Netflix seems to have a theatrical hit on its arms.
This week, the streamer launched “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller” on roughly 600 display in North America, with field workplace watchers estimating it pulled in round $15 million.
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Although Netflix isn’t releasing official field workplace tallies for its restricted, one-week launch of the Daniel Craig sequel, estimates present a powerful $19,000 per-theatre common gross for the movie, Selection reported.
Throughout the identical timeframe in 2019, “Knives Out” pulled in over $41 million domestically from greater than 3,400 screens for an almost $12,000 per-theatre common. The movie went on to make $165 million in North America, and over $300 million worldwide.
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Netflix’s “Glass Onion” launch marks a departure for the streamer, which till now had seen its theatrical releases restricted to smaller unbiased theatres, with the bigger multiplex chains declining to hold their movies because of the quick window between theatrical launch and streaming premiere.
Information of the sequel’s theatrical success for Netflix comes because the streamer additionally noticed success with a U.Okay. and Eire theatrical launch for “Matilda the Musical”, which earned $5 million and toppled “Black Panther 2” on the field workplace there.