SATURDAY VERY EARLY AM: Spider-Man: Brand New Day has banked a near $19M Friday for what’s shaping up to be a third weekend around $65M, -55%, which takes its running cume to $780.8M. The Destin Daniel Cretton directed movie is booked at 4,539 theaters. Among the best third weekends ever at the domestic B.O, Brand New Day ranks fifth, higher than Avengers: Endgame ($63.2M) with the record still held by Force Awakens ($90.2M).
It’s the 33rd weekend of the year, and Brand New Day‘s $65M is the most amount of money ever made by a pic on this frame in the No. 1 spot post Covid. The biggest 33rd weekend of the year post pandemic goes to 2024 when all titles amounted to $140.4M per Box Office Mojo (that’s when Alien: Romulus opened to $42M).
At a time when everyone is going back to school (K-12 were 51% off yesterday), the family audience is split this weekend, with some going to Spider-Man, and others going to one of two dinosaur movies: Paramount/Spin Master’s PG-rated Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie, which looks like it’s overperforming at $20M or Warner Bros/Bad Robot’s The End of Oak Street which believes it has a path to $20M (though some see it under that). The pre-schooler Dino Movie settled for $7.1M on Friday at 3,545 theaters and an A CinemaScore, while The End of Oak Street, was $8M at 3,446 sites after a B CinemaScore (that’s just under the B+ of August Warner PG-13 hit The Meg which debuted to $45.4M). It’s the second solid A for Paw Patrol after 2023’s The Mighty sequel. The 2021 Paw Patrol movie received an A- (puppies can’t always be perfect).
Second, still powered by Imax, goes to Universal’s fifth weekend of The Odyssey with $23M, an amazing -27% hold, after a $6.5M Friday at 3,217 locations. Running cume by EOD Sunday is over a half billion stateside or $504.4M.
Fifth is also a toss-up between Focus Features’ release of West End capture musical, Six: The Musical Live at 1,462 theaters with a 3-day of $3M off a Friday of $950K, and Angel Studios’ Reagan vs. Gorbachev movie The Brink of War which is looking like $2.75M after a $1.2M Friday and a solid A CinemaScore.
The date is over for Uni’s second weekend of One Night Only at 3,012 theaters with a second weekend of $2M, -64%, and a running cume of $9.86M. Friday was $600K.
We’ll have more updates for you when the sun comes up.
FRIDAY AM: Warner Bros/Bad Robot’s PG-13 The End of Oak Street came in at $2.5M for Thursday night U.S. previews. The running global tally is $6.5M with key openings in Italy and France. Global outlook is still $38M WW-$48M WW with the foreign haul likely outweighing domestic. Again, that U.S. preview take is around what Rampage did pre-Covid and under what August family pic Blue Beetle did. End of Oak Street‘s preview cash is also higher than original PG-13 sci-fi movie The Creator ($1.6M) which opened to $14M. Previews are also on par with another original sci-fi movie, though R-rated, Mickey 17 which counted $2.5M and opened to $19M.
Paramount and Spin Master’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie had previews of $1.9M stateside at 2,800 theaters. The pic bowed in 30 territories last weekend including France, UK and Germany with a running cume that’s now at $35.4M. The domestic outlook is mid-to-high teens. The previous installment, 2023’s Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie didn’t have Thursday night previews, but posted a first Friday of $6.8M and 3-day of $22.7M.
Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day ends its second week with $205.7M, with a running domestic cume of $715.8M. That second week is higher than Avengers: Endgame ($186.5M) but under the second week of Star Wars: Force Awakens ($261.1M).
1.) Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Sony) 4,487 theaters, Wk $205.7M (-60%), Total $715.8M/Wk 2
2.) The Odyssey (Uni) 3,603 theaters, Wk $51.7M (-39%), total $481.4M/Wk 4
3.) One Night Only (Uni) 3,012 theaters, Wk $7.8M/Wk 1
4. Toy Story 5 (Dis) 2,660 theaters, Wk $6.7M (-39%), Total $473.1M/Wk 8
5. Minions & Monsters (Uni) 2,451 theaters, Wk $5.77M (-43%) , total $178.6M/Wk 6