Posted on 10/06/2018 8:20:04 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Friday 11:07PM update: Sony can breathe a giant sigh of relief as their Marvel-verse Venom is absolutely working at the domestic box office with what is now estimated to be an $80M weekend after a $32.9M Friday, both quite easily October records besting Gravitys $55.7M opening weekend and Paranormal Activity 3s opening day of $26.3M. If Saturday holds at -15% or better for Friday, Venom can swing past $80M.
Meanwhile Warner Bros. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga rock concert A Star Is Born is soaring to $42.2M over three-days, a fantastic result beating the 3-days of such musical theme pics (comps are hard here as its a different type of IP) as Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again ($34.9M), Les Miserables ($27.2M), and Michael Jacksons This Is It ($23.2M), which granted is a different type of being movie being a doc, but it was a concert-type movie and a late October release.
Overall, a huge weekend for the industry with an estimated $170.6M haul, a record 3-day for October beating the first weekend of October 2015 when The Martian led all movies to a $151.4M take. And get this: Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day in the Northeast with around 42% schools off, so Venom and A Star Is Born will see even higher takes.
In addition, Venom gets a B+ CinemaScore which is an audience grade on par with Sonys The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (B+, $91.6M opening),Warner Bros. Justice League (B+, $93.8M), Sonys Spider-Man 3 (B+, $151.1M debut), Warners Suicide Squad (B+, $133.6M) and ahead of Warners Batman v. Superman (B, $166M); a healthy enough grade for a comic book movie to stay alive theatrically, especially in the face of its poisonous 31% Rotten Tomatoes score. Updated PostTrak is still four stars but 80% overall positive.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Another remake of A star Is Born??
The first one was one too many
In the Age of Auto-Tune, a star is born every day...
DC promised big-budget movies of Superman and Batman, years and decades, respectively, before they happened.
Superman: The Movie was a major cinematic event, both for the film and the score. It set the stage, literally, for what followed.
Budgets and technology have made them the bread and butter of major studios.
I still like some of them, but as the leftist propaganda more and more takes center stage, I will be boycotting.
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