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‘IT’ Tops $300M at the Box Office While ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Underperforms
It took only five weeks for New Line Cinema’s IT to top $300M domestically as early estimates put the Stephen King adaptation at $9.6M for the weekend for a total of $305M. Worldwide is sitting at $298M (we’ll update this as soon as we have numbers), which means worldwide has officially topped $600M. IT‘s still not even close to The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist.
Warner Bros.’ other genre film, Blade Runner 2049, underperformed in its #1 spot. Early reports pegged it topping $40M only early estimates now have it at $31M. (Update: It also made $50M internationally.) While it carried a strong Cinemascore, the movie did run at nearly 3 hours, limiting the number of showings in the 4,000+ theaters. It was also R-rated, which typically can have a negative impact on box office. ERCboxoffice notes a perfect comp: The Mummy, which ended its run with $80M domestically ($400M worldwide). Blade Runner 2049 carries a reported $150M budget, which means it will need over $600M worldwide to break even. Not happening. It’s a bummer, too, as Blade Runner 2049 is a unique and artistic film that really breaks the norm of what we’d expect a studio to release. This underperforming, much like Paramount’s over-priced mother!, could put an end to studio risks until the next one breaks out.
Speaking of, mother! is working its way out of theaters quickly. It barely topped $350k this weekend in just 420 theaters. It sits at $17M domestic and $39M worldwide. If the budget weren’t a ridiculous $30M, it would have possibly recouped its budget (plus marketing). Instead, write this one up as a massive flop.
Another flop is Sony’s Flatliners remake, which found it’s way up to 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. It only dropped 43% this weekend and made another $3.8M for a total of $12.3M. On a budget of $20M, the second weekend of international only pulled in $3M more. Brutal. Right now it sits at $18M worldwide.
Let’s see how Happy Death Day performs next weekend, with Jigsaw waiting in the wings for Oct. 27.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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