EXCLUSIVE: Common‘s dwell motion take of DreamWorks Animation’s Practice Your Dragon is eyeing round $8M-$9M in previews, which not solely consists of tonight’s monies however these from early fan entry screenings. As we all the time say, these are business estimates, so they may fluctuate by the point Common experiences within the morning. The studio didn’t return request for touch upon what we had been recognizing.
Whereas early week projections had been $65M-$75M, exhibition has been pushing this one in hopes they’ll wrangle a $100M opening. We might use extra of these this summer time publish Memorial Day weekend.
The viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes for this Dean DeBlois directed film (he did the unique animated trilogy) is an epic 99% with critics at 77% licensed recent (that’s somewhat larger than Lilo & Sew‘s 72% recent; that pic’s viewers rating settling at 93%). Previews started right now at 2PM.
Practice Your Dragon‘s preview cash isn’t removed from Frozen 2‘s ($8.5M, $130.2M opening), but it surely’s beneath Lilo & Sew‘s $14.5M ($146M opening). It’s additionally north of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($7.6M, $61M opening).
Fingers down, Trian Your Dragon‘s early cash is forward of the third animated pic, Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($3M previews, $55M opening) and it’s additionally forward of Practice Your Dragon 2‘s $2M in money (that sequel launched by twentieth Century Fox when DWA had their distribution deal there) which became a $49.4M 3-day opening.
The Practice Your Dragon trilogy of flicks have grossed near $1.7 billion on the world field workplace.
We’ll have extra updates within the AM.
