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[daemonova]

'The Conjuring' just continues to print money for WB. Nearly $33M for a spinoff sequel opening weekend and the budget was apparently only $38M.

Another #1 for Warner brothers discovery nicca, we make hits!!

@Bryan Danielson @Peter Popoff @winb83 @Bleed The Freak @AnonymityX1000 @Lootpack @obarth

 

[Avisible Man]

What's at the Movies this Weekend? (Sep. 15-17)​

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This weekend is already off to a tremendous start. Nas and Hit Boy just dropped the album of the year: Magic 3. This weekend, the box office, won't have anything as magical as that, tho.

We do have A Haunting in Venice dropping tho. That's the 3rd film in Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poriot's mystery series. The first two, 2017's Murder on the Orient Express, opened with $28.6M, while Death on the Nile started with $12.8M last year. I really enjoyed MOTOE and I could tell that this was a Hercule Poirot movie from the first moments of the trailer, despite him not appearing until the end of it.

Deadline has AHIV making $12M this weekend which is just below DOTN's $12.8M. The good news is that the budget for the threequel is only $60M compared to DOTN's $90M. Unfortunately, it has that wretched bytch, Beth Dutton, from Yellowstone.




We got a couple of other new semi-wide releases. Camp Hideout is a Christopher Lloyd and Corbin Bleu, family comedy. Corbin Bleu was the nikka with an afro in the High School Musical movies.

The Inventor is the final wide release, playing in 700 theaters. It's an animated comedy where:

Inventing flying contraptions, war machines and studying cadavers, Leonardo da Vinci tackles the meaning of life itself with the help of French princess Marguerite de Nevarre.

Daisy Ridley, you know, Rey, from Star Wars, voices the princess. Matt Berry, whom you might know as What We Do in the Shadows' Laszlo, voices the Pope. We also have perhaps my all time favorite PAWG, Marion Cotillard, who is French, voicing a French mademoiselle. She was Mal in Inception.

@PAWG Life and @humminbird she is the proto Daniela Melchior.

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Mission: Improfitable​

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I also wanted to mention that Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One is now profitable thanks to a $71M COVID related insurance payout. The 7th Mission movie'a budget ballooned to $290M due to COVID delays. With the $71M insurance payout, the budget effectively becomes $219M. 2018's M:I-Fallout's budget was $178M. That's $216M adjusted for inflation; effectively the same as the now-adjusted $219M for Dead Reckoning. With $563.9M worldwide, Dead Reckoning has grossed 2.57 times that $219M production budget.

Ethan Hunt always gets the job done.

’Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning’s Profits Boosted By $71 Million Insurance Payout

That financial boost ensures the film will head towards profitability after a difficult box office run.

collider.com

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What's Playing ​

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Movie	Distributor	Theaters	Previous Theaters	Gross	Projection
The Nun II	Warner Bros.	3,743	3,728	$40M	$11.8M
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3	Focus Features	3,678	3,650	$13.1M	$5.5M
The Equalizer 3	Sony	3,528	3,965	$65.5M	$7.1M
A Haunting in Venice	20th Century Studios	3,305		New	$17.2M
Barbie	Warner Bros	3,012	3,281	$621.7M	$4.1M
Blue Beetle	Warner Bros.	2,386	2,786	$64.5M	$2.8M
Gran Turismo	Sony	2,202	2,765	$36.8M	$2.4M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Paramount	2,066	2,500	$112M	$2.1M
Oppenheimer	Universal	1,799	2,091	$316.2M	$2.2M
Bottoms	MGM	1,182	1,265	$8.4M	$1.4M
Meg 2: The Trench	Warner Bros.	976	1,574	$80.9M
Camp Hideout	Roadside Attractions	848		New
The Hill	Briarcliff Entertainment	805	1,208	$6.7M
Strays	Universal	761	1,500	$23.1M
The Inventor	Blue Fox Entertainment	700		New
Haunted Mansion	Disney	650	825	$65.6M
Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One	Paramount	356	566	$171.6M
Outlaw Johnny Black	Samuel Goldwyn Films	309		New

 

[I love Latina women]

@Avisible Man

i see the similarities between Marion and Daniela

 

[FlyRy]

You didn't mention dumb money platforming

 

[OmegaK2099]

Might see a Haunting in Venice

 

[8WON6]

I'll prolly catch that Pwah-ro tomorrow.

 

[Avisible Man]

Poirot Can't Solve the Valak Mystery; 'The Nun 2' is 2 for 2: Weekend Box Office Results (Sep. 15-17)​

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For the moment, It looks like The Nun ll has held off newcomer A Haunting in Venice to take first place with $14.7M. It was only down 54.8% from last weekend which is an excellent horror hold. That's better than the 57.1% the last Conjuringverse movie, The Conjuring 3, produced in its second weekend. With a $56.5M running total, The Nun ll, passes the $54.7M total gross of The Curse of La Llorona.

Opening in second, for now, was A Haunting in Venice with $14.5M. It could take first place with how close it is to The Nun ll. In any event, it's a much better opening than the $12.8M opening of last year's Death on the Nile. Haunting got the same B CinemaScore as Death but I've heard more good buzz about this year's Poirot entry. It's got a 63 on Metacritic vs Death on the Nile's 52. This is one I wanna see cuz of the horror elements. And it also has the prostitute PAWG, Iris, played by Emma Laird, from Mayor of Kingstown, a show and a whore I very much enjoyed. A @PAWG Life special

But it also has Beth from Yellowstone.

Denzel's The Equalizer 3 held down the third spot with $7.2 million. That's a $73.6 million running total after 3 weeks. That's 7.8% off of the The Equalizer 2's $79.8M at the same period. It's not looking like $100M is in the cards. It'll be the only entry in the trilogy not to hit that mark.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 nabbed fourth place with $4.7 million. It was down 53.1% from last week. A way worse hold than My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2's 37.2% and $11.2M second weekend. MBFGW3's $18.5M after 2 weeks is 49.3% off of MBFGW2's $39.5M. Time to put this taziki eating PAWG franchise out to pasture?

Holding down to fifth spot for the second consecutive weekend with $3.9 million was Barbie. Its $626.1M make it the 11th highest grossing domestic movie of all time, passing The Avengers' $623.3M. Maybe Barbie should be The MCU's next big bad.

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Notables​

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With $318.6M, Oppenheimer is the 90th highest grossing domestic movie ever, passing the $317.1M of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Its $912.7M passed Bohemian Rhapsody's $910.8M, to become the 70th highest grossing movie of all time.

Talk To Me made $567K in its 8th weekend for a $46.9M running total.

Mission: Impossible 7 made $340K in week 7 for a $171.9M running total.

Camp Hideout opened in 15th place with $510K.

The Inventor finished in 20th place with $201K.

@FlyRy, Dumb Money, made $217K from 8 theaters. I usually only list the wide releases in 'What's Playing' posts with some holdovers that are still playing in limited release like Mission: Impossible 7, which played in 356 theaters.

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The Top Ten​

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Rank​	LW​	Movie​	Gross​	%± LW​	Theaters​	Total Gross​	Weeks​	Distributor​
1	1	The Nun II	$14,730,000	-54.8%	3,743	$56,523,000	2	Warner Bros.
2	-	A Haunting in Venice	$14,500,000	-	3,305	$14,500,000	1	Disney
3	2	The Equalizer 3	$7,235,000	-39.7%	3,528	$73,679,930	3	Columbia
4	3	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3	$4,700,000	-53.1%	3,678	$18,571,615	2	Focus Features
5	5	Barbie	$3,965,000	-30.5%	3,012	$626,122,143	9	Warner Bros.
6	4	Jawan	$2,493,986	-59.3%	776	$12,193,700	2	Yash Raj Films USA Inc.
7	6	Blue Beetle	$2,475,000	-35.2%	2,386	$67,281,000	5	Warner Bros.
8	7	Gran Turismo	$2,350,000	-32.9%	2,202	$39,422,852	4	Sony
9	8	Oppenheimer	$2,100,000	-31.8%	1,799	$318,639,115	9	Universal
10	9	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	$2,000,000	-28%	2,066	$114,147,685	7	Paramount

 

[Deltron]

haunting was boring as hell

 

[Avisible Man]

Once Dependable, Sly and Crew are now Expend4ble: Weekend Box Office Results (Sep. 22-24)​

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3 weeks. 3 #1's for The Nun 2. This time, it only required $8.4M to claim the top spot from Expendables 4. That's a $69.2M running total. That surpasses Evil Dead Rise's $67.2M to become the 4th highest grossing horror movie of the year. It also passes The Conjuring 3's $65.6M total. Next up in The Conjuring universe is Annabelle Comes Home and its $74.1 million.

Expend4bles opened in 2nd place with a putrid $8.3M. Maybe it'll get lucky with the count and come out on top when the official numbers come in? What a dud. Not unexpected after Friday, tho, with the B- Cinemascore, the worst in the franchise. It was somehow worse than the A- that The Expendables 3 got. That can't be right. That shyt was terrible. Oh well. It's been progressively downhill for this franchise with diminishing returns for each entry:

It's over

Least it has Megan Fox

A Haunting in Venice took 3rd with $6.3M. That was off by 4% from Death on the Nile's $6.5M second weekend. DOTN had made $25.2M after 2 weeks to Haunting's $25.3M. That better opening from last week is being squandered a bit.

The Equalizer 3 held strong with another $4.7M, good got 4th place. The Equalizer 2's $5.4M 4th weekend was 13% away. The Equalizer 3's $81.2M running total is 9.3% off of The Equalizer 2's $89.5M after 4 weeks. Close but not quite.

Barbie finished 5th again with $3.2M. That pushes its running total to $630.4M. Its $1.42B has it sitting comfortably as the 14th highest grossing movie of all time.

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Notables​

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PG-13 horror movie It Lives Inside opened with $2.6M from 2,005 theaters.




Dumb Money expanded to a wide release of 616 theaters and boosted to $2.5M.

With $925.96M, Oppenheimer passes Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' $925.95M to become the 69th highest grossing movie ever. Its $321.2M domestic running total moves it past Jumanji: The Next Level's $320.3M to move into 86th place all time at the Domestic Box Office.

With $1.5M, Gran Turismo passes the $40M mark and is up to a $41.7M running total.

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The Top Ten​

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Rank​	LW​	Movie​	Gross​	%± LW​	Theaters​	Total Gross ​	Weeks​	Distributor​
1	1	The Nun II	$8,400,000	-42.2%	3,536	$69,222,000	3	Warner Bros.
2	-	Expend4bles	$8,300,000	-	3,518	$8,300,000	1	Lionsgate
3	2	A Haunting in Venice	$6,300,000	-55.9%	3,305	$25,352,729	2	Disney
4	3	The Equalizer 3	$4,725,000	-34.6%	3,270	$81,261,243	4	Columbia
5	5	Barbie	$3,200,000	-16.3%	2,634	$630,450,087	10	Warner Bros.
6	4	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3	$3,000,000	-37%	3,078	$23,803,230	3	Focus Features
7	-	It Lives Inside	$2,630,000	-	2,005	$2,630,000	1	Neon
8	19	Dumb Money	$2,500,000	+1,031.5%	616	$2,809,875	2	Sony
9	6	Blue Beetle	$1,810,000	-28%	1,953	$69,823,000	6	Warner Bros.
10	9	Oppenheimer	$1,630,000	-22.2%	1,459	$321,212,945	10	Universal

 

[MenacingMonk]

Ex4 isn’t gonna hit the even mark of production.

Really surprised an action film like that flopped. Didn’t think it would make a lot, but still.

 

[Deltron]

Ex4 isn’t gonna hit the even mark of production.

Really surprised an action film like that flopped. Didn’t think it would make a lot, but still.

trailer didnt do it any real favors

action is decent, better than 4's but movie still was meh

 

[TheNatureBoy]

The Expendables has reached its sell by date , none of the movies were ever really great and it's been years since the 3rd one came out.

 

[Red Shield]

A decade inbetween 3 and 4, yeah I'm not surprised. This was already a series that should have came out back in the 90s when dudes were in their primes or close to it.

 

[MenacingMonk]

A decade inbetween 3 and 4

I had to double check that and you’re pretty much right. Holy shyt, I thought part 3 dropped in like 2015.

 

[Avisible Man]

'Saw Patrol' is No 'Barbenheimer' but it Wins the Weekend: Weekend Box Office Results (Sep. 29-Oct. 1)​

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This weekend saw the release of four new movies, all of which placed in the top five. It looked like it was going to be a battle for first place after Friday but the victory went to PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie with $23 million. It put up $6.8 million on Friday but was able to battle back and chop down Saw X's $8 million start. PAW Patrol with more bite than bark.

This PAW Patrol is a sequel to 2021's PAW Patrol: The Movie, which opened to $13.1 million. So that's a 75.6% higher output for the sequel. This Movie was Mighty, indeed. It's A cinemascore even bested in the original's A-. Good boy.

Time to play a game. Saw X had a promising start on Friday with a $1.2 million advantage over PAW Patrol but it fell off on Saturday and finished in second place with $18 million. That $18 million is better than what Spiral ($8.7M) and Jigsaw ($16.6M) produced on their opening weekends. It's definitely got better word of mouth with a B cinemascore this time around compared to Spiral's B-. That equals Jigsaw's B. So it's a return to form.

Now we come to the disappointment of the weekend, John David Washington's (Denzel's son) The Creator. The original sci-fi flick finished in third place with $14 million. This is Gareth Edwards' first release since 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. You may also know him for directing 2014's Godzilla, which I thought was trash. The Creator got a B+ CinemaScore like Godzilla and my blood type.

Hey, at least that $14 million is better than Amsterdam's $6.4 million. Not goods look for lil Denzel. Could be another bomb.

For the first time in 4 weeks, The Nun 2 did not finish in 1st place. It fell a 4th place with $4.6 million. That's a valiant effort from Valak, holding down the top spot so long. With $76.7 million accumulated so far, it passes Annabelle Comes Home's $74.1 million total to become the sixth highest grossing film in The Conjuringverse. Next up is Annabelle's $84.2 million.

Fifth place belongs to Fathom Events' The Blind with $4.1 million. Never heard of this shyt. Don't care. Still impressive that it came five on the charts with zero audience, word to Nas.

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Notables​

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Damn, how bout Dumb Money making $3.5M in its expansion to 2,837 theaters while Expend4bles fell 69% in its second weekend with only $2.4M? Fell from 2nd place to 9th.

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The Top Ten​

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Rank​	LW​	Movie​	Gross​	%± LW​	Theaters​	Total Gross ​	Weeks​	Distributor​
1	-	PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie	$23,000,000	-	3,989	$23,000,000	1	Paramount
2	-	Saw X	$18,000,000	-	3,262	$18,000,000	1	Lionsgate
3	-	The Creator	$14,000,000	-	3,680	$14,000,000	1	20th Century Studios
4	1	The Nun II	$4,675,000	-45.3%	2,871	$76,759,534	4	Warner Bros.
5	-	The Blind	$4,139,791	-	1,715	$4,982,023	1	Tread Lively
6	3	A Haunting in Venice	$3,800,000	-39.7%	2,785	$31,615,091	3	20th Century Studios
7	8	Dumb Money	$3,500,000	+44.3%	2,837	$7,300,670	3	Sony
8	4	The Equalizer 3	$2,700,000	-43.2%	2,184	$85,927,935	5	Columbia
9	2	Expend4bles	$2,495,000	-69%	3,518	$13,257,815	2	Lionsgate
10	5	Barbie	$1,430,000	-55.3%	1,302	$633,082,303	11	Warner Bros.