Friday Box Office: ‘Playmobil’ Bombs As Hollywood Again Ignores The Lesson Of ‘The Last Samurai’

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Friday Box Office: ‘Playmobil’ Bombs As Hollywood Again Ignores The Lesson Of ‘The Last Samurai’
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Big movies like 'Star Trek VI' and 'National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation' can thrive in this often-barren post-Thanksgiving weekend.

The Last Samurai, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Countrycan thrive in this often-barren post-Thanksgiving weekend.Star Trek

movies opened with solid reviews and a strong $18 million opening weekend, just fine for a non-summer release in 1991 and the biggest yet for this specific franchise. This past Thursday marked 16 years since the opening day of. The Tom Cruise/ Ken Watanabe action drama opened with $24.27 million and legged out to $111 million domestic and a whopping $454.6 million worldwide, one of the biggest totals ever at the time for an R-rated movie.

The Anya Taylor-Joy/Daniel Radcliffe/Gabriel Bateman flick earned just $167,000 in 2,337 theaters yesterday. That sets the stage for a $811,000 opening weekend and a $347 per-theater average. That will be the 24th-worst opening for a 1,000-screen release and the fourth-lowest opening for a 2,000-plus screen release behind the ten-year anniversary release of. One of these things is not like the other.into 2,012 theaters in its third weekend of release.

That’s an expectedly small opening for the kind of film that is the exact opposite of “escapism” in terms of adult-skewing, star-driven, well-reviewed multiplex fare. Alas. Finally, in an ironic note, Warner Bros. reissuedinto theaters for its 30th anniversary. The Chevy Chase farce earned around $85,000 on Friday for a likely $272,000 weekend gross in 370 theaters. That’s not bad for a movie in its 1,567th weekend of national release.

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