‘Saw X’ Leads Previews With $2M, ‘The Creator’ $1.6M – Box Office
29.09.2023 - 16:06
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Hopefully three wide releases can wake up what’s been a relatively sleep time at the box office, ratcheted down by the SAG-AFTRA strike. With New Regency/20th Century Studios/Disney’s original Gareth Edwards sci-fi movie The Creator, Paramount and Spin Master’s PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and Lionsgate’s Saw X, the top three movies look to make around $45M. All three of them are vying for No. 1 with a high teens take, however, it’s likely a two-way race between PAW Patrol 2 and The Creator since both pics have had the loudest marketing campaigns, and Lionsgate usually executes their smaller budgeted movies on the cheap.
Wait, there’s four wide releases this weekend–Sony’s Dumb Money is expanding but is only expected to do in the single digits.
The Creator and Saw X held previews last night while PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie skipped since they’re a matinee draw on the weekend while school is in session. Coming off Wednesday night premium screenings and Thursday night shows that began at 6PM, The Creator earned $1.6M, while Saw X saw $2M also from showtimes that began at 6PM. Saw X saw a big turnout among Latino and Hispanic moviegoers at 41%.
That’s a slow start for The Creator considering that figure includes Wednesday shows for the $80M production completely financed by New Regency. The sci-fi pic has all the blasters of premium ticket sales in Imax, ScreenX, 4D, etc with an overall theater count of 3,680.
Saw X‘s preview figure is ahead of that of the previous two Saw titles, Spiral which did $750K and Jigsaw which made $1.6M. Jigsaw‘s Thursday repped 23% of its Friday which turned into a $16.6M opening and a $38M final domestic.
What remains is to be seen how both older guy movies were frontloaded with fans
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