Tag: #Boxoffice

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL earns $666,666 on Palm Sunday

You can’t make it up.. bit all joking aside is this a wee bit too..strange.. for confort?

The indie horror film “Late Night With the Devil” opened this weekend across 1,034 venues where it made $2.8 million and ended up in sixth place.

However our eyebrows are rising now that final numbers are being analyzed .. it has been revealed that the film’s estimated Palm Sunday one-day haul is coming in at $666,666 according to trade paper Variety..

No joke..

From Variety:

On the independent scene, “Late Night With the Devil” took sixth place and summoned $2.8 million from 1,034 venues, including (and you can’t make this up) $666,666 on Sunday. This marks the biggest opening weekend for its distributor IFC Films, overtaking 2022’s “Watcher” with $826,775. The low-budget thriller stars David Dastmalchian as a late-night talk show host who keeps the cameras rolling during a live Satanic incident.

“This weekend’s release of ‘Late Night With the Devil’ set fire to our old opening record,” says Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks Films, which encompasses IFC. “[It] continues to showcase that there is still potential for highly reviewed, intelligent auteur films in movie theaters across all genres.”

666 for the devil on one of the holiest days of the year.

March 24, 2024
Lego Movie ain’t what it used to be!

Everything was awesome.. not so much for the second run!

According to Variety, The LEGO Movie 2 is still expected to top the box office at the end of this opening weekend, but with an estimated domestic gross of $31 million from 4,303 theaters.

If the movie does open at this dollar figure, it would amount to a 50% drop off of its 2014 debut..

It has been a number of years since that original film.. Kids who saw it grew up.. parents who saw it then stepped on enough legos to movie on..

While the film will still be the number 1 film of the weekend and make money, it’s not what was hoped for..

There have been four LEGO movies in the current film franchise so far. For comparison, here are the domestic box office openings:

The LEGO Movie – 2014 – $69 million
The LEGO Batman Movie – 2017 – $53 million
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part – 2019 – $31 million (estimate)
The LEGO Ninjago Movie – 2017 – $20 million

DEVELOPING..

February 10, 2019
MISSION: POSSIBLE: TOM CRUISE A HIT

IT’S BEEN A WHILE.. BUT TOM CRUISE HAS A HIT! IT MAKES HIS ON-SET INJURY ALL THE MORE WORTH IT

Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout is opening to a franchise record of $61.5M (the same as we spotted yesterday), beating the previous series high from Mission: Impossible II ($57.8M) and 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ($55.5M) !!

Fallout also stands as Cruise’s second best opening at the B.O. after War of the Worlds’ 3-day of $64.8M…

MOMMA MIA part 2 took second place.. but dropped 57% from last week. The movie appears to be a stinker above all others..

And finally, a film I thought would do better, TEEN TITANS, didn’t fair so well.

The movie opened to only $10 mil at 5th place. It cost $10 mil to make. So at this point it broke even.. I suppose okay.

We will see Tuesday when I take my seven-year-old son to see it. Will the NIGHT BEGIN TO SHINE or did it fade away with aging kids?

July 29, 2018
S.O.L. SOLO: BOMBS AWAY ON MEMORIAL DAY!

71% rating on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest score for a “Star Wars” film since “Attack of the Clones”..

The movie bombed this weekend, unable to muster up even the conservative numbers that studio executives had hoped for..

The movie took in $14.1 million at Thursday-night previews, a record for Memorial Day (beating “At World’s End,” which took in $13.2 million)

Disney had been predicting $115 million for the weekend. $101 mil later, the mouse is a bit red faced..

Yes, a strong movie for any other time. But not for STAR WARS. And maybe a bigger issue: Not for Memorial Day.

The weekend just ain’t what it used to be when it comes to the summer movie kickoff season..

Maybe a new pattern?

Last year, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” opened over Memorial Day weekend and took in $78.4 million from Friday to Monday. That was just under its projections of $80 million to $85 million and the lowest opening for a “Pirates” movie since the first one, 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” ($46.6 million).

It is often a mistake to watch the weekend box office results for any judgement of a movie. But this is business.

And Disney made an effort to ensure their business for decades would be endless forays into the STAR WARS universe.. Toy lines.. spinoffs… sequels. Prequels.

And already? We seem done with it.

The magic of ROGUE ONE was that it was STAR WARS related, contained the storyline and respected the past. The newest sequels in the series lack a magic, one that ROGUE ONE briefly tapped into. And SOLO? .. The movie has been opening to less than great reviews.

The toy lines are going unsold at stores. Where toys are actually still sold..

Kids? They moved on. The majority of audiences for the STAR WARS movies this century are people who also attended last century.

Disney’s biggest mistake may have been hubris. And now they are stuck with a movie from a galaxy too close to home..

May 28, 2018