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Thor: Ragnarok Smashes with $121 Domestic Opening & Record Debut in China

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Thor: Ragnarok is the beginning of the holiday movie season and it started out strong with a little over $121 million opening in North America. That’s the seventh largest opening for a Marvel Cinematic film and beat this year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming which opened with $117 million. Thor opened with $65.7 million to go on and gross $181 million (not adjusted) domestically and $449.3 million worldwide in 2011 while Thor: The Dark World opened with $85.7 million and went on to gross $206.3 million (not adjusted) domestically and $644.6 million worldwide in 2013.

The film received an “A” Cinemascore with an audience that was 56% male and 44% female, and 63% over the age of 25.

Overseas, the film opened with an estimated $55.6 million in China, the largest ever for a November release. It also debuted with $5.2 million in India, $10.8 million in Mexico, $8.9 million in Germany, $3.5 million in Japan, and $3.7 million in Russia.

The film’s debut has pushed Marvel over $13 billion globally and $5 billion domestically.

It was a given this film would debut in first place and A Bad Moms Christmas took second with a $21.5 million five day domestic gross, it opened on Wednesday, and $17 million weekend. Internationally, the film brought in $6.67 million. Last year, the original film opened with $23.8 million and the sequel has an $8 million higher budget and debuted in more theaters, so it’s a slightly worse debut. That’s domestically, internationally, the film is ahead of the original.

Jigsaw came in third dropping from last week’s third. The film earned $6.7 million to bring its domestic total to $28.8 million.

In fourth place was Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween with $4.7 million and $43 million domestically so far.

Rounding out the top five was Geostorm which earned $3 million to bring its domestic total to $28.8 million.

In other comic movie adaptations….

My Friend Dahmer came in at #39 with $45,000 from four theaters and manga Blade of the Immortal debuted with $42,000 from 30 theaters to come in at #41.

We’ll have more discussion of this year’s comic films in an hour.

Jigsaw Wins the Weekend Box Office

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Did Netflix’s Stranger Things beat the weekend box office? That’s a theory for the down earnings. Which saw one of the worst weekends of the year and $18 million less than last year.

Lionsgate‘s Jigsaw won the weekend earning an estimated $16.25 million. The film is the latest in the Saw franchise. The film has just a $10 million budget so the debut was good but the franchise isn’t debuting with the strength it once had. Internationally the film earned $9.5 million from 46 markets. It still has to debut in Italy, France, Belgium, Australia, and South Korea.

The film had a “B” CinemaScore and was 51% female audience and 52% under the age of 25. Expect the film to drop quickly as far as dollars in but it’ll be a success for Lionsgate.

Lionsgate also had the number two spot with Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween which earned an estimated $10 million. The film has earned $35.5 million domestically on a $25 million budget. The first film had earned $52.5 million at the same point in its run.

Geostorm was in third place and earned an estimated $5.7 million with a domestic total of $23.5 million. The film has also earned $113.4 million at the foreign box office for a total of $137 million from a $120 million budget.

In fourth place was Happy Death Day with an estimated $5.1 million. The film has earned $68.6 million worldwide on a $4.8 million budget. Comic writer Scott Lobdell who penned this film should be very happy with these results.

Rounding out the top five was Blade Runner 2049 which earned an estimated $4 million to bring its domestic total to $81.4 million and $223.4 million worldwide on a $150 million budget. The film debuted in China and didn’t receive the boost it hoped earning just $7.6 million. The film also debuted at #1 in Japan with an estimated $2.7 million.

Thank You For Your Service opened at #6 with an estimated $3.7 million, Suburbicon opened at #9 with a disappointing $2.8 million from 2,046 theaters and Let there be Light debuted at #11 with an impressive $1.9 million from 373 theaters.

The big news though is the debut of Thor: Ragnarok which opened in 36 international markets with $107.6 million. That opening is 4% above Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and 22% above Doctor Strange. The film opens in North American theaters this coming week as well as Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, Austria, and more (almost 100% of the global marketplace).

In other comic adaptations….

Kingsman: The Golden Circle came in at #14 adding $1.6 million to its total.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations!

Did Geostorm Tank at the Box Office Due to Recent Natural Disasters?

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Did Geostorm tank at the box office due to recent natural disasters? While that question might seem silly, it’s on the mind of Warner Bros. Studio who asked the question in a survey to individuals that are part of a community of theirs. Warner Bros. regularly uses the community to ask questions about possible shows, packaging, and what fans are interested in. This particular survey was about the film with questions as to whether the recipient has seen it or was planning on seeing the film in the future.

In a recent survey the movie studio focused on Geostorm which stumbled in its opening weekend where it earned just $17.1 million domestically. For a $120 million budgeted film with a pretty heavy marketing push, that’s a poor debut even when you include the $52 million earned at the foreign box office.

Specifically, Warner Bros. asked:

Given recent environmental events (e.g. Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Mexico City Earthquake, Fires in Northern and Southern California, etc.) does this make you more or less interested in buying this movie?

It’s an interesting question and one that’s worth to ponder.

The last “disaster” film Warner Bros. released was 2015’s In the Heart of the Sea which debuted with $11.1 million on a $100 million budget. It went on to earn $93.9 million worldwide. The movie studio more than likely expected a San Andreas which opened with $54.6 million domestically and went on to earn $155.2 million domestically and $474 million worldwide on a $110 million budget.

It’s clear from the question the study is attempting to figure out why the movie flopped in its opening weekend. But, the poor box office wasn’t limited to just that film. Its opening weekend was a week one earning $30 million less than the same weekend last year. October is down about 13% compared to last year. The domestic box office as a whole is struggling no matter the film. The question Warner Bros. should be asking isn’t why did Geostorm struggle, but instead it should ask why are movies struggling domestically as a whole?

Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween Wins the Weekend Box Office

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Earning an estimated $21.7 million, Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween won the weekend box office with easy, besting the next film by over $8 million. It’s not too surprising at how well the film did as this is the creator’s films tend to open with over $20 million and this is the seventh of eight to do so. It’s unknown how well this film will do as it opened in the middle of the pack for the director’s films. All together, the director’s films have earned almost $1 billion collectively.

In second place was the $120 million budgeted Geostorm which brought in just $13.3 million in its debut weekend. At the foreign box office the film has earned $49.6 million. With poor reviews from both audiences and critics, the movie will need to rely on the foreign box office to make up ground. It opens in China next weekend followed by France and Italy on November 1. The movie’s life hangs in the balance and will likely be decided by the Chinese box office.

Happy Death Day dropped to third place with a 64% drop from its debut weekend. The movie earned an estimated $9.4 million to bring its domestic total to $40.6 million. The film has also earned $12.9 million at the foreign box office for a worldwide total of $53.6 million on a $4.8 million budget.

Blade Runner 2049 came in fourth place adding in $7.2 million to its domestic run to bring it to $74 million. Worldwide the film has earned $194.1 million on a $150 million budget. Adjusting for inflation, domestically the film is about $9 million behind the 1982 original. It debuts in China and Japan next weekend where I expect it to do quite well.

Wrapping up the top five was another new film Only the Brave which opened with an estimated $6 million on a $38 million budget. This was despite positive reviews and an “A” CinemaScore.

Another big opener, The Snowman, opened at #8 with just $3.4 million. Bad reviews all around probably have killed this film.

This past weekend was a week one earning $30 million less than the same weekend last year. October is down about 13% compared to last year.

In comic adaptation news….

Kingsman: The Golden Circle added $3 million to its total to come in at #10 and bringing its domestic total to $94.6 million and $344.8 million worldwide. The film opened in China with $40.3 million an improvement over the original film. The first film brought in about $75 million from the market overall. The sequel lags the first film by about $70 million worldwide but doesn’t open in Japan until January 5. The first film brought in $7.5 million there.

We’ll have a more detailed look at this year’s comic movie releases in an hour.