My guess is we'll see this one on Blu-ray in time for Christmas, where it'll become one of this year's biggest stocking stuffers.
At this point, we've said just about all there is to say about IT's massive success ("This'll launch a new era of big-budget King adaptations!", " IT is the biggest horror movie of all time!", "Holy shit, did this thing overperform!"), so I've not got much to add here. In other news, Andy Muschietti's IT finally crossed the $300M mark at the box office, with a new total of roughly $304M. Again, word of mouth is strong - in addition to the largely-positive critical reaction, general audiences gave Blade Runner 2049 an overall A- Cinemascore - but this movie's got a long way to go before it can be considered anything less than a bomb.Īnyway, we'll examine all of this again in 2047, when Blade Runner 2079 arrives. With a "break even" point reportedly as high as $400M, that's not a great start. However you want to look at it, the bottom line is this: people aren't showing up for Blade Runner 2049.Īs of right now, Villeneuve's sequel looks to have earned about $31M in its opening weekend. Maybe the truth of the matter is that Blade Runner, as a property, has always been a niche thing, and was never gonna deliver a $100M opening weekend. Maybe it was the marketing campaign, which played coy with what kind of story Blade Runner 2049 would be telling. Maybe it's the nearly three-hour runtime. Maybe they waited too long to make a sequel. The bad news is, Blade Runner 2049 looks to be coming in well below that $40M projection, leaving the film with an even bigger hill to climb.
Well, the good news is that word of mouth is strong, and may yet give Villeneuve's film those legs. And besides, maybe word of mouth would give the film legs. Indeed, projections had the film earning something like $40-45M.a less-than-stellar figure, perhaps, but not a worst-case scenario. After all the hype, all the mystery and after receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from critics (who currently have the film at an 89% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes), some assumed that Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 would easily dominate the box office this weekend.