![]() ![]() The majority of that demo has been sidelined to watching the sequel at home, and dollars have been lost. The first 2017 movie saw its initial projections four weeks out start at $65M and finally clock to $103.2M all largely due to the influx of women. It’s a movie that they will flock to the theaters to see in packs. Wonder Woman is a soulful property, one of pride for women. should have simply waited to release this event pic until later in the year, when the entire exhibition infrastructure is presumably back on track and the pandemic, as we’re expecting, will be restrained. Make no mistake, though, for a $200M planned DC event feature, which began its promotional drumroll all the way back at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 when director Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine dropped footage after three-and-half weeks of production, this weekend’s box office result of Wonder Woman 1984 is a disaster by normal pre-pandemic marketplace standards. The first Wonder Woman earned an A back in 2017, but that was when more cities were available for polling. WW1984, News of the World and Promising Young Woman all earned B+ in terms of their CinemaScores. Again, these aren’t the types of figures we’re used to for a Christmas holiday weekend, a week that’s typically one of the more lucrative ones of the year. Roadside Attraction’s Pinocchioat 764 theaters debuted to $274,6K. 3 title, DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age,which brought in $1.7M in weekend 5 for a running $30.3M domestic total. In regards to the holiday weekend’s other opening titles, Universal’s Tom Hanks western News of the Worldand Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman, they respectively earned $2.4M and $680K in spots 2 and 5. Johanna Leonberger (Helena Zengel) and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) in News of the World. This compared to Croods 2, which achieved its opening from 44% of all domestic theaters open, which repped 60% of the box office, versus Tenet, which had access to a marketplace where 55% of all theaters were open and repped 70% of the box office. Note that WW84 had close to 40% of all theaters open, which repped 56% of its box office. WW1984‘s opening bests the results of Croods: A New Age‘s $9.7M 3-day over Black Friday weekend, and Tenet‘s $9.3M 3-day over Labor Day weekend. Toss in the potential trickle of home video releases in a couple of months and one can even say that AT&T's strategy may be the one for other studios to follow.'Batgirl' Shelving Was "Blown Out Of Proportion" By Press, Warner Bros Discovery CFO Says: "Media Likes To Talk About Media" It helped give HBO Max a boost when it needed it the most after a slow start to the platform. It was able to cover stiff distribution costs on the theatrical front. Despite receiving less favorable reviews than its predecessor - just 60% of film critics tracked by Rotten Tomatoes recommend the film compared to 93% for 2017's Wonder Woman - it did what it had to do. Given the circumstances it will be hard to view Wonder Woman 1984 as a flop. It could pass The Croods: A New Age to take the silver medal before its theatrical run is done. There's also a chance that ticket sales pick up for Wonder Woman 1984 next week once the HBO Max spigot is shut off. Only Tenet - another AT&T release - and The Croods: A New Age have had better luck at the movie house. A year ago this is the kind of haul that would've seemed catastrophic, but in the new normal the superhero flick's stateside take is the third-highest gross since the pandemic paralyzed the country 10 months ago. The film has generated $35.8 million domestically and a heartier $142.5 million worldwide. Screening simultaneously on the silver screen for paying customers and in your living room at no additional cost to existing HBO Max subscribers didn't seem to eat into its box office success. It's probably after exhausting all of those outlets that the film will come to rest on AT&T's HBO Max for more than just a month. As early as March it will probably roll out on DVD and premium video on demand. Wonder Woman 1984 will probably come back to HBO Max at some point, but for now it will continue to play at a multiplex near you.
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