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‘Force Awakens’ Overtakes ‘Jurassic World’ & ‘Titanic’ Tonight; Set To Topple ‘Avatar’ All-Time Domestic Record By Monday
Refresh for updates Early Friday PM industry figures show Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens making $35M today, raising its cume through 15 days to $687M. What does this mean? It means that Force Awakens bypassed the No. 2 and No. 3 all-time domestic grossing titles Titanic ($658.7M) and Jurassic World ($652.27M) in the same day. By end of Sunday, Force Awakens’ total will stand at $744.8M, just $15.7M short of Avatar‘s all-time domestic record of $760.5M. Should these figures hold up, this would put Force Awakens in a position to own the all-time crown by end of Monday. Worst case scenario – Tuesday.
Estimated third FSS for Force Awakens: $92.8M, off 38% from its Christmas frame. In its third weekend, which also fell over New Year’s 2010, Avatar made $68.5M.
Disney reported this morning that Force Awakens ended its 2015 with $652M, just $271K short of Jurassic World’s cume, a total which took five and half months to hit.
This weekend’s sole wide release, Weinstein Co.’s The Hateful Eight is looking at a $6M Friday at 2,474 with an eye on a second FSS of $16.2M with a B CinemaScore. By Sunday, the eighth Quentin Tarantino film is looking at an estimated 10-day cume of $29.5M. Ever since 2010’s True Grit, westerns have showed long legs during the year end holidays. True Grit, which was rated PG-13, had a B+ CinemaScore, opened to $36M over five-days and ended its run at $171.2M, a 4.76 multiple. Tarantino’s R-rated Django Unchained, which is the obvious comp here for Hateful Eight with a running time of 165 minutes, debuted when Christmas was on a Tuesday, so it had a 6-day opening of $63.4M. Based off its FSS of $30.1M, Django churned a 5.4 multiple with a final stateside tally of $162.8M.
The Hateful Eight began its run with 100 70MM road shows in its first five days before upping its theater count on Wednesday. There have been surprise cast and Quentin Tarantino appearances throughout the country during the film’s run, i.e. on Wednesday the director surprised fans at an Alamo Drafthouse Ritz screening in Austin followed by a Q&A with the chain’s founder Tim League. It’s as though the fanboys who’ve had their fill of Force Awakens are now jonesing for another cinematic fix. One person who attended the film Wednesday night at the Coolidge Corner posted the following photo of the line for Hateful Eight –and there was more behind him. Coolidge is one of the three theaters in Boston showing Hateful Eight in 70MM — and it’s one of the good ones.
Paramount’s Daddy’s Home has a hold on second place in its second weekend with an estimated $28.1M, down 28%, bringing its 10-day cume to $92.8M.
The studio opened in four venues the adult animated feature Anomalisa which has been gaining awards traction with a Golden Globe ani nom as well as five Annie awards including best feature. Critics love it with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating and it’s looking at $60K tonight and a $167K for the weekend and a five-day total of $240K after bowing Wednesday. That’s alright with a $42K per theater average for FSS.
Why do people keep going back to Force Awakens? As we pointed out in Rentrak PostTrak polls, the film is meeting and exceeding expectations by leaps and bounds. But as RelishMix gleamed from the social chatter, fans are debating the cliffhanger ending and whether or not the leading protagonist is related to the Skywalkers, the Solos…or the Kenobis. A number of fanboy articles out there deconstruct these theories left and right. The Star Wars social media universe has exploded from 667M to 755M since opening.
Some rival distribs thought Disney was daring to open Force Awakens during this holiday play period given that it’s so finite. However, what this frame has going for it over summer is that not just kids, but adults are off, fueling two weeks of lucrative moviegoing. Given the fact that it’s winter, there are fewer distractions than summer post Christmas. The only out for many remains going to the movies, and a film like Force Awakens, as we saw with Jurassic World this summer, has a multi-generational appeal. As such, we’re bound to a see a record New Year’s weekend by Sunday, outstripping 2010’s all-time high of $220M when Avatar was in its third sesh.
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‘Force Awakens’ Overtakes ‘Jurassic World’ & ‘Titanic’ Tonight; Set To Topple ‘Avatar’ All-Time Domestic Record By Monday
Refresh for updates Early Friday PM industry figures show Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens making $35M today, raising its cume through 15 days to $687M. What does this mean? It means that Force Awakens bypassed the No. 2 and No. 3 all-time domestic grossing titles Titanic ($658.7M) and Jurassic World ($652.27M) in the same day. By end of Sunday, Force Awakens’ total will stand at $744.8M, just $15.7M short of Avatar‘s all-time domestic record of $760.5M. Should these figures hold up, this would put Force Awakens in a position to own the all-time crown by end of Monday. Worst case scenario – Tuesday.
Estimated third FSS for Force Awakens: $92.8M, off 38% from its Christmas frame. In its third weekend, which also fell over New Year’s 2010, Avatar made $68.5M.
Disney reported this morning that Force Awakens ended its 2015 with $652M, just $271K short of Jurassic World’s cume, a total which took five and half months to hit.
This weekend’s sole wide release, Weinstein Co.’s The Hateful Eight is looking at a $6M Friday at 2,474 with an eye on a second FSS of $16.2M with a B CinemaScore. By Sunday, the eighth Quentin Tarantino film is looking at an estimated 10-day cume of $29.5M. Ever since 2010’s True Grit, westerns have showed long legs during the year end holidays. True Grit, which was rated PG-13, had a B+ CinemaScore, opened to $36M over five-days and ended its run at $171.2M, a 4.76 multiple. Tarantino’s R-rated Django Unchained, which is the obvious comp here for Hateful Eight with a running time of 165 minutes, debuted when Christmas was on a Tuesday, so it had a 6-day opening of $63.4M. Based off its FSS of $30.1M, Django churned a 5.4 multiple with a final stateside tally of $162.8M.
The Hateful Eight began its run with 100 70MM road shows in its first five days before upping its theater count on Wednesday. There have been surprise cast and Quentin Tarantino appearances throughout the country during the film’s run, i.e. on Wednesday the director surprised fans at an Alamo Drafthouse Ritz screening in Austin followed by a Q&A with the chain’s founder Tim League. It’s as though the fanboys who’ve had their fill of Force Awakens are now jonesing for another cinematic fix. One person who attended the film Wednesday night at the Coolidge Corner posted the following photo of the line for Hateful Eight –and there was more behind him. Coolidge is one of the three theaters in Boston showing Hateful Eight in 70MM — and it’s one of the good ones.
Paramount’s Daddy’s Home has a hold on second place in its second weekend with an estimated $28.1M, down 28%, bringing its 10-day cume to $92.8M.
The studio opened in four venues the adult animated feature Anomalisa which has been gaining awards traction with a Golden Globe ani nom as well as five Annie awards including best feature. Critics love it with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating and it’s looking at $60K tonight and a $167K for the weekend and a five-day total of $240K after bowing Wednesday. That’s alright with a $42K per theater average for FSS.
Why do people keep going back to Force Awakens? As we pointed out in Rentrak PostTrak polls, the film is meeting and exceeding expectations by leaps and bounds. But as RelishMix gleamed from the social chatter, fans are debating the cliffhanger ending and whether or not the leading protagonist is related to the Skywalkers, the Solos…or the Kenobis. A number of fanboy articles out there deconstruct these theories left and right. The Star Wars social media universe has exploded from 667M to 755M since opening.
Some rival distribs thought Disney was daring to open Force Awakens during this holiday play period given that it’s so finite. However, what this frame has going for it over summer is that not just kids, but adults are off, fueling two weeks of lucrative moviegoing. Given the fact that it’s winter, there are fewer distractions than summer post Christmas. The only out for many remains going to the movies, and a film like Force Awakens, as we saw with Jurassic World this summer, has a multi-generational appeal. As such, we’re bound to a see a record New Year’s weekend by Sunday, outstripping 2010’s all-time high of $220M when Avatar was in its third sesh.
MORE…chart to come