{"id":153762,"date":"2025-09-19T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153762\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:40:12","slug":"ares-currently-eyes-44m-u-s-box-office-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153762\/","title":{"rendered":"Ares&#8217; Currently Eyes $44M U.S. Box Office Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tron-ares\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tron-ares\" data-tag=\"tron-ares\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tron: Ares<\/a>, the next installment in the Steven Lisberger and Bonnie Macbird created videogame-future society feature series, hit tracking this AM with an outlook of $44M when it opens on Oct. 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile that might sound like a similar start to the previous 2010 movie, Tron: Legacy, which bowed to $44M, there is potential for upside we hear. Of late on tracking, Imax fueled tentpoles like F1, Conjuring: Last Rite and Weapons, have seen their actual box office dollars leaving their forecasts in the dust. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WDW_TronAresOverlay_Aug2025_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"768\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTickets went on sale two weeks ago and are totaling around $2M, we hear, the comps being Gladiator 2 ($55M), F1 ($57M) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ($60.3M). The marketing campaign post a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/tron-ares-disney-comic-con-panel-2025-1236468996\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">big splash at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> is just coming into effect with spots during NFL and college football games. In addition, Disney World just adorned their Tron LightCycle Ride at the Magic Kingdom with the latest movie\u2019s red and black lights to jazz up potential moviegoers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMen over 25 in unaided awareness and first choice are strongest with the Joachim R\u00f8nning directed movie which stars Oscar winner Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges reprising his franchise role as Kevin Flynn. In overall, first choice, Tron: Ares is ahead of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($61M opening), Ready Player One ($41.7M), Furiosa ($26.3M) and 2 points behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($58.4M).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlurb for Tron: Ares: A highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. The Tron franchise, first born in 1982, through two movies counts around $433M at the global box office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso opening wide on Oct. 10 is Miramax\/Paramount\u2019s Derek Cianfrance Channing Tatum-Kirsten Dunst crime romance, Roofman, which is eyeing around a $10M start after Rotten Tomatoes reviews of 83% post its TIFF world premiere, and Roadside Attractions\/Lionsgate\/LD Entertainment\u2019s Sundance pick-up, Kiss of the Spider Woman, which is spinning around a $5M start with 82% fresh Rotten Tomatoes reviews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u2018s Tron: Ares, the next installment in the Steven Lisberger and Bonnie Macbird created videogame-future society feature series,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,3494,75,337,4937],"class_list":["post-153762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-tron-ares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}