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Wkd BO 09•15-17•17 - Assassin and mother! clowned, lack "IT" factor

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xaosslug

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85% It
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35% American Assassin
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68% mother!
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31% Home Again
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38% The Hitman's Bodyguard

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‘Mother!’ Crumbles With $7.5 Million, ‘It’ Repeats No. 1

“It” continues to post terrifyingly huge numbers, while “Mother!” opens with a thud.

“It,” from Warner Bros. and New Line, expects to finish its second weekend with $60 million from 4,103 locations. That would make its domestic gross so far $218.7 million — a record for the highest earning September release ever. The old record-holder was 1986’s “Crocodile Dundee” with $174.8 million. Broken down by day this weekend, “It” earned $19.4 million on Friday and $26.2 million on Saturday. Sunday’s take is estimated to be about $14.5 million. 389 Imax screens are expected to account for just over $3 million of the film’s take in North America this weekend.

Overseas, “It” is pulling in an additional $60.3 million in 56 markets. That raises its international total to $152.6 million and the worldwide tally to $371.3 million.

Based on Stephen King’s novel, “It” opened last weekend with an enormous domestic pull of $123.4 million. The R-rated title, reportedly made for about $35 million, stars Bill Skarsgard as the evil clown Pennywise who terrorizes children in Derry, Maine. The rest of the cast includes Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Nicholas Hamilton, Jaeden Lieberher, and Jackson Robert Scott.

Meanwhile “Mother!” is struggling. The Paramount release directed by Darren Aronofsky is expected to earn $7.5 million from 2,368 locations. That’s an all-time low for wide releases starring Jennifer Lawrence. One contributing factor to the movie’s bottom line is that audiences entirely rejected it, earning an F CinemaScore. That’s despite a critical split that landed the polarizing movie a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Women made up the bulk of the audience (56%), and slightly more than half of the audience (52%) was over the age of 35. The launch was driven by a marketing campaign that shrouded the R-rated movie in mystery and didn’t give much away regarding plot. In addition to Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer also star.

Another fresh R-rated launch, “American Assassin” — a joint production between CBS Films and Lionsgate — is expecting an opening of $14.8 million from 3,154 locations. The audience breakdown was 55% Male and 29% under the age of 35. The film is an adaptation of Vince Flynn’s 2010 novel, and stars Dylan O’Brien as a CIA black ops recruit who is trained by a Cold War veteran (Michael Keaton). The film’s opening is comparable to 2014’s “John Wick,” which opened to $14.4 million on its way to launch a franchise with $43 million in domestic earnings.

“We feel that we’re off to a very solid start,” Shaun Barber, Lionsgate’s EVP and general sales manager of domestic theatrical distribution, said, pointing to the A CinemaScore the movie earned from the under 25 audience, and a strong September box office so far. As for plans to make the movie a franchise, he said “it’s very early in the run” and “too soon to call.”

Open Road’s “Home Again” should land in fourth this weekend with $5.3 million from 3,036 locations (only a 38% drop from last weekend). “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” from Lionsgate, continues to stay in the top five with about $3.6 million from 3,272 spots. The rest of the top ten is made up of “Annabelle: Creation” ($2.6 million); Taylor Sheridan’s “Wind River,” which has now out-grossed the same director’s “Hell of High Water” ($2.6 million); “Leap!” ($2.1 million); “Spider-Man: Homecoming” ($1.9 million); and “Dunkirk” ($1.3 million).

In limited release, Annapurna and Amazon’s “Brad’s Status” is tracking to earn $100,179 this weekend from four locations. Mike White wrote and directed the movie starring Ben Stiller as a man who is constantly comparing his life to those of his college friends. Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, Luke Wilson, and Michael Sheen also star in the flick, which has been generally well-reviewed (83% on Rotten Tomatoes). The film is expected to expand to 100 locations next weekend.

Amazon Studios’ head of marketing and distribution Bob Berney noted that “fathers are really relating to the film” and Stiller’s performance.

After a catastrophic summer of moviegoing, a strong September so far (39.4% better than last year, powered by “It”) leading a gradual recovery. The year to date box office is now 4.9% behind last year — up from 6.5% behind at the end of the summer. The domestic box office so far this year has earned $7.9 billion.
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Bobby Roberts

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IT is gonna be the highest-earning R-rated film of all time, isn't it.

It took an interdimensional homicidal clown to finally knock Christ down.

(370mil domestic isn't guaranteed but it's looking way more likely than it was last week)
 
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ronaldthump

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LOL @ mOther!

Afronsky's one of my favourite directors and i'll be seeing Mother but damn if it aint funny as fuck how its bombing. I have a parcel incoming tomorrow but if it arrives earlier, I go watch Mother cheappp.
 
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Bobby Roberts

Banned
Also I believe this weekend's numbers is what people were thinking the first weekend was going to be with a couple weeks to go before release, yes?
 
pixelation

pixelation

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Bobby Roberts said:
IT is gonna be the highest-earning R-rated film of all time, isn't it.

It took an interdimensional homicidal clown to finally knock Christ down.

(370mil domestic isn't guaranteed but it's looking way more likely than it was last week)
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Dude, you made me laugh out loud at the bolded lol.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
IT's second weekend is bigger than the old projections for its first. Whew.

They really bungled the marketing on Mother! All that trickery and it still couldn't get to $10 M. What a mess.
 
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Bobby Roberts

Banned
If IT stalls at $350mil domestic ("stalls out" seems like the wrong choice of phrase for a $350 million dollar movie) that's still a budget to earnings ratio of 10x.

(which is all sorts of impressive until you look at Get Out's 39x)

This might be the horror genre's best year EVER, maybe.
 
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kswiston

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Worldwide Updates:

Despicable Me 3 - $1.015B
Spider-Man Homecoming - $861M
Dunkirk - $508M
War for the Planet of the Apes - $434M ($61M opening in China)
IT - $371M
Cars 3 - $357M
Annabelle Creation - $291M
 
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mreddie

Member
Isn't there another horror movie out this week or is Happy Death Day next week?


EDIT: Nope, it's Kingsmen vs. LEGO.
 
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Anung

Un Rama
mother! is a weird one. I enjoy most of Aronofsky work but had absolutely no interest in seeing that film until I went out of my way to read the spoilers.

The super garbage trailer they had before IT certainly didn't help.
 
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zeemumu

Member
mreddie said:
Isn't there another horror movie out this week or is Happy Death Day next week?


EDIT: Nope, it's Kingsmen vs. LEGO.
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None this week, Jeepers Creepers 3 and the Flatliners remake next week, Happy Death Day on the 13th, The Snowman and Leatherface on the 20th, Jigsaw and The Killing of a Sacred Deer on the 27th, and that's it for theatrical horror this year.

Cult of Chucky comes out on Blu Ray on Oct 20th
 
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Sgt. Kabukiman

Banned
Nothing too surprising.
Everything I've heard about mother! (good and bad) sounds fascinating, can't wait to see it. But its performance isn't surprising, sadly.

Next week should be more interesting. I see both Kingsman and Lego underperforming slightly to be honest. I have no idea what the tracking looks like, but I'm gonna say Kingsman 2 is not gonna match the first one and Ninjago will see a huge drop worldwide from Batman.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
ElBoxyBrown said:
How bout them Kingsmen 2 numbers?
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Supposed to be $40ish M, I believe. Little higher than the first. Which is good, at least people aren't done with the franchise. Still gonna whine until the end of time that it could've done gangbusters in August. Like taken the franchise to the next level.

Reviews should be dropping tomorrow
 
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