I hear that the markets where HBO Max is strong isn’t impacting theatrical ticket sales in a negative way. Again, we’ve been saying this for the past couple of months, but Warners is really trying to make these movies work in those areas of the country where cinemas are open, despite the day-and-date strategy. No HBO Max viewership figures, numerical or anecdotal, were reported. Trinity County has moved from the Orange Tier to the more restrictive Red Tier (25% capacity). More positive news this weekend: 11 out of 58 counties in California have reopened cinemas at 25% capacity, including Humboldt, Marin, San Mateo, Shasta, and Yolo. On the upside, New York City is set to open this coming Friday with 25% capacity limits in time for the second weekend of Tom & Jerry, Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (which will also be available on Disney+ for $30 a pop), and Lionsgate’s YA sci-fi feature Chaos Waking. Warners posted these numbers on Tom & Jerry in a current exhibition landscape where just under 50% of all 5.8K United States and Canadian theaters are open, with No. Warners says Tom & Jerry has over 10k auditorium bookings to date. Warners observes there was a big number of private party theatrical auditorium rentals by families. The Tim Story-directed, Chris DeFaria-produced animation live action hybrid also posted an opening day of $4M on Friday. Domestic Distribution Boss Jeff Goldstein about this weekend’s success with Tom & Jerry. “This is evidence that people are willing to go back to the movies when there is something they want to see,” said Warner Bros. That number also beats the 3-day of Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Croods: New Age, which took in $9.7M over the 3-day weekend Thanksgiving weekend. The pic, I hear, before marketing costs, carried a production budget of $79M. also holds the domestic box office opening record during the pandemic with its Christmas release of Wonder Woman 1984, which did $16.4M. Updated Sunday AM after Saturday 7:51 AM post: Warner Bros.’ day and date release of Tom & Jerry in theaters and on HBO Max has scored the second-best opening during the pandemic since theaters reopened in August, with $13.7M at 2,475 theaters. Hopefully we get some good news about exhibition this week for Los Angeles. states with the most open theaters per sources were Mississippi (80%), Utah (80%), Arizona (78%), Texas (72%), Georgia (70%) and Oklahoma (70%).Īs we mentioned, NYC finally opens this Friday in time for Lionsgate’s Chaos Walking and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, the latter which will also be available on Disney+ for $30.
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