“You’re not actually going to allow them to do that, are you?” Such are the gripes across the City of Angels from rival distributors about Sony’s public-facing acknowledgment that they’ve previewed Gran Turismo over the last two weekends, lagniappe box office which will be included in Friday’s total.
Yesterday starting from 2PM showtimes, the feature take of the Sony Playstation game earned $1.4M at 3,156 theaters, including PLF and Imax monies.
The Neill Blomkamp directed movie has a shot at No. 1 this weekend making $12M-$15M at 3,800 theaters. Sony at the end of July decided at the last minute to move Gran Turismo‘s wide opening from Aug.
11 to Aug. 25. This was for several reasons: one to get away from the heat of Barbenheimer, and also to create word of mouth on a movie that doesn’t have its stars to promote due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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