Theater counts: ‘Joker’ repels an onslaught of newcomers to remain widest release (4,102 theaters). ‘Terrifier 3’ (2,514), ‘Saturday Night’ (2,309), ‘Piece by Piece’ (1,863), and ‘The Apprentice’ (1,740) open in wide release. ‘Megalopolis’ loses 1,627 theaters in its third weekend.
by SanderSo47
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I like how they frame it as if the theaters had any choice 💀
I don’t understand what theaters want. Certainly it’s not money. Cuz terrified is opening in 2.5k locations while BJ after 6 weeks is still playing in 3.4K theaters and lost less than 200 locations this weekend. What they want? Get to Halloween with it making 1 dolar per theater? 😅
To keep this insanity they removed DW from almost 700 theaters killing the REAL chance it had to surpass Barbie domestically.
No theater counts on My Hero or Nightmare Before Christmas so I guess we have to wait until estimates for Thursday to get a proper theater count.
Oh that’s bad for Megalopolis which lost over 1,600 theaters which is now out of wide release
* The Wild Robot & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice remain in over 3000 theaters.
* Speak No Evil gets terrified into leaving 687 theaters.
* By comparison, Terrifier 2 opened in 770 theaters and peaked at 1,550.
* Sony’s Dumb Money expanded into 2837 theaters in early October last year, to give you an idea of how much faith they have in Saturday Night.
With only Smile 2 as the only major wide release next weekend, we should expect light theater drops all around. Wouldn’t be surprised if The Wild Robot takes Joker’s place as the widest release though.
That’s a lot of empty theaters for Joker!
A Different Man losing theaters is a disappointment, was hoping it’d keep expanding so I could actually see it.
Pretty bad reporting by not even including the fact that theaters are contractually obligated to keep it for two weeks
The third weekend theater count drop for Joker 2 is gonna be nasty!