{"id":190757,"date":"2025-10-10T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:36:08","slug":"box-office-tron-ares-previews-around-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190757\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Tron: Ares’ Previews Around $5M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDisney<\/a> is reporting that Tron: Ares<\/a> previews are coming in at $4.8M. That includes limited Wednesday early shows and previews that began at 2PM yesterday. <\/p>\n

\n\tKnock on wood this one opens to its tracking, meaning north of $40M; we don\u2019t need any movies underperforming. The fall, though ahead of last year by +2% with some $674M+, is OK but not vibrant with myriad starry adult movies like Dwayne Johnson\u2019s The Smashing Machine and Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell\u2019s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey not working. The male-heavy Tron Ares faces competition from MLB playoffs this weekend as well as NFL. Good news: Rotten Tomatoes audience score stands at 86% to the previous installment, 2010\u2019s Tron: Legacy which did 64% fresh.<\/p>\n

\n\tTron: Ares previews are certainly ahead of Tron: Legacy\u2018s preview cash which was $3.6M, but that was back in the era of the midnight preview. Right now, it\u2019s look like Tron: Ares will file under such fanboy reboots as last year\u2019s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($6.6M total previews) and Alien: Romulus ($6.5M). It\u2019s also under that of Lionsgate\u2019s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ($5.8M). Advance ticket sales we told you for Tron:Ares were at $7M before opening on par with Alien: Romulus, which opened to $42M. Songbirds & Snakes bowed to $45M. <\/p>\n

\n\tPreviews for the Joachim R\u00f8nning<\/a> movie are ahead of Equalizer 3 which yielded a $3.8M preview and $35M 3-day opening. The movie, produced by its star Jared Leto and former Disney Head of Production Sean Bailey, cost $180M before P&A. <\/p>\n

\n\tMiramax and Paramount\u2019s Channing Tatum-Kirsten Dunst romance caper, Roofman, collected $1M from 2,800 locations yesterday. Showtimes started at 7PM. Audiences gave the pic 4 out of 5 stars on PostTrak. No audience score yet, but reviews are at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. The $19M production goes wide today at 3,362 sites. Tatum\u2019s Dog did $1.26M in Valentine\u2019s Day sneaks and previews before earning a $5M Friday, $14.8M 3-day driven by his female auds. However that movie was PG-13, and Roofman is R. The 3-day on Roofman is around $10M. <\/p>\n

\n\tSony\/Affirm film\u2019s Soul on Fire\u00a0made $575K from showtimes that began at 4PM at 1,450 sites. The film received an A CinemaScore and 5-star PostTrak rating. The movie is from Soul Surfer filmmaker Sean McNamara. Logline for faith-based movie: After suffering an accident, a young boy ends up relying on his family, his faith, and his community in his fight for survival.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the rest of the top 5 for the week<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) Taylor Swift: Showgirl (AMC) Wk $34M\/Wk 1 (remember, it didn\u2019t play the weekdays)<\/p>\n

\n\t2.) One Battle After Another (WB) 3,634 theaters, Thu $1M (-22%) Wk $16.2M (-49%), Total $47.8M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Smashing Machine (A24) 3,345 theaters, Thu $316K (-34%), Wk $7.7M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) Gabby\u2019s Dollhouse (Uni) 3,507 theaters, Thu $298K (-1%), Wk $6.6M (-60%)\/Total $23M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Conjuring Last Rites (NL\/WB) 2,753 theaters, Thu $370K (-3%), WK $5.76M (-37%), Total $169.5M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney is reporting that Tron: Ares previews are coming in at $4.8M. That includes limited Wednesday early shows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6460,96,2839,16719,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-tron-ares","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}