“Tom & Jerry” $ 12.5 million box office opening to $ 12.5 million, second best during pandemic –

Warner Bros. Day and Date Tom Jerry In theaters and on HBO, Max had a very solid day during the pandemic with $ 4 million on Friday and was expecting $ 12.5 million over three days, according to Warner Bros. That’s a number that represents the 3-day day from Universal / exceeds. Dreamworks animations Croods: New Age, The three-day Thanksgiving weekend grossed $ 9.7 million.

To date, Tom Jerry is the second best debut for a film released after Warner Bros. during the pandemic after August. ” Wonder Woman 1984, that did $ 16.4 million. Tom & Jerry was directed by Tim Story and produced by Chris DeFaria.

Warners posted these numbers on Tom Jerry In a current exhibition landscape in which around 50% of all theaters are still closed, as well as the second-largest chain Regal, New York City will open next Friday. Cinema visits only get better: Los Angeles is slated to reopen next month as well, and then all we have to do is wait for capacity constraints to be relaxed.

We also heard Tom Jerry not made too shabby in china.

CinemaScore is great on A and PostTrak, and 81% and four stars. Tom Jerry Deserved a good 60% recommendation for the general audience and a 66% recommendation from children. The ratio of women to men was 51% to 49%, 46% under the age of 17. The turnout was 35% Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 21% African American, and 11% Asian / Other.

The expectation is that if Universal can burn slowly Croods 2, That will hit $ 52.5 million this weekend in the U.S. and was number five of its 14 straight weekends Tom Jerry. Let’s get stuck here, either: These box office numbers aren’t at pre-pandemic levels, but it does show that the financial tide is turning at the home box office.

When cinemas reopened in some parts of the country, there were fears that families would not dare to venture out. But with increasing vaccinations, the fear of returning to the cinema slowly subsides.

Again, we’ve been saying that for the past few months, but Warners is really trying to get these films to work in the regions of the country where theaters are open despite the day and date strategy. Most of the time, Netflix and Amazon movies don’t make money in their limited theatrical release in order to be on those respective streamers (regarding the latter, they started adopting this limited theater / streaming strategy with their Scott Z. Burns Sundance acquisition, The report).