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Celeb News: BO: Strange/Trolls overperform with $84m/$46m
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BO: Strange/Trolls overperform with $84m/$46m
‘Doctor Strange’: Spellbound Crowds Drive Low- To Mid-$70M Opening
Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange led the way last night with $9.4 million to kick off what is expected to be the biggest weekend to date at the fall box office. When it comes to the previews for these big tentpoles, Thursday night typically accounts for 30%-35% of Friday’s business.
Unlike the Warner Bros./DC fare earlier this year and 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse which were panned by critics, Doctor Strange is wielding a tremendous amount of power from a 90% certified fresh Rotten Tomatoes score. Projections earlier this week had Doctor Strange opening between high-$60M to $75M.
DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls via 20th Century Fox kicked off yesterday with a strong $900K evening. That’s above the $650K preview money earned by DWA’s Home. Home, which was released in March last year, went on to tally a $15.7M Friday, and a $52.1M weekend.
Heading into this weekend, tracking estimated Trolls with a high $30M-$45M weekend. Trolls has a 75% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, which is much higher than the middling reviews received by Home (47%).
Lionsgate/Summit has the fifth film directed by Oscar winner Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge, about conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss who fought in Okinawa during World War II. Forecasts are wide for this R-rated, blood-filled film ranging from $12M to high teens. Last night, it made $750K from 2,200 locations. The movie expands to 2,886 venues today. 2014’s Fury, like Hacksaw, is a R-rated WWII film. That minted $1.2M on Thursday, a $8.8M Friday and $23.7M weekened — but we need to consider the fact it had the star power of Brad Pitt.
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Lets go Doc Strange
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That's really high for the previews I think it's going higher, Trolls and Hacksaw Ridge are doing great too
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The better film + cast won
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Tilda won, SJWs lost
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2ND UPDATE
Doctor Strange is on his way to an estimated $29 million opening day and a weekend of low- to mid-$70Ms. That’s what it looks like coming off matinees, and if these figures don’t ease down to below $70M, it will give the studio its second-highest November debut after Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World ($31.89M Friday, $85.7M opening).
20th Century Fox’s release of DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is always showing its teeth with an estimated $11.5M today and $40M weekend. If it holds that’s above DWA’s Bee Movie ($38M).
The combination of those two films are taking the air out of the rest of the box office with Lionsgate’s Hacksaw Ridge current projections showing $4.5M today and $12.5M-$13M for the weekend. Hacksaw Ridge appeals more to older adults and that demo isn’t always available during a pic’s opening weekend. Hacksaw Ridge has an 87% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, and that’s a good thing for a war film like this.
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3RD UPDATE
Doctor Strange is casting a spell over the masses who are now shelling out an estimated $81M to $83M+ to check out Marvel’s medic at 3,882 theaters, grossing roughly $32.6M last night alone. We have to see the Saturday uptick, TBD. In regards to its opening day, Doctor Strange whips Marvel’s previous November live action title Thor: The Dark World ($31.89M Friday), but as of now it’s behind the hammer-holder’s $85.7M FSS. That said, Doctor Strange‘s A CinemaScore is quite promising (in fact, 75% of the audience gave it an A), so its ticket sales are bound to go higher. Just look at how the superhero’s projections swelled in the last nine hours.
Doctor Strange isn’t crushing DreamWorks Animation’s family offering Trolls which is looking at an opening day of a little over $12M with a FSS of $42.8M to $43M+. Trolls also gets an A CinemaScore which means it should have a longer run than previous DWA November titles Bee Movie ($38M) and Megamind ($46M). Those pics respectively received CinemaScore grades of B+ and A- and final domestic multiples of 3.2x and 3.3x. It is skewing more female and 84% of the total audience last night gave it an A CinemaScore.
In third, it’s Lionsgate/Summit’s Hacksaw Ridge with an estimated $14.5M to $15M, after a $5.2M Friday. That opening may be right up against the debut of Mel Gibson’s previous theatrical directorial, Apocalypto, which opened to No. 1 with $15M. Rivals told us that Hacksaw‘s opening isn’t so bad for this $40M R-rated World War II drama; in fact, it’s fine. Going into the weekend, we had heard to look for a mid-teen possibility. Those who showed up to Hacksaw Ridge gave it an A, which adds to Mel Gibson’s growing list of great grades as a director: Passion of the Christ (A+), Braveheart (A-), The Man Without a Face (A).
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this year the only $60 mil+ openers have been superheroes or kid movies. a bit unexciting in that sense.
2015 at this point had jurassic world, furious, fifty shades, pitch perfect 2, cinderella, straight outta compton.
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Doctor Strange was amazing, not surprised
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4TH UPDATE
Rivals have Disney’s Doctor Strange between $84.2M-$85.2M at 3,882 theaters, which is definitely on the strong side for early November openers and just below Disney/Marvel’s previous post-summer superhero Thor: The Dark World ($85.7M). Doctor Strange also gave Disney it’s second best opening for November. As is typical with Marvel films, fanboys show up on Thursday and Friday, and so we typically see a dip in Saturday and Sunday receipts, and in the case of Doctor Strange ticket sales eased an estimated -4% for $31.3M yesterday. In what appears to be an anomaly weekend, all of the new wide releases earned solid A CinemaScores and were fueled by great certified fresh reviews.
DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls which is being handled by 20th Century Fox simply rallied past its expectations with $45.6M per Fox at 4,060 venues. Rival studios also see Trolls around that number as well.
Lionsgate is calling Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, which was co-financed by Cross Creek for $40M, in third place with $14.75M at 2,886. Rivals believe it’s higher, north of $15M. Sources tell us this is a great start for Hacksaw Ridge, and with the Friday to Saturday 16% uptick in ticket sales, it’s clear word of mouth is working for this World War II movie.
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