: $ 43 million
$ 8,015,000 in 2,922 movie theaters; PTA: $ 2,736; Cumulative: $ 8,015,000
6. A star is born (Warner Bros.) Week 6; Last weekend: # 4
$ 8,010,000 (-27%) in 2,848 movie theaters (-583); PTA: $ 2,813; Cumulative: $ 178,020,000
7. The crazy person (Paramount) Week 2; Last weekend: # 3
$ 6,540,000 (-52%) in 2,468 movie theaters (unchanged); PTA: $ 2654; Cumulative: $ 24,276,000
8. venom (Sony) Week 6; Last weekend: # 6
$ 4,850,000 (-38%) in 2,351 movie theaters (-716); PTA: $ 2,063; Cumulative: $ 206,234,000
9. Halloween (Universal) Week 4; Last weekend: # 9
$ 3,840,000 (-64%) in 2,717 movie theaters (-1,058); PTA: $ 1,413; Cumulative: $ 156,811,000
10. Hate U Give (20th Century Fox) Week 6; Last weekend: # 10
$ 2,070,000 (-38%) in 1,108 theaters (-399); PTA: $ 1,868; Cumulative: $ 26,706.00
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