Kraven the Hunter- 20m
The Lord of the Rings: The War for the Rohirrim 13m

Moana 2- 40%
Wicked -30%

Kraven to filthy bomb

Kraven $19m
Rohirim $8m

Both Kraven and LOTR have awful PS. almost nothing at all at this point. I am thinking low double digits or low teens for Kraven and high single digits for LOTR.

Lower than expected theater counts, studios releasing the first 10 minutes online .... were in for some flops

Kraven: $17m
LOTR: $7.5m
Moana: -45%
Wicked: -33%

I thought Moana and Wicked would be closer this weekend. Can’t imagine Moana isn’t number 1 again now.

I do think Wicked will pass it before Christmas on the weekends though and stay ahead on weekdays

Wicked can probably stay ahead even over the holiday weekends. The two animated movies will hurt Moana more, and there’s the sing along coming out which should provide a boost

Kraven at 15% on RT. Kinda incredible Sony just couldn't muster at least ok Marvel content lol

Lmfao how did they manage a film with worse reviews than Venom 3?

Pretty meh reviews for War of the Rohhirim too but I'll still see it.

Also, my local (smallish) theater did the thing again where they had Queer showtimes up for Friday, but then took them away in favor of giving extra showtimes to Wicked and Moana. Another flop. But the good news is that Challengers is back in the oscar race!

Kraven $2M previews

LOTR $625,000

Guess no one is kravin this...

The only reason WOTR was made was so wb didnt lose the rights to the movie franchise.
Look for it to be on Max by next month.

It didn’t look like it resembled the vibe of LOTR at all and nobody cares about that character. Just make it about younger Gandalf and Saruman or something.

The same thing happened to my friend at his theater. This isn't the first time it has happened there with an A24 movie. His is an AMC.

I don't think this weekend's openers deserve their own thread so putting Friday updates here.

Empire:
$4-6M weekend for LOTR.
Kraven $10M-14M

DHD:
Moana $6M / $26M -49% / $336.9M by Sunday
Wicked $5.3M / $20.5M -44% / $357M by Sunday
Kraven $4.7M / $12-13M
Gladiator II $2.1M / $7.6M -40% / $145.7M
LOTR $2M+ / $5M-6M

Wicked will do 23m, mark my words.

Empire is saying Kraven could go as low as 10m and LOTR at 4-6m OW. Still holdovers are doing that great. Is it due to loss of PLF.

Theaters should take premium screens away from Kraven for the rest of the weekend.

Interstellar (honestly the only interesting #) $990,000 -28% 321 $197,474,083

Just $2.5M away from $200M. I don't count Sing/Sing 2 as animated film ensembles, but interestingly Matthew McConaughey only ever had 1 $120M+ film at the box office and that was Interstellar. So it will become his first and only $200M+ live action.

You could see Kraven bombing from space

ATJ's main asset is he's good looking so maybe make some movies in the one of the genres where women fall for him? Idk crazy idea...

Filming was done by June 2022 2.5 years ago!

Here were it's previous release dates:

January 13, 2023

then October 6, 2023

then August 30, 2024

before a release of Dec. 13, 2024.

After all that wait it will skimp to $12-14M off of a $110M+ (possibly $130M) budget. Won't even cover marketing.

Also WB released a LOTR film to $5M and wouldn't release a critically acclaimed potential last film of Clint Eastwood wide or the Looney Tunes movie?

WB is so dumb. Would be hilarious if Superman does less than Man of Steel #s.

Kraven being a bomb is hilarious. LotR not so much. The 2020s have not been good to the franchise.

That is the most probably scenario at this point. DC movies are in dumps and generally there is fatigue on SH movies despite occassional uber break out like Deadpool and Wolverine. Even if its good I am skeptical it will beat MoS. That released after Nolan trilogy and we did not have this many SH movies back then. Nolan himself produced MoS back then.

I didn't feel too great about taking Superman 5th overall in the draft but I wasn't going to take Jurassic World or Captain America over it. I guess on the brightside how many meh Superman attempts can they make in a row before one has to connect?