Box Office Poll for the Weekend of May 10 (Patreon)

Hey gang, wild-ass day today, so getting this week's poll up a little late, but hey, we're going APE getting ready to head out for the WHM Texas Two-Step next week! [Get them tix here, by the way!] 

So this weekend, the next APES movie is here! Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is out and it's hard to believe it's been seven, long years since I went to the theater at 11:00am and immediately greened out watching War for the Planet of the Apes! This one is here courtesy of Mr. Maze Runner himself, Wes Ball and it's forecast to drum up somewhere around $40M-$45M. Unfortunately, based on that read, it's already tracking to be the lowest opening for any of these modern era apes movies (beginning with 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes), which is a bummer.

A lot of the flick's total this weekend is going to depend on the IMAX turnout. I can't imagine many IMAX screens will be holding over The Fall Guy, so hopefully there's a decent push from those higher ticket sales. Non-IMAX PLF screens will also likely be carrying this movie.

I'll toss out a couple other things to consider, one good and one not so good for the film's total. The Planet of the Apes franchise has multi-generational appeal. Boomers and up have had some version of Apes on screens in their lifetimes, starting with the Heston-lead original in 1968. So that's a pretty wide audience net being cast.

That said, the awareness around this movie is a real question. It's not a great title, one, and two, there aren't really any big, known names in this movie. Previous entries had folks like James Franco, Woody Harrelson, Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Mark Wahlberg, and so on. The biggest name here is William H. Macy, who I don't even remember being in the trailer, and then maybe Kevin Durand, who I love, but he's not a household name and is also playing an ape, so he's covered up by CGI anyway.

So with all that info swimming around, what do we think here? What kind of box office will this new Apes sequel drum up? Vote below and we'll chat about it when On-Screen Live returns on May 20!

Have a great weekend, y'all— watch good stuff! - Andrew