Movies Box Office talk weekend 41 - Downunder

Jethro

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The dark genre continues to kick goals through the latest weekend with a new entry in the top twenty. Happy Death Day opened in third sport with a sold $5,428 average over 262 screens bowing to $1.4 million. While the movie isn't going to breach outside the date and teen audiences it should be solid enough to notch something North of the horror pass mark of $2.5 million. Fingers crossed that WOM remains strong through weekend two, say 50% drop we should be bouncing above $2 million next week. And I overcooked this one by 100K or so.

Two hangovers still managed to hold ground in the top twenty, juggernaut It dropped -53% through weekend six earning an additional $357K, pushing total earn to north of $23.3 million. Guess no surprises for which movie is going to top the dark genre charts in 2017, maybe the only other candidate is WWZ 2. And the remake Flatliners imploded by 64% over weekend three earning $216K which was enough to push the movie through the pass barrier with $2.7 million in the bank.

The only disturbing note was Greg McLean's latest The Belko Experiment which was dead on arrival with an earn of $7,771 from a low ball average of $648 over 12 screens. Guess the movie was never going to be huge in this market and distributor Rialto are possibly just getting the name out there.

What's Coming Up

Hold onto your linen two movies hitting the big screen next weekend, Geostorm should have disaster fans bouncing in their seats. Figure we may see $1.2 million there, though the advertising has been on the low side, and The Limehouse Golem returns us to the dark streets of London circa Jack the Ripper. Actually not expecting too much action on this one, perhaps $120K if the Distributor drops enough screens on it.
 
The dark genre continues to kick goals through the latest weekend with a new entry in the top twenty. Happy Death Day opened in third sport with a sold $5,428 average over 262 screens bowing to $1.4 million. While the movie isn't going to breach outside the date and teen audiences it should be solid enough to notch something North of the horror pass mark of $2.5 million. Fingers crossed that WOM remains strong through weekend two, say 50% drop we should be bouncing above $2 million next week. And I overcooked this one by 100K or so.

Two hangovers still managed to hold ground in the top twenty, juggernaut It dropped -53% through weekend six earning an additional $357K, pushing total earn to north of $23.3 million. Guess no surprises for which movie is going to top the dark genre charts in 2017, maybe the only other candidate is WWZ 2. And the remake Flatliners imploded by 64% over weekend three earning $216K which was enough to push the movie through the pass barrier with $2.7 million in the bank.

The only disturbing note was Greg McLean's latest The Belko Experiment which was dead on arrival with an earn of $7,771 from a low ball average of $648 over 12 screens. Guess the movie was never going to be huge in this market and distributor Rialto are possibly just getting the name out there.

What's Coming Up

Hold onto your linen two movies hitting the big screen next weekend, Geostorm should have disaster fans bouncing in their seats. Figure we may see $1.2 million there, though the advertising has been on the low side, and The Limehouse Golem returns us to the dark streets of London circa Jack the Ripper. Actually not expecting too much action on this one, perhaps $120K if the Distributor drops enough screens on it.
That geostorm one kinda interests me, I have been hearing a lot of issues in the past that this film is close to, its just a guess, but I'm leaning in that general direction....
 
Man the horror flicks keep on coming this year, still catching up on the discs you dropped on me last month J, we going to go retro in the review section?
 
Go as retro as you like, figure we might start with some of the classics, then hit some of the genre fan unknowns.

By my reckoning 3 more dark genre movies due this year, then a long wait through Dec/Jan. Why they aren't dropping a PG13 flick in January anymore is anyones guess, they used to rack in the dosh.
 
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