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.
For a soyny film it’s a toss up could throw in Hulu and HBO max too
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