Box Office Update for May 25-27(28) (Solo is weak) and a little bit of weather

Good afternoon Disney friends,

I hope you are having a great Memorial Day weekend. Walt Disney Pictures will have 2 of the top 3 films of the weekend: Solo: A Star Wars Story and Avengers: Infinity War. (If the sale of Fox to Disney had already occurred then Deadpool 2 would have given Disney the top 3 films.) 

Unless things turn around, Solo is coming in way under the projections heading into the weekend. The film is looking at around $83 mil for the 3 day weekend and about $101 mil for the 4 day holiday. That is under the the projections of somewhere between $130 mil and $170 mil. There are going to be a lot of speculation as to why this happened, but in the end, the people still thought the film was good, but we will have to see how it plays over the next few weeks to see if Disney just had a bad weekend or was this film just not what people wanted.

Avengers had a pretty good weekend with an estimated $16.5 mil, which was down 44% from last weekend. If this holds true, the film will probably cross the $625 mil mark tomorrow. It has also grossed a total of over $1.9 bil worldwide. 

Black Panther is still inching to the $700 mil marks and is about $1.5 mil short.

These films have helped Disney cross the $4 bil mark for the year at the worldwide box office. The next two weekends have smaller opening films in all categories. So until Incredibles 2 opens on Jun 15 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom enters theaters on Jun 22, Disney films might be able to have some pretty strong holds if they are going to leg it out to higher levels.

On a weather note, Subtropical Storm Alberto is bringing copious amounts of rain to the southeast. Walt Disney World is getting bands of rain. Vero Beach resort (on the east coast of Florida) will be getting the same. Cruises sailing out of Port Canaveral will also have to deal with rain off and on. Disney's Hilton Head resort will get quite a bit of rain today and tomorrow. 

I hope you have a great 1st unofficial week of summer.

Weekend Box Office Update--May 4-6

Good afternoon Disney friends,

The weekend numbers are in and Disney has broken more records. First, the House of Mouse made it to $3 bil for the worldwide market on May 5, which broke Disney's record previous record of making it to that mark by one day (2016.) Disney now has 17 out of the 34 films that were able to gross $1 bil from the worldwide market. 

In terms of Avengers: Infinity War, the film was able to gross $112.4 mil this weekend based on current estimates. The weekend gross gives the film the second highest second weekend only behind StaIr Wars: The Force Awakens. Again, it bears repeating that Avengers is pulling in its numbers on a week when most children are still in school. Star Wars second weekend fell on Christmas weekend. Looking at the worldwide box office, the film became the fastest film to $1 bil. This figure beats out Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film still has China to come, which will occur on May 11. Iron Man and friends will have one more weekend at the top of the heap before Deadpool 2 opens on May 18 followed by Solo: A Star Wars Story which is slated to open the following weekend.

Speaking of Solo, the film is already outpacing Black Panther in tickets sales on Fandango. Some of the current projections and looking at a four day opening of around $170 mil. 

I hope you have a magical week.