Financed by various individuals and RatPac for an estimated $25M, it’s a distribution deal for Fox, with the 68% Rotten Tomatoes scored movie heading to a mid- to high-single digit opening over five days, $3M-$4M over three in an estimated 2,400 theaters.
He’s a driver for Beatty’s eccentric Howard Hughes, and she’s a wannabe starlet and songwriter. Lastly, there’s 20th Century Fox’s release of Regency’s Warren Beatty comedy Rules Don’t Apply. It stars the future young Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich, and Lily Collins as burgeoning young adults in 1950s Tinseltown. Broad Green and Miramax co-financed the sequel for an estimated $26M. Billy Bob Thornton returns as the alcoholic man in the red suit in 2,500-2,800 theaters. Its range for that span is $15M-$20M, per industry estimates, and it is a sequel to a cult classic that’s been 13 years in the waiting the original launched over Thanksgiving in 2003 and earned $60M stateside and $76M worldwide off a $23M budget. Allied is battling a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 58%.īroad Green’s release of Miramax’s Bad Santa 2is the one that could surprise and potentially overtake Allied on a five-day basis. Shot in London and the Canary Islands, the production cost before P&A on this Robert Zemeckis-directed title is $85M. The Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard World War II spy thriller Allied, from Paramount and GK Films, is expected to rake in mid-teens over three days and a low $20M over five at 3,000 locations. After Moana gets into a trident fight with Fantastic Beasts, those left are a trio of largely adult-skewing titles. Right now Moana has 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. There’s another set of estimates that believes that Moana and Fantastic Beasts come nose-to-nose with each other at $75M over five days. Beasts’ A CinemaScore and 90% PostTrak Positive score indicates fans have embraced this new chapter. Then again, Fantastic Beasts was really the only title that people cared about at the box office this weekend, repping 47% of the weekend’s total $157.6M tickets sales, further taking the wind out of plenty of pics’ sails (STX’s potty teenage girl comedy The Edge of Seventeen mistakenly went against Fantastic Beasts and is paying the price with a low opening of $4.75M). However, marketing identified this as a new Rowling property in the author’s “Wizarding World” with brand-new characters, and didn’t asset out the Potter mythology in its materials to the max - which could explain why to a certain degree Beasts is the lowest FSS of any Harry Potter title (RelishMix reported that heading into the weekend some folks online couldn’t distinguish Beasts’ connection to Potter). Fantastic Beasts is connected to the Harry Potter universe with mentions of characters, symbols, wands, Hogwarts, etc in fact, it’s inspired by the young Harry’s textbook. It’s a tough space, with Disney largely dominating this arena. Stateside, a $74.4M opening for a live-action family title is something to take note of. As Nancy Tartaglione observed in her coverage, the London play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child along with the Universal Hollywood parks opening of new Wizarding World of Harry Potter have further energized the devoted fan base for Fantastic Beasts, even though they were not part of the tentpole’s marketing strategy.