‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore’ Looks To Spell Near $160M WW Total By Easter; ‘Father Stu’ Sees $1.6M Opening Day Box Office
14.04.2022 - 20:31
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Warner Bros. which has traditionally ruled the Easter weekend box office is back, now a year later after Godzilla vs. Kong brought bread to reopening cinemas during the pandemic, with J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The pic’s stateside opening, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger went public.
The Harry Potter franchise spinoff has always demonstrated its potency more so abroad than stateside, so look for the magic there. David Yates, who has directed all the Fantastic Beasts movies, and Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 1 & 2, is natch behind this threequel which after a $56.9M start in 22 offshore markets this weekend is eyeing, thanks to Easter vacations, a near $77M overseas cume by EOD today. Add in a global weekend haul of $80M which will take Dumbledore‘s worldwide cume to $157M according to industry estimates. Note the Easter holiday abroad and in U.S./Canada could take this higher.
Warner Bros. domestic theatrical distribution is seeing at least $40M from 4,200 locations; tracking believes $50M+ is possible. On the heels of the openings of The Lost City, Morbius, and Sonic the Hedgehog, that’s a great spring for recovering exhibitors. Franchise wise, after Fantastic Beasts 1 and 2 respectively opened to $74.4M and $62.1M, this installment is poised to play like a threequel, particularly coming off of the second film which earned a B+ CinemaScore in 2018. The first movie in 2016 received an ‘A’ CinemaScore. Abroad, 44 new markets this weekend including France, Italy, and Korea on yesterday, followed by Brazil and Mexico on Thursday are expected to deliver well north of $40M for the
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