American moviegoers send a strong and clear message to Hollywood: making original quality horror films and we will come.
This weekend, the “weapons” of Zach Cregger dominated the box office, collecting $ 42.5 million at the national level. It was the second time this year that an original horror was n ° 1 at the box office. In April, Ryan Coogler’s “sinners” raised $ 45.6 million during his opening weekend.
The “weapons” and “sinners” are distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, who showed “a big formula for making great horror successes”, explains Paul Dergarabedian, principal analyst at Comscore.
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“Weapons” has already exceeded the Cregger in 2022 “Barbarian”, which brought in $ 40.8 million at the national level. The “weapons” examinations were 95%positive, while the “sinners” obtained 97%, according to the revision site, the Rotten Tomatoes site.
“Horror films that obtain excellent criticisms, which are super buzzing, like” weapons “, can do extraordinarily well at the box office,” said Dergarabedian.
Film No. 2 at the weekend box office was Disney’s “Freaker Friday”, which opened at $ 29 million. This is the continuation of the release in 2003 of “Freaky Friday”, a fantastic comedy which brought in 193.1 million dollars at the national level, adjusted for inflation.
“Having a Disney comedy with ‘` Freak Plus Friday’ ‘, then having a horror film at the other end of the genre and the rating spectrum really worked. So there was really something for everyone, “said Dergarabedian
“The weapons” and “Freakalier Friday” were more victories for the overall box office, which increased 7.6% compared to last year for a total of $ 5.6 billion, according to Comscre data.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” by Disney and Marvel, which is in its third week in theaters, fell by 60% of the profits from the previous week, collecting $ 15.5 million and hanging room No. 3. This brings its total interior income to $ 230.4 million.
Two films that opened last weekend came in a family film No. 4 and n ° 5. “Bad Guys 2” reported $ 10.4 million, while “The Naked Gun”, the fourth film in the franchise, won $ 8.37 million.
“It’s a good weekend for the summer of starting to finish,” said Shawn Robbins, director of analysis at Fandango and founder and owner of Box Office Theory, adding that the next “biggest strikers” in Disney arrive at the end of the year – “Zootopia 2” on November 26 and “Avatar: Fire and Ash” opened on December 19.
