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***** Sound of Freedom

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 03:13
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Monday, August 14, 2023 9:59 PM

Barbie's Production Budget was $145 Million. Not the $100 Million that Bruce says it was on The-Numbers.com. That was the original budget before reshoots and other things caused it to balloon to $145 Million. To see citations for this, look at this post in the Barbie and Oppenheimer thread:

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=65670&mid=11790
48#1179048


Here are the updated percentage numbers with that new knowledge.

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Saturday/Sunday Numbers (Post International Update):

1. M3GAN - 1,475% [FINAL]
2. Super Mario Bros - 1,358% (+0%)
3. Sound of Freedom - 1,236% (+0%)
4. Barbie - 1,184% (+83%)
5. Insidious: The Red Door - 1,163% (+19%)


SoF needs 123% to beat SMB. (About $18 Million)
SoF needs 240% to beat M3GAN. (About $34 Million)
SoF is 52% above Barbie. (6% less than my after-international prediction)




Saturday/Sunday Numbers (Post Actual Barbie Production Budget Update):

1. M3GAN - 1,475% [FINAL]
2. Super Mario Bros - 1,358% (+0%)
3. Sound of Freedom - 1,236% (+0%)
4. Insidious: The Red Door - 1,163% (+0%)
5. Barbie - 817% (-367%)

SoF needs 123% to beat SMB. (About $18 Million)
SoF needs 240% to beat M3GAN. (About $34 Million)
SoF is 419% above Barbie.

This knocks Barbie back down well below Insidious to 5th place. Barbie doesn't drop any lower than 5th place on the list with this revelation, however, since 6th place belongs to Evil Dead Rise with only 768%.

Barbie doesn't have a chance anymore of hitting #1 on this list. In fact, I think it would be lucky to rise high enough to unseat Insidious. Not only did it lose 367% immediately with the real budget taken into account, but it also means that every percentage point it moves up going forward will cost more money than it was up until this point.


I will not go back and make adjustments to the previous 4 weekly lists, but I will be sure to adjust all of them accordingly with this new data when I get around to making the new weekly lists tonight or tomorrow, as this will have effects on other lists as well.

For instance, this will drop Barbie to 5th place on the Production Budget vs. Worldwide Opening Weekend and put it behind Sound of Freedom which gets 4th place with 300% vs. Barbie's drop from 356% down to only 246%. It will also have taken 4 days for Barbie to break even instead of only 3, which will drop it 1 place behind Evil Dead Rise and they will switch their 4th and 5th place showings on List 4.

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With $18 Million to beat SMB and $34 Million to beat M3GAN and likely not a single other movie this year which will get close to topping the list, if Sound of Freedom does even moderately well overseas it now has a clear path to the top of the list for Production Budget vs. Worldwide Gross.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:33 AM


Updating:

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I think the green numbers at The Numbers is prelim or estimated figures, and black are the real figures.
They just turned black for the weekend.
Sunday SoF jumped up to highest take per screen, beating Indy5 and Red Door. It was estimated behind Red Door.

Also, every single day since release, SoF has more $ per screen that Indy5.
Even when it added more than 13% more theaters for the weekend.


let's see...
For the days when working folk are not working...

Date | DBO Rnk /Scrn Rnk
04Jul 14.24 1 $5,407 1
08Jul 7.176 3 $2,431 2
09Jul 7.295 3 $2,471 1
15Jul 10.22 2 $3,132 2
16Jul 9.563 2 $2,929 2
22Jul 7,434 4 $2,263 3
23Jul 6,684 3 $2,035 3
29Jul 4.813 4 $1,411 4
30Jul 4.233 4 $1,241 4
5 Aug 2.870 6 $ 0965 7
6 Aug 2.487 6 $ 0836 6
12Aug 1.965
13Aug 1.551

other days...
05Jul 4.047 2 $1,537 1
06Jul 3.697 3 $1,404 2
07Jul 5.208 3 $1,764 2
10Jul 4.000 1 $1,355 1
11Jul 3.829 1 $1,297 1
12Jul 4.424 2 $1,499 2
13Jul 4.576 2 $1,550 2
14Jul 7.491 2 $2,294 2
17Jul 4.954 2 $1,518 1
18Jul 5.449 2 $1,669 2
19Jul 4.722 2 $1,446 1
20Jul 3.702 1 $1,134 1
21Jul 5.706 3 $1,737 3
24Jul 3.168 3 $ 0965 3
25Jul 3.391 3 $1,032 3
26Jul 3.001 3 $ 0914 3
27Jul 2.568 3 $ 0782 3
28Jul 3.766 5 $1,104 5
31Jul 2.001 4 $ 0587 4
1 Aug 2.061 4 $ 0604 4
2 Aug 1.561 5 $ 0458 6
3 Aug 1.440 5 $ 0442 7
4 Aug 2.212 6 $ 0744 6
7 Aug 1.077 6 $ 0362 7
8 Aug 1.170 6 $ 0393 8
9 Aug 0.900 8 $ 0303 7
10Aug 0.822 7 $ 0276 9
11Aug 1.351

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]I suspect Mansion won't have higher $ Per theater than SoF for Wednesday.
My suspicion failed. WokeSayGay Mansion dropped to $492 per theater, in it's 6th day of release. But SoF dropped more than I expected, to $458 per screen.
I do still feel confident that Mansion will fall below SoF for Sat and Sun.

Sof earned 11% of it's Production Budget. Barbie earned almost 13% from Domestic BO, likely 27% Worldwide.
SoF earned 150% of it's Budget in the past 7 days, Barbie did $157M Domestic in the last 7 days, which would be 157% of Budget, and likely 320% Worldwide.
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My suspicion for Wednesday was premature.
2 days later, on Friday, Mansion dropped to $724 per theater, and SoF held at 744 per theater.
On Sunday, Mansion had $763 per, and Sof had $836 per.

Bruce pointed out that the entire Box office, for the entire spectrum of movies, was down 11% from expected.

Mansion had lower $per than SoF on Monday and Wed, no Mansion figures for Thu.
No A24 figures, but now Bruce has placed rankings for the past 7 days.
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Talk To Me figures finally posted for the past week, about 2 hours ago. So I updated.

Last week, I balked when Angel Studios projected that Sunday would make less than Friday - for the first time in their run. And I will have the same reaction if they do the same this weekend.
Still no SoF for last night.

I had said that SoF would surpass the Domestic BO of Indy5 on Saturday, but it waited until Sunday to do so.

If trends continue, I expect SoF to gain another 50% this week (end 20 Aug), and another 30% the next week (end 27 Aug), making it about 1315%.
Using Oppy as a guide, 1/5 of the International Box Office comes from UK, Australia, Mexico. i expect $18M from these 3, which would make it about 1445% when these are tallied. Australia starts trickling in after 24 Aug, and UK/Mexico after 1 Sep.

I do understand that barbie has a Production Budget of $145M. However, my other table is done to show the numerical trends I had noticed, and I will continue that without changing the denominator, to demonstrate the trend.
If Barbie had continued the trend, I had seen that Barbie would overtake SoF in 2 weeks, and then 2 weeks later would fall below SoF again. That would be IF the summer weekdays continued past 20 Aug, and SoF had no Box office from International.



The weekend predictions had the Box Office fall

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I just noticed that Barbie actually does well on Sat & Sun with International, meaning the summer weekdays do not help as much in other countries. I don't know the cultural customs of cinema elsewhere.



There is insufficient data to make that claim. We haven't seen any updates to international numbers for Barbie since Sunday/Monday, and we don't know how Bruce calculates anything.

If you're referring to the fact that there are countries on the International tab with dates of 8/8, 8/9 and even 8/11 on them, I could see where that could be confusing, but as far as any NEW money being added to the international total there has not been any new money since Sunday's $118 Million and the additional $31 Million that was added on Monday morning. The only gains that Barbie has had since that $31 Million addition to the International total were its Domestic gains from Monday to Thursday.

What I'm assuming here is that not only does Bruce reconcile whatever he can with the previous week on Sunday, but he is also given some new studio projections for the following week from some of the countries outside of the US where it's been shown, similar to how we'll get Saturday/Sunday projections by around noon on Saturday here in the states. However, unlike how the US box office shows the actual numbers fairly quickly after projections are given, the International numbers lag very far behind that and are handled very opaquely. In fact, I'd say that we're in a position where we just have to take Bruce's and the Studios' words on the international numbers altogether because outside of them being posted there's no other actual evidence presented to us that any of those numbers are even real in the first place, and we're never given any explanation about projections and reconciliation.

This would certainly explain all the strangeness I started to notice in many of the top 50 worldwide movies, particularly at the end of their runs. Some weeks a movie will make $3 Million stateside and yet by the end of that week the Worldwide Gross went down $1 Million. Then a month later that same movie makes $200k Domestic and it goes up $6 Million Worldwide.

I now believe that this stuff happens all the time to every movie. Most folk just wouldn't notice it since almost nobody is paying as close attention to any of this as we are doing. Hell... It took me quite a long time to notice it myself, and really it only becomes very obvious when big-budget flicks near the end of their runs. Look through my posts and you'll see me mention this quite a few times about Super Mario Bros and Guardians 3. It even happened with the lower-budget The Bogeyman, with that movie posting some insane gains of around $10 Million one week late into its run when it didn't make much at all here in the states.

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I was in error. I thought I noticed something which was not actually there. I should have deleted that, but ran out of time. You are correct.

Because you have brought it up, I have not deleted it from the original post.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:01 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I was in error. I thought I noticed something which was not actually there. I should have deleted that, but ran out of time. You are correct.

Because you have brought it up, I have not deleted it from the original post.



Noted, and I did reply to you in the other thread as well.


They just got the official numbers up for the weekend about 15 minutes ago. I'll probably get around to updating the 4 lists tonight. I might even branch out further than the top 50 to add some notable movies that wouldn't otherwise make the lists with only looking at the top 50 worldwide this late in the year.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 6:08 AM

Updating:

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
But I have still been noticing trends, and I'll make a table to help show this.
I fully expect most folk will not have interest in this, but I think it is curious. Not only because Sound of Freedom is such a wonderful film, but also because it is breaking the mold, much like Maverick did last year.

Barbie has been benefitting from strong summer weekday sales, which SMB did not have. (SMB is a Seth Rogan film?) SoF has had strong Saturday and Sunday figures, the days when honest working folk are not working.

Over the weekend, Barbie made 53.0% of it's Production Budget. Sound of Freedom made 54.0% of it's Production Budget.

I m using $14M as the Production Budget figure for Sof, and $100M for Barbie. Barbie's international balances may bounce around, but this table is using the stated observation of 47.5% Domestic and 52.5% International.

All figures not tagged with % are Millions of Dollars.
For Barbie figures, the same figures are both $Millions, but also % of Production Budget.
1st column is Date.
2nd column is SoF Single Day BO.
3rd column is Single Day BO % of Budget.
4th and 5th are Total Cummulative Box Office, and then % of Budget.
6th and 7th are Last 7 Days of Box Office, and then % of Budget. All for Sound of Freedom.
8th column is Barbie single Day Domestic Box Office.
9th column is the % of Budget gain on SoF % for the same day.
10th column is the Total of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
11th column is the total of the Last 7 Days of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
12th is the % gain on SoF for the same Last 7 Day period.
13th column - 18th columns are the same things, but for Worldwide Box Office.



0000________Sound of Freedom_______ | _______________Barbie_______________________
000/00000 Domestic Box Office 00000\ / Domestic Box Office 0 Worldwide Box Office \
00000000 1 Day Acuml Total Last L 7D 0000 Gain 00000Lst Gain0000 Gain000000Lst Gain
00001Day %Budg Total %Budg 7Day %Bdg 1Day onSoF Ttl 7Dy SoF 1Day onSoF Ttl 7Dy SoF
27J 2.57 18.4% 136.5 0975% 31.9 228% 21.2 +2.8% 258 236 +8% 44.5 26.1% 542 496 268%
28J 3.77 26.9% 140.3 1002% 30.0 214% 29.0 +2.1% 287 239 25% 60.9 34.0% 603 502 288%
29J 4.81 34.4% 145.1 1036% 27.4 196% 34.5 +0.1% 322 204 +8% 72.5 38.1% 676 428 232%
30J 4.23 30.2% 149.3 1066% 24.9 178% 29.4 -0.8% 351 189 11% 61.7 31.5% 737 397 219%
31J 2.00 14.3% 151.3 1081% 23.7 169% 15.0 +0.7% 366 178 +9% 31.5 17.2% 769 374 205%
1 A 2.06 14.7% 153.4 1096% 22.4 160% 15.3 +0.6% 381 167 +7% 32.1 17.4% 800 351 191%
2 A 1.56 11.1% 155.0 1107% 21.0 150% 12.8 +1.7% 394 157 +7% 26.9 15.8% 827 330 180%
3 A 1.44 10.3% 156.4 1117% 19.9 142% 11.8 +1.5% 406 148 +6% 24.8 14.5% 853 311 169% 185
4 A 2.21 15.8% 158.6 1133% 18.3 131% 16.5 +0.7% 423 135 +4% 34.7 18.9% 888 284 153% 218
5 A 2.87 20.5% 161.5 1154% 16.4 117% 19.5 -1.0% 442 120 +3% 40.9 20.4% 928 252 135% 176
6 A 2.48 17.7% 164.0 1171% 14.6 104% 17.0 -0.7% 459 108 +4% 35.7 18.0% 964 227 123% 170
7 A 1.08 07.7% 165.1 1179% 13.7 098% 09.1 +1.4% 468 102 +4% 19.1 11.4% 983 214 116% 160
8 A 1.17 08.4% 166.2 1187% 12.8 091% 09.6 +1.2% 478 096 +5% 20.2 11.8% A04 202 111% 149
9 A 0.90 06.4% 167.1 1194% 12.1 086% 07.4 +1.0% 485 091 +5% 15.5 09.1% A19 191 105% 139
10A 0.82 05.9% 168.0 1200% 11.5 082% 07.1 +1.2% 492 086 +4% 14.9 09.0% A33 181 099% 130
11A 1.35 09.7% 169.3 1209% 10.7 076% 10.0 +0.3% 502 080 +4% 21.0 11.3% A54 168 092% 116
12A 1.96 14.0% 171.3 1224% 09.8 070% 13.2 -0.8% 516 073 +3% 27.7 13.7% A84 153

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 8:58 AM

UPDATED LISTS: Late-Evening of 08/14 on The-Numbers...

LIST 1: WORLDWIDE OPENING VS. PRODUCTION BUDGET

Worldwide Opening Weekend and percentage of Production Budget made on opening weekend including all American made films currently in the global top 50, or those that were earlier in the year and have been pushed off.

1 Insidious: The Red Door / Budget: $16,000,000 / WWO: $64,000,000 / 400%
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $377,000,000 / 377%
3 M3GAN / Budget: $12,000,000 / WWO: $45,000,000 / 375%
4 Sound of Freedom / Budget: $14,000,000 / WWO: $42,000,000 / 300%
5 Barbie / Budget: $145,000,000 / WWO: $356,000,000 / 246%
6 Evil Dead Rise / Budget: $19,000,000 / WWO: $40,000,000 / 210%
7 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $209,000,000 / 209%
8 The Pope's Exorcist / Budget: $18,000,000 / WWO: $36,500,000 / 203%
9 Scream VI / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $67,000,000 / 191%
10 Oppenheimer / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $180,000,000 / 180%
11 John Wick: Chapter 4 / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $138,000,000 / 138%
12 Creed III / Budget: $75,000,000 / WWO: $100,000,000 / 133%
13 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $250,000,000 / 125%
14 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $290,000,000 / 116%
15 Meg 2: The Trench / Budget: $129,000,000 / WWO: $142,000,000 / 110%
16 Knock at the Cabin / Budget: $20,000,000 / WWO: $21,000,000 / 105%
17 Jesus Revolution / Budget: $15,000,000 / WWO: $15,000,000 / 100%
18 Fast X / Budget: $340,000,000 / WWO: $319,000,000 / 94%
19 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts / Budget: $195,000,000 / WWO: $170,000,000 / 87%
20 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt1 / Budget: $290,000,000 / WWO: $235,000,000 81%
21 Cocaine Bear / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $28,000,000 / 80%
22 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $52,000,000 / 74%
23 The Little Mermaid / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $164,000,000 / 66%
24 The Boogeyman / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $20,000,000 / 57%
25 Shazam: Fury of the Gods / Budget: $125,000,000 / WWO: $66,000,000 / 53%
26 No Hard Feelings / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $22,000,000 / 49%
27 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / Budget: $150,000,000 / WWO: $72,000,000 / 48%
28 Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny / Budget: $300,000,000 / WWO: $131,000,000 / 43.7%
29 AIR / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $30,000,000 / 43%
30 65 / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $12,300,000 / 27%
31 The Flash / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $75,000,000 / 38%
32 Elemental / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $48,000,000 / 24%
33 Haunted Mansion / Budget: $157,750,000 / WWO: $33,082,475 / 21%
34 Magic Mike's Last Dance / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $8,000,000 / 18%

SPECIAL MENTION:
Mummies / Budget: $12,000,000 / WWO: Unknown / ?



LIST 2: WINNERS AND LOSERS (ACCORDING TO 2X RULE OF THUMB):

Winners:

1. M3GAN made 1,475% of its production budget of $12 Million. [FINAL]
2. Super Mario Bros Movie made 1,359% of its production budget of $100 Million.
3. Sound of Freedom made 1,236% of its production budget of $14 Million.
4. Insidious: The Red Door made 1,163% of its production budget of $16 Million.
5. Barbie made 819% of its production budget of $145 Million.
6. Evil Dead Rise made 768% of its production budget of $19 Million. [FINAL]
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse made 683% of its production budget of $100 Million.
8. Oppenheimer made 648% of its production budget of $100 Million.
9. Scream IV made 483% of its production budget of $35 Million. [FINAL]
10. Mummies made 442% of its production budget of $12 Million. [FINAL]
11. John Wick: Chapter 4 made 432% of its production budget of $100 Million. [FINAL]
12. The Pope's Exorcist made 405% of its produ

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 9:03 AM

I didn't feel like taking the time to add any new movies yet for this week.

Movies that are on my radar and their worldwide ranking are as follows:

Asteroid City: 57
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: 63
80 for Brady: 64
Talk to Me: 66
Renfield: 71
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant: 78


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Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:20 AM

UPDATED LISTS: This is after the 08/14 update. I decided to add any US produced movie in the top 80 Worldwide as of today, as long as I could find a production budget for it.

LIST 1: WORLDWIDE OPENING VS. PRODUCTION BUDGET

As of 08/15/2023, this list includes Worldwide Opening Weekend and percentage of Production Budget made on opening weekend for all American made films currently in the global top 80 that had Production Budget info available.

1. Insidious: The Red Door / Budget: $16,000,000 / WWO: $64,000,000 / 400%
2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $377,000,000 / 377%
3. M3GAN / Budget: $12,000,000 / WWO: $45,000,000 / 375%
4. Sound of Freedom / Budget: $14,000,000 / WWO: $42,000,000 / 300%
5. Barbie / Budget: $145,000,000 / WWO: $356,000,000 / 246%
6. Talk to me / Budget: $4,500,000 / WWO: $10,000,000 / 222%
7. Evil Dead Rise / Budget: $19,000,000 / WWO: $40,000,000 / 210%
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $209,000,000 / 209%
9. The Pope's Exorcist / Budget: $18,000,000 / WWO: $36,500,000 / 203%
10. Scream VI / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $67,000,000 / 191%
11. Oppenheimer / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $180,000,000 / 180%
12. John Wick: Chapter 4 / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $138,000,000 / 138%
13. Creed III / Budget: $75,000,000 / WWO: $100,000,000 / 133%
14. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $250,000,000 / 125%
15. The Blackening / Budget: $5,000,000 / WWO: $6,000,000 / 120%
16. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $290,000,000 / 116%
17. Meg 2: The Trench / Budget: $129,000,000 / WWO: $142,000,000 / 110%
18. Knock at the Cabin / Budget: $20,000,000 / WWO: $21,000,000 / 105%
19. Jesus Revolution / Budget: $15,000,000 / WWO: $15,000,000 / 100%
20. Fast X / Budget: $340,000,000 / WWO: $319,000,000 / 94%
21. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts / Budget: $195,000,000 / WWO: $170,000,000 / 87%
22. Mission Impossible: Dead Reck Pt1 / Budget: $290,000,000 / WWO: $235,000,000 / 81%
23. Cocaine Bear / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $28,000,000 / 80%
24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant M / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $52,000,000 / 74%
25. The Little Mermaid / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $164,000,000 / 66%
26. The Flash / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $128,000,000 / 64%
26. The Boogeyman / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $20,000,000 / 57%
27. Shazam: Fury of the Gods / Budget: $125,000,000 / WWO: $66,000,000 / 53%
28. Book Club: The Next Chapter / Budget: $20,000,000 / WWO: $10,000,000 / 50%
29. No Hard Feelings / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $22,000,000 / 49%
30. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Th / Budget: $150,000,000 / WWO: $72,000,000 / 48%
31. 80 for Brady / Budget: $28,000,000 / WWO: $13,000,000 / 46%
32. Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny / Budget: $300,000,000 / WWO: $131,000,000 / 43.7%
33. AIR / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $30,000,000 / 43%
34. Plane / Budget: $25,000,000 / WWO: $10,000,000 / 40%
35. 65 / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $12,300,000 / 27%
36. Elemental / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $48,000,000 / 24%
37. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret / Budget: $30,000,000 / WWO: $7,000,000 / 23%
38. Haunted Mansion / Budget: $157,750,000 / WWO: $33,082,475 / 21%
39. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $13,000,000 / 19%
40. Magic Mike's Last Dance / Budget: $45,000,000 / WWO: $8,000,000 / 18%
41. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant / Budget: $55,000,000 / WWO: $7,000,000 / 13%
42. Renfield / Budget: $86,000,000 / WWO: $10,000,000 / 12%

*NOTE: I had to bump The Flash up on this list. I had it at Number 35 with a worldwide opening of $75 Million vs the $200M production budget (38%). For the 3-day

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Wednesday, August 16, 2023 1:46 AM

Monday Numbers:

1. M3GAN - 1,475% [FINAL]
2. Super Mario Bros - 1,359% (+1%)
3. Sound of Freedom - 1,236% (+0%)
4. Insidious: The Red Door - 1,163% (+0%)
5. Barbie - 822% (+5%)
6. Talk to Me - 800% (Only as of Sunday... Monday's numbers haven't come in yet).

SoF needs 124% to beat SMB. (About $18 Million)
SoF needs 240% to beat M3GAN. (About $34 Million)
SoF is 414% above Barbie.
SoF is 436% above Talk to Me.

The 1% addition to SMB happened over the weekend. Weird international stuff again, I'm sure.

As I predicted last week, we've now got our first day that SoF didn't get any percentage increase while rounding to the nearest Million. It should go up 7% tomorrow no problem though. We'll probably see another 0% day for SoF on Wednesday.

I've added Talk To Me on this list. The numbers haven't come out for Monday yet, but as of Sunday (its 17th day in the theaters) it was already at 800%, just behind Barbie. And with the $4.5 Million budget that it had, it's probably going to be pulling around 20% per day all week just on the Domestic front. It probably won't end up threatening any of the top 3, but it should pass up Barbie by this weekend.

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Thursday, August 17, 2023 1:54 AM

Tuesday Numbers:

1. M3GAN - 1,475% [FINAL]
2. Super Mario Bros - 1,359% (+0%)
3. Sound of Freedom - 1,243% (+7%)
4. Insidious: The Red Door - 1,163% (+0%)
5. Barbie - 826% (+4%)
6. Talk to Me - 800% (Only as of Sunday... No numbers for Monday/Tuesday yet).

SoF needs 117% to beat SMB. (About $17 Million)
SoF needs 233% to beat M3GAN. (About $33 Million)
SoF is 417% above Barbie.
SoF is 443% above Talk to Me. (More like 405% once the numbers for Mon/Tues come in).


I forgot it was cheap seat Tuesday, so SOF pulled in more than I thought it would based off of Monday's numbers. It will still have two days this week without a percentage increase, but instead of Wednesday, it should be Thursday that sees no increase.

Insidious is down to less than $60k on CTS, so I don't expect Domestic numbers to help bring that up again in its life in the theaters. The only thing that is going to bump (or take away from) it's current 1,163% will be reconciliation of International numbers.

Talk to Me still has no new numbers since Sunday. It's probably sitting up around +35% to +40% from 800% though once they finally come in.

The revelation that Barbie actually cost $145 Million made this race a lot less exciting. No amount of international numbers is going to help it become nearly as profitable percentage wise as the top 4 contenders now.

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