The box office report for this past weekend is here and there is a lot to discuss.
Dungeons and Dragons opened this week and managed to open above expectations. It opens to a solid $38.5 domestically and due to its strong word of mouth it should hopefully have legs similar to Jumanji 2017. Now this isn’t an amazing opening weekend but this isn’t a super well know brand and a lot of the general audience just know it from Stranger Things. It also beat expectations overseas and opened to $33 million, for a global total of $71.5 million. The only hurdle this film really faces is The Super Mario Brothers that opens on Wednesday as that is also a family film, but is much more recognised by the general public. We will have to see how this does in the upcoming weeks to see if this could be the start of a new franchise for Paramount.
John Wick Chapter 4 had a solid hold but had a significant drop of 61%, mainly due to losing its premium screens and that fact that Dungeons and Dragons over performed. However it still brought in a good $28.2 million and hit $122.9 million domestically. Overseas it had quite a strong second weekend gaining another $35 million. John Wick 4 now has a global total of $244.9 million surpassing the first two entries in the series.
Shazam Fury Of The Gods continue to be an embarrassment of the DC universe as in its third week it only manage to bring in a pathetic $4.7 million for a domestic total of $53.6 million, which is around the originals opening. Zachery Levi confirmed this week that there has been no conversations about another Shazam move after after this disaster at the box office I don’t think we will see Shazam for a good while.
However Marvel isn’t doing any better with Ant man and The wasp Quantumania having nearly completed its run at the box office. It should have a domestic total of a tiny $215 million. Marvel does seem to have acknowledged their problems now as a lot of peoples projects have been delayed and a new report suggest that they are aiming for 3 movies and 2 shows a year.
As for the rest of the box office, Scream 6 continues to do strong business for the horror genre and has now surpassed $98 million domestic and is very close to surpassing $100 million, and will be the first Scream film to do so since the second one. I expect Paramount to announce the next instalment in the coming weeks. Creed 3 also continues to do well at the box office despite hitting digital and has now hit a domestic total of $148.6 million.
That’s it for the box office this week, what did you watch this last week?
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