“Smile 2” Box Office Could Reach $22 Million; “We live in time” is growing

SATURDAY ON: Update for further analysis and numbers….Paramounts Smile 2 is in great shape with an opening of $23 million, up from $9.4 million on Friday, and a B CinemaScore. This is better than the B- on the first one. No one expects this horror film to fall apart with a Saturday drop of around -15%. Good times for the Melrose group before the Skydance merger storm: they have been fully revealed Gladiator II to members of the press and actors last night, and given the sight of the crowd during the more than two-hour film, everyone was so locked in and spellbound that no one dared go to the bathroom. In short: they loved it.

Other great news for adult films after last weekend’s bust include Studio Canal and A24 We live in time The box office average is $4.3 million and $4.5K, respectively, but then there’s NEON’s exclusive six-theater play about Cannes Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker Anora, That’s very va-va voom and on track to achieve the second-best post-Covid opening cinema average $105,000 or an estimate $630,000 in six theaters. The film shows great ticket sales at New York’s Lincoln Center, Angelika NY, Alamo Brooklyn and LA’s AMC Century City, Grove and Burbank. Note that this is the second best post-Covid opening theater average Asteroid cityis the best so far this year at $142.2k, ahead of Searchlight’s Types of kindness what did $75.4k per theater.

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FRIDAY TIME: Paramounts Smile The franchise maintains its staying power Smile 2 should be opened $22 million after an $8.8 million Friday that included previews. The film is booked in 3,610 cinemas. Others also see it on this level. No RT viewer rating yet.

A24’s romantic drama has now made it into the top 5 We live in time with today around 1.75 million US dollars, approx $4.3 million for the weekend and a running total of $4.6 million from EOD Sunday – in 955 cinemas. Rotten Tomatoes critics give Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s Kleenex film an 80% rating that it’s fresh. That means a price of $4,500 per theater.

Thank God. For a minute there after three critically acclaimed films – The apprentice, piece by piece And Saturday evening – Deep down there was a concern that the future of adult films looked bleak. Saturday evening Last weekend, the breakout was just $1,400 per theater at 2,308 theaters, or $3.4 million.

DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s The wild robot won’t collapse, remaining in second place in its fourth weekend with 3,820 screens and a $2.65 million haul on Friday. $10 million three days, -29%, and a running total of $101.6 million. This would make it DWA’s second film after that Kung Fu Panda 4 pass the century mark this year. What is this original animated film all about? “It’s emotional and the audience can relate to it and knows the book very well,” says the head of a rival sales studio.

Cineverses Terrifier 3, fully booked on 2,762 screens, sees a second Friday of $2.5 million and a second weekend in between $7.5 million to $8 million-58%. At the high end, the 10-day total is $34.9 million.

Fourth place goes to Warner Bros., which is solid as a rock Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at 3,251 locations, with a seventh Friday of $1.4 millionseventh weekend of $5.1 million-30% and a running total of $284 million. The film can be rented or purchased digitally.

BEFORE, FRIDAY: Paramounts Smile 2 made $2.5 million on Thursday night, which began at 5 p.m. at 3,000 locations, which is half a million more than the film’s 2022 preview figure. That’s first Smile went on to open at $22.6 million and rose to $105.9 million.

Advance sales had indicated high-teen values Smile 2 at the domestic box office this weekend, but perhaps Paramount executives will have something to smile about and the sequel will go higher. Smile 2 has all PLF screens this weekend while Imax venues live with Warner Bros. Joker: Foil A Dex.

Smile 2 is certified fresh with an 85% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, and last night’s PostTrak exits from fans are 3 1/2 stars and 71% positive. Latino and Hispanic moviegoers were heavily represented last night at 36%, with Caucasians at 40%, Black moviegoers at 11% and Asian Americans at 7%.

The sequel opens today on 3,619 screens. Smile Architect Parker Finn is back for the sequel, which cost $28 million. The movie stars AladdinNaomi Scott is a pop star who sees grinning people on tour.

Smile 2Blumhouse/Universal’s preview cash is also on par with Tuesday’s Blumhouse/Universal preview The first purge, That grossed $2.5 million in 2018, reaching a three-day total of $17.3 million and a five-day total of $31.2 million.

In the meantime, the surprise from Cineverse Terrifier 3, According to industry estimates, it raised $1.5 million on Thursday, -16%, for the first week $26.9 million.

The gradual expansion of the A24 We live in time seen $500,000 in previews last night before opening in 955 theaters this weekend. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s romantic drama received a 98% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. We keep our fingers crossed: lots of hope for another love comeback at the box office with this film. The title directed by John Crowley currently counts $820,000 all in the US after playing its first weekend in five theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, bowing to $225,900.

Last night there were previews for the dramedy from Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis from Ketchup Entertaiment Goodrich. I’m waiting for a number, but the audience exits were 5 stars and 93% positive, with turnout of 61% men, 39% women and 65% over 35s. Critics are 68% fresh for this Hallie Meyers-Shyer directed film. Blurb for Pic: Andy Goodrich (Keaton)’s life is turned upside down when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him alone with their young children. Goodrich is thrust into the world of modern parenthood and leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), while ultimately becoming the father Grace never had.