Peter Mountain/Common
After a couple of weeks with none studio huge releases, Apple Unique Movies‘ Argylle by way of Common is hoping to entice moviegoers again, but it surely received’t be in a giant approach. Thursday evening’s previews for the Matthew Vaughn-directed PG-13 motion film made $1.7 million, which is beneath the $2.4M previews clocked by Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper a couple of weeks in the past. That film posted a $16.5M opening, so any hope that the $200 million-budgeted Argylle will get to that $20M-plus that some exhibitors had been seeing — I don’t suppose so.
Argylle was booked at 3,100 theaters final evening and has all of the cinema upcharges this weekend of PLF and Imax, and so on. Reviewers at 34% on Rotten Tomatoes already are screaming “don’t go.” This although the $200 million MARV-Cloudy manufacturing has an all-star solid of Henry Cavill, John Cena, Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, Grammy-winning pop famous person Dua Lipa, Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston, Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara, Sofia Boutella and Marvel’s Samuel L. Jackson.
In the meantime, Fathom Occasions’ Season 4 of The Chosen did an estimated $1.4M at 2,236 theaters; that’s for episodes 1-3. Episodes 4-6 hit on February 15, whereas episodes 7-8 debut in theaters February 29.
Whereas Beekeeper was overwhelmed by Paramount’s Imply Ladies of their respective third weekends $6.9M to $6.6M, the Jason Statham film dominated over the Plastics of their second weeks, $9.2M at 3,337 to $8.9M at 3,544. Beekeeper‘s home operating whole stands at $44.1M, Imply Ladies at $62.3M.
Following Imply Ladies, Warner Bros’ Wonka was third for the week with $7.1M at 3,014 theaters, and a operating whole of $196.3M. Man, it has to cross $200M this weekend.
Sony’s Anybody However You, booked at 2,885 theaters, ended its Week 6 with $6.4M and a operating whole of $72.7M.
Illumination/Common’s Migration at 2,970 theaters ends Week 6 with $6M, and a $102M operating stateside cume.
