Deadline is reporting that presales are low for Beyoncé’s concert film, “Renaissance.” They are comparing the numbers to those of “West Side Story” and “In the Heights”, which both turned out to be box-office failures.
Expectations have dropped for “Renaissance” to have any kind of numbers rivaling Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ doc, which opened to the tune of $92 million and has, so far, grossed $180 million domestically. “Renaissance” is set to open at around $15M, on the low-end, with Deadline adding that “it could be lower."
The inevitable Swift vs Beyoncé narrative will resurface — both artists have their ardent fanbases. I suppose that Swift’s movie banked on the hype of it being such an oddity in the theatrical landscape, but it might also be that she just has a larger following than Beyoncé’s.
It also looks as though “The Hunger Games: Songbirds & Snakes” might finish atop the box-office for the third weekend in a row. If this happens, then there’s a really good chance that it might even stay at #1 on its fourth weekend as no big movie title is set to open on December 8th. However, “Wonka” will, in all likelihood, dethrone it when it gets released on December 15th.