This is ResetEra's weekend box office thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies, we typically discuss box office throughout the week as well when notable films are playing. New threads are posted each Sunday morning, between 8-10am PST.
DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix
Warner Bros. Laughing All The Way To The Bank With 'Joker': $93.5M-$95M+ Debut Reps Records For October, Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix & Robert De Niro
Since Thursday night Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Bron Studios' Joker has overindexed. On Friday night, industry estimates had it at $94M with Warner Bros. reporting a $39.9M opening day, and the town is now seeing an opening that's north of $95M. Warner's number this morning is $93.5M, predicting a $21M Sunday. Saturday did very well with $32.7M, -18% from Friday. Final endgame for Joker is around $265M domestic, which is more than Venom a year ago which finaled at $213.5M.
One rival distribution source this morning believes that Joker, in play at 73 offshore territories, is heading to a worldwide opening of $195M-$210M+. That would be right behind Venom's opening October global record of $207.4M. We'll see soon.
CinemaScore audiences gave Joker a B+ grade on Friday night with Screen Engine/Comscore's PostTrak exits still showing 4 stars and a 60% definite recommend. These are solid grades to keep turnstiles spinning even though they're not perfect scores. A tad more under 25ers came out versus Thursday in updated Friday polls at 38% versus 33%, though 25+ still dominates at 62%. Overall, 18-34 represented 68% of all Joker ticket buyers. Men under 25 (23%) still love Joker the most at 92% along with females under 25 (14%) at 87%, with Men 25+ still leading (41% with an 81% grade) and women 25+ the third biggest demo of the night at 22% and the least impressed of the four quads at 79%. Updated diversity demos show Hispanics (24% and a 93% grade) and Asians (14% and a 91% grade) giving Joker a bigger thumbs up over Caucasians (44%, 81% grade) and African Americans (18% and a 74% grade).
DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix
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