Benchmarks we should always have fun as {the marketplace} seems to be to rebound after twin strikes that sidelined the field workplace: Lionsgate‘s The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has crossed the $100M mark on the home field workplace yesterday in its eleventh day of launch.
The film is the second for Lionsgate this 12 months after John Wick: Chapter 4 to cross the century mark, that pic doing so in eight days. Songbirds & Snakes can be the twenty third film in 2023 to cross $100M. Final 12 months in 2022, there have been solely 18 movies to gross north of $100M.
Yesterday, Songbirds & Snakes grossed $1.9M, -71% off from Sunday’s $6.6M. The Francis Lawrence directed prequel; the helmer’s fourth movie within the Suzanne Collins collection, shocked over the Thanksgiving vacation weekend, reigning because the No. 1 champ with a $29M 3-day and $42.2M 5-day defeating newcomers Disney’s Want ($31.6M) and Apple Authentic Manufacturing’s Napoleon ($32.7M). Songbirds & Snakes‘ present international take is north of $165M.
Whereas trade sources anticipate Songbirds & Snakes to say no -55% in its third weekend for a 3-day gross round $13M, don’t rely the film’s momentum out though AMC’s Renaissance: A Movie by Beyonce is arriving in theaters. The latter pic’s presales are very low, within the neighborhood of West Aspect Story and Within the Heights, so it wouldn’t be stunning if Songbirds & Snakes wins No. 1 for a 3rd time in a row. Don’t put all of your chips on Beyonce. Expectations for the concert-documentary film have dropped all the way down to $15M on the low-end, and it might be decrease.
Extra within the weeds on Songbirds & Snakes: Starvation Video games- Mockingjay Half 2 fell -49% between its opening weekend and 3-day Black Friday body. Songbirds & Snakes had a greater maintain at -35%. Publish Black Friday body, Mockingjay Half 2 decline -63%.
Presently, Songbirds & Snakes is pacing 15% behind the second Incredible Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film, a Harry Potter spinoff, which via 11 days made $118.1M. That Warner Bros film finaled at $159.6M. Given the holds that Starvation Video games films have all through the vacations, it could not be a shock if Songbirds & Snakes finals north of $150M. The pic price simply north of $100M earlier than advertising prices.
