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Weekend Box Office 3/30 - We're Still Open (With Nothing to See!)

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:02 am
by AndyDursin
Another anemic weekend showing what junk Hollywood has to offer theaters:

a) run of the mill (or actually worse than that) Disney live-action remake
b) run of the mill Jason Statham vehicle
c) run of the mill horror crap

Correct solution from the masses: staying home!
Overall, it’s an embarrassingly depressed weekend at the box office just as every single studio struts its stuff at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

2ND UPDATE MIDDAY: Disney’s Snow White with $4M today and potentially $15M+ for the weekend hopes to lead the weekend, but she could be undone by Amazon MGM Studios/Black Bear’s Jason Statham movie A Working Man.

At a time of depressed box office, Statham’s meat-and-potatoes dude action still has an audience with a Friday near $5M today and outlook of $13.5M. Some rivals even show Snow White and A Working Man neck-and-neck for the weekend. Snow White is booked at 4,200 sites, while A Working Man is at 3,262 locations including PLFs like Dolby and 4DX.

Third place goes to Fathom Events’ The Chosen: Last Supper with $5M today and $12M for the weekend at 2,234 locations.
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Re: Weekend Box Office 3/30 - We're Still Open (With Nothing to See!)

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:13 pm
by AndyDursin
3RD UPDATE SATURDAY AM: Refresh for chart…On a Saturday morning before family matinees kick in, Amazon MGM Studios’ A Working Man is ahead of Disney’s Snow White after winning Friday with $5.6M (including previews), on its way to a very solid $15.6M opening, which isn’t far from the $16.5M 3-day that Jason Statham’s previous The Beekeeper rang up last year (over an MLK holiday frame).

The $40M Black Bear-financed A Working Man, based on the Chuck Dixon book series about a retired counter-terrorism agent turned construction worker who’s pulled back into his old career after a girl goes missing, gets a B CinemaScore. No MG commitment for A Working Man in regards to North American, just a P&A commitment around $20M. Prime Video took the world on the international side. A Working Man is the last campaign for Amazon MGM Studios marketing whiz and 007 promo vet Gerry Rich after announcing his departure.

Currently, everyone sees Snow White in No. 2 at an estimated $13.7M, a -68% plummet for the princess after $3.7M second Friday. Very sad. Again, it’s a solid movie; but coupled with all the bad publicity, “Nobody is going! Nobody is going!” as a vet Hollywood producer loves to groan to me when movies tank. Snow White‘s drop is steeper than Dumbo‘s second frame (-60%), and makes Maleficent: Mistress of Evil‘s second weekend look rich at a -48% decline ($19.4M second weekend). Currently, Snow White is ahead in hourlies and the question is how much she wins today and Sunday to make up the difference of Friday box office. But $2M is a lot of ground to cover. One box office analyst says this morning, “In order for Snow White to beat A Working Man, the movie would need to up over 100% today. It’s still spring break with close to a third of K-12 schools off on Monday per ComScore.

More impressively, the 57-year old action star is besting the social media meme it-girl, Jenna Ortega, at the weekend box office, her A24 horror movie, Death of a Unicorn, that $15M production looking to do around $5.3M in 5th. It gets a B- CinemaScore. Some might say, “well it’s original IP” and that her previous movies, i.e. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the last two Scream movies were based on a popular franchises. Still, you’d think she’d mean something here; at least double digits. The actress did show up at the pic’s SXSW world premiere to promote the film.