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Eli Roth’s ‘The House With a Clock in Its Walls’ Tops the Box Office, Beating ‘Goosebumps’ Opening Weekend
Hooray for family-friendly horror!
The highest opening weekend in Eli Roth’s career to date, the Jack Black-starring The House With a Clock in Its Walls stands triumphantly at the top of the box office this weekend, raking in $26.8 million domestically in its debut weekend. That’s higher than the opening weekend of similar film Goosebumps, which had a $23.6 million opening back in 2015.
The film’s production budget was a reported $42 million, so it still has a ways to go on the road to being profitable. But besting Goosebumps is no doubt a victory for now.
Elsewhere on the charts, Neon’s Assassination Nation was a huge flop this weekend, pulling in just $1 million in 1,400 theaters. As Exhibitor Relations notes, the Purge-like film had the worst debut of the year for any movie released in 1,000+ theaters. Big ole yikes.
As for The Predator, Shane Black’s (incredibly fun) attempt to re-start the franchise dropped -65% in its second weekend, making $8.7 million for a domestic total of $40.4 million. Given it was made on a production budget of a massive $88 million, and that’s not including the marketing spend, it seems this may be the end of that franchise for a while. Sigh.
Meanwhile, The Nun continues to scare up impressive numbers, passing $100 million domestically this weekend. Worldwide, Corin Hardy’s fright flick is approaching $300 million!
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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