- Bad Boys: Ride Or Die £3,873,533 – NE
Took £987k (25.5%) from previews; Wednesday £571k/Thursday £414k)
Took £805k 20.78% Friday; £1.23m 31.76% Saturday; £853k 22.02% Sunday
403rd biggest opening between Kick-Ass and Ted 2 (close to Mr and Mrs Smith, The Expendables, Wanted and X-Men: Dark Phoenix) and 619th biggest inflated opening between Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Warcraft: The Beginning (close to The Fugitive, The Bourne Identity, Back To The Future Part III and Three Men And A Baby).
6th biggest 2024 opening between Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (close to Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, The Fall Guy, One Life and Mean Girls).
Opened in 644 cinemas 113th widest opening similar to Black Widow and close to Spider-Man: Far From Home, Creed III, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, Eternals and Aladdin; 216th 600+ opener since 2015’s Jurassic World.
Bad Boys For Life opened in 535 cinemas: Bad Boys 2 383 cinemas and Bad Boys 299 cinemas; Bad Boys: Ride Or Die had the second lowest screen average ahead of Bad Boys £2,897 but below Bad Boys 2 £8,290 and Bad Boys For Life £7,068 despite playing in IMAX/PLF screens the others never played in. Bad Boys For Life opened in 535 cinemas but was playing in about 1,500 screens.
Opened with £92,300 more than Bad Boys For Life (£3,781,233) despite having a 5-day opening Vs a 3-day opening and opening in a far less crowded marketplace. In January 2020 Bad Boys For Life opened #2 behind 1917 (£6,190,049) without IMAX/PLF screens and Little Women (£1,480,139); The Gentlemen (£1,092,084); Jumanji: The Next Level (£1,064,594) and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (£901,078) all took more than IF (£866,474)
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die opened with £102,380 more than X-Men: Dark Phoenix opened the same weekend of June 2019 (£3,771,153) £274,537 more than The Fall Guy £3,598,996 (including £432,961 from one-day previews). So how can Bad Boys: Ride Or Die opening be seen as a strong opening but then The Fall Guy opening was seen as disappointing if they opened so close to each other?
2020’s Bad Boys For Life opened £3,781,233 (no previews) #2 (#1 1917 £6,190,049) 535 screens taking £15,953,076
2003’s Bad Boys 2 opened £3,175,258 (£420,203 previews) #1 383 screens (£5,663,974 inflated) taking £8,408,498 (£14,998,942 inflated)
1995’s Bad Boys opened £866,215 #1 299 screens (£1,971,386 inflated) taking £5,079,511 (£11,560,266 inflated)
2020’s Bad Boys For Life opened $62.5m ($38.6m from 39 territories and $97.8m worldwide) taking $206.3m and $426.5m WW; 2003’s Bad Boys 2 opened $46.52m taking $138.6m and $273.34m WW; 1995’s Bad Boys opened $15.52m taking $65.8m and $141.4m WW.
Immediately after the opening of 2020 Bad Boys for Life Sony Pictures announced they were developing a fourth film; it was shortly put on hold after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, in February 2023 Will Smith announced the fourth film was in pre-production. Filming started in April but stopped in July after the SAG strike started and filming restarted in December.
As with Bad Boys For Life, Ride Or Die didn’t have a UK premiere having premiers across three continents and ten cities, including Dubai, Riyadh, Madrid, Berlin, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, and Miami. With D-Day events last week in the UK and France maybe that was the reason for having premieres in the UK or France.
Also, released on Friday was the far superior action-comedy Hit Man directed by Richard Linklater and Glen Powell, which has received far more positive reviews (97% Rotten Tomatoes) Netflix acquired the film for $20m after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. It had a limited theatrical release in the UK.
After having a 5-day opening and with the Euros starting on Friday (Scotland Vs Germany on Friday and England Vs Serbia) will likely see Bad Boys: Ride Or Die drop upwards of 70% in its second weekend.
- 2. IF £866,474 – £10,859,242
Down 44.83% in its fourth weekend
Took £127k 14.67% (-54.48% £279k) Friday; £399k 46.07% (-20.04% £538k Saturday; £340k 39.26% (-2.6% £349k) Sunday
417th biggest fourth weekend between Atonement and Star Trek (close to The Princess and the Frog, The Croods 2: A New Age, Bee Movie and Madagascar) and 699th biggest inflated between Robin Hood and LA Confidential (close to Beethoven, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Tron: Legacy and Mr. Peabody And Sherman).
If and The Garfield Movie saw big increases from Friday to Saturday and held strongly on Sunday, but with Inside Out 2 opening Friday both will see much bigger weekend drops.
Its Ryan Reynolds’s first major cinema release since 2021’s Free Guy (dropped 41% £956,248 #2 and £13,230,937 of £16,786,848)) having starred in several Netflix films including Red Notice and The Adam Project and before voiced Detective Pikachu in 2019’s Pokemon Detective Pikachu (dropped 34% £664,469 #5 and £12,492,311 of £13,368,175). He will of course have much bigger BO success in two months with Deadpool and Wolverine.
640th biggest between Terminator: Genisys and London Has Fallen (close to Alvin and the Chipmunks, Flubber, Flushed Away and Charlotte’s Web) and 1,070th biggest inflated between Constantine and Entrapment (close to Herbie: Fully Loaded, A Peanuts Movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Into the Woods).
- 3. The Garfield Movie – £729,503 – £7,375,071
Down 45.96% in its third weekend
887th biggest third weekend between Crazy Rich Asians and Ted 2 (close to The Haunted Mansion (2004), Cruella, Dragonheart and The Princess Diaries) and 1,215th biggest inflated between 10,000 B.C. and Scary Movie 2 (close to Last Action Hero, Pixels, Coyote Ugly and Bridge To Terabithia).
114th biggest animation third weekend between Abominable and Penguins Of Madagascar (close to Hotel Transylvania, The Cat In The Hat, The Paw Patrol Movie and Sherlock Gnomes) and 130th biggest inflated animation between Pixels and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water (close to Corpse Bride, Megamind, Coraline and Bratz: The Movie).
2004’s Garfield dropped 10.6% £663,007 #4 (£1,176,874 inflated) and £5,268,563 of £9,352,051 (£16,600,411 inflated)
2006’s Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties dropped 35% £363,102 #9 (£594,235 inflated) and £3,249,256 of £5,969,059 (£9,768,665 inflated); both films opened at the start of the summer holidays.
Many were surprised when Bill Murray was cast to voice Garfield in the 20th Century Fox films as he mistakenly believed Joel Coen was the director (Coen Brothers) it was directed by Joel Cohen who wrote the screenplay for Toy Story.
In the Sony version, Chris Pratt voices Garfield, it’s the fourth major animated character he has voiced over the last decade after Emmet in 2014’s The Lego Movie, Barley Lightfoot in Onward and Mario in The Super Mario Bros Movie.
This version has very little to do with Garfield from the comic strip but more with the animated films 2015’s Pixels dropped 19% £664,728 #5 and £6,435,674 of £8,334,036 and 2017’s The Emoji Movie dropped 14% £1,028,182 #4 and £8,644,036 of £14,612,815 as the marketing campaign overshadowing the film with so many product placements.
The second weekend was also similar to 2015’s A Peanuts Movie also based on the comic strip dropped 19% £664,728 #5 and £6,435,674 #5 and £7,137,976 71.3% of £10,007,658 and 2020’s Onward dropped 62.78% £1,272,748 #1 despite COVID (lockdown was days afterwards) and £7,308,920.
154th biggest animated film between Open Season and Onward (close to Pixels, Captain Underpants, The Boss Baby 2 and Encanto) and 186th biggest inflated animated between The Nightmare Before Christmas and Storks (close to Bambi (re), Onward, Planet 51 and ParaNorman).
999th biggest between Fisherman’s Friends and First Man (close to George and the Jungle, Never Say Never Again, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days and Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief) and 1,539th biggest inflated between X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The Reader (close to The Nightmare Before Christmas, City Slickers, Bridge to Terabithia and Marmaduke).
- 4. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes £620,911 – £14,340,041
Down 41.3% in the fifth weekend
Took £130k 20.93% (-65.61% £371k) Friday; £279k 44.93% (-45.72% £514k) Saturday; £212k 34.14% (-24.82% £282k Sunday
369th biggest fifth weekend between Clifford The Big Red Dog and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (close to Iron Man, Batman Forever, Troy and Jurassic Park 3) and 604th biggest inflated between Streetdance and DC League Of Super-Pets (close to Dragonheart, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Misery and Die Hard 2 Die Harder)
20th Century Fox originally rebooted the classic 60’s sci-fi series in 2001 with Tim Burton directing starring Mark Wahlberg dropped 43% £443,306 (£853,418 inflated) #5 and £16,130,486 95.7% of £16,850,987 (£32,440,185 inflated). The studio had plans for a sequel, but Tim Burton said at the time, “I’d rather jump out a window.”
The studio decided to reboot it a second time in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes which took almost double BO of Planet of the Apes and received positive reviews, the two sequels Dawn and War were similarly as successful with the trilogy taking £85m+ in the UK (£100m+ inflated).
The fourth instalment in the second Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and sequel to 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes.
Fifth weekends
2011’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes dropped 35% £701,258 (£922,282 inflated) #5 and £19,282,432 93.8% of £20,768,895 (£27,143,506 inflated)
2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dropped 37% £1,093,872 (£1,176,540 inflated) #4 and £29,557,135 90.8% of £32,873,910 (££38,744,251 inflated)
2017’s War For The Planet Of The Apes dropped 54% £408,353 (£434,522 inflated) #9 and £19,444,799 96.8% of £20,758,444 (£21,950,184 inflated)
Wes Ball previously directed The Maze Runner film trilogy; 2014’s The Maze Runner took £8,685,511; The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials £8,669,049; 2018’s The Maze Runner: The Death Cure £6,667,941. They targeted tweens while Kingdom targeted 25+.
472nd biggest between Star Wars (1977) and Daddy’s Home 2 (close to Batman and Robin, World War Z, The Fugitive and Flash Gordon) and 799th biggest inflated between The Santa Clause and Valiant (close to Dirty Dancing, Arachnophobia, Alien Resurrection and Dragonheart).
Down 54.7% in its third weekend
Took £117k 26.83% (-81.69% £317k) Friday; £184k 42.20% (-69.64% £372k) Saturday; £135k 30.96% (£275k -50.91% Sunday
1,314th biggest third weekend between John Wick: Chapter Two and Jupiter Ascending (close to Super 8, Tomb Raider 2, Hereditary and After Earth) and 1,546th biggest inflated between Saving Mr. Banks and Eight Legged Freaks (close to The Karate Kid Part 3, The Nice Guys, Get Hard and Working Girl).
2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road £2,639,888 #2 dropped 42% (32% without previews) and £9,690,578 57.15% of £16,955,183; only £25,540 separated Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road (£2,665,428 Vs £2,639,888).
The previous Mad Max films weren’t massive hits, but they received rave reviews and became cult hits on video as with 1982’s Bladerunner they didn’t find big audiences in cinemas. Furiosa was a prequel and didn’t learn lessons from Solo: A Star Wars Story recasting the female lead, opening nine years after Fury Road, having a marketing campaign that looked remarkably similar to Fury Road.
2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story dropped 48% (35% without previews) £3,147,338 #1 and £13,907,406 63.6% of £19,432,391
2017’s Blade Runner 2049 dropped 49% (41% without previews) 3,098,872 #2 and £12,184,828 64.7% of £18,820,009
It could have been worse for Furiosa as a year ago was due to open against Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes along with IF and The Garfield Movie on May 24th. When Disney delayed Captain America: Brave New World they brought forward Kingdom as Paramount brought forward IF.
The first three Mad Max films weren’t massive blockbusters they were B Movies and opened at a vastly different time for cinema.
1980’s Mad Max wasn’t in the top 20 biggest films in the UK; 1982’s Mad Max 2 #11 between Who Dares Wins and The Empire Strikes Back (re-issue); #1 Arthur #2 Porky’s; 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome #11 between Desperately Seeking Susan and The Killing Fields; #1 A View to a Kill; #2 Gremlins; #3 Rambo: First Blood Part 2; #4 Beverly Hills Cop. 2015’s Made Mad Fury Road #20 biggest between Pitch Perfect 2 and Daddy’s Home.
1,296th biggest between 3-D Jackass and Ghost in the Shell (close to Dick Tracy, Hugo, Die Hard 2 Die Harder and Ride Along 2) and 1,863rd biggest inflated between The Big Short and Sunshine on Leith (close to Willow, The Rising Sun, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and The Shawshank Redemption).
Furiosa is due for VOD release at the end of the month.
Also opened
- The Watched – Warner Bros
Opened £387,339 #6 from 534 screens
(The Watchers in the US) was directed by M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan based on A. M. Shine’s book The Watchers. Why was its title changed in the UK?
Horror films have so far this year underperformed and The Watched opened similar to The Strangers: Chapter 1 opening £452,506; Abigail £596,590; The First Omen £521,572; Immaculate £522,583; Imaginary £652,808; Night Swim £590,691. The genre used to perform well, and success would breed success as they would attract similar demographics, that’s the reason why when one underperforms all that have followed do too.
As her dad’s recent film openings, it will be front-loaded, unlike his earlier films.
2023’s Knock at the Cabin opened £985,027 #3 taking £2,020,346
2021’s Old opened #4 £866,860 taking £3,181,707
2019’s Glass opened £3,423,380 35.5% of £9,646,964.
2017’s Split opened £2,548,516 23.1% of £11,018,069
2015’s The Visit opened £1,031,292 36.7% of £2,805,591.
2013’s After Earth opened £2,249,532 36.6% of £6,137,273
2010’s The Last Airbender opened £1,653,776 #3 39.1% of £4,225,793
2008’s The Happening £1,632,055 (£2,350,787 inflation inflated) 41.9% of £3,895,001 (£5,610,300 inflation inflated)
2006’s Lady in the Water opened £452,744 #9 (£671,214 inflation inflated) in the top 10 for only one week
2004’s The Village £2,945,763 (£4,913,979 inflation inflated) 29.5% of £9,980,280 (£16,648,619 inflation inflated)
2002’s Signs £3,767,713 (£6,578,128 inflation inflated) 23.4% of £16,084,656 (£28,082,535 inflation inflated)
2000’s £2,004,890 (£3,412,870 inflation inflated) 17.8% of £11,222,712 (inflation inflated £19,563,228)
1999’s The Sixth Sense £4,792,296 (£8,730,858 inflation inflated) 18.6% of £25,407,279 (£46,288,321 inflation inflated).
- The Matrix (25th Anniversary) – Park Circus
£45,538 #13 from 211 screens
Unlike other anniversary re-releases that were months before/after their original release (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), The Matrix re-release was a week before its original release in June 1999 it opened £3,384,948 from 361 screens (£6,367,883 inflated) taking £17,279,897 (£32,507,550 inflated).
The Matrix was previously released in UK cinemas in July 2019 4K (£163,812 #11 286 screens) and December 2021 (£128,585 #12 338 screens)
Cinema re-releases have become a popular addition to cinemas over recent years, giving audiences a chance to see them again or for the first time in cinemas a very different experience than watching them at home on TV or on their phones.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £7,466,094 up 12.4% from last weekend’s £6,644,039: 942,689 admissions up 12.4% from 838,894 admissions.
39th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 25 August 2023 #1 Barbie £1,944,777 (25.01%) and 29 September 2023 #1 The Creator £2,255,034 (30.88%)
121st biggest since cinemas reopened out of 186 weeks between 20 August 2021 #1 Free Guy £2,267,660 (30.29%) and 17 March 2023 #1 Shazam! Fury Of The Gods £2,397,953 (32.32%)
895th biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,157) between 28 September 2018 #1 Night School £1,596,377 (21.37%) and 29 April 2005 #1 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy £3,298,262 (44.31%) and 1,063rd inflated between 04 March 2005 #1 Boogeyman £788,439 (17.54%) and 14 May 2004 #1 Van Helsing £2,403,036 (57.41%)
The top 3 took (£5,469,510) 73.3% of the top 10; Bad Boys: Ride Or Die 51.9% (£3,873,533); IF 11.6% (£866,474); The Garfield Movie 9.8% (£729,503).
248th highest #1 percentage (51.88%) between 13 September 2002 #1 Signs £3,767,713 (51.96%) and 12 March 2010 #1 Alice in Wonderland £7,343,506 (51.88%)
683rd biggest admissions #1 (489,082) between 08 July 2016 #1 The Secret Life of Pets £3,624,751 (489,170) and 03 June 2016 #1 Warcraft: The Beginning £3,623,725 (489,032)
Down 30.6% from 2023; (£10,750,760); Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (£2,973,478); Chevalier (£124,432); Hairspray (35th Anniversary) (£2,306); #1 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse £4,062,817 2nd week 690 screens 56% drop (37.79%)
Down 60.6% from 2022 (£18,965,681); Jurassic World: Dominion (£12,121,728); #1 Jurassic World: Dominion £12,121,728 1st week 707 screens (63.9% of top 10)
Down 13.7% 2021 from (£8,645,168); A Quiet Place Part II (£3,567,048); Dream Horse (£209,389); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Re: 2020) – Extended Version (£24,652); Land (£14,615); #1 A Quiet Place Part II £3,567,048 1st week 561 screens (41.3% of top 10)
2020: Lockdown 1
Down 55.3% from 2019; (£16,708,373) X-Men: Dark Phoenix (£3,771,153); Take That – Greatest Hits Live (Concert) (£1,834,379); Casino Royale (Secret Cinema 2019) (£493,243); #1 Aladdin £3,929,625 654 screens 20% drop 3rd week (23.5% of top 10)
Down 60% from 2018: (£18,642,162); Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (£14,334,894); McQueen (£131,278); Coppelia – Bolshoi 2018 (£96,840); The Boy Downstairs (£12,823); #1 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom £14,334,894 663 screens 1st week (76.9% of top 10)
Down 39% from 2017: (£12,227,826); The Mummy (£3,343,650); Take That: Wonderland Live from the O2 2017 (£1,004,918); My Cousin Rachel (£637,704); Peter Pan – NT Live 2017 (£119,127); The Shack (£96,580); Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (£18,017); Wilson (£5,347); From the Land of the Moon (£4,547); #1 Wonder Woman £3,480,956 2nd week 613 screens (28.4% of top 10)
Up 3.6% from 2016: (£7,206,704); The Boss (£594,672); Mother’s Day (£419,532); When Marnie Was There (£99,352); Miracles from Heaven (£20,420); #1 Me Before You £1,453,859 529 screens 1st week (2nd week on release) 19% drop.
Down 13.8% from 2015; (£8,657,357); Spy (£2,557,824); Insidious Chapter 3 (£1,440,299); The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema 2015) (£304,115); Survivor (£130,307); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (£4,442); #1 Spy £2,557,824 531 screens 1st week (29.5% of top 10)
Down 39.6% from 2014: (£12,366,516); 22 Jump Street (£4,854,991); D-Day 70 Years On (£287,767); Grace of Monaco (£238,862); Der Rosenkavalier – Glyndebourne 2014 (£75,428); Fruitvale Station (£30,162); #1 22 Jump Street £4,854,991 454 screens 1st week (39.2% of top 10)
Down 4.3% from 2013: (£7,805,920); After Earth (£2,249,532); Behind the Candelabra (£513,288); The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (£367,319); The Iceman (£201,789); The Last Exorcism: Part II (£115,811); #1 After Earth £2,249,532 470 screens 1st week (28.8% of top 10)
Down 34.6% from 2012 (£11,422,558); The Pact (£932,325); Ill Manors (£256,288); Red Tails (£193,420); A Fantastic Fear of Everything (£35,400); #1 Prometheus £3,135,504 2nd week 536 screens 50% drop (27.4% of top 10)
Down 48.8% from 2011; (£14,590,776); Kung Fu Panda 2 (£6,188,897); Honey 2 (£520,654); Mother’s Day (£94,385); #1 Kung Fu Panda 2 £6,188,897 1st week 514 screens (42.4% of top 10)
Down 37.6% from 2010: (£5,427,181); Letters to Juliet (£793,425); Brooklyn’s Finest (£468,279); Greenberg (£118,804); #1 Sex and the City 2 £1,489,833 3rd week 542 screens 40% drop (27.3% of top 10)
Down 47.1% from 2009; (£14,109,630); Terminator Salvation (£6,936,528); Last Chance Harvey (£640,390); Anything for Her (£89,467); #1 Terminator Salvation £6,936,528 1st week 489 screens (49.1% of top 10)
Down 12.5% from 2008; (£8,527,504); Superhero Movie (£851,353); Prom Night (£507,985); Gone, Baby, Gone (£351,127); #1 Sex and the City £3,085,231 2nd week 65% drop 469 screens (36.2% of top 10)
Up 8.3% from 2007: (£6,890,280); Ocean’s Thirteen (£3,021,302); Are We Done Yet? (£419,247); Taking Liberties (£21,350); #1 Ocean’s Thirteen £3,021,302 1st week 475 screens (43.8% of top 10)
Up 39.5% from 2006; (£5,352,087); The Omen (£2,096,002); RV (£273,850); Secuestro Express (£18,784); #1 The Omen £2,096,002 1st week 347 screens (39.1% of top 10)
Down 6.4% from 2005: (£7,979,378); Mr and Mrs Smith (£3,943,422); #1 Mr and Mrs Smith £3,943,422 1st week 450 screens (49.4% of top 10)
Down 74.3% from 2004 (£29,089,953); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (£23,882,688); Japanese Story (£37,580); #1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban £23,882,688 1st week 535 screens (82.1% of top 10)
Up 14.9% from 2003 (£6,499,525); Anger Management (£1,768,335); The Hunted (£394,122); Dark Water (£34,978); #1 The Matrix Reloaded £2,485,938 3rd week 473 screens 34% drop (38.2% of top 10)
Up 29.3% from 2002 (£5,773,078); Unfaithful (£779,335); Monster’s Ball (£486,017); Dragonfly (£80,209); #1 Star Wars Ep II – Attack of the Clones £2,058,716 464 screens 4th week 16% drop (35.6% of top 10)
2023 Next week: (£10,857,760); The Flash (£4,252,532); Greatest Days (£536,955); Fleabag – NT Live 2019 (Re: 2023) (£86,597); SUGA: Road To D-DAY (£35,909); #1 The Flash £4,252,532 1st week 660 screens (39.17%)
US Box Office
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die – Sony Pictures
Opened with $56.52m; received mixed reviews (64% Rotten Tomatoes and A- CinemaScore
Took $5.87m from Thursday previews; Bad Boys for Life $6.36m; Mission: Impossible – Fallout $6m; John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum $5.9m; Hobbs & Shaw $5.8m; Spectre $5.25m; Bullet Train $4.6m; Jason Bourne $4.25m; Mad Max: Fury Road $3.7m; Kingsman: The Golden Circle $3.4m.
IMAX took $8.2m worldwide with $3m internationally
223rd biggest opening between Moana and Despicable Me (close to Mission: Impossible II, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, War for the Planet of the Apes and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation).
Tracking a month before opening had Bad Boys: Ride or Die expected to open similarly to Bad Boys for Life but then a week before opening due to “disappointing” presales some predicted it could open much lower.
This was surely done to make the opening look far stronger than it was as has been done many times before with Disney regularly underestimating tracking and estimates so finals look more impressive than they are. While bumping up the opening for films like Bad Boys: Ride or Die is IMAX/PLF screens they lose them to Inside Out 2 on Friday.
IMAX/PLF took 38% of opening; $5.2m from 401 IMAX screens (9.3%); EntTelligence said Bad Boys: Ride or Die had 3.9m admissions 53% with The Garfield Movie 9%; IF 8% and Watchers 7%.
2020’s Bad Boys for Life opened $62.5m ($72m inflated) taking $206.3m and $426.5m worldwide
2003’s Bad Boys II opened $46.52m ($83.2m inflated) taking $138.6m ($165m inflated) and $273.34m worldwide
1995’s Bad Boys opened $15.52m ($38.5m inflated) taking $65.8m ($250m inflated) and $141.4m worldwide
Jerry Bruckheimer’s 38 films have taken $5.4bn in the US, $6.3bn internationally and $13.1bn worldwide; most of his biggest hits were released in the 80s and 90s including Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Coyote Ugly and Remember the Titans.
Will Smith’s 29 films have taken $4bn in the US; $3.57bn internationally and $9.6bn worldwide.
Bad Boy’s four films have taken $465m in the US and $944m worldwide
Bad Boys For Life opened with $97.8m in January 2020 including $38.6m from 39 territories; including the UK’s $5m; Germany $5.1m; Mexico $3.8m Spain $2.2m; Australia $3.9m. The marketplace was much more crowded in early 2020.
Opened $48.6m from 60 territories; UK $4.9m; Mexico $4.2m; Germany $3.7m; Saudi Arabia $3.7m; France $3.1m.
- The Watchers – Warner Bros
Opened with $8m; received mixed reviews (29% Rotten Tomatoes and C- CinemaScore
Took $1m from Thursday previews; 2021’s Old $1.5m; Escape Room 2 $1.2m; The Forever Purge $1.33m; 2015’s The Visit $1m, 2016’s Split $2m and 2019’s Glass $3.7m.
2023’s Knock at the Cabin opened $14.12m taking $35.39m and $54.76m worldwide
2019’s Glass opened with $42.8m taking $111.04m in the US and $246.99m worldwide.
M. Night Shyamalan’s biggest opening in the US was 2002’s Signs $60.11m taking $227.96m and 2004’s The Village with $50.74m taking $114.19m; but of course, ticket inflation since Signs was released is over 60% so inflation inflated opening would be closer to $100m and a total of $370m.
M. Night Shyamalan’s biggest film to date The Sixth Sense opened with $26.68m in August 1999 taking $293.5m and $672.8m worldwide would be $1.3bn inflation inflated.
2000’s Unbreakable opened with $30.33m taking $95.01m and 2017’s Split opened with $40.01m taking $138.29m and $278.45m worldwide
2021’s Old opened with $6.5m from 23 territories and $23m worldwide
Knock at the Cabin opened $7m from 60 territories and $21.2m worldwide
Opened $4.7m from 65 territories; Mexico $0.6M; UK $0.5m.
- The Garfield Movie – Sony Pictures
Dropped 29% in the third weekend taking $10m #2 and $68.61m
693rd biggest third weekend between Barbershop and Jack and Jill (close to The Angry Birds Movie, Corpse Bride, Migration and Goosebumps)
157th biggest animation between Storks and Spies in Disguise; 1,286th biggest between Sahara and Civil War; 2,450th biggest inflated between Clockstoppers and Civil War; 186th biggest children’s film between Space Jam: A New Legacy and Mr. Poppers’s Penguins; 166th biggest Sony pictures between Guess Who and Vertical Limit.
EntTelligence reported Garfield had 1.3m admissions to 700k admissions for Furiosa; Garfield’s average ticket price was $10.75 Versus Furiosa’s $15.
2004’s Garfield: The Movie dropped 33.6% $7.52m #8 and $56.29m of $75.36m and $203.17m WW
2006’s Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties dropped 58.5% $2.16m #12 and $21.67m of $28.42m and $143.32m WW
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2015’s Pixels dropped 48.2% $5.43m #9 and $57.65m of $78.74m and $244.87m WW
2015’s The Peanuts Movie dropped 45% $13.2m and $99.34m of $130.17m and $246.23m WW
2016’s The Angry Birds Movie dropped 45.6% $10.21m and $87.11m of $107.5m and $352.3m WW
2017’s The Emoji Movie dropped 46.3% $6.45m #6 and $63.43m of $86.08m and $217.77m WW
Took $15.3m from 51 territories $124.1m total and $192.7m worldwide; Mexico $20.3m; UK $9.4m; Germany $8.1m; Brazil $6.4m; Spain $6m.
150th biggest animated worldwide between Gnomeo and Juliet and Open Season; 964th biggest between The Equalizer and The Lost City; 126th biggest Sony Pictures between The Equalizer and Open Season.
- Furiosa – Warner Bros
Down 61% in its third weekend taking $4.2m #6 and $58.67m
2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road dropped 42.5% $14.17m #4 and $116.46m of $154.28m and $380.41m WW
2017’s Blade Runner 2049 dropped 52.5% $7.35m and $74.2m of $92.07m and $267.69m WW 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story dropped 46.4% $15.78m and $176.7m of $213.76m and $392.92m.
1,555th biggest between Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and Honey I Blew Up the Kid; 2,795th biggest inflated between Tom and Huck and Missing; 13th biggest 2024 between The Beekeeper and Bad Boys: Ride or Die; 28th biggest spinoff between Get Him to the Greek and The Tigger Movie; 187th biggest sci-fi between Total Recall (2012) and Honey I Blew Up the Kid; 257th biggest Warner Bros between Vacation and Tenet.
The previous four films took $220m+ in the US with the original trilogy taking $68.67m in the US and $159.65m WW with Mad Max opening in 1980, Mad Max II 1982 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985 makes it impossible to make any BO comparisons.
The original Mad Max film took $100m worldwide and held the Guinness World Record for the highest box-office-to-budget ratio of any film until the release of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project.
Took $13.7m (including $3.6m from China) and $85.7m from 78 territories and $144.4m worldwide; $4.3m from IMAX; South Korea $10.9m; UK $7m; France $6.1m; Mexico $5.7m; Australia $5.6m.
1,329th biggest worldwide between The Mexican and The Exorcism of Emily Rose; 15th biggest 2024 between The Beekeeper and Civil War; 182nd biggest sci-fi between I am Number Four and Source Code; 214th biggest Warner Bros between Evil Dead Rise and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
- IF – Paramount Pictures
Dropped 25% in the fourth weekend $7.84m #3 and $93.36m
532nd biggest fourth weekend between Basic Instinct and The Flintstones (close to Lilo & Stitch, Chicken Run, The Smurfs and Sonic the Hedgehog).
Hard to make any comparisons as there are so few live-action original family films that aren’t based on an existing property similar to 2011’s Hop up 13.7% $12.18m #4 and $100.22m of $108.49m and $184.36m WW. While Ryan Reynold’s last theatrical release 2021’s Free Guy dropped 32.5% $8.9m #3 and $92.05m of $121.62m and $331.52m WW.
John Krasinski previously directed 2018’s A Quiet Place taking $188.02m and $340.95m WW and 2020’s A Quiet Place Part II taking $160.07m and $297.37m WW but of course, played to a different demographic.
With Inside Out 2 opening Friday both IF and The Garfield Movie will drop much bigger than over the last few weeks.
883rd biggest between Cats & Dogs and Two Weeks’ Notice; 1,827th biggest inflated between Friday the 13th and Body Heat; 7th biggest 2024 film between Bob Marley: One Love and The Fall Guy; 143rd biggest children’s film between Lady and the Tramp and Flubber; 122nd biggest Paramount Pictures between Dungeons & Dragons and Star Trek: First Contact.
Took $6.2m from 69 territories $67.2m total and $160.7m worldwide; UK $13.7m; Mexico $9.4m; France $8.5m; Australia $5.3m; Germany $4m.
1,191st biggest worldwide between America’s Sweethearts and Flight; 13th biggest 2024 between The Fall Guy and The Beekeeper; 178th biggest children’s film between The Muppets and Goosebumps; 136th biggest Paramount Pictures between Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa and Flight.
- Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – Disney
Dropped 40% in its fifth weekend $5.41m #5 and $149.79m.
509th biggest fifth weekend between A League of Their Own and Selma (close to War of the Worlds, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, San Andreas and The Fate of the Furious); Dawn of the Planet of the Apes #751 $4.33m; War for the Planet of the Apes #794 $3.6m; Rise of the Planet of the Apes #246 $7.91m; Planet of the Apes #978 $3.58m
420th biggest between Neighbors and Puss in Boots; 1,021st biggest inflated between In & Out and Artificial Intelligence: AI; 4th biggest 2024 between Kung Fu Panda 4 and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 70th biggest sci-fi film between Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and War for the Planet of the Apes.
Fifth weekends
2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes dropped 41.6% $3.6m #11 and $137.23m of $146.88m and $490.71m WW
2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dropped 50.1% $4.33m #9 and $197.76m of $208.54m and $710.64m WW
2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes dropped 10.7% $7.91m #5 and $160.13m of $176.76m and $481.8m WW
2001’s Planet of the Apes dropped 49.8% $3.58m #10 and $167.84m of $180.01m and $362.21m WW
The three films took $533m in the US and $1.67bn worldwide, and 2001’s film took $180m in the US and $362m worldwide, so had Disney not brought Fox in 2019 they would have made a fourth film, but it would have been released much sooner.
Took $6.9m (57% drop) from 52 territories $210m total and $359.8m worldwide; China $28.7m; France $21.5m; Mexico $19.2m; UK $18.2m; Brazil $10.1m.
Taken $21.8m worldwide from IMAX $11.3m US and $10.5m internationally.
425th biggest worldwide between The World is Not Enough and Tenet; 4th biggest 2024 between Kung Fu Panda 4 and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 90th biggest Sci-Fi worldwide between Planet of the Apes and Tenet.
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Inside Out 2 is Pixar’s sixth summer sequel since Inside Out was their last original summer film in 2015. Inside Out opened at the start of the summer holidays in the UK 6 weeks after the US opening £7,376,513 #1 from 608 screens, opened 5 weeks after Minions, Inside Out 2 opens 4 weeks before Despicable Me 4 (July 12th).
The marketplace was far stronger when Inside Out opened with four other films taking £1m+ (Ant-Man £2,520,129; Minions £2,268,007; Southpaw £1,662,296; Jurassic World £1,004,125) only Bad Boys Ride or Die will do similar, and the two films will take 80%+ of weekend BO.
Early reactions were very positive as were premiere reactions so why Wednesday embargo for a film that will get positive reviews it can’t be spoilers as the plot will surely be very similar to Inside Out but with Riley having more emotions being a teenager one of the new emotion’s nostalgia means will be lots of Easter eggs to tug on the heartstrings aimed at adults as Pixar films do.
Inside Out 2 will have Pixar’s biggest opening since 2019’s Toy Story 4; Onward opened £3,419,500; Lightyear £3,718,002; Elemental £3,049,002 likely to open similar to Coco £5,209,214.
Inside Out 2 opens in 762 IMAX cinemas in 62 territories
After Bad Boys: Ride Or Die had a 5-day opening will have a second weekend drop much bigger than 26% Bad Boys For Life dropped in January 2020 taking £2,744,312 and £8,276,495 51.9% of £15,953,076. Euro Championships starting on Friday with Scotland Vs Germany and England Vs Serbia on Sunday evening and the loss off IMAX/PLF screens could see it drop upwards of 70%.
Opening in two weeks
- MaXXXine – Universal Pictures
The third part of the low-budget slasher film stars Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon and was directed by Ti West.
The previous two films failed to find an audience so it is unlikely the third part will do much better.
2022’s X opened £227,502 #7 from 480 screens taking £485,800
2023’s Pearl opened £192,504 #11 from 293 screens
cigarette burns and missed changeovers 