Shazam? Failure of the Gawds: Weekend Box Office Results (Mar. 17-19)
Shazam is here and the DC
Gods are
Furious with the results. A $30.5 million opening is not what they were looking for, especially since this one comes with $125 million production budget. The first
Shazam opened to the tune of $53.5 million on an $85 million production budget.
That means that
Shazam 2 opened up 43% off of the pace of
Shazam 1. Damn.
The fall off makes sense when you consider the reviews.
Shazam had and A cinemascore while the sequel has secured B+. And the sequel is rocking a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes which is a stark drop from
Shazam's 90% rating. I guess I'll catch you on HBO Max then.
Like
S C R E A IVI,
S C R E A IVI fell to second place in it's second weekend. With another $17.5 million added, the 6th installment was off by 60.6% from last weekend.
Scream 5 dropped by 59.3% in its second weekend on it way to $12.2 million. That's only a minuscule 2.1% difference. It's up to $76 million domestically and it's already crossed $116 million worldwide.
Creed lll continues to hold strong with another $15.3 million. Its $127.6 million running total surpasses
Creed ll's $115.7 million. It's the same worldwide with
Creed lll at $224.2 million passing
Creed ll's $214.2 million. And this was all done in 17 days.
and shout out to Jonathan Majors in that Army commercial too.
Nah, man, thank you.
Falling 1 spot down to 4th place was
65 with $5.8 million. It's now pulled in $22.4 million despite its 35% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. I guess that's 64 audience score is keeping it alive somewhat. It's now made $38.8 million worldwide on a $91 million production budget.
Ant-Man 3 rounds out the top five with $4 million. The theater count has been reduced 2,650 after 5 weeks. Hey, it finally crossed $200 million domestically. It did that in 26 days. It took
Ant-Man 2 36 days to do it. So there's a win, I guess. It's $462.6 million worldwide running total still trails
Ant-Man 2's total of $622.6 million. You'll get there Scott. You just need more
Notables
Avatar 2 has now made $678,114,154 and trails
Avengers: Infinity War's $678,815,482 for the 7th highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office.
Fresh off of seven Oscar wins, Everything Everywhere All at Once returned to 1,633 theaters and made $1.2 million. It's now made $75.5 million.
The Top Ten
Rank | Last Week | Movie | Gross | % +/- LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
| 1 | - | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | $30,500,000 | - | 4,071 | $30,500,000 | 1 | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | 1 | S C R E A IVI | $17,500,000 | -60.6% | 3,676 | $76,029,284 | 2 | Paramount |
| 3 | 2 | Creed III | $15,372,838 | -43.6% | 3,477 | $127,699,974 | 3 | United Artists Releasing |
| 4 | 3 | 65 | $5,800,000 | -53% | 3,405 | $22,427,395 | 2 | Sony |
| 5 | 4 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $4,071,000 | -42.9% | 2,650 | $205,833,350 | 5 | Disney |
| 6 | 5 | Cocaine Bear | $3,870,000 | -38.1% | 2,687 | $58,489,070 | 4 | Universal |
| 7 | 7 | Jesus Revolution | $3,500,000 | -31.8% | 2,354 | $45,539,700 | 4 | Lionsgate |
| 8 | 6 | Champions | $3,030,000 | -41.2% | 3,039 | $10,589,905 | 2 | Focus Features |
| 9 | 8 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $1,928,000 | -27.4% | 1,190 | $678,114,154 | 14 | 20th Century Studios |
| 10 | 9 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | $1,510,000 | -13.8% | 1,735 | $182,594,180 | 13 | Universal |
Thought we had another week or two for Jurassic Park meets Time Cop
