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Samaritan

Samaritan (2021)

NR Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Distributor:United Artists Releasing
Director:Julius Avery
Cast:Sylvester Stallone (Stanley Kominski), Martin Starr (), Pilou Asbæk (), Dascha Polanco ()
Technical Specs:Scope (2.39 : 1)
Synopsis:
A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.

Theatrical
Wide

IT WAS ANOTHER WEEKEND OF BOXOFFICE SURPRISES AS EXHIBITION'S SUMMER RECOVERY CONTINUED DESPITE CONCERNS ABOUT DAY & DATE STREAMING COMPETITION & DELTA VARIANT INFECTIONS SPREADING GLOBALLY AMONG UNVACCINATED PEOPLE. OVER-PERFORMING LAUNCHES FOR "JUNGLE CRUISE" & "THE GREEN KNIGHT" KEPT BOXOFFICE MOMENTUM GOING WITH 85% OF NORTH AMERICAN CINEMAS NOW OPEN, PER COMSCORE'S PAUL DERGARABEDIAN, VS. 84% PREVIOUS WEEKEND. FACT THAT FAMILIES TURNED OUT FOR "JC" DESPITE DELTA VARIANT SCARE HEADLINES IS VERY POSITIVE NEWS FOR EXHIBITORS. ...

DISNEY'S PG-13 FAMILY COMEDY ADVENTURE "JUNGLE CRUISE" HIT THEATRES WITH MUCH MORE STEAM THAN ANALYSTS ORIGINALLY EXPECTED -- #1 WITH $34.2M AT 4,310 LOCATIONS ($7,931), WIDEST PANDEMIC ERA OPENING TO DATE. EARLIER PROJECTIONS HAD IT OPENING AS LOW AS $22M OR, MAYBE, REACHING $25M. "JC" DID $27.6 IN 47 INTERNATIONAL MARKETS FOR WORLDWIDE THEATRICAL CUME OF $61.8M. STUDIO SAID GLOBAL STREAMING ON DISNEY+ ADDED $30M FOR $91.8M WORLDWIDE CUME FOR ALL REVENUE STREAMS. ...

LOWER THEATRICAL PREDICTIONS FOR "JC" WERE INFLUENCED IN PART BY CRITICS' DOWNBEAT REVIEWS -- JUST 63% BARELY FRESH ON TOMATOMETER. MORE IMPORTANTLY, MOVIEGOERS LOVED IT -- WITH 93% AUDIENCE SCORE ON ROTTEN TOMATOES. DISNEY'S MARKETING CLEARLY CONNECTED WITH FILM'S REAL AUDIENCE -- MOVIEGOERS LIVING BETWEEN THE COASTS. STUDIO REACHED MOVIEGOERS LAST THURSDAY WITH SPECIAL TAKEOVER OF AMAZON.COM'S HOMEPAGE. FIRST THING MASSIVE TRAFFIC COMING TO AMAZON.COM SAW WERE "JC" PHOTOS & VIDEOS WITH ADJACENT CLICK-HERE BUTTONS TO BUY CINEMA TICKETS OR STREAM ON DISNEY+. ...

DRIVEN MOSTLY BY "JC," WEEKEND TOTAL FOR ALL FILMS IN MARKETPLACE WAS $76.8M, PER COMSCORE, UP 8.7% VS. $70.6M PREVIOUS WEEKEND. COMSCORE'S YEAR-TO-DATE COMPARISONS ARE NOW REFLECTING PANDEMIC RECOVERY BOXOFFICE ACTION WITH $1.7B FOR 2021, DOWN JUST 11% VS. $1.9B FOR 2020. FIRST QUARTER OF 2020 WAS PRE-PANDEMIC. 2021'S TOP FIVE DOMESTIC TITLES THUS FAR: (1) "F9" (UNIVERSAL/ORIGINAL FILM) - $168.5M; (2) "BLACK WIDOW" (DISNEY/MARVEL) - $167.1M; (3) "A QUIET PLACE PART 2" (PARAMOUNT/PLATINUM DUNES) - $158.8M; (4) "GODZILLA VS. KONG" (WB/LEGENDARY) - $99.2M; & (5) "CRUELLA" (DISNEY) - $85.3M. ...

A24/BRON'S R RATED FANTASY ADVENTURE "THE GREEN KNIGHT" OPENED IN SECOND PLACE TIE (WITH "OLD") TO $6.78M AT 2,790 THEATRES ($2,432), SHOWING MORE BOXOFFICE MUSCLE THAN PREDICTED. EXHIBITORS WERE LOOKING FOR JUST $2-4M. "GREEN'S" STRONGEST DEFINITE INTEREST TRACKING WAS WITH +25M & +25F, WHO CAME OUT TO SEE IT IN THEATRES DESPITE ANALYST FEARS THAT WORRIES ABOUT DELTA VARIANT WOULD KEEP ADULT MOVIEGOERS HOME. HELPED THAT CRITICS WERE FAVORABLE -- 89% FRESH ON TOMATOMETER. BUT WORD OF MOUTH MAY NOT BE GREAT WITH RT AUDIENCE SCORE OF JUST 54%....

UNIVERSAL/ORIGINAL FILM'S R RATED THRILLER "OLD" TIED WITH "GREEN" FOR SECOND PLACE IN WEEKEND TWO WITH $6.76M (-60%) AT 3,379 THEATRES ($2,001). CUMES: $30.6M/DOM + $18M/INT = $48.6M/WW. NOT FACING DAY & DATE STREAMING COMPETITION WAS HELPFUL TO "OLD" AS ITS 60% SECOND WEEKEND DROP IS LOWER THAN WEEKEND 2 DROPS FOR UNIVERSAL'S "F9" (-67% -- NO DAY & DATE STREAMING); WB'S "SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY" (-69% -- STREAMING ON HBO MAX); & DISNEY/MARVEL'S "BLACK WIDOW" (-68% -- DISNEY+ STREAMING)....

DISNEY/MARVEL'S THIRD WEEKEND OF PG-13 SUPERHERO ADVENTURE "BLACK WIDOW" FINISHED FOURTH WITH $6.4M (-45%) AT 3,360 LOCATIONS ($1,913). CUMES: $167.1M/DOM + $176.5M/INT = $343.6M/WW. ONGOING NEWS COVERAGE OF SCARLETT JOHANSSON'S BREACH OF CONTRACT LAWSUIT AGAINST DISNEY RE: DAY & DATE STREAMING WILL KEEP "BW" IN MEDIA SPOTLIGHT. ...

FOCUS FEATURES/DREAMWORKS/PARTICIPANT'S R RATED THRILLER "STILLWATER" OPENED FIFTH TO $5.1M AT 2,531 THEATRES ($2,023). EXHIBITOR WERE THINKING $4-6M. CRITICS WERE 75% FRESH ON TOMATOMETER WHILE RT AUDIENCE SCORE WAS 71%. BLAH OPENING CONTRASTS WITH BIG OSCAR BUZZ IN JULY AT 74TH ANNUAL CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR "STILLWATER" (PLAYING OUT OF COMPETITION), DIRECTOR TOM MC CARTHY ("SPOTLIGHT") & STAR MATT DAMON....

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