Another Strong Box Office Week
With the general optimism around this year’s box office, it’s always great to see a strong week, even if it's free of the splashy record-breakers this year has delivered. Brandon Blake, entertainment lawyer at Blake & Wang P.A., dives into this past week’s releases.
Resident Winners
The rebooted Resident Evil franchise, now under Zach Creggar, has turned in a surprisingly strong start, at $108.3M worldwide. It’s the best start for the franchise, and for Creggar as a filmmaker. Notably, it replaces Resident Evil: Retribution, and that film only took a total of $240M worldwide, something this iteration may well surpass and should at least repeat. It also managed to bring in an extended audience, instead of only playing to existing fans. They still have foreign expansion in the works, too.
The Odyssey managed to hang on to the No. 2 slot, now standing at a global cume of $1.72B, Universal’s highest to date. Surprisingly, the third-place slot went to the Practical Magic 2 sequel, despite a niche audience to cater to.
Other Strong Performances
Not to be outdone, A24’s Backrooms also managed to pass the $400M mark at the global box office this weekend. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still charming audiences, now with a shiny global cume of $2.478B, and only just short of a billion of that from domestic screens.
Then there’s a far smaller success story. The once-shelved tax write-off now teetering on the cliff of $100M in worldwide takings: Coyote vs. Acme. It has more than earned that No. 5 spot in its fourth frame. Ketchup acquired the movie for half of that.
Runner, from Angel Studios, has now reached a global cume of $15.2M, most of that domestic. Chinese release Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is doing surprisingly well in China, slipping ahead of another favored local release and The Odyssey both. It’s currently sitting at $323.8M. The question now is if it will prove an international breakout like Ne Zha 2 before it, or if it will stay local to the Chinese market.
All in all, that’s a strong and thriving box office, especially given we’re between notable annual markers and getting deeper into the fall currently. Once again, let’s hope to see the same momentum play out for the last few months of the year.
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