Hocus Pocus Bumps New Mutants While Tenet Holds on to First
Tenet continued to hold on to the top of the box office with an estimated $2.7 million gross over the weekend. That’s down 20.6% from the previous weekend. It brings the film’s domestic gross to $45.1 million after 5 weeks.
Over the week, the film brought in about $20 million at the international box office. It now stands at $262 million at the foreign box office. Worldwide, the film has brought in $307.1 million.
In second place was the re-release of Hocus Pocus. The film earned a little over $1.9 million domestically for the weekend.
That re-release bumped The New Mutants to third place. It earned an estimated $1 million domestically for the weekend, a drop of 14.7%. That brought up those earnings to $20.9 million. Internationally, the film added about $1.6 million over the entire week. There it has grossed $21 million total so far to bring its worldwide earnings to $41.9 million. It continues to have about a 50/50 split for domestic and international earnings, a rarity in today’s box office.
Unhinged dropped to fourth place adding $870,000 to its domestic earnings which now stands at $18.4 million. The drop is just 10.1% from the previous weekend.
Infidel rounds out the top five with an estimated $455,000 domestically, a drop of 40.2%. It has now earned $3.4 million after 3 weeks.
28 films totaled a little under $8.3 million for the weekend box office and 15,744 theaters. That’s about $600,000 less from 9 more films compared to the previous week and about 3,500 fewer theaters. Each theater last week brought in just $462 last week while this week saw the number increase a bit to a little under $527.
Things are about to get much crazier at the box office with Regal Cinemas and Cineworld now shutdown until 2021. The future of movie theaters was in question and now there’s even more to ponder about movie releases as a whole. Will fewer options increase the per average theater earnings? We’ll have to wait and see and anyone claiming definitives is making it up. As the Terminator emphasized, the future is unwritten, and that’s currently very true when it comes to the future of movie theaters.
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