“Ride Or Die” Riding to a $50 million opening

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Friday evening: More great news, knock on wood, that the market is rebounding – a little. Sony Bad Boys: Ride or Die Believer 21 million dollars Today on her way to A 52 million dollars Opening. While this is what tracking saw three weeks ago, the sour market poured cold water on those expectations. The initial tracking turned out to be correct.

Screen Engine/PostTrak has been updated and has a 5-star rating with a 97% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an A- CinemaScore (the previous three films all received As).

RelishMix noted an upbeat word of mouth as fans forgive Will Smith after the Oscar slap, saying, “I’m glad Will Smith is back. His action movies never disappoint,” and, “Martin Lawrence is so funny and makes me laugh so hard like he’s from deep inside, funny from “Deep down.” Chatter enjoys the balance between action and comedic elements highlighted in the trailer, with some feeling this is an improvement over the previous 2020 entry Boys are bad for life“The last one was in the middle of it, but this one actually looks and feels better,” he said Bad boys film”.

As a genre, action-adventure films can be full of social star power – especially The Fast Franchise. As for Bad Boys 4, the social media super-world averages with the cast are 15% above the norm at 693.7 million across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined which includes the Smiths social machine controlling videos with over 150 million views.

Sony boasts second place Garfield movie, A looks forward $10.3 million Third weekend, -26%, with a running total of $68.9 million On Sunday. The reboot will soon pass the domestic hit of the 20th Century Fox hit, which finished its run at $75.3 million.

New Line Observers Still unobserved with what he estimated 3 million dollars Friday, and $6.7 million – $7.1 million weekend. Ishana Shyamalan’s directorial debut has a C-CinemaScore and a 57% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score. RelishMix notes negative chatter: “Negative dialogue is on Observers It is limited to those who were turned off by the involvement of M. Night Shyamalan as a producer after being dissatisfied with several of his previous film projects. This is despite the fact that the social media universe’s metrics of 150.7 million are 9% higher than the first batch’s horror benchmarks across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined.

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Friday afternoon: Exhibitors and distribution executives, even outside Sony, are breathing a sigh of relief as it looks like the fourth Will Smith-Martin Lawrence movie Bad Boys: Ride or Die he is going to 50 million dollars This weekend in 3,885 theaters. This is after a $20 million – $21 million Friday, which includes Thursday night previews of $5.9 million. Last night’s performances were strong, and held their own against the first night of the NBA Finals. Very good news after this summer saw such high profile events as movies Scapegoat And Furiosa Poor performance.

Bad Boys 4 It has all the octane of PLFs and Imax screens.

Sony can be most proud of its dominance of second place this weekend Garfield movie, Who sees the third frame of $9 million – $10 million-32% in total $68.6 million Eventually by Sunday in 3,959 theaters.

Third place belongs to the Paramount family film if, With the fourth weekend of $7.1 million At 3,582 theaters after $2 million Friday, -32%, for a grand total of $2 million. $92.6 million On Sunday. That would be 1% ahead of Ryan Reynolds. free man At the same time; That picture finished its 2021 US/Canada run at $121.6 million.

In fourth place comes the thriller film directed by Ishana Shyamalan and produced by New Line. Observerswith $3 million today, including $1 million worth of previews, for what looks like $6 million – $7 million Starting at 3,351 theaters. M. Night Shyamalan, who produced his daughter’s films, also finances them himself and then sells them to the studio. Following work with Universal, he was attracted by Warner Bros. I’m told the studio paid $30 million before the P&A Observers Single. This is not a Lionsgate par-and-win movie.

And by the end of this weekend, 20th Century Studios/Disney Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes From director Wes Ball he can beat his chest for surpassing the gross domestic product of the previous film from Matt Reeves, 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes ($146.88 million) with 150 million dollars. The highest-grossing film of the summer so far will see its fifth weekend of $5.75 million-36%.

Friday morning: Sony is rated R Bad Boys: Ride or Die an act $5.875 million at the domestic box office on Thursday in previews that began at 3 p.m., a total that actually represents just an 8% discount from previews of the much-anticipated trilogy’s predecessor, 2020’s Bad boys for life, Which grossed $6.36 million.

This is a great start to Bad Boys: Ride or Die Entering what was a market besieged by a lack of film stock from strikes, not to mention a lack of attractive films – and this outside of Disney/20th Century Studios Kingdom of the Planet of the ApesWhich just surpassed $144.3 million. Last night’s audience reaction to the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence reteam was 5 stars and 88% positive on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak, while the audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes was 97%.

The demos, which change throughout the weekend, were 36% Black, 29% Hispanic and Latino, 20% Caucasian, 10% Asian and 4% other. Men over 25 were dominant at 40% followed by women over 25 at 38%.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die The first day saw $23.6 million, leading to a franchise-best three-day total of $62.5 million and a four-day total of $73 million, but keep in mind that all three series were operating away from the heat of the 17-year gap between the sequels, not to mention that it was a holiday MLK Weekend. If all goes well, Bad Boys: Ride or Die Winds reach north of 40 million.

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New Line rated PG-13 Observersdirector Ishaana Shyamalan’s debut, features previews of the film Million dollars In 3000 locations. This Thursday night cash amount is on par with Universal’s Abigail. However, reviews here were bad at 29% Rotten, and PostTrak exits were really bad at 1 1/2 stars, and 52% positive. OK. This is despite a fairly equal turnout across age demos with 36% of men over 25, 24% of women under 25, 20% of women over 25 and 20% of men under 25. The weekend projections for this film were between $8 million and $10 million. . Abigail It opened to $10.2 million with an 85% discount on its Rotten Tomatoes audience score.

The rest of Thursday was as follows:

1.) Garfield movie (Sony) 4,108 theaters Thursday $1.5 million (-7% from Wednesday), week 21 million dollarsthe total $58.6 million/Week 2

2.) if (Parity) 3,783 theaters, Thursday $1.2 million (-7%), 1 week $15.9 millionthe total $85.5 million/Week 3

3.) Furiosa (WB) 3,864 theaters, Thursday 730 thousand dollars (-38%), week $15.5 millionthe total $54.4 million/Week 2

4.) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20) 3,450 theaters, Thursday 825 thousand dollars (-18%), week $13.1 millionthe total $144.3 million/Week 4

5.) victim (University) 2,826 theaters Thursday $437K (-17%), week $6.3 millionthe total $82.4 million/Week 5

Jesus Thirst: The Miracle of the Eucharist (Al-Fath) 1,098 showrooms, Thursday 602 thousand dollars2 day com $2.4 million/Week 1