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Woes at The Capitol and Pandemic Have Film Sales Plummeting


With the decision in late November to veto a Christmas theatrical release and exclusively release the anticipated blockbuster 'Wonder Woman 1984' online with HBO Max, there certainly were concerns of harsh financial fallout for the film and any chance at production budget recoup. 

Now as Pandemic restrictions tighten and Woes at the Capitol intensify, this film and many others are experiencing huge financial blows.

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Continues To Fall Grossing Only $3M in Third Weekend Amid Pandemic & U.S. Capitol Woes

Source: (Deadline.com)

January 10, 2021

Anthony D'Alessandro writes:

Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, odds are this would still be a hard weekend at the domestic box office, what with all the distraction that came out of our nation’s Capitol this past week. Television news seems to be filled with enough suspense and cliffhangers with the Capitol Insurrection, versus the big screen, as we all cling to our TV screens at home to witness how President Donald J. Trump will leave office, expectedly with chaos in tow.

Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 in its third weekend continued to emulate the legs of a horror movie, down -45% with $3M at 2,218 theaters and a running B.O. of $32.6M. 

It’s quite clear this movie isn’t going to make the money that Tenet did stateside at $58M and we knew that all along as 60% of all movie theaters are shutdown, including No. 2 chain Regal (Pennsylvania and Colorado reopened this past weekend I heard). 

Adding further insult to injury: I hear that after a dismal holiday period some movie theaters have decided to close down, and are skipping paying Warners on WW1984; that’s how bad things are. The studio, which normally doesn’t need to fight for its rental dollars, will need to do so now.

Worldwide, WW1984 stands at $131.4M. Tenet grossed $362.9M, and it’s impossible for WW1984 to even mirror those results. Most theatres in Europe remain closed or are operating with significant capacity restrictions.

Meanwhile, those movies which had a longer theatrical window than WW1984, held in as best they could during a pandemic with Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Croods: A New Age in 2nd with $1.8M (-19%) in weekend 7 and a cume of $36.8M, Uni’s News of the World with $1.24M in weekend 3, -27% and a total of $7.1M,  Sony/Screen Gems’ Monster Hunter in weekend 4 with $1.1M, -13%, with $7.8M and Lionsgate’s Fatale in weekend 4 in 5th place with around $670K and a total of $4M.

For more information and the full weekend box office breakdowns for Jan. 8-10, the second weekend of 2021:

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