On Weekend of Frights, Black Adam Reaches $100 Million Heights: Weekend Box Office Results (Oct. 28-30)
Black Adam has slow motioned it's way to another 1st place finish this Halloween Weekend with $27.7M. That's good for a 58.7% drop from last weekend. It was looking worse after Friday, when it only did $7.4M, which was down 72.1% from last weekend. So, Teth Adam bounced back on Saturday and Sunday like Hawkman taking a beating, dusting himself off, and getting right back to throwing haymakers.
Let's look at a few past movies for comparisons sake.
The Batman saw a 50.4% decline in its second weekend.
Shazam, a more analogous comp, saw a 54.3% drop in it second weekend.
Aquaman is really not a fair comparison because it released during Christmas week and only saw 23.2% drop in its second weekend. I know
The Suicide Squad was released day and date with HBO Max, where I watched it, but it saw a 71.5% drop in its second weekend. A few months ago, The Rock had the animated
DC League of Super-Pets, which declined 52% in its second weekend. Back in 2016,
Deadpool saw a 57.4% drop in it's second weekend. The Rock's own
Skyscraper, dropped 54.4% back in 2018. A few months prior,
Rampage, only fell 43.8%.
Got it?
Good.
Black Adam will enjoy one more weekend at the number one spot before
Black Panther 2 comes along on November 11th. As it stands,
Black Adam has now grossed $111.1M domestically and $250.1M worldwide, after 10 days.
I'm sure Jimmy Gunn and Co. will take that, take that.
Give The Rock a round of applause.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts' Rom-Com,
Ticket to Paradise, held steady in it's second weekend with $10M. It only dropped by 39.4% from its debut weekend. It's now grossed $33.7M and $119.3M domestically and worldwide, respectively. That's on a $60M production budget. So, it's grossed 2 times it's budget as it heads towards being breaking even.
Sorry, George.
Where's the horror movies? It's All Hallow's Eve for fukk sake. Speak of the devil... We get our first horror entry in the top 5, with
Prey for the Devil grossing $7M, good for a 3rd place debut. This shyt is sitting at a less than stellar 5.2 on IMDb right now. Even though this was released on Halloween weekend, I had no interest in seeing it. The only Devil I was watching this weekend was
The Devil's Hour on Prime. I highly recommend it.
Coming in 4th, with $5M, was
Smile. That was a 40.4% drop from last weekend, where it only declined 32.6% from the prior weekend. That's a sharper Halloween drop than expected. It's still almost to $100M domestically, as it sits at $92.3M. It's approaching the $200M worldwide milestone as it stands at $185.9M.
Paramount sitting pretty right now like
Grounding out the top 5 (sorry, Mike) was
Halloween Ends with another $3.8M. That 52.1% drop is looking much better than the 80% catastrophe that was last weekend. But, last Halloween weekend,
Halloween Kills only fell 39.5% as it grossed $8.7M in its third weekend. Mike and Corey have now struggle-slashed, stomped and stabbed their way to $60.3M domestically and $94.6M worldwide. I'm watching the Halloween marathon on AMC right now.
That's right, Corey. I'm watching "scary" movies. Only, I'm not getting dropped kicked over the railing, as I fall to my death in the foyer. You fukk.
Notables Outside the Top Five
Terrifier 2 did another $1.8M and now has a domestic gross of $7.6M. That was up 2.7% from last weekend.
In it's expanded release,
Till made a disappointing $2.8M.
Call Jane debuted in 14th place with $240K.
In it's return to theaters,
The Bad Guys, made $203K which just beat out
Barbarian's $201K.
The Top Ten
Rank | Last Week | Movie | Gross | % +/- LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | 1 | Black Adam | $27,700,333 | -58.7% | 4,402 | $111,139,000 | 2 | Warner Bros |
2 | 2 | Ticket to Paradise | $10,000,430 | -39.4% | 3,692 | $33,732,000 | 2 | Universal |
3 | - | Prey for the Devil | $7,025,000 | - | 2,980 | $7,025,000 | 1 | Lionsgate |
4 | 3 | Smile | $5,049,770 | -40.4% | 3,221 | $92,387,000 | 5 | Paramount |
5 | 4 | Halloween Ends | $3,830,290 | -52.1% | 3,419 | $60,324,000 | 3 | Universal |
6 | 5 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | $2,824,767 | -33.6% | 3,135 | $32,560,000 | 4 | Sony |
7 | 13 | Till | $2,810,353 | +673% | 2,058 | $3,637,000 | 3 | United Artists Releasing |
8 | 7 | Terrifier 2 | $1,803,750 | +2.7% | 1,550 | $7,638,050 | 4 | Bloody Disgusting |
9 | 6 | The Woman King | $1,109,760 | -40.9% | 1,446 | $64,584,000 | 7 | TriStar |
10 | 12 | TƔr | $1,020,177 | +104% | 1,087 | $2,488,000 | 4 | Focus Features |
Catch y'all next week.