International delivered$114Mfor a great$194Mglobal start.
Imax and PLF drove 38% of the gross with 3D responsible for 19%.
Hes got great ideas of how to see these characters in ways that the audience wants to see them.
Something to roar about: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is the highest grossing installment in the Legendary MonsterverseWarner Bros
How did Warners pull this off withGxK?
A studio goes into the frame expecting X, and they wind up with a substantially higher Y.
Per Comscore/Screen Engines PostTrak, 57% of the audience bought their tickets same-day.
Austin Butler in ‘Dune: Part Two’Warner Bros
There is a path to a bigger weekend, so it wont be shocking if it hits $80M.
PostTrak exits reported that of those who watchedGvk,many of them were infrequent moviegoers, i.e.
Sixty-seven percent ofGxKs crowd were over 25 while 62% were under 35.
IMAX and the PLF screens are driving 38% of the gross with 3D accounting for 19%.
Other jelly beans forGxK: On PostTrak, 96% said the movie either met or exceeded their expectations.
Seventy-two percent want to see a sequel.
As far as the middle players this weekend, its a deep bench.
That Prathyangira Cinemas release is set to do around$2.5Min No.
That looks to bring in around$1.7Mtoward the bottom of the top 10.
The Robert Lorenz directed title has pretty good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes at 80%.
Sony Pictures Classics hasWicked Little Letterswhich world premiered at TIFF last fall and is from filmmaker Thea Sharrock.
Pic stars Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
Suspecting that something is amiss, the towns women investigate.
Rotten Tomatoes audience score has notched up to 93% forGxK.
Legendary and Warners also own the No.
Nice hold at 3,136 theaters, and thats without a ton of Imax screens.
Friday is at $3.6M, -18%.
There was a lot of walk-up business Thursday night.
As we told you last night, the audience score on this is high.
PostTrak is 5 stars.
Good Friday is always a big box office day, so well see where this takes Warners.
Per ComScore, 77% of K-12 schools are on break today, along with 39% colleges out.
Monday after Easter also looks great with 57% K-12 schools off and 14% colleges.
Its also not that far from Legendary/Warner Bros ownDune: Part Two,which had a reach of 575.7M.
While RelishMix says that word of mouth was mixed in advance of previews, perhaps sentiment will change.
Remember, fans always come out on Thursday.
Or is it an insane war veteran from theGreat Titan War?
And I love how this series is leaning into batshit insanity as well as This is so ridiculous!
I cant wait to watch it.'
Elsewhere on Thursday, SonysGhostbusters: Frozen Empireranked No.
Remember,Afterlifeplayed its first week over Thanksgiving.
Fourth belongs to Neons Sydney Sweeney horror movieImmaculate,at 2,354 theaters.
Thursdays estimated$636Ktake ends the pics first week at$7.8M.
Fathom has another set ofThe Chosenepisodes, which did around$494KThursday at 1,037 locations.
Warner Bros didnt return request for comment on tonights estimates.
Opening domestic projections forGodzilla x Kongearlier this week were at $50M.
Well see if that simmers down.
Audiences previous fave in the series?
