\n\tChristmas Day Update: For Christmas Eve business\u2026Today, and onward is what truly counts for exhibition for by tonight, after dinner tables are cleared, moviegoing commences. Despite the rains in LA, multiplexes aren\u2019t cutting back their showtimes, and there\u2019s a way that water actually will drive business. <\/p>\n
\n\tChristmas Eve, as always, except for when there\u2019s a FOMO movie like Spider-Man: No Way Home on the marquee, was down as expected with an estimated $27.6M for all movies; that includes the $2M previews cash from A24\u2019s Timothee Chalamet period dramedy, Marty Supreme<\/a> (higher than the actor\u2019s Christmas Eve previews for A Complete Unknown last year at $1.4M, which did a 5-day of $23.2M) and the $2.1M previews from Sony\u2019s Jack Black and Paul Rudd comedy, Anaconda<\/a>. Focus Features didn\u2019t report previews for their Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson musical, Song Sung Blue, and well, boo on that. Previews began at 12noon for Anaconda and Marty Supreme. The already six theater NYC and LA portion of the Chalamet film raked in an estimated $88K yesterday for a running total of $1.2M. <\/p>\n \n\tYesterday\u2019s business for all titles was down -31% from Tuesday\u2019s near $40M haul. The best Christmas Eve post Covid belongs to 2021, when moviegoers threw their pandemic worries aside and headed to Spider-Man: No Way Home, driving a $31.1M day. This Christmas Eve was +24% from 2022\u2019s when Avatar: Way of Water was on the marquee, however, it fell on a Saturday. Way of Water made $14.8M on Christmas Eve and Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> lead yesterday with $10.7M at 3,800 theaters and a running cume of $129.7M. <\/p>\n \n\tDisney\u2019s Zootopia 2 for the third straight weekday in a row has been towering over the new stuff, Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid and Angel Studios\u2019 David, with a fourth Wednesday of $3.2M at 3,540 theaters, running cume of $296.1M. Of course, $300M is in the animals\u2019 eyesight by today, maybe Friday.<\/p>\n \n\tDavid at 3,118 locations did an estimated $2.5M in 3rd for the day for a running total of $32.4M, while Housemaid booked at 3,042 did $1.45M in fifth for a running total of $27.5M. Paramount\u2019s SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants was 4th yesterday with an estimated $1.78M at 3,557 sites, and a running cume of $23.7M. <\/p>\n \n\tAvatar 3 is expected to do around $75M for the 4-day box office (Dec. 25-Sunday), while Anaconda is hoping to clear $20M, Song Sung Blue is forecasted at $10M-$14M, with all other titles, Housemaid, David, Marty Supreme, and SpongeBob landing in the teens. <\/p>\n \n\tRotten Tomatoes audience score on Marty Supreme is 86% to its critical score of 95% certified fresh. No audience score on Anaconda, but critics are meh on it at 49% rotten. Song Sung Blue has no audience score yet as well, but critics enjoy it at 76% certified fresh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Day Update: For Christmas Eve business\u2026Today, and onward is what truly counts for exhibition for by tonight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[71914,34531,181396,88,56102],"class_list":{"0":"post-369755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-anaconda","9":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","10":"tag-christmas-box-office","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-marty-supreme"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}