‘Dad and Dad’ Open $10M, Beyonce Drops – Deadline

Friday PM: While the first weekend of December gets bad because of the delay, the second weekend is usually the slowest, so don’t be surprised if the movie ends with about $38M in the same as last year. Hayao Miyazaki’s The Father and the Father, as expected, every movie will lead with a purpose $10.7M open when $5.4M Friday in 2,205 theaters, which includes a $2.39M preview. The movie currently has an 88% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Lionsgate’s fourth weekend runner-up The Hunger Games: Mockingbird & Snake and a Friday of $2.5M (-38%), 3-day d $8.75M (-38%), total run d $134.9M by Sunday EOD in 3,665 theaters. The country’s total traffic in 24 days is -7% behind Deadly Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald at the same time, and it was released on Thanksgiving weekend back in 2018. Harry Potter spinoff series finale at $159.55M in US/Canada.

Third is Toho Godzilla Minus One in 2,540 theaters and the second Friday of $1.8M (-62%), second week of $6.4M (-44%) and the total run d $23.4M until Sunday.

Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls Band Together will see the fourth Friday of $1.3M (-23%), 3-day d $6M (-23%) for the total amount of $82.88M in 3,447 theaters.

It’s the second week of AMC Renaissance: A movie by Beyonce in 2,539 theaters looking at a second Friday of $1.6M-86%, and 3-day d $5.2M-76%, overall progress d $28.2M. Maybe this movie should have been played on a weekday? That’s steep envy next Taylor Swift: Eras Tour which dropped -64% in week 2. RestorationEven worse is the image of the second percentile intelligence than Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (-67%), Justin Bieber: Don’t say no (-55%), and Michael Jackson’s This Is It (-43%).

Bleecker Street’s Waitress the Music looking at a Friday of $700K in 1,214 theaters and 3-day d $2.25M.

SATURDAY AM: After one of the Japanese titles released in December’s sleeper box this past weekend Godzilla Minus One, here’s another one ready to rule: Studio Ghibli and Gkids’ Hayao Miyazaki toon The Father and the Father is looking at a No. 1 bow and $10M+ at last $2.39M Thursdays and advance reservations.

The wording is exactly the same as last weekend’s Spanish version. Godzilla Minus One (read review), which saw $2.1M pre-orders for $4.7M Friday, and a 3-day total of $11.4M in 2,308 theaters.

The Father and the Father played in 1,774 theaters in the US and Canada with shows beginning at 5pm Thursday. The film is booked in 2,205 theaters this weekend, including Imax and PLF. The first Studio Ghibli film to be shown in Imax. There were pre-shows that began on Thanksgiving Day in New York and Los Angeles, and those numbers will be calculated each day in addition to over the next two weeks, on Gkids.

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Although Miyazaki retired in 2013, he returned to make this film, which is marked as “a semi-autobiographical meditation on life, death and creation.” In the film, a young man named Mahito longs for his mother and goes to a world where the living and the dead share it. There, death ends, and life finds a new beginning.

Miyazaki’s last film, The wind blows, made $5.2M in the state through Disney. The highest opening weekend for a Studio Ghibli film of 2012’s The Secret World of Arriettywhich bowed to $6.4M via Disney and ended with $19.2M stateside. The Father and the Father easily the film’s opening footprint will exceed 1,522 theaters making it the widest opening for a Studio Ghibli film as well as the widest opening for a Gkids release. The Father and the Father is researching in titles and English press. The big name cast includes Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.

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The Father and the Father It has a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has grossed over $84M overseas, $56.1M in its home country of Japan, achieving Miyazaki’s highest non-commercial release ever. July.

The film’s first international release was the Opening Night Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival, a first for a Japanese film. It recently won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature and was honored in the National Board of Review’s Top 10 Films of 2023.

speak to Godzilla Minus One, the highest-ranking Japanese live-action real estate title leader Thursday and $1.25M (-8% from Wednesday) and the first week of $17M in 2,308 theaters. The film’s second weekend is likely $5M-$6M in a points race for third place and second place AMC d Revival: A movie by Beyoncé.

The docu-concert from the 32-time Grammy winner (read the review) stops showing times Monday through Wednesday and returns on Thursday with $1.145M to earn the day No. 3 positions. Looking around too $6M. Running cume for Restoration zero $23.1M.

Don’t underestimate Lionsgate The Hunger Games: Mockingbird & Snake (read the review), which was placed on the second Thursday and $1.148M (-3% from Wednesday) and taken to the third week of $19.5M in 3,691 theaters and a total of $126.2M. Models for the fourth cover of Francis Lawrence’s directorial debut include Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth. $8M.

Fourth place goes to the Bleecker Street show in a Broadway musical Employed, which was done $672K in 1,214 theaters.

Five Apple Original Production’s Napoleon by Sony (read the review), which was done $609K Thursday, -13% from Wednesday, for the second week of $10.2M in 3,500 theaters and cars in total $48.9M.

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Poor thing, adapted and produced by Emma Stone (read the review), is in four markets with a total of nine theaters – New York (AMC Lincoln Square, Regal Union Square and Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse), Los Angeles (AMC Century City, AMC The Grove , AMC Burbank 16), San Francisco (AMC Metreon, Alamo Drafthouse Mission) and Austin (Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar). This is the adult-oriented horror film from Disney’s Searchlight, and it will be interesting to see how movie theater audiences respond to the film, which was inspired by There is tension between writers and advertising brands. The movie about a girl ​​​​like Frankenstein who finds her sexual independence all over Europe has a 93% fresh approval on Rotten Tomatoes. Emerald Fennell’s salt, which found many to be addicted to its sexual content, recorded a $322K opening weekend at the box office Seven events for an average of $46K sales. It is possible Poor thing top?

Saltwhich posted an incredible -9% third week, post-Thanksgiving hold, ended third week and $2.9M after $256K Thursday and a total of $7.6M. The Amazon MGM movie hit Prime on December 22 (read review).