Per Deadline:




A 54% drop for Blockers would be insane.

I think these will be pretty different by the end of the night/weekend. Obviously A Quiet Place and Truth or Dare will have a Friday The 13th effect. If Rampage does 10 Million Friday and A Quiet Place does as well I see Rampage winning out. It will have family appeal.

It's early, but I am rooting for AQP to top Rampage. A sub $30M opening for Rampage would be awful though no matter how you try to spin it. Truth or Dare is definitely getting a nice Friday the 13th boost before it falls off a cliff.

Wow, Truth or Dare is doing this well in matinees?

Very hard to believe that Rampage will come in that low. On the other hand I do wonder if it is just too similar to Jumanji, Jurassic, and Kong.

A Quiet Place would drop over 30% if that’s a real number.

You act like that's bad and unexpected. That would be a fantastic hold.

Poor holds for Ready Player One and Blockers if estimates hold. Could be due to the Friday the 13th effect.

Rampage is getting stampeded by A Quiet Place, which is enjoying a lot of media hype and good WOM. Late release date change is seldom a good thing.

If the $1.8m weekend estimate holds for Sgt. Stubby, it will be among the worst animated openings in 1,000+ theaters. A shame since the reviews are solid. Perhaps Isle of Dogs is stealing audience.

Both THR and Variety have pretty much confirmed Deadline's numbers. THR has Rampage even lower at $9.5M which would be beyond awful. They have AQP well over $30M though.

Rampage was never really going to break out above $40m really - for being a game adaptation AND also a creature/destruction feature that looked a hybrid of too many films we'd seen before.

But it could have also made more money with a better release date. The breakout of AQP, the sudden move forward of Avengers late in the game and the release of Pacifc Rim a month earlier (giant robots) all conspired against it. Plus it was far too close to Jumanji's breakout success for there to be any major yearning for a dose of The Rock.

Is that so? Then why this...



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Come on, Gez. Don't be "that guy" that knows everything after-the-fact.

You’re the same way asshat

Bummer. Was hoping it could do 3 Million.

I can understand why RPO was hit but that Blockers drop is awful of true. If both AQP and Rampage do close to $10m then I see the later winning because of family effect. One is enjoying Friday 13th boost and the other previews so that negates things I guess.

I don’t think anyone knows it exists.

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As for the numbers themselves, I can’t say I’m too surprised by the muted opening for Rampage. For some reason, the theater I was covering last night had five showings between 6:30 and 10:00 with two of those showtimes ten minutes apart which is usually something only reserved for something like Star Wars. I don’t know if they expected overflow, but it didn’t happen. No showtime had more than 30 people and the last one I covered had zero. Meanwhile, Truth or Dare only had four showtimes throughout the entire day and the evening showtime I covered was completely sold out. ToD will probably drop like a rock from here on out though.

Rampage went up 2 million to 11.5 million. I think it still is looking good for 35-40 million. Truth or Dare went up too. But F13 will mean it still most likely misses 20 million. Already a massive hit with it's 3.5 million budget.

Rampage still did $9m on Friday without previews. I don't see it ending close to $40m but it should do $32m-$34m OW. The big question is how AQP will hold after Friday 13th boost, the good WoM can only help in here so I think it is set for $33m-$35m. I am really hoping for AQP winning the weekend again, regardless of Rampage disappointing this is looking to be a GREAT weekend again.

I like close finish weekends between films. I feel like most weekends now are set based on the Thursday preview numbers. Remember the time when people still enjoyed Sunday weekend estimates?

How much of RPO's drop can be attributed to losing IMAX and PLF to Rampage?

I think it's the direct competition that impacted RPO more but the loss of plf screens is what got it from 40%-45% drop to 50+% drop

I'm still not sure why Blockers dropped that much.

Saturday(DH):

Rampage-$13.8M
AQP-$13.5M

That's expected. Rampage is more of a Saturday matinee flick whereas A Quiet Place is an evening movie.

So Rampage seems to have won the weekend barely based on the previews. Damn!!!

I know everything regardless!

Yeah I did realise I had thought it was good for $150m but I was wrong.

Regardless of how it was marketed, Rampage is still a video game movie (and on the video game chart at BOM), so $35m is outstanding for it.