Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. Unfortunately, last year there were four films that topped $20 million over the weekend, while this year there will be only one. company. Thus, its $31 million opening and rare A+ Cinemascore last weekend suggested long-term  play through Christmas. This is 56% higher than the same weekend last year, but this is due to a misalignment in the holidays. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Viewership Hits All Time Low Ratings, Down 27% in Two Months, “Seinfeld” Cast Members Raise Over $600K on Zoom Telethon for Texas Democrats, Larry David Reveals Show He Could Never Do, What Year Is It? If so, it would give Disney five $400 million+ domestic releases this year, with the next “Star Wars” still to come. Using Rogers’s TV show as a replacement for religion — as if it merely demonstrated our need for psychoanalysis — fights Heller’s own sensitivity. All that could still happen. This year, Playmobil gets thrown to the wolves, or to the mercy of Frozen II, to be more specific. Frozen II fell fast enough that the more adult oriented The Hunger Games: Catching Fire remains the Biggest Thursday in November, albeit by a very close margin. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s most beloved neighbor. where witnesses to Rogers’s life respond to his call for reflection and gratitude. With that film and several others in his career, Hanks showed that he’s able to capture a wide demographic—which is exactly what could happen this weekend with A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Conditions of Use This weekend last year was led by the one-two punch of Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II. In 2013, “Frozen” was a phenomenon that grossed over $400 million domestic thanks to an extraordinary hold. Summaries. More... As expected, the box office collapsed this week, as it always does in a post-holiday weekend. As for the Pick of the Week, I’m going with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Season One, Part Two and if you really into Isekai Anime, grab Isekai Quartet: Season One as well. (This is especially true on the TV end, as there’s talk about how strange the nominations are this year.) I always found it ironic that pop musician David Byrne once referred to Fred Rogers as “creepy” when it is Rogers whom the art-savant Byrne most resembles. ), latest acting and technical box office record lists. Good news. Weekend | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. Frozen II (Disney) NEW – Cinemascore: A-; Metacritic: 65; Est. Other audience surveys show positive reaction, and the Saturday gross is up around 12%. Mister Rogers is cleaning up the neighborhood. In fact, it looks like it will top its three-day opening weekend over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. December should get off to a fast start on the year-over-year competition and hopefully that’s a good omen going forward. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. Frozen II’s weekend haul wasn’t quite up to the level it was during the week, but it was still impressive. There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said ... During her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Amy Coney Barrett revealed her empty notepad to Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas). Box Office Surprise: Mr. Rogers Movie “Beautiful Day” Has Legs as Tom Hanks Aims for Best Supporting Actor, Netflix Still Negotiating to Buy Hollywood's Egyptian Theater After Leasing New York's Famed Paris Theater for Screenings, Will "Empire" Make It Through Its Final Season? Year-to-date, 2019 closed ground with 2018, albeit by a tiny margin and this year is still behind last year by 5.9% or $630 million at $10.16 billion to $10.80 billion. They crave certainty amid chaos. However, the film fell further than anticipated, earning $7.84 million—off 77% from last Friday. It’s also possible that after the massive success of last year’s Fred Rogers documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” served to mute interest rather than enhance it. It’s not the worst-reviewed movie to earn a Best Picture Nomination—after all, Bohemian Rhapsody was nominated just last year. In fact, with a Friday haul of $34.03 million, it is on pace for about $85 million from Friday through Sunday, meaning its three-day Thanksgiving weekend won’t be too far behind the first Frozen’s five-day Thanksgiving weekend haul of $93.59 million. She intersperses TV-show sets and toylike miniatures among scenes of desolate realism in which pious Rogers is tested by pessimistic Vogel. But it is all background to the story of a gloomy Esquire magazine writer who is meant to be the audience’s surrogate: Vogel is a white liberal whose good intentions are signified by his having a black wife and a biracial infant. That’s disappointing for Boseman, and reinforce how tough it is for any actor to translate blockbuster success to other films. The other four standout films of Hanks’ filmography are Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code and Saving Private Ryan. Unfortunately, last November was much better, with five films that topped $100 million, including three that earned more than $200 million. In fact, it is on pace to smash the November 3-day weekend for an animated film by the middle of Saturday and the five-day Thanksgiving weekend for any film by the middle of Sunday, and it isn’t even Thanksgiving. Showdowns. Hanks is at the top my list of this year’s Best Supporting Actors, and it’s a competitive group. But the moment fails because of a cultural catastrophe: Hollywood does not customarily express spirituality. But for a year filled with tremendous upheaval and so much newness, there have been notably few questions -- and that’s a problem. A better comparison is Aladdin, which earned $7 million during its previews back in May before the vast majority of kids were out of school. Tony Bobulinski, who is. © IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. While Heller strives to show Rogers as a lay Christian, Hanks succumbs to oddity. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! He wrote the Intelligencer column for NY Magazine in the mid 90s, reporting on the OJ Simpson trial, as well as for the real Parade magazine (when it was owned by Conde Nast), and has written for the New York Observer, Details, Vogue, Spin, the New York Times, NY Post, Washington Post, and NY Daily News among many publications. More... As expected, Frozen II started with a record-breaking Friday, as the film pulled in $41.8 million during its opening day, the best day in November for an animated film. Advertisement. Hanks won two Oscars back to back in the 90s as a leading man for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.” Academy voters probably thought that was enough, but Hanks has only had two more nominations since then, for “Saving Private Ryan” and “Castaway.” It’s been twenty years since he’s been in the Oscar race. News | We are continuing our schedule with Best Supporting Actor. In fact, many years there are no wide releases. It still managed to beat out “A Beautiful Day,” whose audience base it somewhat overlaps. Did you vote in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan vote only to be ignored? But Hanks invests Mr. Rogers with a subtlety and grace that I doubt anyone else could have pulled off. Frozen II broke records earning first place for its three-day and five-day Thanksgiving weekends. The Incredibles record will obviously be broken, but we’ll have to wait until next week to see what Thanksgiving looks like. In fact, its three-day opening of $130.26 million is better than the previous 5-day Thanksgiving weekend for an animated film, a record previously held by Frozen. If this holds up, then it will have an excellent shot at topping the first Frozen’s domestic total, even without the Christmas break coming up. There are not a lot of major releases on this week’s list, but what we lack in quantity, we more than make up for in quality. More... Joker single-handedly saved October. (She brought sympathy to the larcenous scoundrels of her previous film Can You Ever Forgive Me?) IMDb Real-life drama starring opens November 22 ... Full Movie Details. However, this film is arguably the worst-reviewed movie to ever earn the most nominations in a single year. Additionally, both new releases, Knives Out and Queen and Slim, topped expectations leading to a robust box office. All of which makes one of her nonanswers to a written follow-up question from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse extremely chilling. The polling aggregator on the website RealClearPolitics shows the margin in polls led by Joe Biden in a blue font and the ones led by Donald Trump in red. When Hanks attempts to replicate Rogers’s sangfroid and gentleness, he avoids the remarkably complex mixed feelings of his conman role in The Ladykillers and falls back on Forrest Gump simplemindedness. This is common for Thanksgiving, as the Wednesday and Thursday holidays are so popular with moviegoers that they reduce the box office potential of the Friday through Sunday weekend. Family films tend to fall faster on Thanksgiving Thursday, because families spend time with each other rather than going to the theaters, but I was hoping it wouldn’t fall quite this fast. Midway (Lionsgate) Week 3; Last weekend #2, $4,700,000 (-45%) in 2,627 theaters (-615); PTA: $1,789; Cumulative: $43,108,000, 6. The winter holiday season unofficially began on the first weekend of November and so far performance at the box office has been less than acceptable. Ava Gardner, Unapologetic Sexpot, Still Bewitches, On Paintings, Ambassadors, Books, and More. That needs to—and should—turn around this weekend. It is still very early in the year and the predictive value of the Golden Globes is a little suspect, but there are still some things to learn here. It is going to be a rough week on my wallet. Latest Updates: That was a holiday, so obviously it will bounce back over the rest of the weekend, but projections have the film earning about $36 million compared to our $38 million prediction. After a strong showing by “Ford v Ferrari” last weekend at $31 million, hopes were high that another wide studio release might show similar results. Box Office Mojo and IMDb are trademarks or registered trademarks of IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The Golden Globes nominations are the second major Awards Season set to come out. Next weekend will be a lot better when it comes to the year-over-year comparison. 1978? This greater-than-anticipated internal multiplier stronger suggests better legs overall. The other two new releases, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and 21 Bridges, missed expectations, but were close enough that the overall box office was very healthy. We should gain a lot next weekend, thanks to Thanksgiving, and by the first weekend of December, things will settle down. It’s a dramatization of Rogers’s uncanny calm and childlike patience — qualities that modern society distrusts, preferring to put stock in Freudian explanations. They went beyond Freud. It didn’t look like Frozen II would match our $125 million prediction based on Friday’s estimate, but if weekend estimates hold, it will did so with $127.0 million. So how lucrative can we expect A Beautiful Day to be? To find a specific person's page, simply use the Search bar or go to a film's main page and click the Cast & Crew tab. The movie re-creates those homilies by artificially re-creating scenes of the show’s videotape and alternating them with the real-life story of optimistic Rogers (Hanks) being interviewed by cynical journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys). All rights reserved. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! under which this service is provided to you. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group.