Posted on 07/07/2019 9:10:08 AM PDT by EdnaMode
EARLY SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Sony is calling the 6-day opening of Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home at $185M which reps a record for a 6-day Independence Day launch and the Culver City studio’s best opening over that number of days. Both records were previously held by Sony’s 2004 Spider-Man 2 which made $180M over the July 4th 6-day stretch. Industry estimates for Far From Home are around $184.5M at 4,634 theaters, still excellent. 10-day global for Far From Home is an amazing $580M. By the way, remember we said Far From Home would get to at least $170M when it hit tracking? The possibility of of that comes from other beloved mega franchises like Transformers, Spider-Man and Despicable Me‘s July 4th box office history and the halo effect from Avengers: Endgame. Those were self-fulfilling prophecies here for Far From Home. CinemaScore was a solid A, the same as Spider-Man: Homecoming. Under 35 gave the movie an A+.
Sony will be reporting their official box office Sunday AM estimates soon.
Far From Home posted its second best day yesterday during the course of its run with $34M after Tuesday’s opening record of $39.2M. Saturday was 5% up from Friday’s $32.5M. Far From Home‘s 3-day is at $93.1M which in terms of FSS that played around the July 4th holiday is the second-best behind 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $97.8M.
Sony strategically moved Far From Home from its July 5th opening to July 2 in order to gain some power heading into the Independence Day holiday which can sometimes be unforgiving to titles. It was a great holiday this year with Far From Home’s $25.1M being the second best July 4th ever after Transformers‘ $29M in 2007. Also, Sony gave Far From Home a 17-day window before Disney’s Lion King in which it will have all the premium ticketing formats like Imax (which earned the best ever opening for a Sony pic at $15M at 414 screens), Dolby, and PLF.
For our previous box office updates on Far From Home, go here.
The other title to brave the shadows of Far From Home was A24’s Midsommer, the second feature directed by Ari Aster. The pic made $6.5M in 6th place over the last 3 days and $10.9M since its Wednesday opening. Though a few nickels ahead of tracking it’s not a mindblowing opening for a pic that cost under $10M. Exhibitors aren’t forgiving when it comes to films that haven’t performed at the summer box office, and will easily hand over auditorium inventory to the next tentpole bride, and unfortunately Midsommar performed on the coasts and softern then average everywhere else. Trailers were fiercely cool and original–a break-up story set against the upside down world of a gross Swedish Midsummer festival. A24 employed largely a social and digital media push, but RelishMix wasn’t impressed with the 33M+ social media universe count across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Other horror films have reached an SMU of 82.1M. The pic is more suspense than horror, but was clearly sold as a horror film. Nonetheless as is typical with arthouse-horror hybrids, it’s a divide between genre-philes and critics, the latter who embraced the film at 82% fresh and the former who dismissed it with a C+ CinemaScore. Aster’s Hereditary without a July 4th holiday did better with $17.2M and it also wasn’t a film that critics and audiences saw eye-to-eye with respective grades of 89% certified fresh on RT and a D+ CinemaScore. Many argue that the cinema needs original movies; that’s what the box office needs, right? Well, here’s Midsommar. But it was challenged by a horror sequel in the market, Annabelle 3 which made $9.7M in weekend 2 (and a great -52% hold, and $50.1M 12-day tally), plus the Aster pic has a 2 hour 27 minute running time.
Correction: Spider-man is Sony/Marvel not Disney. :
OK, so when Tom Holland’s in a Marvel movie like Avengers: Endgame as Spiderman, it’s a Disney production, but when he’s in a standalone Spiderman movie, it’s Sony?
That’s messed up.
Actually it’s DRASTICALLY more complicated than that. The easiest answer is: Disney uses him, Sony gets a good chunk of money. The nuts and bolts of it thought are why entertainment law is its own field.
What ever it was, it was a really fun movie. Really enjoyed it.
It’s all good.
I still love the MCU, even if many of it’s actors are loony leftists.
I think that’s the deal the studios worked out so Spider-man could be in the Avengers movies.
Disney bought Marvel, but before Disney bought the rights, there was a contract given to Sony and Universal to limited rights for certain characters like Spiderman. So until those contracts expire, Sony and Universal can still use those particular characters. (Disney can use them too in new movies)
Unless Disney wants to give a ton of money to their competitors and buy those contracts out. Which I doubt they do...they have to live with it.
I bet the next Spiderman movie will reveal he’s a tranny.
They’re doing it to Batgirl.
Yes but, Tom Holland’s Spiderman appeared in both Infinity War (where he got dusted) and Endgame, when he came back and played keep away with the Gauntlet.
So did they have to pay Sony for that?
http://collider.com/spider-man-marvel-sony-deal-explained/#mcu
In short this is the end of a 5 picture deal where Marvel Studios made the movie, it’s fully tied into the MCU, Disney gets the merch, but Sony gets the gate. And now we gotta see if the lawyers will keep a good thing going or kill the goose.
Probably.
That whole thing has been a bit of an odd legal pretzel for awhile.
Disney and Sony made a deal to include Spiderman into the MCU, but Sony will still have the rights to him and make stand-alone movies.
‘Tis the nature of contracts.
Well, duuuuuuuhhhhhhh! Fire whomever it was that scheduled the 5th.
Haven't wasted my money on this Hollyweird gay garbage.
The last few Marvel movies left me cold. Too contrived. Too many characters.
Marvel returns to the formula, here. One good guy. One bad guy. During it out.
Much more satisfying.
Sony let Disney use Spider-man, cause they needed the boost to make the reboot. This is the third reboot of the character, and they were worried about the Clooney effect. Disney let Robert Downey appear in the Sony movie, and use the storyline from the original Avengers movie. It strengthens both franchises for Spider-man to be in the same "world" as the rest of the franchise characters.
Haven't seen the new one. Who's the villain? Please tell me it's not the Green Goblin again.
Don't forget Jon Favreau. He played Happy Hogan, and was also the director of Ironman, and the producer of all the Avengers movies...
Must be loaded $$$!
It’s not Green Goblin.
It was done very well, I’ll say that much.
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