Avatar: The Way of Water Opening Weekend; Giants of Premium Formats

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle discuss the opening weekend–and second weekend holdover potential–of Avatar: The Way of Water, as well as Christmas releases providing counterprogramming potential. In the feature segment, representatives from data firm Omdia, exhibitors National Amusements and Marcus Theatres, and premium cinema provider ICE Theaters discuss the role premium formats have played in exhibition in 2022.

This episode is sponsored by ICE Theaters.

  

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Episode Resources:

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What to Listen For

00:00 Intro01:41 Opening weekend of Avatar03:47 Premium format stats domestically06:25 Audience demographics08:30 Batman vs. Avatar10:36 Premium format stats internationally12:41 Christmas effect on movie weekends13:44 Strange World vs. Sing 214:50 Babylon16:13 Whitney Houston biopic17:26 Crucial weeks for Avatar19:19 What premium large format is today?24:50 What does the future of premium screens look like?27:02 Growth of premium screens in 202227:39 Films that worked the best under premium large format30:02 Trends that worked best34:00 Financial performance of PLF36:46 Marketing higher ticket prices39:38 Marketing outside of the film itself43:14 Earned media46:56 Mistakes to avoid when installing PLF auditoriums49:53 Paying for the PLF experience52:06 Effect of inflation in the PLF space57:28 PLF in 2023