‘New Mutants’ Hopes To Overpower Hurricane Laura As 20th Marvel Pic Looks To Reopen Cinemas – B.O. Preview
Box office analysts are divided on Hurricane Laura’s impact as new fare including 20th Century Studios/Disney’s The New Mutants, Searchlight’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, UAR/Orion’s Bill & Ted Face the Music and Picturehouse’s Fatima try to resuscitate the box office. Some believe the storm, which made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast late Wednesday, won’t have an impact at all, while others think it could hurt the South — a box office area in the midst of reawakening.
Right now, Cinemark is planning closures in Louisiana (Lake Charles) and Texas (Houston, Beaumont, Pasadena, Jacinto City, Webster and Lufkin), with Star Cinemas closing cinemas in Hurricane Laura’s Lone Star state zone. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 1, but about half million people have power outages in the areas where Louisiana and Texas have been hit.
Warner Bros is also opening Tenet in Canada this weekend at around 300 locations, but Disney’s inherited 20th Century Studios Marvel movie The New Mutants is eyeing No. 1 at the domestic box office with an estimated $8 million-$10 million at 2,412 locations including 205 Imax auditoriums, 450 Premium Large Format screens and 75 D-Box/4D screens. Movio Insights told us yesterday that Tenet‘s advance ticket sales, despite not all markets being open, is besting presales of Dunkirk and Interstellar in the U.S., UK and Australia. Warners will roll the pic’s Canadian B.O. into U.S. results starting next weekend. As for New Mutants‘ $8M-$10M estimate, know that the Josh Boone-directed movie was originally set to open to around $20M. Whittling down from there, figure that roughly 60% of the marketplace is open, but with auditorium capacity safety restraints. And then Hurricane Laura throws in a wild card. Previews for New Mutants will begin tonight, and the film will be playing at some drive-ins in states where hard-top theaters are closed. Specifically, the new Rose Bowl pop-up drive-in will be playing New Mutants tonight at 10:30 p.m. Ditto for Aramando Iannucci’s David Copperfield; that feature is playing at any drive-in states where hard-top theaters are closed, i.e., the Mission Tiki in Montclair, CA. New Mutants doesn’t have a Rotten Tomatoes score yet, but David Copperfield does, having made its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival a year ago, clocking in at 93% fresh.
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