Apes are hot these days coming off of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and beast fever will spill over into the weekend of May 10-12 when 20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is looking to open to $54M-$61M.
That’s the latest forecast from tracking service Quorum which reports on 6 weeks-in-advance box office projections versus the standard three-weeks by longtime tracking firm NRG.
Men, natch, are quite huge with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, bigger than last summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($61M) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning ($54.6M 3-day).
Currently, Universal’s The Fall Guy, which is getting a special screening at CinemaCon after its world premiere at SXSW, is tracking 17 points in awareness behind the Wes Ball-directed Apes, 6 points behind in interest, and 8 points behind in preference of seeing the movie in a theater over home.
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