Mamamia ain't got nothing on me yes welcome to this week's movie math
where Denzel Washington reaffirmed that he is one of the only box office draws
left in Hollywood as he had a surprise win over the weekend's other sequel
although denzel's like equalised or to listen to sequel it's like it's kind of
- in it you can't win that argument Denzel but he did win the weekend even
though tracking box-office tracking had predicted
an easy win for mama Mia now to be fair neither movie delivered stunning numbers
Denzel never dazzles at the box office but he is impressively consistent so if
you don't spend too much money making a Denzel movie you're gonna be very happy
now who else should be happy black audiences because what handed equalizer
to the weekend was a diverse audience whereas mama mia two's audience was
surprised surprised overwhelmingly Caucasian in fact I went to see Mamma
Mia - with my parents and afterwards my father said great movie but they should
have had a black character in there yes everyone wants to see more diversity
coming out of Hollywood especially when you have an ensemble
cast and when it comes to movies that are headed up by a single star Caucasian
audiences are open to any ethnicity as they were still the biggest audience for
denzel's equalizer - but then of course there is the growing purchase power of
the black audience now usually african-americans a lot of
you always asked me this african-americans usually make up about
15% tops of a movie's audience so that's like the most it can be and sometimes
it's lower but here it was double that and for a movie like Black Panther well
actually for Black Panther it was almost 40% so surely if mama mia 2 had added
say jennifer hudson maybe it could have won the weekend after all
speaking of jennifer hudson she's going to star in cats would you particularly
if you're a member of the black community see cats where they actually
dress up as cat for Jennifer Hudson I think that will be
a real test of support now as for other demographics because
everyone always asks me this if you'd like to see better representation for
your group in the movies make sure you go to the movies and ladies that
includes you as well because Mamma Mia 2 under performed it was expected to open
on par with this summer's other chick flick oceans ain't easy money right well
not but at least it did improve on the first film's debut speaking of the first
Mamma Mia that made a whopping 76% of its money
overseas and the sequel is off to a solid if not spectacular start
internationally itself it's only getting started and it did manage to secure a
Chinese release date it's China into ABBA
they do love karaoke so this could end up being a brilliant plane the first
film did not open in China and speaking of singing surely dwayne johnson would
love to serenade china right now at the love song because the metal kingdom
saved his latest movie skyscraper from being a total embarrassment it
opened with forty-seven point seven million there this weekend and that's
not a fast and furious level and it's not even as strong as rampage rampages
debut in China showing that even even the Middle Kingdom is getting rocked out
but that's still more money in a single weekend and then skyscraper has been
able to scrape together in two weeks domestically as for the rest of the top
10 BH Tilt failed to release another flick after they dropped the ball with
upgrade this time unfriended dark web does Jason Blum have a distribution
company really reckon you should stop pitching that to people be like if Jason
Blum tells you don't worry we'll distribute it ourselves run although
it's kind of hard to get a couple million dollars to make a movie so I
guess you're just gonna have to roll the dice and hope it goes better on your
follow-up but also a but what's of most interest in the top 10 is we're in these
movies stand globally in two weeks Hotel Transylvania 3 has shot past 200 million
Wow while ant-man and the wasp is stuck in
the mid 303 hundreds still waiting on the UK Italy Japan and hopefully
hopefully a Chinese release date although I think it would be impossible
for not to debut there considering again how close Disney is with China and dress
world fallen Kingdom has climbed to almost 1.2 billion putting it at number
16 currently for all time as for this coming weekend the box office it's
expected one last surge for the summer with Mission Impossible fall out which
is expected to clock in at 65 million sixty-five actually that's pretty darn
good in fact it would be the best opening for the franchise yet ironically
cruises movies are marathon runners and not sprinters and then while Teen Titans
go is rocking a hundred percent currently on Rotten Tomatoes that
doesn't seem to be making much of a difference as it's not expected to be
very super at the box office which movie or movies do you plan to see this coming
weekend and don't forget we're doing a ticket montage for Mission Impossible
fall out so be sure to take those pictures at the theater and tweet them
to me all the way through the deadline will be like 10 a.m. Eastern Standard
Time on Sunday full instructions on how to participate in that are down below
and I'll be tweeting them out this week as well so that's this week's movie math
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