Disney’s “Snow White” remake can be sufficiently melted during its second weekend so that the Amazon MGM “a working man” opens onto the box office. The tight match of First will only make only a modest price, because other new features such as “Death of a Unicorn” by A24 and “The Woman in the Yard” by Universal publish more deaf openings.
“A worker” paved the way on Friday, winning $ 5.6 million during his opening day and his preview provisions from 3,262 locations. The Thriller Conspiracy Action Listed R, which sees Jason Statham withdrawals with the director David Ayer just over a year after the couple tilted “The Beekeeper”, also obtains increased ticket prices from certain premium high -format auditoriums like Dolby and 4DX.
Now projecting a start of $ 15.6 million, “Working Man” is contacting the opening weekend of $ 16 million won by “The Beekeeper” in January 2024, which then posted a strong multiplier with 66 million national dollars and more than $ 160 million worldwide. The criticisms and the public are both a little cooler here than they were for “Beekeeper” (the cinema cinema score has published a note “B”), so there could be less power. But even if its figures are smaller, it is a solid arc for “a man who works” and the producer Black Bear, as well as more evidence for Statham being one of the few modern players with the curriculum vitae of a reliable theatrical draw.
Whether or not “Snow White” is in second place in its second outing, the release of Disney does not show the power it needs to succeed in theaters. The fantastic film won $ 3.7 million on Friday and plans a second dollars’ second framework north, which would be a heavy drop in 65% compared to an opening weekend which has already fallen under the box office projections.
With this rhythm, it is unlikely that “Snow White” even exceeds Disney’s reimagination in 2019 of “Dumbo”, which ended with a disappointing period of $ 114 million and 353 million dollars worldwide – and that the Elephant Fairy tale cost much less than the production budget of 250 million dollars of this new version. It is an indicator that it may have been an apple bite too much for Disney’s practice to reinvent its lively animated classics – or that a remake of a film that is almost 90 years old will not be an instant success with the modern public. Disney has the more family -friendly “Lilo & Stitch” remake from the coming millennium in May.
The theaters get a franchise opening this weekend with “The Chosen: Last Supper”, which marks season 5 of the television adaptation of studios 5 & 2 of the life of Jesus Christ. (As the title would indicate, the biblical series is about to reach a culminating betrayal.) Specialty distributor Fathom Entertainment publishes this new season in theaters as an event during the week, inclining the first two episodes this weekend in 2,234 theaters.
This first edition of “The Chosen: Last Supper” won $ 5 million during the projections on Friday and preview, putting it on the right track to exceed the weekend of $ 7.2 million in franchise won by season 4 of “The Chosen” (episodes 1-3) in February 2024.
Despite the growing success of Fathom with “The Chosen”, “Last Supper” marks the last banner rodeo with the series, while studios 5 and 2 and the world distributor Lionsgate concluded an agreement with Amazon to broadcast the last two payments as feature films. The new agreement also includes a theatrical version component.
Open further in the charts, the universal PG-13 horror game “The Woman in the Yard” does not shoot too many seats after winning $ 3.6 million on Friday and previews from 2,842 locations. The production of Blumhouse, which features Danielle Deadwyler and the director Jaume Collet-Serra with horror, will land in fourth place. He has respect for the authors, although opinions are largely negative and that the public is not receptive either (a note “C-” on Cinemascore). But as it is the Blumhouse brand, “Woman in the Yard” was not a heavy financial investment, with a production budget of $ 12 million.
A24 is trying in a star comedy this weekend with “Death of a Unicorn”, nailing its horn in fifth place. The play Gory Ensemble, which has a cast comprising Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega and Téa Leoni, the first cinematographic performance in more than a decade, won around $ 2.2 million from $ 3,050 theaters every Friday and seen.
The criticisms were not exactly enthusiastic about “Unicorn” of his first SXSW earlier this month and the film does not really account with the public (a note “B-” on Cinemascore). This is another break not made for A24, which has not failed either with the horror satire “opus” earlier this month. The independent banner will once again try with the military thriller “Warfare” in April.
Also opening this weekend, GKIDS has 4K catering from the classic Hayao Miyazaki in 1997 “Princess Mononoke” in 330 sites, sharing the imax rooms with “Snow White”. After a week of AI magnate magnates praising the Ghibli studio online, fans of real artists whose tech tech gives a film of almost 20 years a welcoming theatrical participation. “Mononoke” plans a weekend of $ 3.8 million by competitors. The original version of the 1999 United States won only $ 2.3 million over its race.
