‘Snow White’ Wishes On $15M+ Second Weekend, But Could Get Fired By Jason Statham’s ‘Working Man’ – Box Office Update
2ND UPDATE MIDDAY: Disney’s Snow White with $4M today and potentially $15M+ for the weekend hopes to lead the weekend, but she could be undone by Amazon MGM Studios/Black Bear’s Jason Statham movie A Working Man.
At a time of depressed box office, the meat and potatoes dude action of Statham still has an audience with a Friday near $5M today and outlook of $13.5M. Some rivals even show Snow White and A Working Man neck in neck for the weekend. A Working Man has PLFs like Dolby and 4DX. Snow White is booked at 4,200 sites while A Working Man is at 3,262 locations.
Third goes to Fathom Events’ The Chosen: Last Supper with $5M today and $12M for the weekend at 2,234 locations.
Fourth is Universal/Blumhouse’s The Woman in the Yard is more popular than A24’s Jenna Ortega horror film Death of a Unicorn, but not by much, $8.4M to possibly $5M. Woman in the Yard at 2,842 is seeing $3M today, while Death of a Unicorn is eyeing $2M at 3,050 theaters.
GKIDs Princess Mononoke at 330 sites is looking at $2M today including last night’s previews for a beefy $3M weekend.
Overall, an embarrassingly depressed weekend at the box office just as every single studio struts their stuff in Las Vegas for CinemaCon.
‘Princess Mononoke’
Studio Ghibli
1ST UPDATE AM: There was a handful of cash thrown at four new movies last night with GKIDS re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 anime Princess Mononoke taking the lead at 330 Imax locations with $ 1.2M in a new 4K print. The Princess will share some of those Imax hubs with Disney’s Snow White who saw a second Friday of $1.8M ending her first week with $ 52.6m; she’s expected to maintain No. 1 despite all the pic’s noise over Rachel Zegler’s casting, etc with hopefully around $20M.
Princess Mononoke follows a young warrior Ashitaka, who is seeking to cure himself from a curse. He stumbles into a conflict between the people of Iron Town and Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of her home. The stateside release of the movie was handled by Miramax back in 1999 and grossed $2.37M. Box Office Mojo reports a $159M global gross on the film, but we’re looking into that.
‘Snow White’, ‘Death of a Unicorn,’ The Woman in The Yard,’ and ‘Working Man’
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Amazon MGM Studios’ David Ayer directed, Jason Statham reteam, A Working Man, clocked $1.1M at 2,550 locations. Black Bear financed the latest shoot ’em up which is expected to do between $10M-$12M this weekend.
Blumhouse/Universal’s PG-13 horror movie Woman in the Yard saw $ 870k at 2,500 theatres from showtimes that began at 2PM. She’s booked in 2,842 theaters. Woman in the Yard‘s Thursday is a little higher than Lionsgate/Blumhouse’s Imaginary from a year ago which did $725K in previews on its way to a $ 9.9m opening. It was also PG-13. The psychological horror, which is an exploration for grief, film cost $12M before P&A.
A24’s Jenna Ortega-Paul Rudd R-rated genre movie, Death of a Unicorn, horned $700K. The $15M production comps to R-rated titles Mother! from Darren Aronofsky and Sony’s Rough Night, both which did $700K in previews and filed respective openings of $ 7.5M and $8M. It’s just not a good weekend for horror.
Warner Bros’ $50M bomb, Alto Knights, did $175K last night ending its first week with $ 4.4m.
