The results of a crowded weekend at the box-office are in, and it’s good news for filmmaker Wes Anderson but bad news for DC Comics hero The Flash.
Opening last week in the top spot, Warner Bros. Pictures’ $200 million budget “The Flash” film came in third for its sophomore outing – pulling in $15.3 million.
That marks a devastating 73% decline from last weekend, the second biggest decline for a comic book film to date (behind only “Morbius”) and a far bigger decline than the last two DC tentpoles – “Black Adam” (59%) and “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” (69%).
To give you an idea of how bad it is, the film’s domestic total after ten days is $67 million – a figure worse than the projections for the movie’s three-day opening weekend last month. Internationally it has earned $123.3 million in total thus far, pushing its worldwide total to $210.9 million.
Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse” and Pixar’s “Elemental” are battling it out for the top two spots as Spidey is swinging ahead with $19.3 million compared to “Elemental” with $18.5 million. The latter dropped only 37% from last week’s dismal debut. So far, “Spider-Verse” has generated $316 million in North America and $560 million worldwide.
The Jennifer Lawrence-led $45 million raunchy comedy “No Hard Feelings” looks set to duke it out with “The Flash” for the third and fourth positions. ‘Hard’ is coming in at $15 million for the domestic weekend, solid but under what analysts had hoped would be something more akin to the $23 million “Cocaine Bear” debuted to earlier this year.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” will round out the top five with a further $11.6 million in its third weekend (-44%). The new film has earned $340 million worldwide so far off a $200 million budget.
Finally, Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” expanded wide and will score $9 million for the weekend – a career-high for Anderson.
Source: Variety
