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Wkd Star Wars - 12•06-12•08•19 - Box Office takes a vacation. As the world prepares for Star Wars, we take a trip down memory lane.

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This is ResetEra's weekend box office Star Wars thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies best episodic Star Wars movies, 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.


















The doldrums of December are here and as remains standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil. That movie became the fourth worst opening ever for a pic booked in 2K-plus theaters (according to Boxoffice Mojo) with a reported 3-day this morning of $670K. That's lower than Universal/Blumhouse's Jem and the Holograms which tanked with a $1.37M opening (and final of $2.1M domestic) and not too far from the lowest bottom dweller for this range, the 2012 film The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure ($443K opening, $1M final domestic).
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Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix



 
Slim Action

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47% drop for Knives Out seems real good to me.

Pretty nice rankings there OP, though I'd move 3-4-5 around a bit.
 
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SweetNicole

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Fun easter eggs:
  • Episode number corresponds to the number of box office threads we've had on ResetEra
  • Click on each of the movie banners for pain fun
 
SteveWinwood

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i don't like how the new sites tables don't have an estimated budget column

they should add that

i mean it was blank half the time but still
 
Gentlemen

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Playmobil was the present American parents gave their kids only to have to deal with unconsolable tears because American kids wanted Lego. The Gobots of building toys. The Rose Art of building toys. The Revenge of the Sith of building toys.
 
Z-Beat

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I didn't know the Playmobil movie existed until yesterday
 
OrangeAtlas

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I find this thread rude and offensive to my sensibilities.

I know this is all goofy goofy fun week but at least be an adult for a moment and acknowledge the animated film based on a bad children's toy

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Ridley327

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A movie based on Playmobil would have been stupid even in the immediate wake of the success of The LEGO Movie. 5 years later, after those films turned out worse and worse diminishing returns, and I have no idea why it didn't get buried on a streaming service. STX is trying real hard to die faster than Annapurna has been.
 
CaviarMeths

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Not quite the ranking I'd go with, but I find it very agreeable. Phenomenal hold for Empire, still at #2 nearly 40 years later.

Also $670k from 2300 screens, jfc.
 
ViewtifulJC

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shintoki said:
Parasite still as a PTA of a top 5
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made more money than jojo rabbit despite being in way less theaters...the power that that has, the impact that that has, the international implications that that has....

Bong is on Jimmy Fallon tomorrow and Globes noms coming, I bet Neon is gonna start the re-expansion soon
 
Josh5890

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Wow at Playmobil. Like damn..

RIP that studio
 
VinylCassette64

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Can I just say that I clicked on the Empire Strikes Back link and the video started loading before anything else. I had no idea what I was in for so when the title showed up I hollered with excitement

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It'll get its due during the Oscars in memoriam tribute.
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And the Oscar programmers will accidentally broadcast Lego Movie 2 footage next to the movie title
 
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FvF still killing it. Best movie outside of Marriage Story and Dolemite I've seen this year.
 

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ANH with the highest metacritic and RT score as it should, deal with it Lucas haters.
 

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Grimm Fandango said:
Playmobil got fucked wow.
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2019 has been an bloodbath for animated movies this year. The only non-Disney success story was The Addams Family, mostly because it was a dirt cheap holiday movie (Halloween) that had the miracle of Maleficent 2 not doing better than it did.

If this is the new normal, I'm delighted. It means the studios can't just crap out any old shit and expect kids to watch it anymore.
 
Schlorgan

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SuperL said:
2019 has been an bloodbath for animated movies this year. The only non-Disney success story was The Addams Family, mostly because it was a dirt cheap holiday movie (Halloween) that had the miracle of Maleficent 2 not doing better than it did.

If this is the new normal, I'm delighted. It means the studios can't just crap out any old shit and expect kids to watch it anymore.
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I expect a SLOP-level drop for Minions 2 next year.
 
Z-Beat

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Nobody did judging by the numbers.
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I think it's a mixture of a lot of things. Poor marketing is one. Another is who this movie is for. The LEGO Movie has both appeal to kids and some adults. I know people who still got LEGOs into their teens/early adults. Who the fuck buys Playmobil as an adult, or is even that nostalgic for Playmobil? That means this could only ever apply to kids, and if a parent has a choice between this and Frozen II, well...
 
excelsiorlef

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Personally i call bullshit, we all know even accounted for Hitler that Gone with the Wind is the highest grossing Star Wars film of all time. Scorcese didn't fight roller coaster ride cinema wars just for Gone with the Wind to be snubbed like this
 
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