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[Box Office Report] ‘The Prodigy’ Has Quiet Opening; ‘Alita’ Strong Overseas
Orion has made a triumphant return to theaters with The Prodigy (read our review), an extremely dark and violent horror film in which Taylor Schilling plays a mother concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior and thinks something supernatural may be affecting him. IT‘s Jackson Robert Scott has a breakout performance as the young child in the film directed by Nicholas McCarthy.
We here at Bloody Disgusting love the film and were hoping it would make waves at the box office, unfortunately, it had a quiet opening to just $6M here in the States. The good news is that the budget is a modest $6M and there are still international numbers set to arrive. The latter will make or break the film’s success as the domestic take (most likely) won’t cover the film’s budget and marketing costs. We’re rooting for it.
The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez-directed Alita: Battle Angel (read our review) hasn’t opened here in the States yet, but has managed $32M overseas in its opening weekend. This is a solid number had the budget not reached a reported $150-$200M. It’s highly unlikely that the film, starring Rosa Salazar as a revived female cyborg, will manage to recoup its massive budget and marketing costs. It needs a global run of $500M-$600M to even have breathing room around the collar. Ouch.
Other updated numbers still being added include Sony’s Escape Room at $108M globally and M. Night Shyamalan‘s Split sequel, Glass, sitting at $221M.
In specialty news, Lords of Chaos, the vicious, unapologetic, and riveting true story of the birth of Norwegian Black Metal managed $28k in just four theaters, which is a $7,000 per screen average. Not too shabby. This must-see dramatic thriller stars Rory Culkin (Scream 4) as Euronymous and Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond the Pines) as Varg as two members of Mayhem, a group of friends with a flair for publicity, church-burning and murder.
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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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