{"id":99401,"date":"2025-10-24T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:12:09","slug":"chainsaw-man-eyes-14m-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99401\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chainsaw Man’ Eyes $14M+ Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM: Sony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s Chainsaw Man<\/a>: Rese Arc is slicing its way to the top of the box office with a good $8M today for what\u2019s shaping up to be a $14 million-plus weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile at the high end of its $11M-$14M projections, and a clear No. 1, the caution here is that it\u2019s the first night of the World Series and the Los Angeles Dodgers are playing with Shohei Ohtani pitching. Los Angeles is the No. 1 market for anime movies. <\/p>\n

\n\tRelishMix reports that the social media reach on Chainsaw Man is massive at a half billion, 6x above anime genre norms across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined with gigantic video views counts on Youtube of 351 million and counting. Note Chainsaw Man\u2018s reach on social is 2.5x more than Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle before its opening which stood at 200 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tReports the social media stat org, \u201cConvo runs positive for\u00a0Chainsaw Man-The Movie: Reze Arc, with fans losing their minds over animation studio MAPPA\u2019s cinematic polish, the faithfulness to the manga\u2019s art style, and Kenshi Yonezu\u2019s soundtrack. Theatrical worthiness is a recurring theme, with audiences insisting this arc had to be a movie. The chatter even positions it above competing anime events, with praise like \u2018compared to the recent\u00a0Infinity Castle,\u00a0Reze arc\u00a0was kick ass\u2014would watch in theaters again\u2019 and \u2018I absolutely love how loyal they stayed to the art style, it feels like the manga came to life.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\n\tThe following music video alone is racking up close to 68 million views on YouTube. <\/p>\n

\n\tSecond is a three-way race between 20th Century Studios\u2019 Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a> (3,460 theaters), Paramount<\/a>\u2018s Colleen Hoover movie Regretting You<\/a> (3,393 theaters) and the second weekend of Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s Black Phone 2 (3,460 theaters) each looking at $10.8M-$12M. For Black Phone 2, that hold-range is better than -60% with at least $47M by Sunday, which would be $400K less than Black Phone at the same point in time of its ten-day run. <\/p>\n

\n\tFifth is the third weekend of Disney\u2019s Tron: Ares at 2,940 theaters with $1.3M today and $4M+ for the weekend. <\/p>\n

\n\tNEON\u2019s horror thriller from Chris Stuckmann, Shelby Oaks, is spotting $1.1M today for a $2.5M take at 1,823 sites. This is in the range of NEON\u2019s summer 2024 horror title, Cuckoo which opened to $3M. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Chainsaw<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tChainsaw Man, Regretting You and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett<\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: Sony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc revved up $3.4 million in previews Thursday in screenings that began at 4 p.m. at 2,500 locations.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the way, that preview number is close to the $3.8M posted by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train back in April 2021, on its way to a three-day total f $21.2M as movie theaters were reopening from Covid. That title, released by Funimation\/Aniplex, had a Friday of $9.5M.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Tatsuya Yoshihara-directed Chainsaw Man based on the popular manga is expected to ring up $11M+ in a weekend that might now be too close to call with Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s Black Phone 2 with an expected $12M+ second frame.<\/p>\n

\n\tChainsaw Man is 100% fresh from 18 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and has a 99% audience score. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJeremy Allen White in \u2018Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, 20th Century Studios\u2019 $55M Scott Cooper-directed Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere strummed $850,000. The movie is expected to bring in $9M-$11M. Note that preview take is under the $1.4M Christmas preview gross of Searchlight\u2019s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which went electric over the holidays with a $7.2M opening day, $11.6M 3-day and 5-day total of $23.2M. Springsteen is opening at 3,460 theatres including 250 Imax screens and 750 Premium Large Format screens. Critics aren\u2019t wowed by this rock performer biopic at 61% fresh, but fans last night enjoyed it better at 85%.<\/p>\n

\n\tJeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong plays his manager Jon Landau in a semi-biopic about The Boss recording the personal 1982 album Nebraska which preceded his global phenomenon Born in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount is not reporting grosses on Regretting You given its limited run in under 500 theaters last night, with one showtime for the A Night of No Regrets\u00a0fan event that included a Q&A with cast and director Josh Boone with a special performance by Hannah Cohen. Nonetheless, sources say the movie did better than Springsteen last night. Regretting You was forecasted at $9M-$11M this weekend in what is the second Colleen Hoover novel feature adaptation to hit the screen after the massive success of It Ends With Us. Critics don\u2019t like the schmaltziness of Regretting You at 34% on RT, but there was also never beginning with them on It Ends With Us which they threw Kleenex boxes at with 54%.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon this frame has the psychological thriller Shelby Oaks, which did $515K from combined mystery screenings and last night\u2019s previews. The movie is expected to file in the low single digits.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Phone 2 posted $1.6M yesterday, off 11% from Wednesday, for a first week of $36M, up 3% from its 2022 first chapter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the top 5:<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) Black Phone 2 (Uni) 3,411 theaters, Thu $1.6M (-11% from Wed), Wk $36M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n

\n\t2.) Tron: Ares (Dis) 4,000 theaters, Thu $698K (-22%), Wk $15M (-65%), Total $58.4M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Good Fortune (LG) 2,990 theaters Thu $487K (-15%), Wk $8.7M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) One Battle After Another (WB) 2,532 theaters, Thu $350K (-18%) Wk $5.5M (-45%), Total $63.4M\/Wk 4 <\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Roofman (Par) 3,370 theaters, Thu $346K (-17%), Wk $5.5M (-53%),Total $17.3M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM: Sony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s Chainsaw Man: Rese Arc is slicing its way to the top of the box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54089,156,409,111,139,69,421,70296,72853],"class_list":{"0":"post-99401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chainsaw-man","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-paramount","15":"tag-regretting-you","16":"tag-springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}