UPDATE: Now looking like a $12M Friday estimate for “Disclosure Day,” $18M if you add previews — $40M opening now in sight.
EARLIER: Steven Spielberg’s last major box office success as a director was 2018’s “Ready Player One,” which grossed about $607M worldwide. Since then, his films have not reached the same level of mainstream commercial performance.
His latest release, “Disclosure Day,” earned around $6.5M on Wednesday/Thursday and according to the trades, is tracking toward an estimated $35M+ domestic opening weekend, with an additional $45M internationally. The budget is $115M.
Here’s Variety’s brief recap of the situation:
Some box office analysts predict that “Disclosure Day” would need to open with $50M to justify its cost, and that it will need to make $300M globally to be profitable.
The film will likely depend on strong word-of-mouth to perform well beyond its opening weekend, and early audience reception will be important to watch as more data comes in over the next few days.
Interesting to note, “Disclosure Day” will be #1 this weekend, but “Obsession” continues its historic run as it beat “Scary Movie 6” on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. It might very well finish in second place this weekend with around $23M domestic tally.
More to come ..
The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.