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Wkd Box Office - 6•14-16•19 - Men in Black: International grounded, Shaft opens soft as sequels continue to disappoint

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berzeli

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Assorted international numbers via Screendaily:
Men In Black: International. The fourth entry in the canon is trailing 2012's Men In Black 3 by 19% at current exchange rates for the same group of markets.
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Asia generated $45.5m as a region, on par with Men In Black 3, as China delivered a $26.3m number on launch, South Korea (distributed by Lotte) $4.9m, Japan $3.5m in second place, India $1.9m in second, Malaysia $1.6m in first, and Taiwan also $1.6m in first.

Latin America produced $8.3m, led by Mexico on a chart-topping $3.9m, and Brazil on $1.8m for number one. In a trio of European launches, Russia delivered $5.1m, the UK $3.4m, and France $2.5m, while Australia produced $2.6m for first place. Men In Black: International opens this week in Belgium and Netherlands, followed by Italy on July 25.
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From Deadline's international update:
Industry finance sources tell us a final worldwide box office of about $300M will trigger ancillaries for a break-even result. That number could be on the cards, but will be close.
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Sony's exposure on what it says is a $110M budgeted pic is 50%. Global P&A was an estimated $120M with luxury promo partners bringing in $75M.
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And remember that Deadline are pretty adamant about it being a sub $100M pic. So it's probably not in the running for even being a bomb if all that checks out.
Aladdin brought in $47.5m in its fourth weekend from 55 territories to reach $461.4m, and $724.8m worldwide. Another robust session ensured the fantasy adventure starring Will Smith and Mena Massoud stayed top in 20 markets, with China the lead on a $51.7m haul, then the UK on $38.3m following a $3.42m weekend, South Korea on $38.1m, Japan on $32.6m, Mexico on $29.6m, Spain on $20m, and Australia on $18.7m.

Aladdin dropped in Europe by 40%, and recorded a 32% decline in Latin America, and a 31% drop in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Godzilla II: King Of The Monsters used a $14.1m session in 79 markets to raise the international running total to $245.8m, and worldwide to $339.5m. China was the top performer in the tentpole's third session, delivering $5.2m in third place for $123.2m. Japan produced $2.1m for third to reach $20m after three weekends. After three weekends the monster mash-up stands at $9.3m in Mexico where it ranks fourth, $8.1m in the UK to rank fifth, and $4.8m in France. The action spectacle opens this week in Spain.
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Dark Phoenix grossed $24.2m internationally from 55 territories to reach $152.5m and $204.3m globally. The X-Men spin-off opened top in Indonesia on $3.5m (around 15% ahead of the X-Men: Apocalypse launch). China remains the top territory on $55.4m, while Mexico has generated $8.3m, France $7.7m, the UK $7.5m, and South Korea $6.3m.
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Rocketman brought in a $8.5m weekend as the tally climbed to an early $67m and the UK delivered $1.9m in the fourth session to reach $24.3m. Australia generated $1.5m for a solid $9.9m after three, and France $748,000 for $4.4m after two. Japan is the final market to launch on August 23.
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Sean C.

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MMarston said:
I'm starting to think that might be because he's actually playing himself in these kinds of films and not actually that great of a character performer apart from being a goofball which is why he leans on the roles so much. Haven't seen much of El Royale though.
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Hemsworth's difficulty finding box office success outside of the MCU has nothing to do with his range as an actor. He's been strong in a range of different roles, not just as Thor.
 
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If you make a bad movie or barely passable kind of okay movie, people no longer show up just because there are CGI effects. Venom was a recent exception to this (especially in China), but otherwise these movies have been massive bombs. Script quality needs to be focused on more.
 
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New Mutants has to be dead on arrival. I think most casual moviegoers even forgot it was supposed to come out.

But I'm really shocked at Shaft. The way black audiences have been turning out to support black movies, I thought this had a chance to open at #2. But there didn't seem to be much of a marketing campaign.
 
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Violence Jack said:
New Mutants has to be dead on arrival. I think most casual moviegoers even forgot it was supposed to come out.

But I'm really shocked at Shaft. The way black audiences have been turning out to support black movies, I thought this had a chance to open at #2. But there didn't seem to be much of a marketing campaign.
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It's on Netflix everywhere else maybe studios didn't have faith in the movie
 
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What was the budget of Dark Phoenix before the reshoots? 150M or so? Because the money doesn't show on screen at all. Based on the trailers I would have guessed that this was one of the cheapest entries.
 
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I don't know why they're not pushing New Mutants out the door just to get it over with. Are they trying to salvage it or something?
 
DJChuy

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That Dark Phoenix drop is brutal. It's going to drop out of the theaters quick.

Good to see Wick is still going strong.
 
Sibersk Esto

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What's worse, this summer or 2017

2017:
King Arthur
Valerian
Baywatch
Pirates 5
The Mummy
Transformers 5
Monster Trucks
Ghost in the Shell
Alien Covenant
Cars 3
Emoji Movie
Rough Night
Snatched
The Book of Henry

Might be the WOAT
 
kurahador

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Cinema is dead except if you're Disney. Disney gonna create their own theater chain and make their movies exclusive.
 
Lotus

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Sibersk Esto said:
What's worse, this summer or 2017

2017:
King Arthur
Valerian
Baywatch
Pirates 5
The Mummy
Transformers 5
Monster Trucks
Ghost in the Shell
Alien Covenant
Cars 3
Emoji Movie
Rough Night
Snatched
The Book of Henry

Might be the WOAT
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Damn, I don't like a single movie out of this
 
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Go a fucking head Aladdin. It's really reaching for that 1B. It probably won't hit it, but if you told me it would get this close prior to release I wouldn't have seen it coming.

Never count out Disney (unless you're talking about Dumbo).
 
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Sony: At least MiB did better outside the US?

Also, James Cameron just made Dark Phoenix's BO run 10x worse after Alita pushed it back.
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Can you blame him or Fox? Dark Phoenix was destined to fail the moment Apocalypse's reviews came in. At least Alita was hypothetically the start of a new franchise, so why not give it the best opening possible?

Neither movie was any good, but I absolutely understand why they made the choices that they did.
 
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Damn, I don't like a single movie out of this
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I should balance it out with the good/successful/accepted movies of that year

Guardians 2
Spider-Man Homecoming
Wonder Woman
The Big Sick
Baby Driver
War for the Planet of the Apes (A bomb but critically liked)
Dunkirk
Atomic Blonde
Annabelle Creation
Logan Lucky
 
SArcher

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At least Godzilla vs Kong has already been shot so we're guaranteed to get that.
 
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The Dead Don't Die only opened in 613 theaters? Wow. Feels like I've seen it advertised quite a bit in the past week or two and I thought it'd have a bigger theater count than that.
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It had by far the widest release of any jarmusch film, at 613 theaters. Only two other films he's done opened in over 100 theaters - broken flowers with 433 and ghost dog with 109.


Edit: whoops, not opening theaters but highest theater count. It's still heads and tails above both though.
 
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