Theater Counts: The Emoji Movie Launches in an Ambitious 4,075 Theaters
July 27, 2017
The Emoji Movie gets its day in the sun this weekend, and will have an impressive 4,075 theaters to play in, according to Sony’s announcement today. That’s up there with the likes of The Lego Batman Movie (4,088), Trolls (4,060), and Sing (4,022). Those films made between $35 million and $55 million on opening weekend. If this film does anything in that range, Sony will be happy.
Atomic Blonde, meanwhile, goes out in a more focused, but still substantial 3,304 locations. That’s enough to post a good debut, if it reaches its audience.
Next weekend is looking lighter, although The Dark Tower could pick up a few more movie houses than its currently-predicted 3,200, and 2,200 isn’t a bad number to achieve for a new distributor (Aviron Pictures in this case) for the release of Kidnap.
Theater Counts for Weekend of July 28-30
| Movie | Distributor | Theaters | Previous
Theaters | Change |
|---|
| The Emoji Movie | Sony Pictures | 4,075 | | new |
| Dunkirk | Warner Bros. | 3,748 | 3,720 | +28 |
| Spider-Man: Homecoming | Sony Pictures | 3,625 | 4,130 | -505 |
| Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | STX Entertainment | 3,553 | 3,553 | 0 |
| War for the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | 3,374 | 4,100 | -726 |
| Atomic Blonde | Focus Features | 3,304 | | new |
| Despicable Me 3 | Universal | 3,030 | 3,525 | -495 |
| Girls Trip | Universal | 2,648 | 2,591 | +57 |
| Baby Driver | Sony Pictures | 1,961 | 2,503 | -542 |
| Wonder Woman | Warner Bros. | 1,651 | 1,971 | -320 |
| The Big Sick | Lionsgate | 1,589 | 2,597 | -1,008 |
| Wish Upon | Broad Green Pictures | 892 | 2,154 | -1,262 |
| Cars 3 | Walt Disney | 861 | 1,294 | -433 |
| Transformers: The Last Knight | Paramount Pictures | 538 | 1,025 | -487 |
| A Ghost Story | A24 | 329 | 43 | +286 |
| Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie | 20th Century Fox | 267 | 291 | -24 |
| The House | Warner Bros. | 255 | 453 | -198 |
| 47 Meters Down | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | 240 | 448 | -208 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Walt Disney | 231 | 268 | -37 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Walt Disney | 210 | 229 | -19 |
| The Mummy | Universal | 184 | 214 | -30 |
| The Beguiled | Focus Features | 143 | 331 | -188 |
| Mubarakan | Sony Pictures | 128 | | new |
| Lady Macbeth | Roadside Attractions | 104 | 40 | +64 |
| All Eyez on Me | Lionsgate | 94 | 62 | +32 |
| Beatriz at Dinner | Roadside Attractions | 68 | 116 | -48 |
| It Comes at Night | A24 | 23 | 33 | -10 |
| Detroit | Annapurna Pictures | 20 | | new |
| City of Ghosts | IFC Films | 19 | 18 | +1 |
| The Exception | A24 | 11 | 28 | -17 |
| Band Aid | IFC Films | 9 | 12 | -3 |
| The Wedding Plan | Roadside Attractions | 8 | 7 | +1 |
| An Inconvenient Sequel | Paramount Pictures | 4 | | new |
| Menashe | A24 | 3 | | new |
| From the Land of the Moon | IFC Films | 2 | | new |
Note: New theater counts are added as studios report throughout the day on Thursday
Estimates for Weekend of August 4
Bruce Nash
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