Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé takes the top spot at the box office...
Beyoncé’s new concert film delivered the goods at the North American box office, where it sang to the biggest opening at the early December box office in two decades.
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé — which the superstar wrote, directed and produced — grossed a better-than-expected $21 million from 2,536 locations in its domestic debut after being graced with a coveted A+ CinemaScore from audiences and glowing reviews. Rival studios show the film coming in at $22 million, but AMC Theatres is being more cautious and sticking with $21 million until weekend actuals are calculated.
The concert movie struggled badly overseas, however, opening to an estimated $6.4 million from 94 markets, well behind an expected $20 million. It came in No. 4 in the U.K., for example, and No. 6 in Australia.
The concert movie is the second title distributed by mega-cinema circuit AMC, which is also home to blockbuster Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
More than 70 percent of those buying tickets to see Renaissance in the U.S. were female, while 52 percent were Black moviegoers in a win for diverse programming. Nearly 70 percent of all ticket buyers were between ages 18 and 34, including 43 percent between ages 25 and 34.
The weekend after Thanksgiving is notoriously sluggish, and Renaissance is a welcome gift for exhibitors. To date, the biggest opening for the first weekend of December belongs to Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai ($24.3 million), not adjusted for inflation. Case in point: domestic box office avenues for the Dec. 1-3 frame soared 76 percent over the same frame last year and 7 percent over 2019.
Similar to Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and her team decided to bypass Hollywood studios and struck a pact with AMC Theatres to distribute Renaissance, which chronicles her recent world stage tour, while including behind-the-scenes footage detailing the planning and execution of the concert.
Swift and AMC made history in October when Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour opened to a staggering $92.8 million domestically, by far the biggest launch ever for a concert movie. No one expected Renaissance to do the same sort of business, considering her audience is older.
Before Eras Tour, 2008’s Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour held the record for the top domestic opening for a concert film with $31.1 million, not adjusted for inflation. That was followed by 2011’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, which opened to $29.5 million.
22 comments:
Don't shoot me, because I know yall like to fight, but how do they know who is buying tickets? I dont recall ever filling out info about my race and gender at the ticket counter....
She just keeps winning, must be nice.
I forgot all about this. Setting a date for next weekend.
It was soooo good.
It was really good. She’s a good director. I see her moving towards her next act
The people over seas knows what is up. She tried to get Taylor fans by appearing with her. Now they’re saying that Taylor did better cause she had younger fans. That’s BS just no one older is checking for Beyonce cause she’s overrated and force fed. BTW how do you write a documentary? The lies…
If Beyonce is overrated wtf is Taylor? Be completely honest and put personal feelings aside for 5 seconds. If Bey and Tay were two unknown contestants in American Idol and you had to give one of them the last ticket to advance to the Hollywood round, who are you choosing?
Ain't nothing else good playing 😂😂😂😂
They won't be getting my money.
And Beyodel stans up in here kissing her padded azz as usual.🤣🤣 Half of this write up is lies. There are no gender or race statistics when buying a ticket to the movies. Who went back and checked the video cams to record that info??🤣🤣🤣🤣
This ish is hilarious how much they are trying to convince us this film was a success. There is nothing good at the theaters right now. I'm a regular movie goer and I'm still not wasting a penny to hear Beyodel sound like a Runaway slave.😂😂😂😂.
It was amazing, the haters keep wishing for her to fail but wipe the eggs off of your face.
At the end of the day Beyonce is the highest grossing BLACK touring artist of ALL TIME and no amount of bashing is going to detract that.
#IIWII
I’m not a flea hive but I like that a black woman (even though she doesn’t seem to really fit the bill of blackness) is on top. She does best at being nice and gracious . It has definitely been her winning trait. Most should take note instead of sharing every thought to the public. The backlash isn’t worth your stability/livelihood being impacted. Focus on what the fans want and be your best you!
@8:37 you just said a bunch of hog wash. You are a member of that flea hive (which numbers must be dwindling) cause y'all didn't give her great opening number like those sorry Swifties. Now she wants to claim black people are seeing her cause the whites didn't come out to see her bleached out hair and skin.
@7:01 As for that I would wait until I find another person to give that ticket too. Beyodel is a dummy and Taylor is a known slore. So neither one of them are my cup of tea.
@820
FACTS!!! But Just let them waste their breath and remain MAD!!!!
This woman is almost 50 and will not sit down. Jigga Boo can’t be holding her down at home or he’s just keeping her working to make him more money
Once again she has stolen a concept. This time it's from an old movie.
^^^Stole her film concept? Nothing is new under the sun. That's like saying Oprah copied the concept of making her movie into a musical. Do you know how many people have done this before? More than a few and that's including Michael Jackson but people didn't accuse him of stealing the concept from Madonna or accuse her from stealing it from the Supremes and the list goes on. Quit hating, 27 years in the game and she's still breaking records.
I enjoyed it
How much they pay you Beyawnce stans to write all that poppycock?
^^Probably the same amount they pay her haters that think she’s overrated to stalk her every single move and then spew their negativity.
But it flopped overseas. I'm not a fan of Bey or Taylor. They're both overrated and over exposed. Both of them need to go sit down and leave us alone for a long while.
Nigga I can’t believe that you came all the way back to this post and deleted the eat the cake Anna Mae posts!! Well I’ll do more for you so don’t worry !
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