‘Longlegs’ Lookin’ Good Tonight With Near $3M Preview Record For NEON – Box Office
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Everyone in distribution loves a surprise, and spurring a lot of chatter throughout today is the $2.5M-$3M previews for NEON‘s serial killer horror movie Longlegs.
This is per box office sources tonight. For the specialty distributor with a penchant Palme d’Or winning movies, that’s the best take ever in Thursday night previews for their movies, outstripping the sub $1M Thursday which yielded their highest opening title ever at the domestic B.O., the Syndey Sweeney genre pic Immaculate ($5.3M) last spring.
If Longlegs stays firm, it could bode for a $10M-$15M opening; some even buzzing it could best Apple Original Film/Sony’s Scarlett Johansson-Channing Tatum rom-com, Fly Me to the Moon, which was projected to do $12M.
That movie is currently seeing $800K-$900K after shows that began at 3PM. However, Fly Me to the Moon isn’t a Thursday night crowd type of movie, more Friday night and Saturday.
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