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‘Frozen Empire’ Propels Franchise Past $1B As Sequel Opens To $45M+ – Sunday AM Update

posted 2 months ago by Satan2016 (23655)
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‘Frozen Empire’ Busting $42M+ Opening – Friday PM Box Office
https://deadline.com/2024/03/box-office-ghostbusters-frozen-empire-1235865730/

FRIDAY PM: As of right now, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is looking all right with a $16M Friday and $42M-$43M opening at 4,345 theaters. That Friday is on par with Ghostbusters: Afterlife‘s first day (plus previews) of $16.6M, and should that 3-day keep up, it will only be a $1M shy of the 2021 Jason Reitman directed title.

[–] bozo_500 (12351) 2 months ago

Was expecting alot less like 28m opening.

I guess the power of the trailers featuring the old gang did their job

[–] B1cKsurN (15064) 2 months ago

I didn't even know that this was being made, lol. I just clicked on the Half in the Bag episode about it.

[–] TandyMan (10438) 2 months ago

Didn't seem to have a big marketing push. I didn't even see trailers on tv, just those weird cross marketing ones where an insurance company was talking about Ghostbusters for some reason. I only knew cuz i'm here all the time. Plus it got dumped out in March. They were definitely not throwing money at this.

[–] FilmBuff (6736) 2 months ago

Word of mouth is likely propelling it as well. I saw it today and will recommend it to others.

[–] Satan2016 (23655) 2 months ago

SUNDAY AM: No snowstorm or sour reviews stood in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire‘s path this weekend, as the Gil Kenan-directed, Jason Reitman-produced sequel minted a $45.2M opening after a nice spike on Saturday from families.

Yesterday came in at $16.8M, 5% ahead of Friday/previews’ $16M. If the numbers hold up, that’s the second-best start ever for a Ghostbusters’ movie after the 2016 female ensemble of Kirsten Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon.

The domestic opening of the fifth movie takes the entire Ghostbusters franchise, per Sony, past $1 billion. I understand studio reports had the franchise through four films at $985M, a result that’s higher than Box Office Mojo. Mojo’s numbers on overseas are off on the first 1984 film.

Foreign for Frozen Empire was $16.4M from 7,500+ screens in 25 markets, bringing the global start here to $61.6M on the $100M production.