Even if there weren’t a pandemic, chances are it would still be a tough weekend at the domestic box office, with all the distraction that came out of our country’s Capitol last week. The television news seems full of suspense and suspense enough with the Capitol Uprising, compared to the big screen, while we all cling to our TV screens at home to witness how President Donald J. Trump will step down, expected with chaos in tow.
Warner Bros. ‘ Wonder Woman 1984 on his third weekend he continued to emulate the legs of a horror movie, dropping -45% with $ 3M 2,218 cinemas and an operating BO $ 32.6 million. It is quite clear that this film is not going to make the money that Principle made it in the US for $ 58 million and we knew that all the time 60% of all cinemas are closed, including the No. 2 Regal chain (I heard that Pennsylvania and Colorado reopened last weekend). Adding more insult to injury: I heard that, after a bleak vacation, some cinemas have decided to close and are failing to pay Warners in WW1984; that’s how things are going bad. The studio, which normally does not have to fight for rent dollars, will need to do so now.
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The sequel directed by Patty Jenkins is on its 17th day of release, which means it has two more weeks before HBO Max takes the title from its streaming service and the film is shown for another 30 days in theaters. WarnerMedia did not sound numerical trumpets about how Wonder Woman 1984 did on HBO Max in relation to viewers and subscribers, and I understand that if there is something positive to report, we will know in the next AT&T results conference call. Still, if there was something incredible to shout out to the world WW1984of the success of HBO Max … we would have heard of it. RelishMix, a corporate social media analyst, says of the sequel to the social media conversation: “Incremental mentions about HBOMax and connectivity issues are on Twitter and decreasing – and mentions of Covid are spread across YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.”
In all world, WW1984 stay in $ 131.4 million. Principle raised $ 362.9 million, and it is impossible for WW1984 to mirror even those results. Most cinemas in Europe remain closed or are operating with significant capacity restrictions.
Meanwhile, those films that had a longer viewing window than WW1984, resisted as best they could during a pandemic with Universal / DreamWorks Animation Croods: a new era 2nd with $ 1.8M (-19%) over weekend 7 and a $ 36.8 million peak from Uni World News with $ 1.24M over weekend 3, -27% and a total of $ 7.1 million, Sony / Screen Gems’ Monster hunter on weekend 4 with $ 1.1M, -13%, with $ 7.8 million and Lionsgate’s Fatale on weekend 4 in 5th place with about $ 670K and a total of $ 4 million.
I heard that theater owners didn’t even talk to government officials about the reopening of Los Angeles and New York in relation to cinemas because, of course, we are in an even worse state, with record cases of Covid in those two areas. Interestingly, where I live 30 minutes north of Los Angeles, local laws have set an upper limit on the number of people inside a bank branch (only 21 people for Chase), with several branches closed around Valencia. Still, hypocrisy prevails in relation to what is open and closed: restaurants, which like theaters fight for their economic lives, forced to provide only pick-up or takeout while Kohls, Walmart, Target and stores in the mall are wide open. I still don’t understand how exposure is allowed to be punished by local governments when they are providing adequate filtering systems and spaced out seats in an auditorium. While airlines complain that fewer people are flying, the point is that they are flying, with no Covid cases reported, and the government is not closing airports: in the past two days, TSA has tracked 1.48 million people who have flown, a 61% drop compared to the previous year. From December 24 through yesterday, the TSA tracked 16.1 million followers, down 57%. But wouldn’t it be great to take those 16 million people to the cinema?
About WW1984, the top ten locations in the photo last weekend were: 1. Sacramento Drive In, 2. Solano Twin Drive in Greater San Francisco, 3. Paramount Drive-In in Los Angeles, 4. Cinemark Carefree Circle Colorado Springs, 5. Capitol Drive in Greater San Francisco, 6. Glendale Drive in Phoenix, 7. AMC Disney Springs Orlando, 8. Cinemark North Canton Cleveland, 9. Cinemark Majestic Cinemas Boise, and 10. Cinemark Tinseltown Colorado Springs. And the top ten DMAs were 1. Salt Lake City, 2. Dallas, 3. Phoenix, 4. Houston, 5. Greater New York Metro area (NJ, CT and theaters in upstate NY), 6. Denver, 7 Atlanta, 8. Orlando, 9. Tampa and 10. Miami.
The box office for the weekend of January 8-10, the second weekend of 2021, is as follows:
1.) Wonder Woman 1984 (WB) 2,218 cinemas (+67) /$ 3M (-45%) / Total: $ 32.6M / Week 3
two.) Croods: a new era (Uni) 1,818 cinemas (+67), 3 days: $ 1.8M (-19%), Total: $ 36.8 million / week 7
3.) World News (Uni) 1,986 cinemas (+58), 3 days: $ 1.24M (-27%) / Total: $ 7.1M / Week 3
4.) Monster hunter (Sony) 1,765 cinemas (-42), 3 days: $ 1.1M (-13%) / Total: $ 7.8M / Sem. 4
5.) Fatale (Lionsgate) 1,222 cinemas (+39), 3 days: $ 670K (-4%), Total: $ 4M / Sem. 4
6.) Promising young woman (Focus) 1,448 cinemas (+115), 3 days: $ 560K (-19%) / Total: $ 2.7M / Week 3
7.) Pinocchio (RSA) 821 cinemas (-3), 3 days: $ 208.7k (-30%) / Total: $ 1.1M / Week 3
8.) The war with grandpa (101) 385 cinemas (+80), 3 days: $ 147K (+ 17%), Total: $ 19M / Week 14
9.) Come play (Foc / Amb) 151 cinemas (+41), 3 days: $ 95K (+ 6%) / Total: $ 9.6M / Sem 11
10.) half brothers (Foc) 167 cinemas (+33), 3 days: $ 60K (+ 48%) / Total: $ 2.1M / Sem 6
11.) Foreign (20 / Dis) 420 cinemas (-85), 3 days $ 60K (-9%) / Total $ 82M / Sem. 2,173