It’s the Encanto, the Ghostbusters, and The House Of Gucci at the weekend box office
Two family-friendly movies compete with each other while Ridley Scott mostly avoids another disaster
Aux News Gucci
There was a rare tough battle for the top spot at the box office during this past turkey weekend, with two movies cutting into each other’s potential take rather than one movie running away with it all. That’s good news for the continued viability of the theater industry, but it’s bad news for Ridley Scott… because neither of the two movies at the top were House Of Gucci.
The two winners were actually Disney’s Encanto, which debuted at $27 million for the weekend but has already cracked $40 thanks to Thanksgiving (is that why it’s called that?!), and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The bustin’ sequel didn’t fall as far as some other movies do in their second week, which supports the theory that Encanto cut into its potential profits and that it would’ve been higher without competition. It came in at $24 million and has made $87 million, so hitting $100 million should be easy-ish.
After those two is House Of Gucci, which at least opened much better than Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel—which flopped because of “milennians” being unable to get away from their cell phones. Granted, House Of Gucci only made $14 million, but maybe it’ll pick up speed as the Gen-Xers decide to see something other than Ghostbusters or Eternals.
Hey, speaking of, it made just under $8 million this week and is sitting at $150 million. After that is Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, the back-to-its-roots reboot of the Resident Evil movies, which made only $5.2 million ($8.8 million if you count the extra days, which we don’t).
After that is old stuff that we’ve been hearing about for at least two weeks, all nearly making $1 million less than the previous movie: Clifford, King Richard, Dune, No Time To Die, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
Outside of the top 10 we have Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, which completely detonated the record for per-screen average (a thing that comes up every other week) by opening in only four theaters. It made $84,000 per screen! That 12 times what Encanto did! Of course, simple multiplication puts Licorice Pizza at only $336,000, then, which is only good enough for 13th place, but hopefully PTA will at least get a little trophy or something.
This all comes from Box Office Mojo, and you can go there for more detailed numbers. The full top 10 is reprinted below if you’d like to see it without these other words.
- Encanto
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- House Of Gucci
- Eternals
- Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
- Clifford The Big Red Dog
- King Richard
- Dune
- No Time To Die
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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Tom Ford’s review:
https://www.thewrap.com/tom-ford-house-of-gucci-review-farce/
To be fair, in my viewing of “House of Gucci,” there was a gentleman on his cell phone in the front row almost the entire movie. He was at least a generation and a half removed from “milennian.”
As a millennial that’s why I prefer watching at home.
I bet that torrent will be shit from all that front row pan and scan.
How does a movie make $84,000 per screen? Do people in New York and LA pay $100 for tickets in ungodly 840 seat auditoriums?
It’s not per screen though, it’s per theatre.So if it’s on multiple screens throughout the day (which isn’t unfathomable) then it could make quite a bit, especially as if it’s only four theatres then PTA diehards will be flooding in just to be able to tell people they’ve seen it and my god what an amazing film it was, true visionary etc etc.
Per screen, not per showing. There’s multiple showings per day on (possibly) multiple screens. If the average ticket price is $10 (taking matinees and such into account), then that’s 8,400 tickets sold over the course of a weekend. If at one large multiplex location it’s playing on (say) 3 screens, that’s around 15 showings per day per screen, or 45 for the weekend, meaning an average of 186 tickets per showing. Large cinema auditoriums can be 300+ seats.
According to the Hollywood Reporter it actually was Millennials (and Gen Z) that account for Gucci’s modest success:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/encanto-box-office-thanksgiving-house-of-gucci-1235053589/Directed by Ridley Scott, Gucci sewed up a five-day debut of $21.8 million and $14.2 million for the weekend, both record numbers for an adult drama in the pandemic era and reflecting star Lady Gaga’s appeal among younger adults. Nearly half of ticket buyers, or 45 percent, were between the ages of 18-34, while 34 percent were 45 and older.I saw it last night in downtown NYC and my screening was packed. It was too long by at least half an hour, but I was thoroughly entertained and Gaga was absolutely fabulous.
Well Ridley, I think you owe an entire generation of moviegoers an apology. Also, you owe me about $10 for Alien: Covenant.
I indirectly got a brand new pair of Nikes out of Alien: Covenant so I’ll always give it a bonus point for that at least.
I saw Alien: Covenant at a free promo screening and I still feel like he owes me $10.
It’s almost like the issue with The Last Duel is few want to watch a film that’s entirely to do with rape…
it’s a very good movie!
18-24 is still zoomers.
Look, I’d love to see ‘House of Gucci’, but I have to await instructions from my cell phone.
So does Encanto even exist. I feel like Disney is not really pushing it hard at all. I have two kids and I have barely seen any ads for it. Considering all the ads for Luca earlier this year(and that was not even out at theaters), it just seems odd