Thursday Night Previews: Glass is the New Ceiling for Shyamalan
January 18, 2019
Glass became M. Night Shyamalan’s fastest starting film with $3.7 million during its previews, topping his previous record of $3 million set by The Last Airbender. More importantly, this is more than the $2 million Split opened with a couple of years ago. This film won’t have as long legs for two reasons. When Split came out, people thought it was an original story and didn’t know it was a stealth sequel to Unbreakable, while Glass is an open sequel and sequels tend to have shorter legs. Also, its reviews are bad with a Tomatometer Score of just 35%. As for its weekend haul, the film needed $4 million during previews in order to have a 50/50 chance at $60 million. $3.7 million means $55 million is more likely. That’s not quite as much as we predicted, but still a good start.
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