discussion Box office FINAL: #1 Smile $17.6M (-22%), #3 Amsterdam $6.5M; #8 Bros 2.15 (-55%)

[Blade Runner]

Taylor. 

[CakeLikeLG]

nooo 

[Donquizote]

Not everyone can be Lady Gaga

Another bomb for Ms Robbie.

[Feather]

4 hours ago, mystery said:

Horror movies have been so well this decade.  

Highest grossing horror films of 2020s: 

1. A Quiet Place Part II - 297m 

2. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - 206m

3. Nope - 170m
4. The Black Phone- 161m
5. The Invisible Man - 144m
6. Scream - 140m
7. Halloween Kills - 131m
8. Candyman - 77m
9. Smile - 52m
10. The Grudge - 49m

Smile should easily end up Top 5. The gross of A Quiet Place Part II is so impressive considering it was released at the height of the pandemic.

Sis where is Dont Breathe (157m)   

[mystery]

4 minutes ago, Feather said:

Sis where is Dont Breathe (157m)   

Don't Breathe came out in 2016, this is a ranking for 2020s.

[Bloodflowers.]

Bros and the Taylor Swift films being complete bombs

 

Horror genre thriving again  hope to see Scream sequel smashing next year

 

[Hurem]

Not really a big fan of Smile, but I’m always happy to see horror doing well at the Box Office

[Assassin]

7 hours ago, bowdown said:

Taylor's first commercial FLOP 

Cats says hi!

[HausOfPunk]

Taylor is giving Madonna's film career a run for its money

[Sharapov]

7 hours ago, BNF91 said:

 

Smile coming for $100M+, amazing. 

nah. halloween kills will cut its legs

[Sharapov]

6 hours ago, Mr. Blue_Shirt said:

Amsterdam only doing 2M more than Bros in its debut with 80M budget 

 

Truly the box office bomb of the year 

no

 

 

145m budget and 59m gross

 

 

 

 

 

[Anye]

26 minutes ago, Sharapov said:

no

 

 

145m budget and 59m gross

 

 

 

 

 

The fact that I went to the movie and watched this with my boss 

 

I mean there were no other things to watch.

[Uncatena]

40 minutes ago, Sharapov said:

no

 

 

145m budget and 59m gross

 

 

 

 

 

i forgot about this mess klsdfhjf

 

the way it's basically a conspiracy theorists wet dream 

[BNF91]

2 hours ago, Sharapov said:

nah. halloween kills will cut its legs

Halloween Kills will suffer the sins of its predecessor, one of the worst received films of all time. Smile's legs are being pushed by good WOM; people won't ditch Smile for HK just because it's another horror movie. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see Smile above HK on Halloween weekend, if Smile keeps up this trend. HK will have like a $30-35M OW and then tumble 70%. 

 

Also Moonfall's budget distribution prevents it from being a bigger flop than Amsterdam. It was funded by multiple financiers  so the loss is spread out. Lionsgate only put in $15M for North American distribution. Then Chinese financiers (Huayi Bros, $40M) and a long list of other distributors footed the rest of the bill. 

[Arcadius]

Is Paramount becoming the new Disney? All their movies becoming hits like its nothing. 

[45seconds]

39 minutes ago, BNF91 said:

Halloween Kills will suffer the sins of its predecessor, one of the worst received films of all time. Smile's legs are being pushed by good WOM; people won't ditch Smile for HK just because it's another horror movie. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see Smile above HK on Halloween weekend, if Smile keeps up this trend. HK will have like a $30-35M OW and then tumble 70%. 

 

Also Moonfall's budget distribution prevents it from being a bigger flop than Amsterdam. It was funded by multiple financiers  so the loss is spread out. Lionsgate only put in $15M for North American distribution. Then Chinese financiers (Huayi Bros, $40M) and a long list of other distributors footed the rest of the bill. 

No it won’t. Halloween Ends will be just as well received commercially. For one, legacy franchises do not suffer loses from sequel to sequel like newer titles due to negative reception (Star Wars, Fast & Furious, etc) and 2. A movie titled Halloween around Halloween is going to do well regardless. So yes, it will cut deeply into Smile’s commercial success. 
 

And it’s ludicrous to even suggest smile will beat it during its premiere weekend. That’s not going to happen. 

[Repelex]

9 hours ago, mystery said:

Horror movies have been so well this decade.  

Highest grossing horror films of 2020s: 

1. A Quiet Place Part II - 297m 

2. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - 206m

3. Nope - 170m
4. The Black Phone- 161m
5. The Invisible Man - 144m
6. Scream - 140m
7. Halloween Kills - 131m
8. Candyman - 77m
9. Smile - 52m
10. The Grudge - 49m

Smile should easily end up Top 5. The gross of A Quiet Place Part II is so impressive considering it was released at the height of the pandemic.

Old is above Candyman. It did 90M. Against a 18M budget, a box office smash

[Repelex]

3 hours ago, Sharapov said:

no

 

 

145m budget and 59m gross

 

 

 

 

 

The Northman also couldn't even reach its alleged budget. Whether Amsterdan will outflop it remains to be seen, but I sensed it being more hyped than Amsterdam when it came out.

[BNF91]

56 minutes ago, 45seconds said:

No it won’t. Halloween Ends will be just as well received commercially. For one, legacy franchises do not suffer loses from sequel to sequel like newer titles due to negative reception (Star Wars, Fast & Furious, etc) and 2. A movie titled Halloween around Halloween is going to do well regardless. So yes, it will cut deeply into Smile’s commercial success. 
 

And it’s ludicrous to even suggest smile will beat it during its premiere weekend. That’s not going to happen. 

I didn't say on its OW. I said on its 2nd weekend. But for sure Smile will be above Halloween on the 3rd wknd (which is Halloween wknd), you can bet on it. 

 

Plus your first point is false considering the 2nd Halloween already had a precipitous 30% drop in OW box office from the first, and a 43% tumble in final gross. The 2nd one didn't even reach a 2x multiplier from its opening weekend, that atrocious and you must be living under a rock to think Kills' reception was anything but anemic. 

 

A $30-35M opening would be right in line with the drop from the 1st to 2nd. Then it will be at or under $10M on the 2nd wknd (Kills fell from $49M to $14M). Smile is the one that will be taking attention away from Halloween, trust. Not to mention the day and date streaming debut on Peacock that will siphon more viewers away. 

[Hurem]

6 hours ago, Sharapov said:

nah. halloween kills will cut its legs

Halloween Ends is getting released digitally the same day as in theaters. It won't do nearly as good as Smile, I fear

[Martyr Of Fame]

UPDATE: 

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The Parker Finn R-rated horror film is posting the second-best hold ever for an R-rated horror movie, with an amazing -22% and $17.6M, after 2017’s Get Out, which eased -15%. This puts Smile‘s 10-day total just under $50M. Smile also owns the best non-holiday second weekend hold for a wide release during the pandemic era. Smile‘s second Saturday at $7.4M was up 38% over the pic’s second Friday of $5.4M. EntTelligence clocked 1.4M who saw Smile in weekend 2, to 900K admission for Lyle, Lyle Crocodile and 450K tickets punched for Amsterdam
 

Horror movies clearly work, and that’s created a lot of excitement around genre producers about those types of movies succeeding in the off-bent late pandemic box office marketplace. However, period absurdist comedies do not resonate on a wide level. New Regency/20th Century Studios/Disney’s Amsterdam was DOA with $2.6M Friday, including previews, and a $6.5M third place debut. Saturday was off $300K next to first day previews and Friday with $2.3M. A third of the movie’s theater count of 3,005 are delivering 70% of their gross. Premium large format is driving 33% of the pic’s business. Six of the pic’s top ten runs came from Los Angeles.

 

 

1.) Smile (Par) 3,659 theaters (+14), Fri $5.4M (-34%), Sat $7.4M, Sun $4.8M, $17.6M (-22%), 3-day $49.9M/Wk 2

2.) Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (Sony) 4,350 theaters, Fri $3.5M, Sat $4.475M, Sun $3.45M 3-day $11.5M/Wk 1

3.) Amsterdam (Dis) 3,005 theaters, Fri $2.6M, Sat $2.4M, Sun $1.5M, 3-day $6.5M/Wk 1 

4.) The Woman King (Sony) 3,342 (-162) theaters Fri $1.35M, Sat $2.3M , Sun $1.63M 3-day $5.3M (-26%)/Total $54.1M/Wk 4

5.) Don’t Worry Darling (NL/WB), 3,324 (-797) theaters, Fri $1.15M (-50%), Sat $1.4M, Sun $915K, 3-day $3.47M (-49%)/Total $38.45M/ Wk 3 

6.)Avatar (re) (20th/Dis) 2,040 theaters (+180), Fri $655K (-44%), Sat $1.1M, Sun $760K, 3-day $2.6M (-47%), Total $783.7M (re-issue running total through ten days is $23.3M)/Wk 3 of re-issue 

7.) Barbarian (20th/Dis) 2,160 theaters (-560), Fri $629k (-22%), Sat $940K Sun $611K  3-day $2.18M (-24%)/Total $36.5M/Wk 5

8.) Bros (Uni) 3,356 theaters (+6), Fri $690K (-63%), Sat $860K, Sun $600K  3-day $2.15M (-56%)/Total $8.89M/ Wk 2

[Martyr Of Fame]

Updated OP. I can’t believe Smile snatched the second best hold for a horror movie. Get ready for the smile cinematic universe  

 

Amsterdam and Bros are both embarrassing but Amsterdam easily takes the cake with so many A-list actors. Hopefully the evil has been defeated once and for all. 

[Feather]

13 hours ago, mystery said:

Don't Breathe came out in 2016, this is a ranking for 2020s.

Damn has it been 6 years already?  

[Gossip_Boy]

Smile already at $90M worldwide is impressive. Will be surpassing $100M next weekend.

 

Also wonder how far Barbarian will go once it’s released outside the US. They really dropped the ball with that one waiting almost 2 months to release it in most places.