Sorry, not sorry about taking Week 2 off for an update. When Clowns, Planes, and Shadow Force are the only new options at the box-office, there’s a reason why most of them haven’t even grossed $5 million in ten days. While Fight or Flight is kind of a fun B-Movie Bullet Train and Shadow Force just made me giggle every time a character said the phrase “Shadow Force” with a straight face on-screen, it’s a little crazy how these were the films that were actually released in theaters when big-budget movies like Wolfs and The Gorge were dumped as streamers.
Just feels like it should be flipped with the B-Movies being straight-to-streaming and A-Listers going to theaters… Though maybe that’s how you stay an A-Lister these days is by going to a streamer and avoiding the “box-office bomb” label when you underperform in theaters. Hey, I see what’s happening here!
Finally, Week 3 arrived and the hits were back, baby! Final Destination: Bloodlines had an amazing opening weekend of $51.6 million. That’s already more than the last FD film grossed in its entire run! Great call on whoever made the decision to bring back this franchise… and maybe it points again to something people still enjoy going to movies for: crowd reactions and audience responses and Chicken Jockeys.
Thunderbolts* kept grinding away at the cinema for the past couple weeks. Racking up weekends of $32 million and $17 million, the film now sits with a $155.5 million total. The path to $200 million will be hard for this film with two new mega-contenders coming out this Memorial Day Weekend, but it has a chance to crawl its way there much like Bad Boys: Ride or Die was able to stay on over 1,000 screens for two months after it debuted.
The Top Five If Today Was Labor Day:
#1. Thunderbolts* - $155.5 million
#2. Final Destination: Bloodline - $51.6 million
#3. n/a
#4. n/a
#5. n/a
