Power Rangers Worldwide Opening Weekend Total at $59.2 Million Dollars

From the Hollywood Reporter, totals for worldwide opening weekend are at 59.2 million.

That good, bad, or meh?

We still didn't beat Beauty and the Beast during the first week. It's still not a bad start and I hope we get a sequel by 2019 or 2020.

Original expectations had this movie making between $30 and $38 million. So for it to hit the $40 mark domestically is a big "omg, don't sleep on this movie" type of thing. You will see a lot more coverage for it next week with Hollywood sites writing click-bait articles examining WHY the movie did better than expected.

The international release is slightly disappointing. For Power Rangers to be so huge globally in terms of being viewed in hundreds of other countries, to work in only $18 million internationally, or less than what the movie did here in the US on Saturday, leaves me a bit wary.

Ideally, you'd want the movie to break even and not be a "loss" in terms of financials for Lionsgate and Saban Brands. At the same time, when the movie does better than expected (ie: "it didn't flop as much as we thought!"), the argument can then be made that this movie is setting up the next movie which will be bigger, badder, and make more money.

So who knows, really. Depends on what Saban and Lionsgate want to do.

The Budget for the movie was 105 million US, so for it to make half of it's budget back on the opening weekend domestically I'd say was pretty decent.

Of course, toy/merchandize sales could factor into it too but I think a sequel is pretty much assured.

That was never going to happen, though. Honestly, between ticket sales beating expectations and reviews not being overwhelmingly negative, this movie has done way, way better than I ever expected.

I'm still going to wait and catch it on video/streaming, personally, but I will probably make an actual effort to watch it when it comes to home video instead of maybe just stumbling into it on cable in a couple years.

I hope week 2 will do better then this.

We are getting a sequel, but I am curious how it did in Japan.

It won't. It is very rare when a movie doesn't have a drop in ticket sales during its second week. The big test for Power Rangers isn't going to be if its box office numbers increase, but how much they decrease. Beauty and the Beast is setting a lot of sales records for this time of year and it still saw an almost 50% drop in ticket sales this weekend compared to last. I think the studio will be happy if the box office drop isn't too far north of 60%.

Ghost in the Shell and Boss Baby are coming out next week. I see a lot of ads for those movies over the past month. So PR will probably drop to #3 or #5 next week.