‘Uncharted’ Keeps Weekend Box Office Warm With $23M Second Weekend Before ‘The Batman’ Conquers
26.02.2022 - 18:59
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SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart Before a big tentpole comes into the marketplace, there’s typically a lull at the box office, but it’s an even bigger lull when the major studios don’t have any new wide entries. Everyone is waiting for Warner Bros. The Batman and many sources tell me it’s bound easily for a $100M+ opening, in fact $115M+, and the advance ticket sales are there to prove that. This despite the 3-hour running time, and from what I hear (I haven’t seen it yet) is a more noir, detective story by Matt Reeves than all the action set pieces in a Christopher Nolan movie. iSpot shows Warner Bros. having spent already $28M+ in U.S. TV spots (that’s even a big number from that data agency’s POV) across such shows as the Winter Olympics, NFL, Good Morning America, NBA games and Big Brother: Celebrity Edition. Note, Warners’ hasn’t weighed in on these industry projections at the time of writing, but note, they’ll safely lowball. That said, no one sees it below $100M.
Until then, Sony’s Tom Holland-Mark Wahlberg movie, Uncharted, is maintaining a great hold in its second weekend with $23M, after a second Friday of $6M, -61% from last Friday+previews. By Sunday, the Ruben Fleischer-directed take on the Sony PlayStation videogame looks to stand at $83.1M.
United Artists Releasing/MGM’s second weekend of Channing Tatum’s Dog also has a nice hold, -43%, with a second weekend of $8.5M, and a ten-day cume by Sunday of $29.2M.
So if everything is holding so well, why does the weekend box office still suck with an anticipated weekend of $58.8M for all films? The eighth weekend of the year in pre-pandemic 2020 grossed $102.6M per Box Office Mojo (led by second weekend of Sonic the Hedgehog at $26.1M) while the