Spring break is still in session with 27% colleges off and K-12 schools on break at 20% per Comscore. This will keep Disney’s Hoppers in a continued spring with a second weekend around $27M (-40%) after posting the best start for a Pixar original ($45.3M) since 2017’s Coco. Through yesterday, the Daniel Chong directed movie stands at $48M in U.S./Canada.
The forest animal movie will continue to hoard all the PLF screens and will count more Imax showtimes in its second sesh. The comp here for Hoppers is another recent talking animals movie, GOAT, which dipped -38% off of a holiday weekend in its second frame.
Following Sony and Wayfarer’s 2024 hit It Ends With Us ($351.4M domestic) and Paramount’s Regretting You from last fall ($48.8M domestic), the third Colleen Hoover novel will hit the big screen this weekend, the PG-13 rated Reminders of Him, from Universal. The opening here for Reminders of Him is expected to be akin to Regretting You which opened to $13.6M and did a 3.6x multiple, driven by females 18-34. The U.S./Canada range for the weekend at 3,400 sites is $10M-$15M. Previews start Thursday at 2PM. The $25M feature production is also rolling out in 57 foreign markets including UK & Ireland, Australia, Germany and Mexico.
Reminders of Him sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 45 languages. Blurb for the movie starring Maika Monroe: After prison, a woman attempts to reconnect with her young daughter but faces resistance from everyone except a bar owner (Tyriq Withers) with ties to her child. As they grow closer, she must confront her past mistakes to build a hopeful future. Lauren Graham, Bradley Whitford, Rudy Pankow and Grammy winner and country music star Lainey Wilson also star. The movie touts a female team behind the camera including Vanessa Caswill (Love at First Sight, Little Women mini-series) directing, Hoover and Lauren Levine adapting and producing, Gina Matthews and Robin Mulcahy Fisichella as EPs.
Hoping to overindex is A24’s low budget horror movie, undertone, currently forecasted at a $7M opening at 2,500 theaters for a movie which reportedly cost $500K. A24 snatched the movie up for a low cost out of Fantasia Film Festival last summer as Deadline first told you. Pic was written and directed by horror filmmaker Ian Tuason, and follows the host (Nina Kiri) of a popular paranormal podcast who becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way. The pic went on to play the Midnight section at Sundance, taking its Rotten Tomatoes critical score to 85% fresh. A24 hosted early screenings with Dolby to give audiences the best-in-class audio experience. Thursday previews begin at 4PM stateside for the R-rated movie.
The running domestic B.O. for Jan. 1 through last Sunday is in a good place at $1.3 billion, +13% above the same period a year ago.
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