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Plane star Daniella Pineda celebrating the movie over the weekend, giving a shoutout to fans, and even heading to the cinema with friends to see it. Lionsgate re-boarded the movie as the world was beginning to open up in the spring/summer of 2021. But by May 2021, the final points in the Solstice deal couldn’t be agreed upon and so Lionsgate re-acquired the project (N.A., India, UK, and Latin America) for what I’m told was in the low $20M range with the pic shooting in Puerto Rico. Then Solstice Studios (remember, them?) stepped in to save the film, taking global rights and apparently finding a way to self-insure the film. Originally, Plane was suppose to be shooting in Malaysia but stalled because of a COVID spike there. Then Lionsgate exited in November 2020 because the production couldn’t get Covid insurance and the risk became too great a pic that was budgeted at $50M. Lionsgate has taken rights for North America, Latin America, the UK and India, back then with CAA Media Finance brokering domestic rights, and MadRiver International hanlding the rest of the world. Lionsgate first took domestic and a selection of foreign rights off the table at AFM 2019.

To clarify: There was a whole back and forth with this movie. Plane, like Gentlemen, has a B+ Cinemascore. Results for the top five films are higher, indicative of walk-up business.Įven Lionsgate’s Planeis besting its projections with a $10M 3-day, $11.6M 4-day, which is right in the neighborhood of STX’s pre-pandemic guy action pic, The Gentlemen, which did $11.4M over a nonholiday, four-day stretch during the last weekend of January. UPDATED, Sunday AM: After a snowstorm-laden Christmas weekend caused a lot of concern for exhibition and studios, the MLK frame has provided a lot of hope at the box office, with all studios seeing an improved outlook on their estimates than they imagined. New Line’s House Partycame in with a $1.1M Sunday, $4M Fri-Sun and $4.7M for four days. If so it will get the movie to a $10.2M three-day and $12M four-day total per AM estimates. Still waiting on Lionsgate, but its Gerard Butler action movie Planelooks like it was $300,000 higher than what was reported with $2.9M yesterday. Sony’s Tom Hanks drama A Man Called Ottoremained solid, slightly up Sunday with $3.6M for a $12.8M three-day cume, $15.3M for four days and a running three-weekend total of $21.5M. The movie is running 8% behind the original Puss in Boots’ total cume in its fourth weekend the first movie ended its North American run at $149.2M in 2011. Uni’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wishis also higher with a $5.3M Sunday, $14.4M three-day (+6%) and four-day of $19M, good for a running total of $112M. Naturally, a sequel, titled “M3GAN 2.0,” is already in the works.‘ M3GAN’ Violet McGraw / Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett CollectionĪfter a near $6M Sunday, Universal/Atomic Monster/Blumhouse’s M3GANgoes to $18.2M over three days ( off 40%, which for a horror movie is fantastic), $21.7M over four and a running total of $60.2M. The low-budget film, which became a viral sensation and was recently parodied on “Saturday Night Live,” had grossed a killer $72 million and $127 million worldwide. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “This is a very profitable and growing series.”Įlsewhere at the domestic box office, Universal’s killer-doll movie “ M3GAN” slid to third place, generating $9.8 million from 3,628 theaters in its third weekend in theaters. “This is a very good opening for a low-budget follow-up sequel,” says David A. That movie, which cost under $1 million to make, opened to $6 million and ultimately earned $26 million in North America and $75 million globally.

It’s billed as a standalone sequel to 2018’s “Searching” with John Cho, which was also set entirely on computer screens and smartphones. Storm Reid stars in “Missing” as a daughter whose mother never returns home from vacation with her new boyfriend. That’s a pretty good start since the film was produced for just $7 million. 4 spot with $9.3 million from 3,025 theaters. In terms of new releases, Sony’s suspense thriller “ Missing” took the No.

To date, “Puss in Boots 2” has grossed $126.4 million domestically and $297 million globally - a huge result at a time when family films haven’t been resonating as much at the box office. Now in its fifth weekend of release, the kid-friendly sequel took second place with $11.5 million from 3,611 cinemas. Though the Na’vi have continued to dominate the box office with ease, Universal’s animated adventure “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” has remained surprisingly strong since debuting around Christmas.
