There’s no sheltering from this storm.
Marvel’s latest cinematic offering, the Florence Pugh- and Sebastian Stan-starring action ensemble Thunderbolts*, electrified the box office this weekend. The film opened to $76 million at the domestic market and took in $162 million globally. While it’s far from the strongest opening in MCU history (Thunderbolts* currently ranks as the 28th-biggest domestic opening in franchise history), it has a solid lead on several notable under-performers, including 2021’s Eternals ($71 million) and 2023’s The Marvels ($46 million).
Thunderbolts*‘ domination at the weekend box office means Ryan Coogler’s historical horror film Sinners has been dethroned after two weeks in which it seemed unbeatable. But Coogler and cast Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Hailee Steinfeld have no reason to fret: Sinners‘ $33 million take in its third week of release not only earned it the No. 2 spot at the domestic box office, but represented a meager 28 percent drop from weekend 2, per Comscore. The film took in $43.4 million across global markets, earning it a cumulative $236.7 million.
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Michael B. Jordan as Smoke in ‘Sinners’
The rest of the top five at the domestic weekend box office are all holdovers. A Minecraft Movie is holding strong in third place with an impressive $13.7 million take, considering the film is in its fifth week of release and shed 270 screening locations from last weekend. The family-friendly video game adaptation starring Jason Momoa, Jennifer Coolidge, Danielle Brooks, and Jack Black has cumulatively earned $398.2 million domestically, and $873.4 million globally.
In fourth place is Ben Affleck’s The Accountant 2, the sequel to his 2016 action-thriller about an autistic CPA who helps launder foreign terrorist funds. The film, which re-teamed Affleck with Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and J. K. Simmons, grossed $9.4 million in its second weekend, making for a $41 million cumulative domestic gross and $65.7 globally.
Finally, another video game adaptation, the claustrophobic horror Until Dawn, earned fifth place with just $3.8 million at the domestic box office this weekend, making $14.3 million overall domestically, and $34.7 million globally.
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Elsewhere on the domestic charts, Angel Studios’ animated Christian film The King of Kings earned the seventh spot domestically in its fourth week of release, with a $1.6 million take. A24’s Iraq War actioner Warfare dropped a significant 50% in its fourth week of release, earning just $1.2 million at the domestic box office, making for a $24 million overall gross over its estimated budget of $20 million budget.
One of the weekend’s more disappointing performances came from the Nicolas Cage-starring indie The Surfer. The psychological thriller, which premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival, grossed only $674,500 in its premiere weekend, for a per-theater-average of $763.
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Jason Momoa and Danielle Brooks in ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Looking ahead, next Friday’s battery of new releases contains several intriguing titles across a range of genres, but no clear contenders for box office glory.
Josh Hartnett will once again draw on the unhinged side of his actorly talents showcased so beautifully in last year’s Trap for this year’s Fight or Flight, which follows a mercenary who must team up with his mark on an international flight. The film marks the feature directorial debut of prolific visual effects supervisor James Madigan.
Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd will team up for the fraught A24 comedy Friendship; horror fans will get the chance to delight in Clown in a Cornfield, which surely merits no summary; and a stable of stars including Jason Isaacs, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, and Derek Jacobi will team up for the Shakespearean musical Juliet & Romeo.
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