SATURDAY Update: Even though only 37% of the entire Los Angeles theatrical market is back online, it was enough to propel DMA to the top spot over the weekend on Friday with $ 427,200, representing a jump of + 1,100 % in relation to the same period of the previous week. Los Angeles is likely to be the No. 1 box office market this weekend, surpassing New York with well over $ 1 million.
Meanwhile, at the El Capitan Theater last night on Hollywood Blvd, Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran and film director Carlos Lopez Estrada greeted the returning moviegoers. While the numbers may not seem surprising at first, Raya and the Last Dragonposted friday $ 1.4M 2,261 cinemas (+98), even on the same day of the previous week, and left for a third weekend of $ 5.7M, even in percentage with the last weekend. This is a position that any studio would envy, and it is indicative that there is a desire in the country to return to the cinema. Total running for Raya Tomorrow is $ 24.8 million, with the photo also available to Disney + subscribers for an extra $ 30.
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Yesterday, New York City’s DMA was market number 1, by distribution sources, with $ 241,100, -5%. Last weekend, NYC raised $ 1.018 million and ended its second week of operations on Thursday with $ 1.35 million.
Regarding the complete return of the exhibition, we still have a long way to go in the US and Canada market, with only 3,100 locations of 588,000 back online. This is still with 98% of AMC and 92% of Cinemark operating. The lack of the # 2 Regal net leaves a big hole. In addition, only 18% of the Canadian province of Ontario, which contains the Toronto DMA, is open. On the positive side, 47 of California’s 58 counties have reopened cinemas and are operating between 25% -50%. Sources tell me that on Easter weekend, if not soon after, the capacity of Los Angeles movie theaters could jump to 50%, hit wood.
Second place goes to Warner Bros. ‘ Tom Jerry, that yielded an estimate $ 1.02M on its fourth Friday, + 2%, on the way to $ 4.3M 2,508 sites (+54), + 5% for a total execution on Sunday $ 34.1M. The photo is still available on HBO Max, free of charge to subscribers, for another eight days before theaters have the animation hybrid exclusively during the second month of the title’s run.
Lionsgate’s Chaos Walking over weekend 3 I saw a $ 574K Friday, -11% for 3 days of $ 2.1M, -5% to 2,132 (+112) for a $ 9.6 million running peak.
The fourth goes to the new Roadside Attractions wide-entry thriller The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan, who made $ 671K yesterday at 1,433 locations on the way to a $ 1.95M Premiere of 3 days. Pic has 83% of certified rating on Rotten Tomatoes and obtained a positive score of 82%, with a very good final recommendation of 62% of the Screen Engine / Comscore PostTrak audience exits.
Fifty-seven percent of the guys showed up, 85% over 25, with 66% over 35. The diversity demonstrations were 72% Caucasian, 11% Hispanic, 8% black and 9% Asian. post office played better on the east coast in general, but his best market was Salt Lake City, I heard. The feature film directed by Dominic Cooke follows Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source, who are trying to end the Cuban missile crisis.
Universal / DreamWorks Animation’s Croods: a new era over the weekend 17 at 1,411 locations (-29) did $ 170K yesterday, + 45%, on the way to $ 780K, + 44%, for a total of $ 55.4 million.
Sixth place belongs to Eddie Huang’s Focus Features film Boogie, with a third weekend of $ 640K, -18%, for a total execution of $ 3.3M. The film, starring Taylour Paige, Pop Smoke and Taylor Takahashi, grossed $ 180K on Friday, -18% compared to the previous week.
In addition, far below the chart, making its first appearance in luxury cinemas since the reopening of Los Angeles, is the Warner Bros. film. Principle. The film is booked in many Imax auditoriums, including AMC Universal CityWalk, where it can be viewed at 70 mm, AMC Burbank, AMC Century City, AMC Promenade Woodland Hills, AMC Santa Anita, AMC Del Amo Torrance and AMC Covina, and at Cinemark Imax Lancaster. The film collected an estimate $ 23K last night at 35 locations for an estimate $ 80K weekend, putting your running total at $ 58.3M in the United States, still the highest grossing film during the pandemic since the reopening of cinemas in late August.