There are many professionals and cons on the field workplace this week. We’ll begin with the excellent news. The Starvation Video games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, opened with a good however not spectacular $44 million, sufficient to propel the Francis Lawrence-directed pic to No. 1 domestically, per Deadline.
Internationally, Songbirds collected $54.5M, bringing in $98.5M globally—not precisely a house run for a possible franchise re-starter, but additionally not horrible for a pic that price $100M to supply. Deadline believes the author’s strike performed a major issue within the lower-than-expected opening and notes the franchise’s hopes hinge on international gross sales. There’s additionally hope that the vacations (and meager competitors) will afford this flick stable legs, so we’ll have to attend and see how the ultimate numbers look.
Trolls Band Collectively additionally hit theaters and earned $30.6M, lower than the $46.6M earned by the unique Trolls in 2016, however contemplating Trolls: World Tour opened on PVOD throughout the pandemic, it is a stable begin for Common’s franchise.
Extra considerably, the commerce notes that Trolls opened lower than per week earlier than Disney’s Want, which appears foolhardy. “No,” says one rival studio exec, “If this was seven years in the past, you’d have to fret about Disney. However with their model rusting, you don’t want to fret about them anymore.” Yikes.
Talking of which, The Marvels fell exhausting in its second weekend, dipping -78% (the second largest drop for the studio) and incomes $10.2M. The superhero characteristic has collected a meager $65M domestically and $161M worldwide.
Elsewhere, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving hauled in $10.2M because of constructive evaluations, whereas Searchlight’s Subsequent Aim Wins (from Taika Waititi) claimed sixth place with $2.5M.
DOMESTIC TOP 1
1.) Starvation Video games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (LG) 3,776 theaters Fri $19.1M Sat $15M Solar $9.9M 3-day $44M/Wk 1
2.) Trolls Band Collectively (Uni/DWA) 3,870 theaters Fri $9.35M Sat $12.2M Solar $8.97M 3-day $30.6M/Complete $31.7M
3.) The Marvels (Dis) 4,030 theaters Fri $2.8M Sat $4.4M Solar $3M 3-day $10.2M (-78%) Complete $65M/Wk 2
4.) Thanksgiving (Sony) 3,204 theaters, Fri $3.8M Sat $3.86M Solar $2.5M 3-day $10.2M/Wk 1
5.) 5 Nights at Freddy’s (Uni) 2,829 (-865) theaters, Fri $940K Sat $1.57M Solar $990K 3-day $3.5M (-61%), Complete $132.6M/Wk 4
6.) The Holdovers (Foc) 1478 (+700) theaters Fri $800K Sat $1.1M Solar $780K/3-day $2.7M (-16%), Complete $8.35M/Wk 4
7.) Subsequent Aim Wins (Sea) 2,240 theaters Fri $1.1M Sat $822K Solar $578K 3-day $2.5M/Wk 1
8.) Taylor Swift: Eras Tour (AMC) 1,573 (-1275) theaters, Fri $655K Sat $1M Solar $745K 3-day $2.4M (-61%)/Complete $175.3M/ Wk 6
9.) Priscilla (A24) 1,802 (-559) theaters, Fri $731K Sat $922K Solar $673K 3-day$2.32M (-50%), Complete $16.98M/Wk 4
10.) Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple/Par) 1,714 (-1,643) theaters Fri $530K Sat $840K Solar $550K 3-day $1.92M (-58%)/Complete $63.5M/Wk 5
