The Thursday numbers are slowly rolling in, and it does look as though David Robert Mitchell’s “End of Oak Street” will have $2.5M+ in Thursday previews, which is fine, but not worthy of its $80M budget. The weekend is looking at around $19M domestic and $40M worldwide.
Warner Bros. is hoping that word of mouth will spread when it comes to this PG-13 dinosaur movie, which needs a $200M worldwide tally to break even, but a 72% user rating on Rotten Tomatoes is worrisome. So is that 6.6/10 rating on IMDb. The film is short and sweet, at 95 minutes — it comes and goes at the flick of a switch.
As for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” it continues to roll along with an $11.5M Thursday, above expectations; some predicted around $9M, and it should add $65M to its domestic tally this weekend, which means it’ll hit the $800M domestic mark by Tuesday. The $2 billion worldwide mark will be hit on Saturday or Sunday.
As for the sex-less movie about sex, “One Night Only,” it’s supposed to plummet 60% this weekend, having only earned around $500K on Thursday. It’s looking at $3M this weekend, upping its domestic total to $10M by Sunday night. The budget was $20M, which would mean probably $45M is the break-even point. Not good. There was a ton of marketing for this film, but they were never fully able to sell it to its target audience.
Do you really think Ellison fired Gunn before he saw a rough cut of "Man of Tomorrow"? No chance. Clearly, whatever he saw didn't impress him.