Currently, Cash office is 14 percent before 2024. What is the key to February that momentum will continue? At the moment it is originality. To $ 36 million, “Dog Man” (Universal) Grossed significantly beyond expectations and pushed the weekend to $ 87 million – better than 2024.
Dreamworks animation film Had the largest opening of any non-franchise-drawn film since 2019 (did not count the already established “The Super Mario Bros. movie”). To be fair: “Dog man“Is a spinoff character that came out of the universe” Captain underpants “. Died, however, did not make a performance in 2017 “Captain underpants: the first epic film” (which has been the only so far) and universal marketing did not note the connection.
Its first estimate can only the edges “The Wild Robot”, which continued to raise $ 143 million. “Dog Man” also got a cinemascore. At a very sparse cost of $ 40 million, it is a big winner for Universal.
“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight) and “The Brutalist” (A24) remain in the top 10. The most impressive victory after Oscar goes to “No other country,” Who still does not have an American distributor who is willing to risk managing the Palestinian West Bank documentary. It opened on the New York Film Forum for an outstanding $ 26,100 and will expand to another 10 theaters next week.
The high-profile film was made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective by four director writers who also serve as producers. It has been hailed since its debut at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival and has won almost all possible awards for best documentary 2024. The filmmakers, who had to find qualified theaters on their own, are now working with Michael Tuckman Media Open in as many theaters as possible.
Performance compared to scale also worked for “Companion” (Warner Bros.), at least in terms of production budget. The movie Hybrid comedy/horror/science fiction cost about $ 10 million, although marketing more than doubled that investment. It opened at No. 2, $ 9.5 million.
More impressive is “One of them days“(Sony), No. 4 in its third weekend, only 25 percent. With $ 6 million added, it is already over $ 34 million, on its way to over $ 50 million in domestic theater. The women -centered comedy cost only $ 14 million.
Although last weekend’s No. 1 “Air risk” (Lionsgate) fell to fifth (down 52 percent), it cost only $ 25 million. Its return (currently $ 21 million) will not be as good. But the hope for theaters is a steady selection of non-franchise titles makes audiences show up; It makes its performance something for studios to label and replicate.
No weekend 2025 has yet been $ 100 million, similar to the first five last year. But a total of $ 87 million was a third better than 2024.
“Mufasa: The Lion King” (Disney) on No. 4 was the only non-franchisee title in the top 10 (unusual but not unknown-it happened by mid-November). It is now $ 229 million, just $ 1 million behind No. 6 “Sonic The Hedgehog 3” (Paramount), which originally opened before Barry Jenkin’s extension of the “Lion King” franchise.
The two leading best picture/best actors in the top 10 are at different stages of their runs. “A complete unknown” (Searchlight), wide from the beginning, is down to 1,515 theaters and a total of $ 66.7 million. The “brutalist” (A24) expanded to 1,612 theaters (up 494) for just over $ 1.9 million and $ 12.1 million so far. The latter was acquired by A24 for $ 10 million (with a significant marketing budget), but the relative strength of the film is striking.
Note is the extension of “I’m not here” (Sony Pictures Classics). During its third week, it collected $ 547,000, still in only 93 theaters, now over $ 1 million in total. It seems to end with a very decent sum for a foreign title.
Of the Chinese New Year openings (a huge weekend over the Pacific this year), “Creation of the Gods: Demon Force” (Well Go USA) repeated its success in the United States/Canada. It ranked no. 12, with No. 1.3 million in only 200 theaters.
Two Sundance 2024 openings Will not best the $ 9.1 million “Thelma” (Magnolia) Grossed among last year’s items. Steven Soderbergh’s “presence” (neon) fell 60 percent, not really $ 6 million so far and not much left. “Love Me” (Bleecker Street) with Kristen Stewart opened in 527 theaters for a powerful $ 240,000. Results such as these help to explain the shiny market, especially for theater emissions, at the festival this year.
Top 10
1. Dog man (Universal) New – Cinemascore: A; Metacritic: 72; Est. Budget: $ 40 million
$ 36,000 000 in $ 3,885 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $ 9,266; Cumulative: $ 36,000,000
2. Subjects (WB) New – Cinemascore: B+; Metacritic: 64; Est. Budget: $ 10 million
$ 9,500,000 in 3,285 theaters; PTA: $ 2,892; Cumulative: $ 9,500,000
3. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) week 7; Last weekend no 2
$ 6 113,000 (-29%) in 3,180 (-240) theaters; PTA: $ 1,922; Cumulative: $ 229,510,000
4. One of them days (Sony) week 3; Last weekend no 3
$ 6,000,000 (-25%) in 2,306 (-369) theaters; PTA: $ 2,602; Cumulative: $ 34,450 000
5. Air risk (Lionsgate) week 2; Last weekend no 1
$ 5,600,000 (-52%) in 3,161 (no changes) theaters; PTA: $; Cumulative: $ 20,908,000
6. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount) week 7; Last weekend #4; Also on Pvod
$ 3,225,000 (-39%) in 2,665 (-432) theaters; PTA: $ 1,210; Cumulative: $ 230 549 000
7. Moana 2 (Disney) week 10; Last weekend #5; Also on Pvod
$ 2,836 000 (-32%) in 2,200 (-350) theaters; PTA: $ 1,289; Cumulative: $ 453,895 000
8. A complete unknown (Searchlight) Week 6; Last weekend #8
$ 2,164,000 (-30%) in 1,515 (-495) theaters; PTA: $ 1,428; Cumulative: $ 66,692,000
9. Brutalist (A24) week 7; Last weekend #10
$ 1,866 000 (-30%) in 1,612 (+494) theaters; PTA: $ 1,157; Cumulative: $ 12,116 000
10. The of Tieves 2: Pantera (Lionsgate) week 4; Last weekend #9; Also on Pvod
$ 1,600,000 (-47%) in 1,471 (-637) theaters; PTA: $ 1,088; Cumulative: $ 34,485 000
Other specialized/independent titles
Movies (limited, enlargements of limited) are listed after week in the release, start with those that were opened this week; After the first three weeks, only movies with gross tones are listed over $ 5,000. Metacritical points and initial film festivals recorded when available. After week two, per theater average listed only to expand films with under 100 theaters.
OPENING (platform)
No other country (no distributor) New – Metacritic: 90; Festivals include: Berlin, Telluride, Toronto, New York 2024
26 100 $ in theaters; PTA: $ 26 100
Love me (Bleecker Street) New – Metacritic: 54; Festivals include: Sundance 2024
204 036 dollars in 527 theaters; PTA: $ 387
OPENING (wide)
The creation of the gods: Demon Force (Well go US)
$ 1,300,000 in 200 theaters; PTA: $ 6 501
Valiant one (Briarcliff) new
$ 725,000 in $ 1,275 theaters; PTA: $ 569
Transition
Presence (Neon) week 2
$ 1,340,000 in 1,739 (-11) theaters; PTA: 771 $; Cumulative: $ 5,883,000
Bravely bravely (Angel) Week 2
$ 769,646 in 1,700 (-530) theaters; PTA: $ 453; Cumulative: $ 3,899,000
I’m still here (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 3
547 621 $ at 93 (+76) theaters; PTA: $ 5,888; Cumulative: $ 1,063,000
The last showgirl (Road attractions) Week 4
4,455,236 dollars in 142 (-248) theaters; Cumulative: $ 4,455,000
Hard truths (Bleecker Street) week 4
$ 35,975 in 53 (-509) theaters; Cumulative: $ 766 846
Nosfer (Focus) Week 6; Also on Pvod
$ 800,000 in 983 (-990) theaters; Cumulative: $ 94,768,000
Babygirl (A24) week 6; Also on Pvod
$ 330,971 in 308 (-469) theaters; Cumulative: $ 22,745,000
Cinnabar (Sideshow/Janus) Week 6
$ 12,400 in 10 (-4) theaters; Cumulative: $ 152,173
The room next door (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 7
$ 93,077 in 94 (-241) theaters; Cumulative: $ 2,225,000
Nickel boys (Mgm amazon) week 7
$ (est.) 220,000 in 270 (-270) theaters; Cumulative: $ (est.) 1,950 000
September 5 (Paramount) week 7
$ 320,000 in 398 (+3) theaters; Cumulative: $ 2,212,000
The seed from the holy figs (Neon) week 9 16
$ 120,000 in 250 (+234) theaters; Cumulative: $ 632 834
Flow (Janus/Sideshow) Week 10; Also on vod
$ 120,200 161 (-50) theaters; Cumulative: $ 3,914,000
Everything we imagine as easy (Janus/Sideshow) Week 11
$ 22,200 in 29 (-19) theaters; Cumulative: $ 1,021,000
Conclave (Focus) week 14; Also on vod and streaming
$ 60,000 in 247 (-63) theaters; Cumulative: $ 32,026 000
A real pain (Searchlight) week 15; Also on vod
$ 76,000 180 (+125) theaters; Cumulative: $ 8,230,000
Aor (Neon) week 15; Also on vod
$ 63,600 in 247 (-60) theaters; Cumulative: $ 15,205 000
