John Wick: Chapter 4 caps the competition delivering a new weekend box office champ
It’s another weekend box office champ as John Wick: Chapter 4 debuted in first place. The film opened with an estimated $73.5 million. The first film debuted with $14.4 million 2014, the second with $30.4 million in 2017, and the third opened with $56.8 million in 2019. Internationally, the film also earned $64 million delivering a weekend total of $137.5 million.
Creed III improved a slot coming in second though still dropping from the previous weekend. The film grossed a reported $10.4 million to bring its domestic total to $140.9 million. Internationally, it added about $8.4 million to lift that total to $105 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $245.9 million.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods went from first to third with an estimated $9.7 million, a 67.8% drop. Domestically, the film has grossed $46.3 million. Over the week, the film did better internationally where it grossed about $21.1 million to bring that to $56.1 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $102.4 million. It looks like this is going to be a rough one for DC films and one has to wonder how it might impact the release of The Flash and Blue Beetle, both releasing before the massive reboot coming.
Scream VI dropped from second to fourth with $8.4 million to bring the film to $89.9 million. Over the week it added $9.4 million internationally to bring that to $49.4 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $139.3 million.
65 added $3.3 million domestically to bring that to $27.8 million. It added $4.8 million to its international total to lift that to $21.2 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $49 million.
In comic film news…
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania slipped out of the top five and grossed $2.4 million to bring its domestic total to $209.9 million. Internationally, the movie grossed $200,000 over the week to bring that to $257 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $466.9 million.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village looks like it still has earned $10.1 million domestically. Internationally, the film has grossed a little over $3.9 million to bring that to $42.5 million and $52.6 million worldwide.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond looks like it didn’t make any gains and the domestic total is steady at $1.6 million. Internationally, it looks like it remained at a little over $10 million. The worldwide total is a bit over $11.6 million.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever looks like it held steady at $453.8 million domestically. Internationally, the film added a little over the week to bring that to just over $405 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed over $858.9 million about a $50,000 increase.
The week’s overall box office success…
Numbers have 65 films earning $116,184,669 from 31,687 theaters. That’s a an improvement from last weekend’s $91,497,121 from 33,891 theaters and 60 films. A similar amount to two weekends ago. The average earning was $3,666.64 this past weekend, an increase from the previous weekend’s $2,699.75.



