Right here’s a field workplace benchmark you don’t see usually, if in any respect: A significant Hollywood star has two No. 1 theatrical launch openings in the identical calendar month, that accomplishment going to Dwayne Johnson.
For the month of November, Johnson noticed a No. 1 opening within the Amazon MGM Studios Purple One on Nov. 15 with $32.1M and the star helps ship the most effective Thanksgiving opening of all-time with Disney’s Moana 2 which has the potential to hit $200M over 5-days.
In reality, over the Wednesday-Sunday vacation stretch, moviegoers are getting their double dose of Johnson spending round $218M for each Moana 2 and Purple One.
From what we’ve culled, together with our chat with distribution sources, no different star has ever pulled this field workplace file off. There have been some shut name cases the place stars have opened two No. 1 movies inside a month of one another, however not the identical calendar month, i.e. Chris Pratt with Tremendous Mario Bros. Film (April 5, 2023; $146.3M 3-day) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Might 5, 2023; $118.4M); Chris Hemsworth with Marvel’s The Avengers (Might 4, 2012; $207.4M) and Snow White and the Huntsman (June 1, 2012; $56.2M) and Tom Hanks with Toy Story 2 (Nov. 26, 1999; $57.3M 3-day) and Inexperienced Mile (ahhh No. 2 on Dec. 10, 1999 with $18M).
There was quite a lot of noise again in December 2002 when Leonardo DiCaprio had two films launched inside 5 days of one another: Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York from Miramax and Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can from DreamWorks, respectively debuting on Dec. 20 and Dec. 25. Nonetheless, that launch technique anomaly didn’t yield a No. 1 opening for the star.
Johnson noticed his media schedule finely tuned over the previous couple of months by Amazon MGM and Disney in order that each household titles acquired an acceptable push. He confirmed up on the NYC premiere for Purple One and the Hawaii and London premieres of Moana 2.
Certainly, it’s a field workplace triumph that Johnson can yell “chee hoo” about on the Thanksgiving desk at present.
