‘New mutants’ hope to overtake Hurricane Laura as it seems to open cinemas – Deadline

Of all the calamity demonstrations right now it is necessary because the sector is trying to reopen during a pandemic is a hurricane.

Box office analysts are divided over Hurricane Laura’s impact as new award, including 20th Century Studios / Disney’s De New mutants, Searchlight’s The personal history of David Copperfield, UAR / Orion’s Bill & Ted Face of Music and Picturehouse’s Fatima try to resuscitate the cashier. Some believe the storm, which struck the Gulf Coast late Wednesday, will have no effect at all, while others believe it could hurt the South – a checkout area in the midst of being revived.

Cinemark is currently 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 a million people have power outages in the areas where Louisiana and Texas are affected.

Warner Bros. also opens Tenet in Canada this weekend at around 300 locations, but Disney’s inherited Marvel movie from 20th Century Studios The New Mutants see no. 1 at the 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 that yesterday TenetThe presale of ticket sales, despite not all markets being open, is best presale of Dunkirk en Interstellar in the US, UK and Australia. Warners will roll out the Canadian BO of the photo in U.S. results starting next weekend.

As before New mutants‘$ 8M- $ 10M estimate, knowing that the Josh Boone-directed film was originally set to open up to about $ 20M. Judging from, figure that roughly 60% of the market is open but with safety restrictions for auditorium capacity. And then Hurricane Laura throws in a wild card.

Examples for New mutants will begin tonight, and the film will play on some drive-ins in states where hard theaters are closed. Specifically, the new Rose Bowl pop-up drive-in will play New mutants tonight at 10:30 pm Ditto for Aramando Iannucci’s David Copperfield; that feature plays in all submission states where hardcore theaters are closed, such as the Mission Tiki in Montclair, CA. New mutants has no Rotten Tomatoes score yet, though David Copperfield does, after making its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival a year ago, with 93% fresh.

As Deadline first told you, Searchlight bought North American rights in advance David Copperfield for his TIFF debut. The PG-rated film starring Dev Patel is based on the Charles Dickens classic and follows a young orphan who triumphs over obstacles in Victorian England. Booked at 1,360 theaters, including art galleries in Stamford, CT, Orlando and Kendall Square in Boston will hopefully raise $ 700,000-900,000. Given the unequal market with NYC and LA closed, there is still no head on to create a spark for a slow exit of an art house. It was better for Searchlight to just go broad David Copperfield, especially with the large circuits that need product. Those theaters that want example David Copperfield tonight at 7pm can do that.

Bill & Ted Face the Music, originally intended to be a purely theatrical release, opted for PVOD and theatrically saw the unpredictability of the market. The big chains like AMC, Regal and Cinemark will not play it, but 1,007 independent theaters will. We’ll see how it does.

The Roman Catholic film based on Picturehouse Fatima by Italian director Marco Pontecorvo about three young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal, who have visions of the Virgin Mary, has been booked at 215 locations, and will also play PVOD. As well as Bill & Ted 3, the great circus does not play it because it is day-and-day. Picturehouse was able to shoot and do a theatrical PVOD outing (the latter via Universal), because they had North American rights. The photo was shown to archbishops across the country who have lent their support with video introductions to the film, along with a huge push to Catholic parishes. Over the summer, the distribution label of Bob and Jeanne Berney held 10 pop-drives in the entire U.S. that predicted Fatima to many plots including the Palladium in Hollywood, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, and Soldier Field in Chicago, as well as plays in Simi Valley, CA, Boston and Kansas City.

Solstice Studios’ Unhinged after opening in the US on Friday currently counts a running total up to and including Wednesday of $ 6.2 million at the domestic treasury. The movie Russell Crowe jumps from 1,823 places to 2,300 this weekend. Of 27 offshore areas, the pic’s international BO is north $ 10M.