{"id":206025,"date":"2025-12-27T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/206025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:35:08","slug":"fire-and-ash-200m-post-christmas-marty-supreme-wows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/206025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire And Ash’ $200M+ Post Christmas, ‘Marty Supreme’ Wows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM UPDATE: Rainstorms in Los Angeles aren\u2019t getting in the way of moviegoing, nor is two-to-five inches of snow in NYC as 20th Century Studios\u2019 James Cameron Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> will of course lead the final weekend of 2025 with a second frame around $60M over Friday-Sunday, -33%. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s a better second weekend hold than 2022\u2019s Avatar: Way of Water (-52%) which encountered fierce ice storms at the time, but nothing beats the second weekend ease of the original Avatar back in 2009, which dipped -1.8% <\/p>\n

\n\tWith Christmas, the 4-day on Fire and Ash stands at $84M after a second Friday that stands at $22M at 3,800 theaters. Running cume by Sunday gets to $213.7M. <\/p>\n

\n\tBy the way, we\u2019re coming off of the best Christmas week ever post Covid with an estimated $342.3M, +10% from last year\u2019s previous high of $311.4M (per Box Office Mojo). We\u2019re still down greatly from 2019, -29%, which was $485.5M, but that\u2019s when we had Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker on marquees. <\/p>\n

\n\tDisney has bragging rights for second place with Zootopia 2, which a month after its release refuses to be penned up at 3,370 theaters. Weekend 5 is $19M, +28% for a running cume by Sunday of $320.3M. That will be $20.9M away from besting the original 2016\u2019s stateside gross of $341.2M. As we reported earlier this week, Disney is the only major studio to click past $6 billion at the global box office. <\/p>\n

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\n\tA24\u2019s Josh Safdie directed Marty Supreme<\/a> in 4-days will make more than Timothee Chalamet\u2019s Christmas movie from last year, A Complete Unknown did in 5 days, $25.7M to $23.2M. Today is $6M, -37% from Christmas Day\u2019s $9.5M for a 3-day that stands at $15M at 2,668 theaters. Don\u2019t be shocked if it\u2019s higher. Comp this to the previous Safdie Brothers movie, the zany gangster drama, Uncut Gems, which went wide over a 2019 5-day Christmas stretch with $18.8M. The Adam Sandler movie finaled at $50M. We already told you that the social media universe for Marty Supreme stood at 197M before opening across TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube; that\u2019s with Chalamet standing atop The Sphere in Las Vegas. There was also a Marty Supreme blimp flying over Beverly Hills in further stunts.<\/p>\n

\n\tFourth is a bit of a fight with Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid<\/a> holding in with a 3-day of $12.5M-$15M (4-day of $16M-$18M), after a Friday in the $4.8 \u2013 $5.2M range. On the high-end that second weekend would rep a -21% hold. Angel Studios\u2019 David might ward off Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney with a $14M second weekend, -36%, after a second Friday of $5M. Sony\u2019s Anaconda<\/a> is sneaking up behind with a 3-day of $13M, 4-day of $22M, after a $5M Friday as well at 3,509 theaters. The 4-day start on the year\u2019s previous most prolific comedy Naked Gun was $18.4M. Very good start here for Anaconda especially in regards to its budget of net $45M (Marty Supreme cost $65M before P&A).<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnaconda\u2018s social media was propelled by Jack Black\u2019s 48.7M fans along with Selton Melo\u2019s 9.9M, however, Paul Rudd is off the grid. Social media analytics corp RelishMix says, \u201cConvo runs positive for\u00a0Anaconda\u00a0when the crowd leans into self-awareness and comedy as the point, not the apology. There\u2019s a clear pocket of viewers clocking the film as a deliberate tonal pivot, closer to\u00a0Tropic Thunder, Jumanji, or Be Kind Rewind\u00a0than creature-feature horror. These comments frame the cast as a feature, not a flaw, treating Black and Rudd as genre translators rather than sacred-cow desecrators. Nostalgia works when it\u2019s playful, not reverent, and that\u2019s where enthusiasm clusters. Humor-forward fans applaud the meta energy, soundtrack drops, and Christmas counter-programming angle. \u2018Anaconda\u00a0meets\u00a0Tropic Thunder!!! I love it!\u2019 and \u2018Whoever thought of making\u00a0Anaconda\u00a0comedy action genius move!\u2019 anchor this side of the conversation, often comparing it favorably to the original\u2019s camp reputation rather than its scares.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants at 3,570 sites is seeing $3.4M in its second Friday, 3-day of $10M, -36%, for a running total of $36.9M.<\/p>\n

\n\tFocus Features\u2019 Song Sung Blue<\/a> at 2,587 theaters is seeing $2.6M today, $7.6M for the 3-day and $12M for the 4-day. Rotten Tomatoes audience score is super at 98% certified fresh. Net production cost for the Craig Brewer directed title is $30M. The social media universe for the Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman movie counts 128M, which is under A Complete Unknown\u2018s 187.4M. Still, there\u2019s Jackman pushing the pic to his 80.5M followers and Hudson to her 23.1M. <\/p>\n

\n\tObserves RelishMix: \u201cConvo on\u00a0Song Sung Blue\u00a0lands strongest with audiences craving warmth, nostalgia, and communal musical comfort. The positive thread treats this less as prestige cinema and more as a feel-good jukebox experience, repeatedly framing schmaltz as intentional and welcome. Jackman\u2019s musical credibility is defended through comparisons to The Greatest Showman and earlier stage-forward performances, while Neil Diamond\u2019s catalog is viewed as emotional shorthand that does the heavy lifting. Fans lean into sing-along energy, cross-generational memory, and sincerity over subtlety, positioning the film as counter-programming to darker or more ironic releases. The tone here is knowingly corny but emotionally confident. \u2018I think we all need a movie like this right now,\u2019 and \u2018Cheesy but also brilliant and heartfelt, perfect for Neil Diamond,\u2019 neatly capture the pro argument.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Rainstorms in Los Angeles aren\u2019t getting in the way of moviegoing, nor is two-to-five inches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19170,30585,146,85,46,43792,397,66346,10792],"class_list":{"0":"post-206025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anaconda","9":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-marty-supreme","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-song-sung-blue","16":"tag-the-housemaid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}