No idea what Sound of Freedom is, but it debuted to $14.2m on Tuesday.

Whoever chose it in the draft lucked out!

People who want to watch movies, but are boycotting the Hollywood Elite, but like buzzwords like Freedom?

It's a thriller about child trafficking that is being heavily promoted in conservative circles. I believe it was also at Fox when it completed production in 2018, shelved by Disney, and now being revived independently.

5 Million is from Monday but still.

If that somehow found a way to outgross The Flash it may be the most interesting box office moment I've ever seen. $15M budget and grossed $14M in 2 days.

Disney must be kicking themselves right now.

not going to happen


No they’re not

... so I see people giving away free tickets to that movie on social media and it links to the studio's website and to provide your zip code... very fishy.

Yup!

I don't even know what to make of this number. Will it finish with $20M? $40M? $60M+? Any one have guidance on this one?

It’s gonna drop off a cliff.

All the tickets it will sell have already been bought. Sound of Fraudom is more like it.

Is this going to be a thing now? Political groups just inflating the numbers on their propaganda even though no one is actually seeing the movie?

It's what they've been doing in the book sphere for years now, wouldn't surprise me.

People are watching it, they just haven’t had to pay for it

The number does seem too high. It would make sense if it was shenanigans like "donors" buying them and giving them away to make it a story, or future days tickets stacked onto one day.

That's the thing. If it opened to like $3.5M we'd all be very impressed and use it as another example of an underserved audience turning a low budget drama into a hit.

$14M opening day though? Fuck off with that.

I so want it to be true but it's not in line with the current box office narrative of everything flopping with a massive budget down the drain.

It wasn't in the pool, but it's going to be one of the top replacement picks that's for sure.

Can I get someone to buy about $200M worth of tickets for an Ant-Man 3 rerelease? I'll let you have part ownership of my draft game team.

Hypothetically if Disney gave IJ5 a $150M budget and then gave away $150M worth of tickets wouldn't it be better off overall? Especially if they got tax benefits if given to charities.

Same with Batgirl, if they gave away tickets to charities for instance to see the movie vs taking the whole project as a write down?

Wednesday looking like $5.5m for INDY and $3.5m for FREEDOM (without magic money)

That’s a rough drop for Indy right?
I guess it’s drop today will be minimal as it will keep its plf screens.

Mid 20s second weekend still likely

Wednesday:

1 (2) Indiana Jones and the Dia… Walt Disney $5,536,113 -53% 4,600 $1,204 $89,397,064 6
2 (1) Sound of Freedom Angel Studios $4,047,558 -72% 2,634 $1,537 $18,289,621 2
3 (3) Elemental Walt Disney $2,009,120 -28% -30% 3,650 $550 $97,491,266 20
4 (4) Spider-Man: Across the Sp… Sony Pictures $1,868,924 -28% -34% 3,405 $549 $347,887,031 34
5 (6) No Hard Feelings Sony Pictures $1,103,456 -27% -30% 3,208 $344 $34,176,903 13
6 (5) Transformers: Rise of the… Paramount Pi… $991,154 -39% -29% 2,852 $348 $140,805,321 27
7 (7) The Little Mermaid Walt Disney $888,139 -24% -36% 2,430 $365 $284,693,035 41
8 (8) The Flash Warner Bros. $670,043 -37% -57% 2,718 $247 $102,401,309 20
9 (9) Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Universal $650,385 -35% 3,400 $191 $8,142,770 6
10 (10) Asteroid City Focus Features $578,575 -42% -41% 1,901 $304 $21,238,635 20
11 (11) Guardians of the Galaxy V… Walt Disney $275,224 -37% -45% 1,165 $236 $356,332,929 62
- (13) The Boogeyman 20th Century… $248,691 +18% -38% 1,020 $244 $41,934,249 34
- (-) Fast X Universal $53,200 -34% -61% 550 $97 $145,742,635 48
- (-) The Super Mario Bros. Movie Universal $42,260 -13% -44% 450 $94 $573,676,120 92

Will Elemental pass The Flash over the weekend?