There are a majority of adult-skewing movies opening this weekend that were poised to perform poorly, even if there weren’t any concerns about the pandemic. However, there are two bright spot…
is coming in better than expected, even with a day-and-date drop on Paramount+, with $4.5M yesterday, for what’s looking to be a $13.5M weekend at 3,184 theaters. The movie was originally expected to file in the high single digits. Out of the new stuff, the animated feature based on the TV series has the best CinemaScore with an A- and great reviews at 84% certified fresh.
Last night, MGM decided to go day-and-date theatrical and on PVOD with their highly anticipated sequel after holding strong against Sony for the first weekend of October after the Culver City lot movedonto that date. In the end, Sony decided to go into talks with Amazon to license the fourthquel to the streaming service, in a deal that’s being estimated at $100M.
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