From Fortune · Andrew McGowan · · 1m 50s
GTA VI launch threatens November box office
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19 with six million pre-orders worth $630 million, overshadowing a thin slate of theatrical releases.
In brief
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19 with six million pre-orders worth $630 million, overshadowing a thin slate of theatrical releases. Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19 launch with $630 million in pre-orders is expected to draw millions away from theaters during an already weak month for cinema. Originally…
Documentary tops weak Halloween weekend
A24's You Can See Everything, a three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned $11.4 million to win the Halloween box office.
First non-concert documentary to top box office since 2004
You Can See Everything is the first documentary outside the concert genre to lead the box office since Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 in two thousand four.
Halloween weekend shows no theatrical boost
Unlike Christmas, Thanksgiving or the Fourth of July, Halloween does not boost the box office when it lands on a weekend. People lack an extra day off and prefer trick-or-treating or parties.
Hunger Games leads thin November slate
Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives November twenty with tracking of fifty five million to sixty five million dollars.
GTA VI launches one day before Hunger Games
Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto VI on November nineteenth, one day before Sunrise on the Reaping opens. The sixth game arrives thirteen years after Grand Theft Auto V.
GTA VI pre-orders already exceed major film earnings
Sensor Tower estimates GTA VI drew six point four five million digital pre-orders worth about six hundred thirty million dollars as of October twentieth, excluding physical copies.
Video game launch expected to pull viewers from theaters
GTA VI's release is more than eleven times what every movie in North American theaters grossed over Halloween weekend.
The essence
Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19 launch with $630 million in pre-orders is expected to draw millions away from theaters during an already weak month for cinema.
