These openers are bad, and the drops on 1st weekend titles is so huge it's hard to describe. (when they said OLD made $15 million, I thought they were talking about Friday -- not the ENTIRE weekend
OLD manages to be #1 but also ranks as the lowest opener of Shyamalan's career. But the horrible audience response to both this and SNAKE EYES is scary:
Weekend estimates for July 23-25:And in regards to the M. Night Shyamalan notching the lowest wide opening of his career with Old with $15.75M after a $6.88M Friday and Paramount’s Snake Eyes seeing $14M after a $5.5M Friday; it’s clear from the respective exits of these films, a CinemaScore of C+ and B-, that no one was ever excited about these movies. Add to that an awful 61% positive, 37% recommend for Old from Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak and a 69% positive and 46% recommend for Snake Eyes. And the respective Rotten Tomatoes scores for both films at 52% Rotten and 42% aren’t exactly advertising ‘must see’.
1. Old (Uni) 3,355 theaters, Fri $6.88M/3-day $15.75M/Wk 1
2. Snake Eyes (Par) 3,521 theaters Fri $5.5M/3-day: $14M/Wk 1
3. Black Widow (Dis) 4,250 theaters (-25)/Fri $3.5M (-56%)/3-day $10.86M (-58%)/Total $154M/Wk 3
4. Space Jam: A New Legacy (WB) 4,002 theaters (+37) Fri $3.05M (-77%)/ 3-day: $10M (-68%)/Total $51.08M/Wk 2
5. F9 (Uni) 2,850 theaters (-518), Fri $1.33M (-41%)3-day $4.46M (-42%)/Total: $163.1M/ Wk 5
6. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (Sony) 2,815 theaters Fri $1.055M (-72%)/3-day $3.2M (-64%)/Total: $15.8M/Wk 2
7. Boss Baby: Family Business (Uni) 2,773 theaters (-676), Fri $780K (-49%)/3-day $2.57M (-46%)/total $50M/Wk 4
8. Forever Purge (Uni) 2,113 (-622) theaters Fri $700K (-46%)/3-day $2.35M (-43%)/Total $40.3M/Wk 4
9. A Quiet Place 2 (Par) 1,367 (-628) theaters Fri $375K (-47%)/3-day $1.195M (-47%)/Total $157.4M/Wk 9
10. Roadrunner (Foc) 954 (+27) theaters, Fri $250K (-68%), 3-day $790K (-60%)/Total $3.66M/Wk 2