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Focus Features/Blumhouse’s $15M+ TIFF acquisition, Obsession, continued to champion its forecast, now pinch a $17.2M opening arsenic of this greeting successful 3rd place.
Heading into nan weekend, YouTube filmmaker Curry Barker‘s first large surface theatrical was eyed astatine $8M-$9M successful a framework wherever Lionsgate’s Michael popped backmost up to No. 1 for a 2nd clip pinch an estimated $26M 3rd weekend, -31%, followed by 20th Century Studios’ Devil Wears Prada 2 with astir $17.8M, -57%, successful second.
Obsession‘s Sunday arrived successful astatine $4.8M versus nan $3.7M which was reported. As we antecedently told you, nan romance scary movie earned an A- CinemaScore — highly uncommon for a scary movie which typically averages betwixt a B and a C connected that pollster’s scale. Read, Get Out earned an A-.
PLFs repped adjacent to 40% of play summons income pinch a 39% turnout from those nether 25. Also, nan 25-34 group repped 39% of nan crowd. Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak showed a very bully 70% definite recommend. So, there’s nan catalysts for an moreover amended play than imagined from Barker.
Next up for Barker, he’s reteamed pinch Blumhouse and Focus Features for Anything But Ghosts which he’ll besides prima successful pinch Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard. He’s besides group to nonstop A24’s reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
