![]() ![]() The Batman now opens amid a position of a worsening divide between the big-tier hits and everything else. Before Covid, it was expected that studios provide a relatively regular slate of varied films since companies weren’t using their theatrical releases as bartering chips in a streaming war. Glass was still quite profitable ($255 million on a $20 million budget), and the likes of Happy Death Day 2 Me, Isn’t It Romantic and the sleeper hit The Upside ($108 million from a $20 million debut) kept theaters in business. ![]() How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opened with $55 million, What Men Want nabbed an $18 million debut and Alita: Battle Angel slightly overperformed (in terms of domestic expectations) with a $42 million Thurs-Mon debut. The key difference is that there were other “big” releases offered up in the first two months of 2019. This is not unlike, in early 2019, when Glass slightly underperformed ($111 million versus $137 million for Glass) in January and LEGO Movie 2 outright bombed ($105 million versus $259 million for The LEGO Movie) leaving the theatrical industry lying in bated breath for Captain Marvel in early March. Only Uncharted played as hoped with a current $88 million 13-day domestic cume from a $52 million Fri-Mon debut. Ditto Jackass Forever’s “good for a $10 million sequel” $56 million domestic gross, but Moonfall and Death on the Nile both crashed while Marry Me played like a lower-level Jennifer Lopez rom-com with just $22 million. Sony moved Morbius from January 28 to April 1, which left January with only Scream and its “good enough for itself” $80 million domestic total. ![]()
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