Send Help takes the weekend box office as 4 out of the top 5 are debuts
Send Help wont he weekend box office with an estimated $20 million. The film debuted with a fairly solid weekend holding steady between Friday and Saturday. It grossed $8.1 million internationally for a worldwide debut of $28.1 million.
Iron Lung took second place with an impressive $17.8 million domestically and $3.9 million internationally for a worldwide opening of $21.7 million. The film will absolutely shift the movie business as the movie is an indie film by Markiplier that bypassed major studios and played straight to the internet personality’s fans. But, it also might have shown a weakness in that strategy too. The film opened in first place Friday but dopped 41.1% on Saturday and another 34% on Sunday indicating that Markiplier’s fans turned out early and the movie might not have legs in theaters or appeal to the masses. But, the film has a reported budget of just $3 million so has easily turned a profit. It shows that there is a space for niche, low budget films, that play to a very specific built in audience. While critics were a bit mix, audiences have returned a positive review. The second weekend will be key to see if this has legs and can be something more or if it’s a cult classic right out of the gate.
Melania opened in third place with a little over $7 million with no international box office reported, though it did open in international markets. The film is a disaster though Trump’s media will spin it otherwise. Amazon and Jeff Bezos paid $40 million for the film with an additional $35 million going toward marketing. $28 million of the $40 million went to Melania as a producer, an unprecedented amount all around. It’s hard to not see all of this as shady as shit and a backdoor way to get money to the President to gain favor. The film’s gross also was inflated with organizations stepping in to buy tickets and get people in the theaters. Advertisements were found online to pay individuals to sit through the film. The film has been savaged by critics while it has been review bombed in a positive way for non-critic reviews. Expect it to tumble in the second weekend.
Zootopia 2 could be the story of the year for films with impressive legs. The movie held on to fourth place with $5.8 million in its tenth week to bring its domestic total to just under $409 million. Over the week, it grossed $25 million to bring its international gross to $1.368 billion. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $1.777 billion.
Rounding out the top five was another debut, Shelter. It grossed $5.5 million domestically and $7.7 million internationally for a worldwide debut of $13.2 million.
In other comic related movies…
All You Need Is Kill grossed around $38,000 domestically over the week and now $690,138 total. There’s no international gross.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution remained at $16.6 million domestically. Internationally, it also remained at $24.9 million for a worldwide gross of just over $41.5 million.
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc remained at $43.4 million domestically. Internationally, the movie gained about $700,000 over the week and has grossed $117.2 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $160.6 million.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie – Infinity Castle has grossed $134.5 million domestically. Internationally, the movie added about $5.6 million and is at $593.7 million. Its worldwide gross is $728.3 million.
Numbers have 66 movies grossing $83,999,566 from 38,846 theaters for an average of $2,162.37. That is compared to last week’s 71 movies grossing $54,792,025 from 40,521 theaters for an average of $1,352.19.
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