ComScore is reporting this morning that the March box office is hitting an all-time record of $1 billion thanks to momentum of such tentpoles as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 20th Century Fox’s Logan, Legendary/Warner Bros.’ Kong: Skull Island and Lionsgate’s Saban’s Power Rangers.
This month easily blows away last year’s $948.8M which was built on the success of Disney’s Zootopia ($255.9M for the month) and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($209.1M).
Previous $1 billion months of late include August 2016 when Suicide Squad propelled as well as August 2014 with Guardians of the Galaxy. In addition, Disney’s Rogue One: A crossed it as did August 2014 when Guardians 1 came out. In addition, the last two Decembers have respectively hit $1 billion thanks to Star Wars: Force Awakens and Rogue One.
This morning Disney is reporting $88.3M for the second weekend of Beauty and the Beast, the fourth best second weekend of all-time, with a 10-day cume of $317M. However, the industry is seeing the Bill Condon musical higher with a $90.4M second weekend take.
Lionsgate is reporting $40.5M for Power Rangers in second. Kong: Skull Island is filing $14.4M in its third weekend, -48% for a running cume of $133.5M. Meanwhile Sony’s sci-fi R-rated thriller Life is settling for $12.6M in fourth followed by 20th Century Fox’s Logan in fifth with $10.1M and a running fourth weekend take of $201.46M.
Warner Bros.’ $20M-budgeted R-rated CHIPS, a feature adaptation of the 1980s hit NBC show directed by and starring Dax Shepard, along with Kristen Bell and Michael Pena is road kill with a $7.6M opening.
We’ll have more for you soon. Our previous update on how family branded films took the weekend by storm is in the above link.
BATB will finish with around $500 million in USA, $1.2-1.3 billion globally.
At this rhythm, Beauty and the Beast will finish with 500 millions domestic and 1,2 billions worldwide 😳
I predict 500 millions domestic and 1,2 billion worldwide for Beauty and the Beast
When you do a movie like CHiP’s you need it to be funny (if you’re making it a comedy) and you need the action to be great. This had neither. This movie did not fail because it wasn’t pushed hard enough. It failed because it lacked the two things you need when you’re making this type of movie.
BB4L agreed. What Made the tv show so fun is that for tv budget it had the right amount of action and comedy. this looked like a train wreck from the start and the chemistry just didn’t mesh well with me.
Its just the trailer but Baywatch looks good. They know the TV show was cheese and they run with it.
To be honest, the trailer isn’t great. Dwayne Johnson is very likable and the movie should do fine largely because of that.
Contrary to what Netflix likes to think — people actually still go the movies and the model does not need to change. Hope theaters continue to fight the collapsing of the window