“Sinners” is again a winner, on the way to garnish the box office for its second consecutive weekend. Ryan Coogler and the Vampire thriller by Michael B. Jordan won Friday, before new releases as the action suite of Ben Affleck “The Accountant 2”, the adaptation of the Sony video game “up to dawn” and Disney’s reissue of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”.
Warner Bros. Mark a spectacular socket for the “sinners” student, the total of Friday of $ 13 million on Friday marking a tiny drop by 8% compared to his daily total (preview projections without) last week. (The film also added some theaters, going from 3,308 sites to 3,347.) A major component of this power was the request for imax and other high -end format visualizations. Imax alone represented 20% of income on the opening weekends.
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Even against its production budget of $ 90 million, “Sinners” has delivered a sustainable performance, constantly surpassing industry projections in North America. This included last week when he beat the forecasts to hang an opening No. 1 ahead of “A Minecraft Movie” and the biggest beginnings of an original film since 2019. Daily sockets were great in last week, and now the film is looking to cross 100 million domestic dollars on Saturday – less than nine days.
Some competitors plan to drop below 10% over the three days for “sinners”. It would be the best slide in the second week for an opening of more than $ 45 million since “Meet The Fockers” dropped 9.5% in December 2004 – and this film was playing during the Christmas season. “Sinners” does this without a boost from vacation on the calendar. To put it clearly, titles like that almost never happen. The latest original feature to cross $ 200 million in North America was Pixar’s “Coco” ($ 210 million); This reference is definitely on the table for “sinners”.
Beyond its own performances, the stay also highlights the very real (and largely unexploited) appetite for original success productions, especially when the talent offers. In his second weekend, “Sinners” won the battle for viewers against another thriller in “The Accountant 2” and another horror film in “Till Dawn” – two more recent versions and, unlike “Sinners”, both Greenlit under the perceived security of the established intellectual property.
Meanwhile, “the accountant 2” audited $ 9.4 million in ticket sales through the projections of Friday and preview, playing in 3,610 sites. The action suite, which sees Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal, return as fraternal murderers, plans an opening weekend of $ 25 million. This poses a touch before the first “accountant”, which was published by Warner Bros. In 2016 and opened at $ 24 million. This film, also directed by Gavin O’Connor, was a modest theatrical hit, ending with $ 155 million worldwide, but has become one of the most covered digital films in 2017.
This downstream popularity is one of the main reasons why the “accountant 2” was made. The continuation cost $ 80 million before marketing – double the price of $ 45 million in the original. The film was created at the SXSW Festival in March, where it obtained positive criticism. The film also works for the public, with the Survey company Cinema score is ringing a strong note “A-” among ticket buyers.
But at a steep bump on the cost of production, Amazon MGM may have had higher hopes for the opening of “the accountant 2”. Then, we remember “Red One”, the Amazon Christmas theme on Christmas theme and Chris Evans who opened $ 32 million in November against a huge production budget of $ 250 million. This film was then presented as a streaming success by society. Its manager of the theatrical distribution Kevin Wilson argued that a theatrical version is a victory if the brushes simply cover marketing and distribution costs, before a final launch on popular video service. Amazon is always a streaming company more than it is a theatrical studio, so its logic can be that the true value of the “accountant 2” is outside the publicly reported box-office figures.
In a nearby third party is the Disney reissue of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”, probably the most respected of the prequel trilogy at the end of the career of George Lucas and certainly a space opera that has only known the reputation since its beginnings in 2005. Playing in 2,775 theaters, the film won $ 11.3 million during projections Friday and preview and now heads around a three -day gross north of $ 20 million. The wait is that the film will relax during the weekend, although it has a chance to stick “The accountant 2” for second place.
“Sith” has the high terrain as a favorite of fans. For comparison, it is more than doubled by the reissue of last year’s 25th anniversary of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom threat”, which has done an opening weekend of $ 8 million. The 40th anniversary of the “return of the Jedi” in 2023 won $ 5.1 million. (Eyes on “Episode II – Attack of the Clone”, which was released in 2002 and has a silver anniversary in two years.)
The fifth opening, Sony and Screen Gems “up to Dawn” gained $ 3.2 million on 3,055 places on Friday and preview. The film is an adaptation of the popular video game of Sony PlayStation Banner of the same name. He also marks the director’s return of the director David F. Sandberg after having directed the “Shazam!” Duology of superheroes.
The projections are three days north of $ 7 million for “up to dawn”. Critics were the intermediate score and the cinema score transformed a mediocre “C +” note – nor promising signs of stay. The film classified R was not a big expenditure, at the cost of $ 15 million to produce.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. And Legendary Entertainment get fourth place with “A Minecraft Movie”, which scored an additional $ 5.1 million on Friday. Now in its fourth weekend, the adaptation of the comedy of the video game of Mojang Juggernaut is considering a fall of around 50% to reach a national total of $ 377 million until Sunday. This would reject “Jurassic World Dominion” (376 million dollars) as the highest North American output of all time, with many more spots to climb. The film spent $ 700 million worldwide this week.
By extending this weekend, “The Legend of Ochi” of the A24 increases up to 1,150 locations. The fantastic adventure, director Isaiah Saxon, won around $ 610,000 on Friday and plans a three -day frame in the seven low figures.
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