SATURDAY AM: Tremendous Bowl weekend is even slower than anticipated with Common/DreamWorks Animation’s Canine Man dropping -62%.
We’ll see if Saturday household enterprise turns this doggie round, nevertheless it’s a decline that’s extra extreme than anticipated: Dav Pilkey earlier big-screen take, 2017’s Captain Underpants, was solely down 49% in its second weekend.
Sony/Spyglass’ Coronary heart Eyes has a B- and with a CinemaScore like that might make it to $10M for the 3-day after tonight, however proper now, many see it round $8.5M. PostTrak audiences had been tougher on Coronary heart Eyes with 3 stars and a 68% optimistic. And no one is falling in love with Common’s Ke Huy Quan film Love Hurts which is seeing $6M for the weekend off a C+ CinemaScore.
The entire weekend for all motion pictures is anticipated to file round $57.8M which might be the very best end result for Tremendous Bowl weekend put up Covid, forward of 2022’s $53.8M (that’s when Loss of life on the Nile led with a $12.8M opening).
50/50 male-female break up on Coronary heart Eyes with 35% males over 25 (70% grade), 28% girls over 25 (66% grade), 22% girls underneath 25 (67%) and 14% males underneath 25 (71%). The 18-34 crowd repped 67% of the weekend up to now.
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FRIDAY AM: Sony/Spyglass’ rom-horror Coronary heart Eyes had a strong beat in previews Thursday with $1.1M as exhibitors and studios brace for the standard sluggish Tremendous Bowl weekend, which can see Common/DreamWorks Animation’s Canine Man doing a repeat of No. 1 with a hopeful $20M second body.
Normally, the general field workplace dips roughly 30% from Saturday to Sunday, however Quorum studies that Tremendous Bowl Sunday can drop as a lot as 60%.
The Jordana Brewster-Olivia Holt Coronary heart Eyes is anticipated to file within the excessive single digits this weekend.
Additionally opening vast is the Common/87 North motion film Love Hurts, which wasn’t so sizzling in previews final evening with $850K, in what will likely be a mid-single-digits end result this weekend.
Coronary heart Eyes and Love Hurts started previews at 2 p.m. in round 2,600 areas. Each motion pictures have some PLF screens that hopefully will work to their benefit. In additional coincidence, every title carries a manufacturing value of $18M.
Critics didn’t get a kick out of Love Hurts, which stars All the pieces In all places All at As soon as Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, at 23% rotten. Coronary heart Eyes is healthier in its opinions at 85% recent, and PostTrak stands at 3 stars.
Common/DreamWorks Animation’s Canine Man was the highest canine Thursday evening with $881K, +4% from Wednesday for a primary week of $40.4M.
Coronary heart Eyes’ previews are on par with Companion‘s $1.1M Thursday previews every week in the past. Once more, a advantageous quantity for previews, however the place will enterprise go? Companion had glorious crucial opinions and viewers exits however settled for a 3-day of $9.3M and is ending its first week with $12.4M (that’s off an under-$10M manufacturing value). Can Coronary heart Eyes do higher? The distinction between the 2 motion pictures is that Companion is a style thriller whereas Coronary heart Eyes is bought as extra of a slasher. What we’re witnessing already 38 days into 2025: There are quite a lot of horror motion pictures on the schedule, and opening weekends are certain to get diluted. Pre-Covid, studios made it their plan to area out style motion pictures. No extra.
In the meantime, Love Hurts, which is focusing on numerous moviegoers this weekend, didn’t put up a preview quantity on par to Dev Patel’s gritty R-rated motion film Monkey Man from final April; that film noticed $1.4M in previews earlier than a $10.1M opening (and supreme $25.1M home ultimate).
Right here is the week’s prime 5:
1. Canine Man (Uni) 3,885 theaters, Thu $881K (+4% from Wed.) Wk $40.4M/Wk 1
2. Companion (NL/WB) 3,285 theaters, Thu $530K (-24%), Wk $12.4M/Wk 1
3. One in every of Them Days (Sony) 2,306 theaters, Thu $406K (-10%), Wk $7.9M, Whole $36.3M/Wk 3
4. Mufasa: The Lion King (Dis) 3,180 theaters, Thu $358K (+6%), Wk $7.86M, $231.2M/Wk 7
5. Flight Danger (LG) 3,161 theaters, Thu $363K (-11%), Wk $7.2M, $22.5M/Wk 2
