FRIDAY PM: Not a gangbusters weekend, but solid enough to make exhibition content. Warner Bros/DC Studios’ Superman is looking at $16M, -71%, in its second Friday, for what’s looking to be a $55M second weekend at 4,275 theaters, for a decline on the high-end that’s in the -56% realm. Worldwide all in by Sunday is looking like $400M.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman fell -50% in weekend 2 for a $66.5M take, while James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 eased -56% for a $65.2M second weekend. On the high side, Superman will stand at $232.7M by Sunday end of day.
Standing strong above the new stuff in second is Universal’s third weekend of Jurassic World Rebirth with $21.5M at 3,854. The Gareth Edwards directed movie dips -47% with a running cume by Sunday of $274.2M.
Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems I Know What You Did Last Summer is seeing just under $6M today for what’s hoped to be a $13M-$15M opening at 3,206 sites. Rivals believe it’s in a fight for third with Paramount Animation’s Smurfs which is seeing $4M today at 3,504 locations, and a $12M 3-day. The last one under Sony, 2017’s Smurfs: The Lost Village opened to $13.2M. Smurfs is a much younger skewing movie among kids under 12. The IP always does better abroad, and the upside for those studios getting involved with the property is the share of the merchandise revs. ViacomCBS Consumer Products is handling the consumer products licensing for the Smurfs in U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, Singapore, and Malaysia.
I Know What You Did Last Summer 1 back in 1997 opened to $15.8M, while party 2 in 1998 debuted to $16.5M. That’s unadjusted for inflation.
Apple Original Films’ F1 is seeing a fourth Friday of $2.6M at 3,094 theaters, and 3-day of $9.4M, -28%, for a running cume of $153.4M.
A24’s Eddington at 2,111 sites is looking at $1.9M today and $4.5M for the weekend. That’s under what another Cannes premiere, Wes Anderson’s Phoenician Scheme, did in its wide break at 1,678, $6.2M at 1,678. Eddington cost $25M net shot with New Mexico tax credits, which is under the reported $30M that Focus Features shelled out for Phoenician Scheme.
FRIDAY AM: Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems’ reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer banked $2.2 million in previews from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. Thursday, while A24’s Ari Aster socio-political Western Eddington did $625,000.
Neither film, nor Paramount Animation’s Smurfs, is expected to over swell with Warner Bros/DC Studios’ Superman still a fortress atop the box office chart with an expected second weekend of $55M-$60M, after the James Gunn movie ended its first week with $177.7M. Superman is pacing ahead of the first week of Matt Reeves’ The Batman by 3% ($172.5M, final domestic $369.3M), 16% ahead of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($152.7M first week, $359M final domestic) and 3% behind the first week of GOTG Vol. 2 ($183.1M, final domestic $389.3M).
I Know What You Did Last Summer is eyeing around $13M+, while Smurfs is anywhere in the high single digits to low teens. Eddington is expected to land in the under-$5M range.
The Jennifer Kaytin Robinson-directed I Know What You Did Last Summer counts previews that are higher than Blumhouse/Universal’s Wolf Man ($1.4M previews, $10.8M opening) from earlier this year, and 62% less than Sony’s reboot of 28 Years Later ($5.8M previews, $30M opening). Critics have settled at 38% Rotten on I Know What You Did Last Summer while the Rotten Tomatoes audience meter is at 69%. That latter score is the best in franchise, ahead of the original 1997 installment at 41% and the 1998 sequel at 29%.
The 1997 movie, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and the late Anne Heche, opened to $15.8M and legged out to $72.5M domestic, $125.5M worldwide. The 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer debuted to $16.5M and ended its run at $40M. The movies made $165M combined. The third movie, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer starring Brooke Nevin, went direct to home video in 2006. The new installment features the return of Hewitt and Prinze Jr alongside newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Gabbriette Bechtel.
Eddington‘s critical score stands at 66%, which is under the 90% certified fresh of Aster’s horror opus Hereditary, and his Swedish solstice genre pic run amok Midsommar (83% certified fresh), and 2 points under his trippy Joaquin Phoenix pic Beau Is Afraid (68% fresh).
Smurfs didn’t hold previews last night.
The rest of the week:
1.) Superman (WB) 4,135 theaters Thu $10.9M (-7% from Wed) Week $177.7M/Wk 1
2.) Jurassic World Rebirth (Uni) 4,324 theaters, Thu $4.2M (-6% from Wed), Week $60.6M (-56%), Total $252.7M/Wk 2
3.) F1 (Apple) 3,412 theaters, Thu $1.75M (-6%), Wk $20.8M (-47%), Total $144M/Wk 3
4.) How to Train Your Dragon (Uni) 3,285 theaters, Thu $1.22M (-6%), Week $13.3M (-30%)/Total $245.3M/Wk 5
5.) Elio (Dis) 2,730 theaters, Thu $683K (-11%), Week $7.1M (-31%), Total $66.9M/Wk 4
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