Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Leads So-So Halloween Weekend With $27.7M - Hollywood Reporter

DC and Warner Bros.’ Black Adam had nary occupation topping the Halloween play box office, though the superhero pic dropped much than expected considering it had small competition.

The movie earned an estimated $27.7 cardinal from 4,402 theaters successful its 2nd outing. That’s a driblet of 59 percent, 1 of the bigger declines for a movie starring Dwayne Johnson successful a pb relation (excluding the Fast & Furious franchise). Nonetheless, the movie raced past $100 cardinal astatine the home container bureau connected Saturday and is projected to decorativeness Sunday with a home cume of $111.1 cardinal and astir $200 cardinal globally.

Among comparatively caller Johnson movies, Jungle Cruise fell 55 percent successful its 2nd weekend. Ditto for Jumanji: The Next Level. Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw fell much oregon astir 58 percent. When it comes to superhero far, it isn’t uncommon to spot a workplace rubric autumn disconnected 60 percent oregon more, though mostly speaking those films opened to $100 cardinal oregon much (Black Adam debuted to $67 million).

Universal’s romanticist drama Ticket to Paradise held good successful its 2nd weekend, dropping conscionable 39 percent to $10 cardinal from 3,692 cinemas for a 10-day home full of $33.7 cardinal and $119.4 cardinal globally. The Julia Roberts and George Clooney movie is simply a needed triumph for adult-skewing fare, arsenic good arsenic for romanticist comedies.

The large Hollywood studios mostly debar opening large lawsuit pics implicit Halloween play (this twelvemonth the existent vacation falls connected Monday), prevention for fearfulness fare.

Lionsgate’s caller fearfulness pic Prey for the Devil opened successful 3rd spot with an good $7 cardinal from 2,980 theaters. The movie faced plentifulness of contention betwixt Smile, which remained a standout successful its 5th weekend, and Halloween Ends.

Smile, from Paramount, placed No. 4 with $5.1 cardinal from 3,221 locations arsenic it crossed the $92 cardinal people domestically. Universal, Blumhouse and Miramax’s Halloween Ends followed with $3.8 cardinal from 3,419 sites successful its 3rd play for a home tally of $60.3 cardinal (the pic is besides disposable connected Peacock).

Halloween oregon nary Halloween, determination was plentifulness of enactment astatine the specialty container bureau arsenic awards play heats up.

MGM and UAR’s Till, which expanded nationwide into 2,058 theaters, came successful No. 6 oregon No. 7 with $2.8 cardinal for a home cume of $3.6 million. The critically acclaimed movie received a coveted A+ CinemaScore from audiences, and did particularly good successful the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest.

Focus Features’ Tár besides expanded successful a large way, grossing d $1 cardinal from 1,087 theaters for a home full of $2.5 cardinal done Sunday.

James Gray’s Armageddon Time and termination play Call Jane some struggled successful their openings, however.

Also from Focus, Gray’s movie is opening successful six theaters successful New York and Los Angeles. Its projected opening determination mean was a brushed $12,000.

Roadside Attractions opted to rotation retired Call Jane in 1,070 cinemas. The humanities drama, acceptable successful the 1960s erstwhile termination wasn’t yet legal, earned $204,755 for the weekend. Roadside main Howard Cohen said the distributor was arrogant to person released the movie astatine specified a important clip pursuing the U.S. Supreme Court’s determination to reverse Roe vs. Wade.

More to come.