UPDATED, Monday AM:Walk-up ticket sales over MLK weekend keep going up and up.
It will get the fifth weekend of the James Cameron movie to$40Mover four days.
Its bigger than the $24.6M thatSpider-Man: No Way Homedid a year ago over MLK.
‘Plane,’ ‘House Party,’ ‘A Man Called Otto,’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and ‘M3GAN’Kenneth Rexach/Everett Collection
If so it will get the movie to a$10.2Mthree-day and$12Mfour-day total per AM estimates.
New LinesHouse Partycame in with a $1.1M Sunday,$4MFri-Sun and$4.7Mfor four days.
Results for the top five films are higher, indicative of walk-up business.
‘M3GAN‘Violet McGraw / Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
How much gas does the movie have left in the tank?
At$1.89 billionaround the world,Avatar 2is the seventh-highest grossing movie of all-time.
This despite the fact thatOttopopped to the No.
To clarify: There was a whole back and forth with this movie.
Lionsgate first took domestic and a selection of foreign rights off the table at AFM 2019.
Originally,Planewas suppose to be shooting in Malaysia but stalled because of a COVID spike there.
Then Solstice Studios (remember, them?)
stepped in to save the film, taking global rights and apparently finding a way to self-insure the film.
P&A spend was also low $20Ms.
Lionsgate re-boarded the movie as the world was beginning to open up in the spring/summer of 2021.
If this reboot winds up doing those sorts of numbers, thats not too shabby.
After all, it was always a cult franchise.
3-day looks to be around$27M-$29M, -39%.
By Monday, the movie will have been in theaters for 32 days.
Avatar 2has all the premium formats (Dolby, Imax, PLFs) again this weekend.
Theyll cede Dolby auditoriums when Universals M. Night ShyamalansKnock at the Cabinhits theaters on Feb. 3.
The four-day weekend for all titles is expected to come in at $115.4M.
Well into March,Sing 2was pulling in weekends north of $1M+.
The pics running by Monday looks to stand at$20.2M.
Audiences on Rotten Tomatoes always likedOttobetter than critics, 97% to 69% fresh.
The movie cost $50M before P&A, co-financed by SF and TSG.
LionsgatesPlanesecured a$3.5MFriday,$10.5M-$11.7M4-day in fifth, the latter range besting the studios expectations.
PostTrak exits here are also good at 83% and a 63% recommend.
Guys showed up at 54%, 47% were between 18-34, with 51% over 35.
Audiences were so-so at 65% fresh on that sites meter.
Pics running total sans previews through two weeks is $6.2M.
The pic is roughly $400K shy ofScreams first week take of $38.9M last year.
The pic at 1,300 sites is expected to do in the mid single digits.
