Black Adam Rock Bottoms the Box Office; Is The People's Champion: Weekend Box Office Results (Oct. 21-23)
Do you smell what the rock is cooking? He and
Black Adam are cooking up $67M at the box office this weekend. Hey, critics, with your 40 Metacritic score, what do you think of that?
You can Take that 40% on rotten tomatoes... Shine it up real nice... Turn that sonbytch sideways and stick it straight up your candy ass! The People's Champion just dropped the People's Elbow with an Audience Score of 90%.
Let's take a look at the daily box office performance starting with the Thursday previews.
Black Adam made $7.6 million on Thursday. It made $19.1M on Friday. $23.7M on Saturday. That means that Black Adam was actually up 24% on Saturday. The Rock with the rare debut where Saturday outperforms Friday. Sunday took in another $16.6M in ticket sales.
That $67M debut is the best for a Rocky Johnson led movie and even better than the $63M projection. It also gives The Rock his second number one movie this year, as
Black Adam joins
DC League of Super Pets, which debuted to $23M in July.
This is also the 7th best opening weekend for a DCEU movie, right behind
Aquaman's $67.8M in 2018. That movie would go on to gross $335M domestically and $1.1B worldwide. We'll see what kind of heights
Black Adam can reach. As it stands now,
Warner Bros has to thank the millions and millions of Rock's fans all over the world as
Black Adam grossed $73M internationally for a total of $140M worldwide.
You cac critics keep hating
Taking second place was the George Clooney / Julia Roberts Rom-Com,
Ticket to Paradise with $16.3M. and it already made $80.2M internationally; it currently sits at $96.6M. It grossed $1.1M in Thursday previews and $5.3M on Friday (minus previews). That means, like
Black Adam, it grossed more on Saturday, with $6M. Good for you, George, but you might wanna make another Nespresso commercial. I just saw Brad Pitt drinking espresso from a DeLonghi. Watch out. He's coming for your coffee commercial crown.
Keep laughing. It's already happening.
Taking third place was
Smile. You heard that right. Not
Halloween Ends but
Smile in it's fourth weekend with $8.3M. The Paramount horror flick is holding steady, with another 33.5% decline this weekend and it's currently up to $84.3M domestically. $100M is right around the corner. It's already sold $166.2M worth of tickets worldwide.
Falling all the way from a first place debut to fourth place was
Halloween Ends with $8M. That's an 80% decline.
Evil has officially died tonight.
That was worse than Halloween Kills' 70.8% decline in its second weekend.
And that decline was with no change in theater counts. People weren't tryna go see
Mike get punked in the sewer. I don't blame them.
Despite the decline, the movie is still a commercial success. Probably thanks to the misleading commercials.
It's now grossed $54.1M after it's second weekend, down from
Kills' $73M. Worldwide, it's limply slashed it's way to $82M.
Looking a lil crispy there, Mikey. Word to Bussa Bus. Evil grinds tonight.
Rounding out the top five was
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile with $4.2M. After three weeks, It's now grossed $28.7M domestically and $37.1M worldwide. That's all I got for you on this one.
Keep it up, Lyle and you might push Mike outta the top five next week.
Notables Outside the Top Five
Another horror movie,
Terrifier 2, finished in the top ten, with $1.8M from only 755 theaters. It's now up to $5.2 this Halloween season.
For the first time in it's seven weekends,
Barbarian finished out of the top ten. It's $589K was good for eleventh place. It's now crossed the $40M mark domestically at $40.1M. It makes it HBO debut next week.
1/2 is high praise for a horror movie and far and away the best rating for one this year.
@Lootpack you agree with that?
For the first time in it's 22 weekends,
Top Gun: Maverick has failed to finish in the top ten. It finished in 15th place, it's lowest position so far, with $260K. It's now up to $716.2M domestically. shyt may never come to Paramount+ at this rate as long as it's still pulling in six figures going on six months.
The Top Ten
Rank | Last Week | Movie | Gross | % +/- LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | - | Black Adam | $67,000,000 | - | 4,402 | $67,000,000 | 1 | Warner Bros |
2 | - | Ticket to Paradise | $16,340,000 | - | 3,543 | $16,340,000 | 1 | Universal |
3 | 2 | Smile | $8,350,239 | -33.5% | 3,296 | $84,310,000 | 4 | Paramount |
4 | 1 | Halloween Ends | $8,000,000 | -80% | 3,901 | $54,177,440 | 2 | Universal |
5 | 3 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | $4,200,000 | -42.9% | 3,536 | $28,712,851 | 3 | Sony |
6 | 4 | The Woman King | $1,900,000 | -48.7% | 1,858 | $62,856,088 | 6 | TriStar |
7 | 8 | Terrifier 2 | $1,895,500 | +83.9% | 755 | $5,256,000 | 3 | Bloody Disgusting |
8 | 6 | Don't Worry Darling | $880,000 | -60.7% | 1,306 | $44,273,000 | 5 | Warner Bros |
9 | 5 | Amsterdam | $818,000 | -70.4% | 1,750 | $13,923,565 | 3 | Disney |
10 | 14 | Triangle of Sadness | $600,000 | +79.9% | 280 | $1,419,875 | 3 | Neon |
Catch y'all next week.