SUNDAY AM: Sony/Crunchyroll chainsaw man: Reze’s Arc is landing on the higher end of where we were seeing it yesterday with $17.2 million after $5.2 million on Saturday on a weekend where the Toronto Blue Jays and LA Dodgers were a complete distraction in the World Series, now on a 1-1 tie.

Universal/Blumhouse’s second weekend black phone 2 is surpassing the beginning of SupremeColleen Hoover’s movie, regretting, 13 million dollars to 12.8 million dollars.

Springsteen: Deliver me from nothing is hitting the low end of its projections at $9.1 million. The film was shot with New Jersey tax credits and cost $55 million net.

SATURDAY AM: In an autumn where possible prestige awards do not work, nor campaign attempts such as Tron: Ares, The Sony/Crunchyroll anime once again proves its merit with its latest release Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc who is now looking at a $15.5 million-$17 million opening after 8.5 million dollars Friday, powered by fans’ CinemaScore.

It will be interesting to see if the audience expands today, as this film’s fanbase is shouting its praises to the heavens with a definite 82% recommendation on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak.

This is the ninth anime film to open above $10 million, which is a big deal, because not all Japanese animated IPs work on the big screen. The good thing about this is that Sony has a solid new franchise in the wake of Demon slayer. Even if this drops tonight in typical anime style, it’s another number one win for Sony this year with non-traditional movie fare. While studio executives remain perplexed about what exactly works in this case, it’s all anime, horror, and Taylor Swift.

Imax and premium large format screens are accelerating 58% of chainsawThis weekend the West, the South and the South Central are its regions with the highest gains. There is also a large swath of diverse manifestations: 32% Caucasian, 29% Latino and Hispanic, a very strong 20% ​​Asian-American and 13% black. The AMC Empire in New York is the highest-grossing theater with nearly $45,000.

A title acquired during Brian Robbins’ regime at Paramount, regretting, is doing its job to attract 83% of female moviegoers with a 13 million dollars Opening in second place after a $5.2 million Friday and B CinemaScore. In PostTrak outlets, women love the movie and definitely recommend it at 77%. regretting is not the most popular of Colleen Hoover’s novels in the Finish with us-sense of the word, and it didn’t have the whole Blake Lively-Ryan Reynolds post-Deadpool and Wolverine marketing halo effect, so keep that in mind. Paramount took over the production financed for $30 million after the Hoover Finish with us box office party in the summer of 2024 (that move will gross $351 million worldwide); Amazon MGM Studios acquired the author’s novel TRUE (out October 2 next year with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson), while Universal took over Reminders of him (March 13 with Maika Monroe).

Various demos for regretting They are 50% Caucasian, 36% Latino and Hispanic, 6% Asian American, and 5% Black. Women over 25 led with 45%, and women under 25 with 39%.

Distrib sources complain that the World Series is reducing the number of male viewers this weekend. So why the hell are you booking movies aimed at men during such a busy time when guys can’t come? Good on Paramount for taking the opportunity to book a female-driven title on the marquee.

While we’re on the topic of bad release dates for what should be older, male-skewing films: 20th Century Studios Springsteen: Deliver me from nothing which has now changed its scope to $9 million-$10 million (many are looking at $9 million) after a B+ CinemaScore in fourth place with Universal/Blumhouse black phone 2 second weekend ahead in 3rd with 12 million dollars (-56%). Yeah Springsteen hits the bottom of its tracking range with $9 million, it won’t be “Days of Glory” for this $55 million net production starring Jeremy Allen White-Jeremy Strong. On the plus side, the film has a definite 60% recommendation on PostTrak, so we’ll see if this improves. Why isn’t this movie by a brand-name rock artist released during Christmas, like last year’s Bob Dylan biopic? A completely unknown When is a larger audience available? While older Springsteen fans showed up last night with 40% over 55 (the film’s largest demo) and 59% over 45, it clearly wasn’t in droves judging by the grosses. So, Springsteen It was a mostly female film with 52%. Women over 25 years old bought tickets at 46% and men over 25 years old at 42%. Overall, this is a very Caucasian leaning film at 85% with few diverse demos appearing. We’ll talk more about this as the weekend progresses, but right off the bat, the release date isn’t making this make-of-the-Nebraska-album any favorite.

Premium large format screens for the Scott Cooper-directed title account for a quarter of the weekend’s gross with top play areas in the East and Midwest. AMC Lincoln Square is the top grosser with more than $32,000 so far.

NEON Shelby Robles gets a C+ after a $1.1 million Friday on its way to around 2.3 million dollars now. The best areas for the Chris Stuckmann-directed film are the west, south central and east, with AMC’s Boston Common 19 being the highest-grossing location in the United States with just over $7 thousand. Fifty-three percent boys, 74% between 18 and 34 years old. This is a standard NEON niche genre piece.

Total ticket sales are reaching an estimated $75.4 million, which is +8% from last weekend, but down 20% from a year ago, when Venom: The Last Dance opened to $51 million. Remember, New Line mortal kombat 2 It was supposed to open this weekend before moving to early May next year; a brilliant change of release date by Warner Bros, avoiding the World Series.

Saturday numbers:

1. Chainsaw Man (Sony) 3,003 theaters, Friday $8.5 million, 3 days $15 million-$17 million/week 1

2 Regretting You (Par) 3,393 theaters, Friday $5.2 million 3 days $13 million/week 1

3. Black Phone 2 (Uni) 3460 (+49) theaters, Friday $3.7 million (-66%), 3 days $12 million (-56%), total $48 million/week 2

4. Springsteen…(20) 3,460 theaters, Friday $3.5 million 3 days $9 million-$10 million/week 1

5. Tron: Ares (Dis) 2940 (-1060) theaters, Friday $1.3 million (-57%), 3 days $4.7 million (-58%), total $63.1 million/week 3

6. Good Fortune (LG) 2,990 theaters, Friday $920,000 (-62%) 3 days $3.1 million (-49%), total $11.8 million/week 2

7. Shelby Oaks (NEON) 1,823 theaters, Friday $1.1 million, $2.3 million for 3 days/week 1

8. One Battle After Another (WB) 1,473 (-1,059) theaters, Friday $650,000 (-43%), 3 days $2 million (-47%), total $65.4 million/week 5

9. Roofman (Par) 2,347 (-1,023) theaters, Friday $600,000 (-47%) 3 days $1.9 million (-49%), total $19.2 million/week 3

10. The Mastermind (Mubi) 186 (+181) theaters, Friday $350,000 (+753%), 3 days $1.2 million (+1,054%), total $1.3 million/week 2

FRIDAY PM: Sony/Crunchyroll Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc is making its way to the top of the box office with a good 8 million dollars today for what is emerging as a More than 14 million dollars weekend.

While he’s at the high end of his $11 million to $14 million projections, and is a clear No. 1, the caution here is that it’s the first night of the World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers taking on the Toronto Blue Jays. Los Angeles is the number one market for anime films.

RelishMix reports that social networks reach chainsaw man is huge at 500 million, 6x the anime genre norms on TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram, combined with gigantic YouTube video views of 351 million and counting. note chainsaw manThe reach on social networks is 2.5 times greater than Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle before its opening which stood at 200 million.

The social media statistics organization reports: “Convo is positive forChainsaw Man-The Movie: Reze Arcand fans are going crazy for animation studio MAPPA’s cinematic polish, fidelity to the manga’s art style, and Kenshi Yonezu’s soundtrack. Theatrical value is a recurring theme, and the audience insists that this arc had to be a movie. The talk even positions it above competing anime events, with praise like “compared to recent ones.”Infinity Castle,reze archIt was great, I would see it in theaters again” and “I love how loyal they stayed to the art style, it feels like the manga has come to life.”

The following music video alone has accumulated nearly 68 million views on YouTube.

Second place is a three-way race between 20th Century Studios Springsteen: Deliver me from nothing (3,460 rooms), Paramount’s Colleen Hoover Movie regretting (3,393 theaters) and Universal/Blumhouse’s second weekend black phone 2 (3,460 rooms) each looking Between 10.8 and 12 million dollars. For black phone 2, that retention range is better than -60% with at least $47 million for Sunday, which would be $400 thousand less than black phone at the very moment of his ten-day execution.

The fifth is Disney’s third weekend. Tron: Ares in 2,940 theaters with $1.3 million today and more than $4 million over the weekend.

Chris Stuckmann’s Neon horror thriller, Shelby Robles, is making fun 1.1 million dollars today for a 2.5 million dollars take in 1,823 sites. This is in the range of Neon’s summer 2024 horror title, Cuckoo which opened to $3 million.

FRIDAY AM: Sony/Crunchyroll Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc accelerated $3.4 million in previews on Thursday in screenings that began at 4 pm in 2,500 locations.

By the way, that preview figure is close to the $3.8 million posted by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in April 2021, on track for a three-day total of $21.2 million when movie theaters reopened due to Covid. That title, released by Funimation/Aniplex, had a $9.5 million Friday.

The film directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara chainsaw man based on the popular manga is expected to sound $11 million+ on a weekend that might now be too close to call with Universal/Blumhouse black phone 2 with an expected $12 million+ second frame.

chainsaw man is 100% fresh from 18 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and has an audience score of 99%.

Meanwhile, 20th Century Studios’ $55 million film directed by Scott Cooper Springsteen: Deliver me from nothing strummed $850,000. The film is expected to gross between $9 million and $11 million. Note that the previous gross is below the $1.4 million Christmas gross of Searchlight’s Bob Dylan biopic. A complete stranger, which went electric over the holidays with a $7.2 million opening day, $11.6 million in 3 days, and a total of $23.2 million in 5 days. Springsteen premieres in 3,460 theaters, including 250 Imax screens and 750 large format Premium screens. Critics aren’t enthralled by this 61% fresh biopic of a rock artist, but last night fans enjoyed it better at 85%.

Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong plays his manager Jon Landau in a semi-biographical film about The Boss’s recording of his personal 1982 album. Nebraska that preceded its global phenomenon Born in the USA.

Paramount does not report gross receipts regretting given its limited release in less than 500 theaters last night, with a time slot for A Night of No Regretsfan event that included a Q&A session with the cast and director Josh Boone with a special performance by Hannah Cohen. However, sources say that the film fared better than Springsteen last night. regretting was tipped to make between $9 million and $11 million this weekend in what is the second adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel to hit the screen after the massive success of Finish with us. Critics don’t like the sensitivity of regretting at 34% on RT, but it never started with them on either Finish with us who had boxes of Kleenex thrown at him with 54%.

Neon this frame has the psychological thriller. shelby oaks, what did $515 thousand of combined mystery and sneak peek screenings from last night. The film is expected to register in the low single digits.

black phone 2 aware 1.6 million dollars yesterday, an 11% discount compared to Wednesday, for a first week of 36 million dollars3% more than its first chapter of 2022.

The rest of the top 5:

1.) black phone 2 (Uni) 3,411 theaters, Thursday $1.6 million (-11% compared to Wednesday), week $36 million/week 1

2.) Tron: Ares (Dis) 4,000 theaters, Thursday $698,000 (-22%), week $15 million (-65%), total $58.4 million/week 2

3.) good fortune (LG) 2,990 theaters Thursday $487,000 (-15%), week $8.7 million/week 1

4.) One battle after another (WB) 2,532 theaters, Thursday $350,000 (-18%) Week $5.5 million (-45%), Total $63.4 million/week 4

5.) roofer (Par) 3,370 theaters, Thursday $346,000 (-17%), week $5.5 million (-53%), total $17.3 million/week 2