I heard a news report it was a box office success garnering 19 million it’s opening weekend….
“The Woman King” tallied $19 million at the domestic box office during its opening weekend, exceeding the $12 million that Sony predicted.
More than 1.4 million people saw the film during its first three days in theaters, according to data from EntTelligence.
In comparison:
Top Gun: Maverick has outperformed expectations at the global box office, taking $248m (£196m) worldwide.
The fact that “The Woman King” cost $50 million to make, not adding the tens of millions in marketing costs
Usually a film that makes under cost of production the first weekend is a massive failure, they’re probably riding on having a streaming service pay indefinitely to host the movie because woke.
TBF late Sept is much different than summer blockbuster season, but this time last year Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made $28m on it's 3rd week of release (75m opening, released Sep 3). The top new movie Cry Macho made 6m and I have no idea what that even is. Yes Shang-Chi is MCU but the character & actor was unknown.
2020 Tenet made 6.3m on it's 4th week, 9m on it's opening (also 9/3).
In 2019 the Downton Abbey movie debuted to 44m despite having to compete against 2 other new films including Rambo: Last Blood which at 3rd place made 24.5m...this was pre-sniffles though.
I heard a news report it was a box office success garnering 19 million it’s opening weekend….
In comparison:
So any amount is a success as long as the studio sufficiently low balls their prediction.
At this point, does anyone even trust the box office numbers? These people lie about everything.
Usually a film that makes under cost of production the first weekend is a massive failure, they’re probably riding on having a streaming service pay indefinitely to host the movie because woke.
Not to mention the costs of marketing. They're going to lose fifty million on this, and that's hilarious.
Netflix or Prime?
For a soyny film it’s a toss up could throw in Hulu and HBO max too
It wouldn't surprise me if Sony bought their own tickets.
True. If publishers can buy their own books, I see no reason why studios can't buy tickets to their own movie.
TBF late Sept is much different than summer blockbuster season, but this time last year Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made $28m on it's 3rd week of release (75m opening, released Sep 3). The top new movie Cry Macho made 6m and I have no idea what that even is. Yes Shang-Chi is MCU but the character & actor was unknown.
2020 Tenet made 6.3m on it's 4th week, 9m on it's opening (also 9/3).
In 2019 the Downton Abbey movie debuted to 44m despite having to compete against 2 other new films including Rambo: Last Blood which at 3rd place made 24.5m...this was pre-sniffles though.
Domestic vs global #'s
Even if US domestic was 1/4 which is generous you’re looking at a massive discrepancy