![]() Gran Turismo's box office supremacy was short-lived because, although the film earned a stellar "A" CinemaScore and has a 98 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film tumbled this weekend by 62.3 percent to fourth place with a gross of $6.5 million.ĭespite Warner Bros. wins the box office war with Barbie because of the plethora of records it has already broken. movie theaters were open and operating at 50 percent capacity to adhere to social distancing guidelines.Īt the end of the day, Warner Bros. ![]() opened Tenet with nightly preview screenings at the start of the week through Wednesday before the film officially opened. While the preview numbers weren't widely reported, it is known that Warner Bros. ![]() The release opened during the darkest times of COVID-19 when movie theaters were recovering from being shuttered and not operating at 100 percent capacity, so studios had to do what they could to build interest and get butts in the seats. added figures from 11 preview screenings into the $20 million opening of Christopher Nolan's Tenet. Oddly enough, the studio complaining the most about this has also engaged in this practice, albeit during a much darker time for cinema. Related: The Equalizer 3: Look Out MCU, Robert McCall Would Love to Break Shang-Chi's Labor Day Record at the Box Office John Wick: Chapter 4 fell to the runner-up spot that weekend, its second, with a gross of $28.3 million, and Lionsgate did nothing to dispute the win from Paramount. At the time, no one really cried foul about this because the film was the clear winner of the weekend, even without the addition of the $5.6 million. The studio included $5.6 million earned from a week of specialty screens ahead of its official opening weekend to its debut tally of $37.2 million. in on the "fight" against Sony and Gran Turismo, they simply congratulated the film on its win and moved on. Other major studios didn't seem to take issue with what Sony did, according to Deadline, because they have been in this position to also add these figures to their opening weekend numbers. Warner Bros.'s issue is that the $17.4 million figure earned was not from the traditional three-day opening. Related: Barbie Dethrones Harry Potter as Warner Bros. If that figure wasn't added, Gran Turismo would've made $13.4 million for the weekend and placed second behind Barbie's sixth weekend, earning $15.1 million. had no qualms about that, but what they did take issue with was Sony also added $3.9 million earned from weeks of previews screenings ahead of its release. It's the industry standard to add the Thursday preview earnings to the full weekend total. By the end of the day Sunday, it was reported that the film earned $17.4 million and opened at number one. When Gran Turismo opened in Thursday previews, the film earned $1.4 million ahead of its proper weekend.
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