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The original Disney animation is making a comeback on Thanksgiving with the princess picture Wish with as much as $45 to $50 million over 5 days after I suffered a setback while on vacation with Strangeworld last year, which was the case $18.8 million.
With the strikes over and Thanksgiving week becoming the best time to go to the movies, with K-12 schools getting a 47% discount and colleges getting an 18% discount today, the discount increases to 100% on Thursday and Friday. Hollywood is therefore very much hoping for rich box offices. All films at Thanksgiving BO on Wednesday-Sunday grossed $134 million last year. Remember that Black Friday is one of the richest days of the year in the local BO
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Wish’s overseas release is a staggered approach, similar to Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, with only 43% of the overseas BO marketplace available this week, including key markets of the UK, Spain, Mexico, China and India, Benelux, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. Everything in it, $25 million is expected from abroad where Thanksgiving is not celebrated, with a global opening weekend of $60 million and a running worldwide total through EOD Sunday $75 million.
Directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn, co-heads of the Frozen franchise, the film is about a young girl named Asha (voiced by West Side Story Oscar winner Ariana DeBose) who wishes on a star and receives a more direct answer, than she expected when she got a star The restless star comes down from the sky to join her. The film is inspired by Disney’s 100th anniversary and revolves around the studio’s theme of wishes coming true. Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice wrote the songs, while Disney orchestrator Dave Metzger wrote the score.
In a rare twist, Mexico will kick things off on Thursday. And since it doesn’t start until next week in France, there is no opening of the offshore market on Wednesday. The United Kingdom, Spain and the less reliable Hollywood market China – the latter is set to receive $5 million for the film’s offshore release – join in on Friday. We expect the top Wish openers in this early offshore framework to be a mix of the UK, Mexico and China.
If all goes well within three days, it could be the best Friday-Sunday domestic take for an original feature post-pandemic at $35 million, behind Disney/Pixar’s Elemental’s $29.6 million premiere . Currently, Wish’s pre-sales in the US and Canada are 60% higher than Elemental’s. “Wish” is booked in 3,700 theaters, with previews in the US beginning Tuesday at 3 p.m. Disney will have some PLF screens on Wish.
The competition here on home BO is last weekend’s Trolls Band Together ($30.6 million opening) from Universal/DreamWorks Animation, as well as Disney’s original animated musical film Encanto, which is Covid Thanksgiving 2021 with a 5-day 40.5 million US dollars and 27.2 million US dollars defied M 3 days.
Excluding China, the new IP Elemental (which opened on the holiday) achieved a first-time like-for-like value of $21.6 million at current exchange rates. Similarly, Moana earned $22.4 million and Encanto earned $14 million in their comparable arcs.
France and Germany will be added next weekend, followed by Japan on December 15th, Italy on December 21st, Australia on December 26th and Korea and Brazil in early January.
The rating for Wish is 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lionsgate
Second place at the 5-day national BO is Lionsgate’s second weekend The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes with around 30 million US dollars. The opening weekend came in at $44.6 million, below opening projections of $50 million. Its worldwide debut grossed $100.8 million. A $30 million 5-day domestic is -33% cheaper than the opening weekend of the Francise Lawrence-directed prequel, which is roughly what the Thanksgiving Day portion of The Hunger Games: “Mockingjay Part 2” from 2015 compared to its opening weekend (-26% on a 5-day of $75.9 million compared to a 3-day of $102.6 million). The RT audience score for Songbirds & Snakes is 91%, while the critics score is 63%.
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As we told you on Friday, the Apple Studios production is Ridley Scott Napoleon about Sony you can see $46 million World premiere, erupted $22 million 5-day domestic and $24 million Overseas. Historical war images proved to be money shortly before the outbreak of the pandemic, i.e. in 1917, and after, Oppenheimer. 96 reviews for “Joaquin Phoenix” starring Napoleon are 68% current. The film runs in cinemas for 45 days. Napoleon and Songbirds & Snakes will share Imax.
Trolls band together looks at a 5 day recording $20 million. The Walt Dohrn-directed film received an A CinemaScore, which was the same grade as the first Trolls in 2016.
Amazon/MGMs Salt burn After an opening theater average of $46,000 and a three-day average of $322,000, this week is growing.