![]() ![]() I hear from exhibition sources that Disney is enforcing a four-week engagement play in each venue’s largest auditorium for a film rental of 65%. ![]() Additionally, 21 theaters in major markets will run nine-film Star Wars marathons (kicking off Wednesday evening, leading into the Thursday 5 p.m. ![]() Fan event screenings at 450 theaters will take place at 5 p.m. Skywalker will play in 4,300+ theaters by Friday, including more than 3,200 3D locations, 415 Imax screens, 850 Premium Large Format screens and 275 D-Box/4D locations. ![]() ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’: ‘MNF’ Trailer Kicks Off Advance Ticket Sales There was an upbeat response coming out of the Hollywood premiere Monday night, with the feeling that the movie had course-corrected the flyaway hairs in the Star Wars canon from Rian Johnson’s Last Jedi, so there’s potential for over-indexing. We hear from exhibition that stateside advance ticket sales are on par with Last Jedi four days before opening and indicate a $200M opening, despite the fact that tracking has the J.J. Overall, studios don’t know if China will be part of their opening suite until 30 days prior to a pic’s release.īut back to Skywalker. That hinges on Uni firing off the sequel in 63 territories plus China, like it did with The Fate of the Furious, which delivered a $541.9M opening global weekend (the third-best of all time behind Avengers: Endgame $1.2 billion and Infinity War‘s $640.5M), $184.9M of that from China. In regards to pics opening to north of $450M next year, if there’s one possibility, it’s Universal’s Fast & Furious 9 on May 22. Marvel has a better track record in larger numbers abroad than DC, and Captain Marvel‘s uber-debut of $456.7M was a tee-up to Avengers: Endgame. While Mulan should dominate China, it remains to be seen how it resonates in non-Asian markets Beauty and the Beast -a much bigger property - is Disney’s biggest live-action princess (and adaptation of a feature toon) opening with $357M. Superman ($422.5M), and make sure that China is along for the ride in its first weekend. If Warner Bros./DC’s Wonder Woman 1984 is going to do any business over $400M in her first weekend, it will need to beat the comic book label’s biggest global opener, Batman v. ![]()
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