Warner Bros.
is reporting a domestic gross of $16.7 million for “Wonder Woman 1984” over the three-day holiday weekend.
This is easily the biggest weekend gross since theaters reopened.It is also a nearly impossible figure to judge in context.
Patty Jenkins’ initial DC Comics film, opening globally in May 2017, grossed $100 million its first weekend.
The last time Christmas fell on Friday (allowing a maximum weekend environment to thrive), “The Force Awakens” grossed $149 million — in its second weekend.
Last year, with the holiday on Wednesday, “The Rise of Skywalker,” again in its second weekend, grossed $72 million across the three days.
In both cases they had double the theater count.Fewer than 40 percent of theaters are open, with those that are representing a better proportion of potential gross, with industry sources suggesting around 55 percent of the potential gross.
Does that extrapolate to a potential of a $30 million or better figure, had everything been open?
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