Other movies that did better than expected over the weekend include The Forever Purge, F9: The Fast Saga, which finally exceeded $150 million domestic gross, and the new documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain. The main prediction for the movie was the equivalent of 2.9 million tickets. And even last week, the same site only upped the low end of its forecast range to the equivalent of 2.2 million tickets. Last month, Box Office Pro forecast the debut as more like 1.6 million to 3.3 million tickets sold in the first weekend. Forecastĭespite the mostly negative reviews and unfavorable buzz surrounding the IP exploitation of the movie, the opening for Space Jam 2 exceeded expectations. They gave Looney Tunes: Back in Action a B+. According to Cinemascore, first-night audiences polled by the firm gave both the original Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy a grade of A. Meanwhile, the fans approved of the Space Jam movies more than they did Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Audience Scores on Rotten Tomatoes, however, favor the Space Jam movies by a lot. But Looney Tunes: Back in Action had relatively negative to mixed reviews and fared a bit better with the aggregate sites (56% on Rotten Tomatoes, 64 on Metacritic). The new movie’s reviews (31% on Rotten Tomatoes, 36 on Metacritic) are worse than the already negative Space Jam (44% on Rotten Tomatoes, 59 on Metacritic). The box office attendance for Space Jam 2 is in line with its reception compared to its direct franchise predecessor, as well. What the Critics and Moviegoers Think of Space Jam 2 The popularity of those programs is definitely more Back in Action size than Space Jam. Then it went to Boomerang and audience numbers seem to have ceased being documented. The ratings were mostly steady but occasionally dipped as low as 0.5 million. The following year, New Looney Tunes premiered on the Cartoon Network with around 1.2 million viewers. It finished with just 1 million sets of eyes for its last episode in 2014. Over its few years on the air, the show fell in viewership. cartoon characters back for an updated series in 2011 on the Cartoon Network, was watched by almost 2.5 million people in its premiere. The Looney Tunes Show, which brought the original Warner Bros. We can compare the opening weekend attendance for the last three Looney Tunes movies to the viewership of Looney Tunes TV shows. Can we assume the Looney Tunes themselves aren’t the box office draw and that Michael Jordan and LeBron James were the respective appeals of the first and second Space Jam installments? There’s not enough data to make that claim, especially when there’s not really any box office information for the Looney Tunes compilation films that hit theaters in the 1970s and 1980s save for Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales selling only around 27,000 tickets on a limited amount of screens in its 1982 opening weekend. That’s less than half what Space Jam 2 did in its opening weekend. The 2003 feature Looney Tunes: Back in Action debuted with a three-day attendance of roughly 1.5 million. Space Jam: A New Legacy did open bigger than the last Looney Tunes movie, however. And the movie topped the box office even ahead of Marvel’s Black Widow, which is also available at home yet with an extra cost to Disney+ subscribers. That’s still pretty impressive, especially considering the new Space Jam was also available day-and-date on HBO Max without additional cost to subscribers. But at today’s prices, that’s only about 3.4 million tickets sold**. The new sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy opened over the weekend with a three-day (plus Thursday night) gross of $31.1 million (actual*). Back in 1996, Space Jam debuted with a gross of just $27.5 million, but that would have equated to about 6.2 million tickets sold. No, Space Jam 2 did not open bigger than the original. Also: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, and Pig. This week, we primarily look at the opening box office attendance numbers for Space Jam: A New Legacy. Because the value of money changes over the years, but the value of actual moviegoers remains the same. Rather than focusing on the money, FSR senior editor Christopher Campbell is more interested in the estimated attendance - or number of tickets sold. Welcome to our weekly box office report, which we do a little differently.
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