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Warner Bros. checks in this morning with a report that Tenet is posting another strong weekend hold on the domestic and international fronts, adding $19.2 million globally this weekend. The worldwide haul now stands at $283.2 million as it paces to cross the $300 million threshold by next weekend.
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Earlier this week, Disney made the latest seismic moves to its -- and exhibition's -- release calendar with the delay of Marvel Studios' Black Widow from November 6 to May 7, 2021. While the move is widely lauded as another signal from Disney that the studio remains committed to the theatrical experience and the revenue windows it provides, it underscores the reality that moviegoing on a domestic and international scale will take much longer to recover than hoped or planned for.
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On March 13, the Salt Lake Film Society closed its doors. It was a frightening time for exhibition, as theaters were faced with a closure of unsure length along with further (and continuing) uncertainty about product availability. But Tori Baker, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Film Society, didn’t let the closure of her
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Studios announced its latest round of release date changes, as the studio continues to adapt to the challenging theatrical distribution landscape of the Covid-19 pandemic. The most high profile change on the schedule concerns Marvel’s Black Widow, previously scheduled as the next major studio release in North America on November
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The news on wide releases has come to a screeching halt again as studios remain apprehensive to support cinemas with more high profile releases, something that is impacting weekend outlooks for the foreseeable future.
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Warner Bros. updates this morning with a report that Tenet will eclipse the $250 million global box office threshold by Sunday's end, earning an estimated $29.7 million from 52 markets this weekend.
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This was never going to be a weekend for the record books, but the estimates released on Sunday morning reveal a theatrical market that’s barely clinging to life. With no major new releases, Tenet will win by default, but its $3.4 million projected weekend is down 28% from last time around, and the market as a whole looks as though it has weakened by about 20% in the last seven days. The biggest new release of the weekend is almost certainly Break the Silence: The Movie, which is rumored to have opened with around $1 million, putting it in a tie for third with Unhinged. The New Mutants remains in second place, with Disney projecting $1.147 million for the weekend.
Drama starring Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke opens in theaters on November 20, and arrives on Amazon Prime on December 4. Full movie details.
During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career—and with it his life—is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew.
Disney’s announcement earlier this week that it is moving its upcoming MCU releases into 2021, starting with Black Widow taking over Shang Chi’s previous slot on May 7, was a body-blow to the theatrical business. October’s release schedule is now looking very thin indeed. November isn’t looking much better, and there’s a high probability that at least one of No Time to Die, Soul, and The Croods: A New Age will slip from their current planned release dates.
This weekend has four films technically opening wide: the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back, Shortcut (an Italian horror movie from Gravitas Ventures, opening in around 600 locations), and two movies honoring Ruth Bader Ginsberg, On the Basis of Sex and RBG. However, all of them are such special cases that they don’t fit our prediction model. Instead, I’ll focus on a rare piece of good news: films currently playing in theaters are showing better week-to-week legs than was the case before the pandemic.
Once Warner Bros. has not announced a theater count for Tenet as it enters its fourth week in theaters, but it is expected to remain the widest release. Star Wars: Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back turned 40 this year, and Disney is giving it a slightly late birthday party by releasing it this weekend nationwide in 2,097 theaters. The only new wide release this weekend is Shortcut from Gravitas Ventures, which is estimated to arrive on just over 600 screens. Infidel sees an increase in theaters this week, going from 1,724 last week, to 1,885 this week, while The New Mutants decreases theaters after debuting in late August. Reappearing in theaters this week are special showings of On the Basis of Sex, which will be playing in 829 theaters, and RBG, which is expected to be in about the same.
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Documentary opens in theaters on October 9, and arrives on Amazon Prime on October 16. Full movie details.
Fox Rich, an indomitable matriarch, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband.
It looks as though we’ll have another down weekend for total domestic box office, with perhaps $11 million in combined ticket sales for all movies, compared to $12.3 million last weekend, but there are a few small grains of good news to be found. Infidel topped (very modest) expectations, with a projected opening of $1.5 million, and the four other films still playing in wide release that have reported so far all had relatively good holds by historical standards. Tenet hit the $250 million mark worldwide, but Mulan continues to struggle.
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