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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Wins the Weekend with Mixed Results

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales easily won the weekend with $62.2 million beating the competition by a mile. While it won the weekend, the film didn’t do all that well considering the fact it has a reported budget of $230 million. But, the film did earn $208.4 million at the foreign box office for a total of $270.6 million. It did set a record in Russia  for an opening.

The film received an “A-” CinemaScore from the opening day audience and was 53% male and 65% over the age of 25. 72% of all showing were in 2D. With so many blockbusters coming in the following weeks, this will be a tough battle to make a decent profit. Its future will mostly be in the hands of the foreign box office.

Dropping to second place was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 which earned an estimated $19.9 million domestically bringing its total to $333.2 million. Worldwide the film has earned $783.3 million.

Another new film, Baywatch, came in third place for the weekend. The film earned an estimated $18.1 million. With a budget of $69 million, that’s not a disaster but the film will have to do well at the foreign box office. The R-rated film received a “B+” CinemaScore and was 52% female with 55% of the overall audience 25 years or older.

As expected, Alien: Covenant dropped hard earning just $10.5 million in its second weekend. That’s a 70.9% drop. The film has earned $57.3 million domestically and $158.4 million worldwide. With a budget of $97 million, the film should make a small profit when it all wraps up.

Wrapping up the top five was Everything, Everything which earned an estimated $6.2 million. The film has earned $21.5 million so far with a $10 million budget.

When it comes to other comic adaptations…

Logan came in at #27 earning $106,000. The film has earned $226.1 million domestically and $607.5 million. It, along with Deadpool, that you can do comic action films with smaller budgets and make a healthy profit.

We’ll be back in an hour with even more coverage of 2017’s comic adaptations and later this week we’ll have a review of Wonder Woman which debuts this week and definitely win the weekend box office.

Alien: Covenant Narrowly Beats Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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We predicted last week that it’d be a close one between Alien: Covenant and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at the weekend box office and we were right. Alien: Covenant debuted with an initial reported $36 million compared to Guardians‘ $35.1 million.

That $36 million was far below Prometheus‘ $51.1 million debut back in 2012, however, its budget was far less, $97 million compared to $130 million. Alien: Covenant has already earned $81.9 million at the foreign box office for $117.9 million so far total. The film should do fine in the long run overall, though it’s domestic total may be disappointing. The film earned a “B” CinemaScore and the audience was 62% male, 66% age 25 and older, and 51% Caucasian.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was second, earning an estimated $35.1 million in its third week. The film has earned $301.8 million domestically, $430.8 million at the foreign box office for $732.6 million so far. It’s possible the film crosses $1 billion. With a $200 million budget, it’s one of Marvel Studios’ more expensive films. They tend to have sequels balloon in budgets. It’s their sixth highest earning film (not adjusted for inflation).

In third place was Everything, Everything which did very well with an estimated $12 million. That was the higher end of estimates and the film earned an “A-” CinemaScore, so should do well off of word of mouth.

Snatched was anything but this weekend with an estimated $7.6 million to come in fourth place. The film cost an estimated $42 million and so far has earned $32.7 million domestically. It’ll need the foreign box office to make a profit.

Rounding out the top five was Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul which debuted with an estimated $7.2 million. That’s just half of the last film’s debut back in 2012, and that was about 50% less than the previous two films. This film will have to rely on kids getting out of school if it hopes to pick up business.

When it comes to comic adaptations…

Smurfs: The Lost Village continues to smurf along earning an estimated $520,000 to come in at #14. The film has earned $43 million domestically and $180 million worldwide. For a $60 million budget, that’s not too bad.

Logan came in at #25 and added $180,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $225.9 million. Worldwide the film has earned $607.3 million.

Though the film isn’t charting, The LEGO Batman Movie earned about $200,000 domestically over the past week to bring its total to $310.3 million.

And finally, Ghost in the Shell added about $1 million to its total to bring that to $169.6, there’s still some life in there it turns out.

We’ll be back in an hour for further analysis of 2017’s comic adaptations!