“Logo Text the Weekend Box Office Is On Fire, With Ticket Sales up More Than 100 Percent Over the Same Frame Last Year. The Blaze Is Led By Warner Bros. ‘ Sinners, Directed by Ryan Coogler and Starring Michael B. Jordan. Heading Into Its Sophomore Outing, The Film Was Expert To Compete With Ben Affleck-Starrerrrr.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Weekend Box Office Is On Fire, With Ticket Sales up More Percent Over The Same Frame Last Year.
The Blaze Is Led By Warner Bros. ‘ SinnersDirected by Ryan Coogler and Starring Michael B. Jordan. Heading Into Its Sophomore Outing, The Film Was Expert To Compete with Ben Affleck-Starrer The accountant 2 For the top Spot with AnyWhere from $ 20 Million to $ 25 Million.
But the supernatural period Vampire pic Continues to defy all the Odds and is now to course to Easily Stay. 1 DOMESTICALLY WITH A Phenomenal $ 42 Million to $ 44 Million After Earning $ 13 Million on Friday (Rival Studios All Betting on the Higher Number). EITHER WAY, Sinners -WHICH OPENED TO $ 48 MILLION A Week Ago-Could Enjoy One of the Smallet Drops in History for a Movie Playing Outside of the Year-end Holidays
GRACED WITH VIRTUALLY PERFER AUDIENCE SCORES AND THE BEST REVIEWS OF FILMMAKER COOGLER’S ALREADY ACCLAIMED CAREER, Sinners HAS transFORMED INTO The Rare Title That Has Become a Runaway Water-Cooler Sensation. I Expectioned to Finish Sunday with A 10-Day Cume Hovering AROUND $ 120 Million in A Major Victory for Warners’ Movie Chiefs Pamela Abdy and Michael de Luca.
Amazon Mgm Studios’ New Action-Thriller The accountant 2 and Disney’s 20th Anniversary Release of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Are Also Fueling The Boom (Ditto for Warners’ A Minecraft MovieWHICH REMAINS HIGH UP ON THE CHART IN ITS FURTH Weekend). Depending Upon Who You Ask, The Order of the Three Movies Varies and Won Be Determined Until Sunday or Even Monday.
The accountant 2 Is Hoping for a Second-Place Finish with A Promising $ 23 Million- $ 25 Million After Scoring Strong Reviews and Exit Scores, Including An a- Cinemasscore. That wold be a win as amazon mgm ramps up itatric ambitions (It’s Now Home of the James Bond Franchise).
The first AccountantReleased by Warners, Opened to $ 24.7 Million in 2016 On Its To Grossing $ 155.5 Million Globally and Become The Most-Renated Digital Film in 2017.
Reunting Affleck and Director Gavin O’ConNor, Accountant 2 Currently Sports A Fresh 76 Percent Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes, Compared to A Rotten 53 Percent for the FIRST FILM. Consumers Are Far More Entraned, Judging by the Sequel’s Current 93 Percent Audence Rotten Tomatoes Score.
Affleck Produced The Sequel Via His and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, Alongside Lynette Howle Taylor for 51 Entertainment and Mark Williams for Zero Gravity Management. The Film Made ITS World Premiere at Sxsw Last Month, Winning the Audence Award for the Headliners Specta.
Jon Bernthal, Cyanthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson and JK Simmons Co-Star in Accountant 2WHICH SEES Affleck’s Character Compelled to Step in and Help Solve the Murder of An Old Acquaintance with the Help of His Estranged Brother and A US Treasury Agent. Together, they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becuoming Targets of a ruthless Network of Killers Who Will Stop at Nothing to Keep Their Secrets Buried.
Revenge of the sit Is Looking at A Weekend Haul of AnyWhere from $ 21 Million to $ 23 Million, Which Wound Be One of the Top Openings Ever for A Rerlease (One Rival Shows The Film Earning $ 25 Million). The Crownholder Belongs to 1977’s Star WarsWHICH GROSSED $ 35.9 MILLION WHEN IT HIT Theaters Again in 1997, Not Adjusted for Inflation, Accounting To Comscore.
The Star Wars Rerelease Comes Amid the 20th Anniversary of the Final of George Lucas’ Prequel Films. The Prequels, While Divisive at the Time, Have Only Grown More Apprecated in Recent Years, with A Generation of Kids Who Grew Up with Them Considering Their Preard Star Wars Wars Wars. Star Hayden Christensen Received A ROCK STAR-ESQUE GREETING LAST WEEK at The Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, While He and SITH Star ewan mcgregor reprised their roles for the disney+ Series OBI-WAN KENOBI in 2022, returnning their versions of the Characters to the Zeitgeist.
In Terms of More Recent Recent Recentleases in the Franchise, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace earned $ 8.7 Million on Its Opening Weekend in May 2024, While the Rerlease of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Grossed $ 5.1 Million in Late April 2023.
Both Accountant 2 an Sinners are r-rated and are competing with Revenge of the sit For Male Attention, AlhoUGH The Latter Has The Advantage of Also Playing to Families.
Screen Gem and Sony’s New Horror Offering Until Dawn Looks to Round Out The Top Five With A Forgettable Opening in the $ 7 Million to $ 8 Million Range.