Hello everyone,
BOX OFFICE: For the 2nd time in two weeks, the movie that people predicted would rule the box office over the weekend didn’t. This time it was “Joker: Folie à Deux” which was expected to do $50-60 million but ended up with $37 million domestically. Most people say it’s due to terrible reviews – Audience Cinemascore gave it a VERY RARE “D” rating and Rotten Tomatoes critic score is 33 out of 100 currently. One news piece I read suggested “Joker fans don’t like a musical and Lada Gaga fans don’t like a comic book movie”. It still came out on top for the domestic weekend. Last weeks #1 “The Wild Robot” came in at #2 with $18 million and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” in its 5th week is still doing well coming in at #3 with $10 million. Last weeks disappointment :Megalopolis” barely made over $1 million this past weekend and barely stayed in the top 10. Last weeks top per screen average “Saturday Night” expanded to 21 screens. The person screen average dropped to $12 thousand – which is still better than the per screen average of the #1 movie which was on a little over 4100 screens. Hopefully, it will keep doing well when it opens wide next weekend.
Overall domestic box office for the weekend was $87.6 million which was down about 6% from the previous weekend but still ahead of the same weekend last year which was $82 million. However, next weekend last year is when the “Taylor Swift” movie opened. Next weekend this year doesn’t have anything that will do as well as that movie did. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a major studio release until “Venom The Last Dance” on the last weekend of Oct (I’m sure “Smile 2” will do well but I don’t think it will be a blockbuster).
WORLDWIDE: “Joker: Folie à Deux” did better internationally making approx. $81 million in foreign countries for a worldwide total of $121 million. Meanwhile, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is still doing well. It’s worldwide total just crossed $400 million.
OTHER NEWS:
Paramount is already looking at 2025. They recently scheduled or rescheduled some of their movies coming out next year. “The Running Man” remake movie is scheduled for November 21 2025. Three movies are swapping release dates: The horror movie “Vicious” is moving was up to Feb 28 2025 from its previous Aug 8 release date (bet the trailer for the movie will play with “Smile 2” opening in a couple weeks), the “Smurfs” animated musical which was scheduled for Feb 2025 (around Valentines Day) switches to July 18, 2025, and the remake of the “Naked Gun” movie moves from the July 18th date to Aug 1, 2025.
Although the company has said that they will continue to run the Landmark Theater chain, last week a judge ruled that Charles Cohen still owes $187 million loan guarantee after the pending schedule of assets. So, there’s a possibility it will need to sell the Landmark chain as part of the auction of assets.
The company distributing “The Apprentice” the biopic about Donald Trumps younger days is accusing the major networks of “timidity and cowardice” because they refuse to play commercials for the movie releasing limited theaters this weekend.
LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR:
It’s a good point. He could have at least given her a hot meal, and/or a nice bath, and/r a nice bed to sleep in. She practically saved his life.
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