No way home box office mojo9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() As Kinberg told us on Crew Call recently, star Chastain, who worked with him on his X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The Martian production, approached the scribe/filmmaker with the idea of an all-female spy ensemble. The title was the code name of the first female spy in the American Revolution, and became jargon for a female intelligence agent. But amidst the Covid-resurge, moviegoers are tapping their finger for Peacock or another streaming service drop date.” (from left) Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o and director Simon Kinberg on ‘The 355’ Universal ![]() Fans of Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, and Penelopé Cruz are super-supportively cheering for success. RelishMix says about the social media chatter, “Convo for The 355 swings mixed-negative, as fans feel like they’re being served a bit of a cliché cookie-cutter action package in the spirit of Charlie’s Angels or ‘James Bond’s daughters’ with a diverse mix of kick-ass, super-charged women. According to EntTelligence, The 355‘s weekend B.O. ![]() But Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak is worse at 76%. Critics at 26% Rotten are saying to avoid, while CinemaScore is better at B+. It’s not just omicron, but, yes, word-of-mouth does have something to do with it. However critics and moviegoers have detected a by-the-numbers action film, and that bad word-of-mouth is deep-sixing The 355, with a $4.8M result in 3rd place. The Simon Kinberg-directed-produced and cowritten all- femme action movie The 355seemed like a perfect title for Universal, to acquire domestic on at $20M, the movie fitting in its theatrical slate, which is about diversity and representation. Also on that weekend, the wide expansion of Universal/Amblin/New Republic’s 1917 led the box office with $37M, while Rise of Skywalker ranked 2nd with $15.1M, and Jumanji: The Next Level in weekend 5 doing $14M in third. 10-12, 2020 made at least $5.1M+ this weekend, the 10th-ranking title’s baseline is at $632K. This puts the frame -52% off the same January weekend in 2020, which grossed $132M. Spider-Man reps 51% of this weekend’s total estimated $64M ticket sales for all titles. Unfortunately, it’s that middling adult fare which continues to swoon, sure to be hurt by Covid. A period prequel (King’s Man), a flat-flooded franchise sequel available in homes ( Matrix Resurrections), and a 2 1/2 hour remake of a 61-year old Best Picture Oscar winner (West Side Story), aren’t pulling in moviegoers like Little Women, Knives Out did two years ago at this time, or Hateful Eight and Big Short did six years ago, when Force Awakens was still ruling January. It just boils down to the type of movie you’re going to make extra time for outside your house, and if it looks similar to anything in a Netflix queue, you’re not going to sacrifice time. Deep down, no matter if you’re blue or red state, everyone wants to get out and live their lives and manage safety in a Covid-19 environment. It took Force Awakens 20 days and Avengers: Endgame 23 days to click past the $760M threshold.For those movie theaters rolling in dough over popcorn money, Spider-Man is not an anomaly, but a reminder of Christmas pasts. Industry estimates peg that the final cume for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is one of the few MCU titles to boast an A+ CinemaScore, will be around $785M. The top two movies at the all-time domestic box office are 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6M) and Avengers: Endgame ($858.3M), and it’s unlikely that Spidey will ever catch up to those films. A release in China is still TBD.Īvatar 2 finally arrives in movie theaters December 16 after six-plus years of production. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the sixth-highest-grossing title worldwide, with a running total of $1.8 billion. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Super Snubbed With No Oscar Best Picture Nomination For BlockbusterĪvatar remains the highest-grossing movie of all time at the global box office with $2.84 billion, ahead of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame ($2.79 billion) in second. 1 for six weekends during their theatrical runs. ![]() Spider-Man is part of a group of films that include the original Return of the Jedi, The Fugitive, Rain Man, Rocky IV and Terms of Endearment - all of which ranked No. 1 weekends for a movie released in the millennium after Avatar, which had seven No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for six out of its nine weekends of release. 'Terminator' Director James Cameron On The Rise Of AI: "I Warned You Guys In 1984 & You Didn't Listen" ![]()
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