UPDATED, SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday update: Disney/Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* is currently playing a bit ahead of Shang-Chi’s second weekend with $9 million Friday and a weekend around $35M, off 53% from its opening last week. That second weekend ease is the eighth best among all MCU titles across 36 releases. That will get the Florence Pugh-Wyatt Russell-Sebastian Stan Marvel ensemble past $130M by Sunday.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings during its post-Labor Day frame in 2021 did $34.7M, off 54%.
Currently the weekend for all titles looks to be doing $91M, -5% from a year ago ($96.1M per Box Office Mojo), that frame boosted by Disney/20th Century Studios’ opening of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes with $58.4M.
After a $6.6M fourth Friday, Warner Bros’ Sinners, is heading to $22M in its fourth weekend. How does it stack up to other fourth weekends for horror films? It’s head of the fourth weekends of Sixth Sense ($20M) and It‘s ($16.9M). Sinners is behind Blair Witch Project‘s fourth weekend of $24.3M, but that’s a bit of apples to oranges as it was technically the second wide weekend for the found-footage movie, which had a two-weekend platform. Interestingly, Sinners isn’t that far from the fourth weekend of A Minecraft Movie ($22.7M).
The rest of the weekend is looking as follows:
1.) Thunderbolts* (Dis) 4,330 theaters, Fri $9M, 3-day $35M (-53%), Total $130.3M/Wk 2
2.) Sinners (WB) 3,502 theaters, Fri $6.5M (-32%), 3-day $22M (-32%), Total $215.3M/Wk 4
3.) A Minecraft Movie (WB) 3,468 theaters, Fri $1.9M, 3-day $8.8M (-36%), Total $409.8M/Wk 6
4.) Accountant 2 (AMZ) 3,402 (-208) theaters, Fri $1.67M (-36%), 3-day $6.1M (-36%) Total $50.88M/Wk 3
5.) Clown in a Cornfield (IFC) 2,277 theaters, Fri $1.69M, 3-day $3.9M/Wk 1C+ Cinemascore, which is average for a horror movie with a 44% definite recommend on PostTrak. Mostly guys at 56% with the 25-34 demo the best at 38%. Best areas for business –again not to use that word in strongly– are South Central, Midwest, Mountain and West. AMC Empire NY is the top grossing venue stateside with just over $13K through Friday.
6.) Fight or Flight (Vert) 2,153 theaters, Fri $1M, 3-day $2M/Wk 1C+ CinemaScore. 48% definite recommend on PostTrak, which is OK, but the second best of the new bunch here this weekend. Men attended at 65%. Over 35 are showing up at 58%. 51% Caucasian, 23% Latino and Hispanic, 11% Black, and 9% Asian. Best areas of play are Midwest, Mountain and West with AMC Century City the best venue with close to $4K through yesterday.
6.) Shadow Force (LG) 2,170 theaters, Fri $720K, 3-day $2M/Wk 1CinemaScore is a B here for this Kerry Washington-Omar Sy Lionsgate action pic, which was made for $40M net. 54% definite recommend on PostTrak, which isn’t shabby, but nobody is coming. We’ll have more on this later this weekend as to what went sideways here. Business is light with the pic’s best regions being the South, East, South Central and Midwest. The Cinemark Colonel Glen 18 in Arkansas is the best location stateside with less than $5K through Friday. Mostly men at 52%, with Black moviegoers leading at 35%, then Caucasian at 34%, 22% Latino and Hispanic, and 6% Asian. The over 35 set is the best demo for the pic at 63%.
6.) Until Dawn (Sony) 2,465 (-590) theaters, Fri $580K, 3-day $2M (-46%), Total $18M/Wk 3
9.) The Amateur (20th) 1,200 (-935) theaters, Fri $278K (-49%), 3-day $1M (-48%), Total $38.9M/Wk 5
10.) King of Kings (Angel) 1,089 (-946) theaters, Fri $140K 3 day $700K (-59%), Total $59M/Wk 5
Notables:
Friendship (A24) 6 theaters, Fri $227K, 3-day $500K, PTA $83K/Wk 1 Excellent limited start with strong business at AMC Lincoln Square NYC, Angelika NY, AMC Burbank, AMC Grove, AMC Century City and the Vista in LA (where do you park when you go there?). It’s pretty much official, this is the best opening theater average of 2025 to date.
Juliet & Romeo (BCF) 1,350 theaters, Fri $100K, 3-day $350K/Wk 1
Remember, there are bigger events to come at the summer B.O.
PREVIOUSLY, FRIDAY AM: Disney and Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* will continue to storm the weekend box office in its second session with an estimated $30 million, off 60% or less from its debut frame. The Jake Schreier-directed movie will cross the century mark Friday stateside in a weekend that’s littered with a bunch of single-digit-million openers. Summer competition doesn’t start until next weekend, when New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines will debut to a projected $30M-$40M. Thunderbolts* will have all the Imax and PLFs this weekend.
Warner Bros’ Sinners is not going to hell at the box office, but rather continues skyward ending week 3 with $46.6M and a running total of $193.3M. The Ryan Coogler-directed, Michael B. Jordan-starring vampire movie is crossing $200M today with a fourth weekend that’s expected to be potent with $23M-$25M, -30%, per industry forecasts. Sinners will have Imax 70MM auditoriums May 15-21.
Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie is looking to ease another 35%-40% in weekend 6 with around $8M after a week 5 of $16.5M and running total of $401M as of yesterday.
Amazon MGM Studios’ The Accountant 2 ends its second week with $13.1M and a running total of $44.7M.
In regards to the rest, the one movie expected to pop is IFC’s Clown in the Cornfield at 2,277 screens, looking at around $5M. Critics love the movie at 80% fresh in the wake of its SXSW premiere in March. The Eli Craig-directed title is set in a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge. We just heard the movie did $600,000 previews.
Lionsgate’s Kerry Washington and Omar Sy action movie Shadow Force is eyeing $3M-$4M at 2,170 screens. The movie was greenlit during the Joe Drake administration at the studio. Critics aren’t hot on it with 50% Rotten. Last night’s previews were $200K. In Shadow Force, an estranged couple with a bounty on their heads must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer, a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them.
Vertical is excited about its airplane action movie Fight or Flight, which carries a 78% fresh with both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The Josh Hartnett-starring, James Madigan-directed pic has the best previews of anyone with $550K, and that’s from last night and Monday Mystery screenings. Outlook is $2.5M. Out of the new movies tracked on PostTrak last night, Fight or Flight had the best scores with a 49% definite recommend and 3 stars. Pic’s blurb: A mercenary takes on the job of tracking down a target on a plane but must protect her when they’re surrounded by people trying to kill both of them.
Briarcliff Entertainment has Juliet & Romeo at 1,350 theaters and it stars Jason Isaacs, Rupert Graves and Rebel Wilson. The Timothy Scott Bogart pop musical movie is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s looking to do around $1M.
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