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The studio has pledged to return to exclusive theatrical windows in 2022. releases in 2021, was also streaming on HBO Max for subscribers - a practice some filmmakers, including Chase, have decried.
The film, co-written by “Sopranos” creator David Chase and set decades before the seminal HBO series, opened with $5 million. “The Many Saints of Newark,” the long-in-coming prequel to “The Sopranos,” flopped. The film, a sequel to the 2019 cartoon reboot, was launched simultaneously on video-on-demand. “The Addams Family 2,” an animated sequel from MGM and United Artists Releasing, opened with $18 million despite terrible reviews (27% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) from critics. Older audiences and families with unvaccinated children have been more cautious. Family moviegoing is still sluggish, as are ticket sales at art house theaters. Not everything is bouncing back in theaters and quickly as Marvel movies and the biggest brand names. “It’s very validating to see the demand for theatricality.” “We saw the health of ‘Shang-Chi’ and it gave us confidence that when the product is there, the box office will return,” said Adrian Smith, Sony’s distribution chief. Overseas, it also added $13.8 million in Russia. “You can’t replicate that by yourself at home.”Īfter numerous delays, Sony in the end actually moved up the release of the “Venom” sequel, directed by Andy Serkis and co-starring Woody Harrelson as the Venom foe Carnage, by two weeks. “Films can only become cultural when people see them together on the biggest, best screens and have that experience as a group,” said Josh Greenstein, president of Sony Motion Pictures Group. “Shang-Chi,” “F9” and “Let There Be Carnage” debuted only in theaters. “Black Widow” launched simultaneously in homes, prompting a lawsuit from star Scarlett Johansson which was settled last week. Its $11.4 million on Saturday there was the best box office day for any Bond film on its home turf.īefore “Let There Be Carnage,” the top pandemic openings had been the Walt Disney’s “Black Widow” ($80 million), “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” ($75 million) and Universal Pictures’ “Fast and Furious” sequel “F9” ($70 million). The pace, according to MGM and Universal Pictures (which has many international rights), was roughly in line with the opening for “Skyfall.” Following its London premiere last week, “No Time to Die” - the 25th Bond film and Daniel Craig’s last outing as the super spy - grossed $25.6 million in the United Kingdom and Ireland. “No Time to Die,” which opens in North America on Friday, launched with $119.1 million in 54 overseas markets. Over the weekend, their wait was rewarded. Believing the best box-office return would happen with an exclusive release in theaters, both studios (neither of which has a major streaming platform) held out for better moviegoing conditions.
Twain: The death of movies has been greatly exaggerated,” Tom Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, said in a statement.īoth “Let There Be Carnage” and MGM’s “No Time to Die” had originally been set to open last year.