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Friday morning: Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts extrapolated $8.8 million in previews from over 3100 locations – that’s from a fan event tonight at 7pm on Wednesday and previews that started Thursday at 3pm. Without Wednesday fan earnings, Rise of the Beasts does $7.6 million.
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The debate is whether Sony Animation’s “Rise of the Beasts” or “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” lands at #1 for its second weekend. Both have a goal of over $50 million. The production, directed by Amy Pascal, Avi Arad, Chris Miller, Phil Lord and Christina Steinberg, grossed an estimated $10.1 million yesterday from 4,313 viewers and ended the first week with $170.5 million. Among Hollywood films excluding Japanese anime, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” holds the record for the longest running time of an animated film at 140 minutes per Comscore, longer than “The Incredibles 2” at 118 minutes (compared to films that are). purely animated, not hybrid).
It was hot three weeks ago that “Rise of the Beasts” cost nearly $70 million, but it’s since waned. Paramount has made an effort to reboot the franchise here with a more grounded human storyline and the introduction of the beastly Transformers. There’s also a cool, daring cliffhanger if this Hasbro franchise can pull it off.
The previous Transformers film, Transformers: The Last Knight, opened on a Wednesday in 2017 and grossed $5.5 million before grossing $15.6 million on day one, over a weekend that ended April 44, 2017 $.6 million over three days and $68.4 million over five days. Rise of the Beasts also surpassed the 2018 Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, which hit theaters the weekend before Christmas. This pic grossed $2.85 million, including Thursday night and fan sneaks. Bumblebee opened with a 3-day price of $21.6 million.
“Rise of the Beasts,” co-funded by Skydance, had a net cost of $195 million. The profit of this aging feature film series is abroad and is estimated at 100 million US dollars. Half of them come from China, where they love disguised robots.
Summer box office for the May 1 through June 4 period brought in $1 billion thanks to Spider-Verse, which is 8% up from 2022 at the same time ($925.1 million) but 19% behind the summer of Avengers: Endgame, 2019, which was $1.24 billion at the time.
The rest of Thursday went as follows:
Disney’s Little Mermaid did $4M to Spider-Verse’s $10.1 million on Thursday. Little Mermaid, booked in 4,320 cinemas, week 2 ends with $59.5 millionand a running total of $205.1 million.
20th Century Studios/Disney’s The black man in 3,205 cinemas $1.2 million yesterday -1% for the first week $17.7 million.
Disney’s Fifth Week of Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 in 2,902 cinemas $15.7 million after a $1.1M Thursday, -6% from Wednesday, a running total of $328.6 million.
Universals Fast X extrapolated $816,000 yesterday, -11% from Wednesday, for a third week $13.7 million and running sum of $138.9 million.