FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Who says two horror movies can’t live in the same space? Warner Bros/New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines is seeing a $20M Friday, including last night’s $5.5M previews, for a $43M 3-day at 3,523 theaters while the studio’s Sinners is eyeing a fifth weekend of $15M, -32%. As we told you previously, that’s the best opening ever for a Final Destination movie.
Even though Sinners is in third place as of this point, damn, an unprecedented hold for a R-rated horror movie one again, this time $500K more than The Blair Witch Project‘s fifth sesh of $14.5M. Running cume by Sunday will stand around $240.3M. Sinners has 70MM Imax auditoriums this week and its overall theater count is 3,518.
In second place, it’s Disney’s Thunderbolts with a third weekend of $16M at 3,960, -50%, for a running cume by Sunday of $154.8M; 14% ahead of Eternals at the same point in time.
Fourth is Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie with a $3.3M Friday, seventh weekend of $5.6M, -27% and running total of $416.3M.
Fifth is Lionsgate and Live Nation’s Hurry Up Tomorrow with a very low $3.3M to $4.7M opening after a $2.5M Friday including $1.65M previews. Interesting to note, that the Weeknd’s May 9 Glendale, AZ tour stop at the State Farm Stadium pulled in a reported $8.7M alone, 85% more than the opening weekend of the 4x Grammy winner’s movie here.
UPDATE after previous EXCLUSIVE: Warner is reporting $5.5 million in previews for New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines, well ahead of what we were spotting. That’s ahead of Sinners‘ $4.7M. It’s also $100,000 higher than the previews for Conjuring spinoff The Nun which went on to do a $22M Friday and $53M three-day opening frame. Wowza Warners.
Very strong PostTrak exits from the fan crowd last night with 4 stars and 69% definite recommend, skewing 60% men.
No one is going to be hurrying up to Lionsgate/Live Nation’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, which is getting a 1/2 star and a 34% definite recommend. Thursday previews were $350K, but when added into early access fan events of $1.3M, total previews are $1.65M. Again, the whole movie is part of a three-point media blitz by The Weeknd timed to the kickoff of his North American After Hours Til Dawn Tour (which is set to be the year’s highest-grossing concert tour in the U.S. with $400M) as well as his album that dropped at the beginning and includes much of the music from the movie.
More updates as they come.
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros’ box office bonanza continues this weekend as New Line’s horror reboot Final Destination: Bloodlines is stabbing around $4.6M in Thursday night previews according to sources. That figure is just $100K shy of the studio’s Sinners‘ previews that pic turning into a $48M opening. The forecast on Final Destination 6 here was $35M-$40M heading into the weekend, but with excellent reviews and audience response on Rotten Tomatoes at respectively 93% and 90%, don’t be shocked if those forecasts are left in the dust for something greater. Showtimes on Thursday began at 3pm. Warner Bros didn’t return request for comment on Thursday night’s ticket sales.
We’ve come a long way in the preview game: the last Final Destination was in 2011 and did $450K off midnight shows which yielded an $18M start. Previews for Bloodlines are also ahead of NEON’s The Monkey, which did $1.9M before a $14M opening; another notable horror bow this year to date. The best opening in the series belongs to 2009’s The Final Destination with a $27.4M 3-day. As we previously mentioned, Bloodlines will score a record opening for the New Line R-rated franchise.
Bloodlines will rep the 4th No. 1 opening for Warner Bros this year after Mickey 17, A Minecraft Movie and Sinners. Through 20 weekends, and counting Bloodlines, Warner Bros has notched No. 1 six times so far at the 2025 domestic box office.
Directors on Bloodlines are Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein off a screenplay by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor based on characters by Jeffrey Reddick.
Also opening this weekend is the Live Nation, Lionsgate release Hurry Up Tomorrow starring The Weeknd and Jenna Ortega. Speaking of horror, at 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, critics covered their eyes. However, audiences were far more generous at 75%. We’ll see where that one goes, the $15M Trey Edward Shults directed movie forecasted to be in the mid to high single digits. As we mentioned, it’s a distribution deal for Lionsgate, so no skin off their nose.
Disney/MCU’s Thunderbolts* and Warner’s Sinners are expected to hold quite well. The Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Hannah John-Kamen ensemble is expected to do around $19M in weekend 3 while the Ryan Coogler directed, Michael B. Jordan starring vampire pic is looking to be around $15M.
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