A new era aims for $ 15 million for a holiday weekend

With up to $ 36 million in North America and China by tomorrow, The Croods 2 it could be a rare post-Covid theatrical hit for Hollywood.

In a sane world, I’d settle for Walt Disney

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Raya and the last dragon and discuss how it fared compared to Thanksgiving’s debuts Tangled up ($ 49 million Fri-Sun / $ 69 million Wed-Sun 2010), Frozen ($ 67 million / $ 93 million in 2013), The good dinosaur ($ 39 million / $ 55.5 million in 2015) Moana ($ 56 million / $ 82 million in 2016) e Coco ($ 51 million / $ 73 million in 2017). I would probably notice it as the second weekend of Frozen II earned $ 85 million Fri-Sun / $ 125 million Wednesday to Sunday this past Thanksgiving weekend, nearly matching its actual $ 130 million debut Fri-Sun the previous weekend and down just 34% from previous frame Fri-Sun. Instead, I’m writing about how The Croods: A New Age, the lone beginner, could gross $ 15 million for the holidays.

The animated sequel, released by Universal, earned $ 8.46 million in its first three days in theaters, following a $ 1.9 million Wednesday, $ 2.7 million Thursday and Friday 3, 86 million dollars. The good news, relatively speaking, is that the DreamWorks Animation sequel could be the first film to exceed $ 10 million over the weekend Fri-Sun since Pixar. Forward in March of this year. Yes, Warner Bros. Principle “Open” with $ 20.2 million since Labor Day launch in September, but that included a week of grossing in Canada and what was essentially a Thursday and Monday weekend. Chris Nolan’s sci-fi film earned about $ 9.4 million in pure domestic receipts Fri-Sun. With theaters (re) closed in parts of the country, we’re still looking at a launch of over / under $ 14.5 million Wednesday through Sunday for Universal’s release.

This will make it the fifth consecutive time that a Comcast

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the film passed the weekend box office. That follows Come and play ($ 8.6 million by Sunday), Let him go ($ 8.2 million by Sunday) and Blumhouse’s Freaky ($ 7 million by Sunday). Universal and Focus Features films now make up four of the top five titles in play, along with 101 Studios War with the grandfather ($ 17.2 million by tomorrow), which is the closest thing to a theatrical success since, well, from Blumhouse The invisible man in late February. Although with over / under $ 36 million worldwide by Sunday (and most of its overseas territories yet to come), the $ 65 million budget Croods 2 it could still qualify as a hit even before considering launching PVOD next month.

The Croods: A New Age, with Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Kelly Marie Tran (who, ironically, also titled Raya and the last dragon), earned $ 8.6 million on Saturday in China, giving him a $ 11.6 million cume and placing him for a possible debut frame above / below $ 20 million. It would be the third-largest launch of a Hollywood title in China for the whole year, behind it alone Mulan ($ 23 million) e Principle ($ 29.8 million). Animated titles are frankly a coin toss in China, so that’s a decent figure in any circumstance and further proof that the film show has returned to “normal” in the larger overseas territory. It might be the only place we go next month Wonder Woman 1984 achieves a “business as usual” theatrical result.

Correction, Wonder Woman 1984 they can play “as expected” in Japan, as their market has also relatively recovered. Demon slayer, a feature film based on a popular episodic anime, has now sold more tickets than any other film in Japan, except for Titanic ($ 204 million in 1997) e The Enchanted City ($ 230 million in 2002). Its $ 248 million gross means it will soon surpass Universal’s Dolittle ($ 250 million worldwide) as the sixth highest-grossing film of the year. So, yes, barring a miracle Wonder Woman 1984, three of the six best films this year (Nineteenth century, my people, my homeland is Demon slayer) won’t come from Hollywood. Both Wonder Woman 1984 is The Croods: A New Age they would need $ 165 million to (respectively) break the top ten.