The film, which features a turn by Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales that has been earning Oscar chatter, made a debut big enough to stake a claim at the bottom of the Top 10, earning $2.1 million. Keeping the positive train going, Pablo Larrain’s Spencer is also off to an impressive start at the box office, having been released in fewer than 1,000 theaters this past weekend. If it makes another $47 million on top of its current total, it will pass Black Widow on the global chart – though it would appear that it has a limited chance to get to eighth place, as catching up to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings would mean it earning another $88 million.
Worldwide, Dune has made $330.4 million, which is a pretty massive deal because it means that it has cracked into the Top 10, having surpassed the $324 million made by Shawn Levy’s Free Guy. Having made $83.9 million to date domestically, the science-fiction epic now ranks as the 12th biggest film of the year in North America (it sits behind Craig Gillespie’s Cruella, which made $86.1 million before the end of its big screen run in early summer). In addition to the $71 million earned domestically, the film has already raked in an additional $90.7 million from foreign territories, resulting in a worldwide total of $161.7 million thus far.Īs predicted, the arrival of Eternals meant that the reign of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune at the top of the box office came to an end after two-straight weekends – but the film did a solid job continuing to sell tickets and hold on in the Top 5. Will audiences disagree with critics, leading to influential positive word of mouth that will result in a minimal 50 percent drop? Or will there be an alignment in opinion that ends in something more in the 60-plus percent range? We’ll have to wait until next Sunday for the answer.įor now, we can say with certainty that Eternals is off to a good start.
In 2021 it has notably been the films with hybrid release models that have taken serious dips in their sophomore Friday-to-Sundays, but in the case of Chloé Zhao’s movie the key factor will be the aforementioned buzz.
For example, 2014’s 22 Jump Street actually came in +38% above 2012’s 21 Jump Street.Eternals has been released as a theatrical exclusive (similar to Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and unlike Black Widow), and you can expect that next week I’ll have plenty of analysis for you regarding its weekend-to-weekend performance. However, there is an occasional exception.
2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (-19%).2010’s Sex and the City 2 (-37% below its predecessor).Though the comparisons vary wildly in terms of genre and tone, examples include: This has often been the case with movie sequels to popular television shows: the audience comes out for the first installment, but not as much for the second. Simon Curtis ( The Art of Racing in the Rain, Woman in Gold, Goodbye Christopher Robin) takes over directing duties from Michael Engler.īox office comparisons: The original movie was a surprise hit at $96.8M, though current projections have the sequel coming in more like half that amount.
Their second feature film is set after both the 52-episode television series (which aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and PBS in the United States) and 2019’s Downton Abbey movie. Premise: Focus Features’ historical drama follows the saga of Great Britain’s wealthy Crawley family, now in the late 1920s. No Way Home ($804.4M total so far, as it nears the end of its theatrical run).
Boxoffice PRO is currently a projecting a debut of $190M-$215M and a total of $450M-$560M.īetter comparisons may be subsequent films in which Doctor Strange has appeared, including: Sam Raimi directs, marking his return to the superhero genre after helming the three 2000s-era Spider-Man movies.īox office comparisons: 2016’s original Doctor Strange hardly seems a fair comparison-that film earned a $232.6M domestic total, a number this sequel is currently tracking to almost match in its opening weekend alone. Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the title character Stephen Strange, alongside Rachel McAdams as love interest Christine Palmer and Elizabeth Olsen as fellow superhero Wanda Maximoff. Premise: The Disney / Marvel Studios superhero sequel explores the multiverse concept, which the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) first revealed in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame and further expanded upon in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Friday, May 6