‘Terrifier 3’ Laughing All The Way To The Bank With $7.7M Friday/$15M+ 3-Day, Freaks Out ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ ($8-9M 3-Day, -77%); ‘Wild Robot’ ($13.1M 3-Day, -31%) Taking 2nd; ‘Saturday Night’ ($1.55M/$4M), ‘Piece By Piece’ ($1.25M/$3M), ‘Apprentice’ ($500K/$1.1M) Open Low – Friday PM Box Office
by chanma50
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WB: “I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing. Oh if I’d only seen… that the joke was on me.”
> Third belongs to Warner Bros. second weekend of Joker: Folie à Deux at 4,102 locations which is seeing a second Friday of $2.8M for an $8M-$9M second weekend, -77%. Put a pin on that. Let’s not make any judgements until tomorrow AM. On the high end by EOD Sunday that’s $53.5M. Joker 2 for the most part keeps all the Imax auditoriums.
If they’re already calling 77% after just half Friday, then it’s absolutely falling even more. We’re getting close to 80%, pals.
Also that’s an absolutely poor start for *Saturday Night*. It will struggle to hit $15 million lifetime. And with the overseas markets ignoring it, it’s gonna be a bomb. That’s probably the nail in the coffin to its Oscar chances.
Fingers crossed for a 20M debut for T3
$17.5m for T3 is my guess.
31% for The Wild Robot
It’s catching on!!
Also hah to Warner Bros for their overpriced film losing to an animated film xD
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Oh… that’s catastrophic for Joker Folie Á Deux which is dropping so hard like The Marvels with a 78% drop when it got crashed and burned by The Hunger Games Prequel and a Third Trolls Movie as well as Eil Roth’s Thanksgiving
Won’t be shocked if it drops so hard like Halloween Ends two years ago that dropped 80% where it got defected by Black Adam due to its loss of PLFs and day and date with Peacock
Imagine making a $200 million film only for it to lose to the indie clown torture porn movie on the second weekend lmao
Gaga can’t act, critics give her a pass but she hams it up and is not believable in her roles. After this she’ll probably just stick to singing.
The box office only has room for one clown prince of crime, and his name is Art, not Arthur.
Damn if these lowballers are saying $15M on a mid day update then I’m getting more confident that $20M happens for Terrifier 👀
Around the same as Saw X. Hope it will have similiar WOM.
Any chance Wild Robot could come in higher
Not surprised at the low Piece By Piece opening, very confusing audience
T3 4 day about to be equal to companies market cap on Nasdaq.
I guess I’m going all in on saying that I don’t think this is hitting 80% drop despite this projection. Halloween Ends has been brought up as a good comp that ended up dropping 80.4% its second weekend (one of two movies with over 3,000 theaters ever to do), but Joker 2 just posted a better Wednesday to Thursday drop than that movie (Joker 2 -12%, Halloween Ends -20%). I like larger samples, so I added up the Monday to Thursday grosses for the following movies and divided that by the first weekend take to get the percent of weekly earnings relative to its debut weekend. Here are the results:
Halloween Ends: 15.3%
Joker: Folie à Deux: 18.3%
The Marvels: 18.8%
Morbius: 20.1%
So, in a way, Halloween Ends is in a category by its own. However, the more pertinently to why I think 80% drop is not likely, the first weekend for Joker 2 was already really depressed. Basically as soon as anyone saw it, interest cratered. Here are the first Friday to first Saturday drops for those movies:
Morbius: -24%
The Marvels: -29%
Halloween Ends: -36%
Joker: Folie à Deux: -44%
It’s going to be harder to get to that historic second drop when it had one of the worst opening intraweekend legs ever (I suspect anyway, I am not sure how to easily find out worst Friday to Saturday drops). When you add this all up, it’s going to be on track for an epically bad performance, even without the distinction of becoming the worst second weekend drop champ. And as I keep on saying, I think we are going to see a crazy theater count drop next week. Just my message is, as it has been, don’t be disappointed with a “mere” 78% drop… it’s mostly fueled by the fact that it’s already done so badly the first weekend!