Lionsgate bucked the development of a tough 2024 on the field workplace as Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera delivered the studio its first primary opening weekend since 2023 on an estimated $15.5m.
A stable if not spectacular debut didn’t seem to undergo unduly from the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, the primary market in america.
Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. star within the crime thriller buddy film, which opened in 3,008 places and reportedly carries a $40m funds. In keeping with PostTrak, males accounted for 63% of the audiences and the over-25 crowd made up 82%.
This was a stable begin after a poor 2024 that noticed the likes of Borderlands, The Crow and 5 others disappoint on the field workplace. The 2018 unique Den Of Thieves opened on $15.2m by way of the now defunct STX Leisure and completed on $44.9m.
It was additionally Lionsgate’s first chart-topper since The Starvation Video games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes in November 2023. Arising for the studio this 12 months are Ballerina, the John Wick spin-off starring Ana de Armas, and Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
In the meantime Paramount’s Robbie Williams biopic Higher Man floundered in its growth weekend, rating 14th after increasing from six to 1,291 websites and incomes $1.1m for a $1.2m working whole regardless of sturdy critiques.
Michael Gracey directed the account of the British performer’s tempestuous time with the boy band Take That and his subsequent skyrocketing solo profession. Paramount paid $25m for North American rights to the biopic in early 2024, which reportedly value $110m and must go some solution to recoup for its financiers.
Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King ranks second on $13.2m for $188.8m after 4 weekends. A comparatively modest return nonetheless propelled the tentpole previous $500m worldwide to choose $539.7m. In the meantime Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 in third place crossed $200m in its fourth weekend as $11m pushed the kids’s tentpole to $204.5m.
Robert Eggers is having fun with a stirring run with Nosferatu, which ranks fourth on $6.8m for $81.8m after three classes by way of Focus options and is his greatest ever hit internationally on $53.9m. Disney’s Moana 2 rounds out the highest 5 on $6.5m for 434.9m after seven weekends.
Common’s Depraved in sixth place has reached $458.9m after eight, and Searchlight Photos’ A Full Unknown in seventh stands at $50.8m after three. A24’s erotic drama Babygirl, directed by Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, and Antonio Banderas, added $3m from 1,887 for a robust $21.7m. It ranks eighth after three weekends.
Roadside Sights opened The Final Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis at quantity 10 on $1.5m from 870 theatres.
A24’s The Brutalist, directed by Golden Globes winner and Administrators Guild of America nominee Brady Corbet, expanded from eight to 68 in its fourth weekend, incomes $1.4m to boost the early working whole to a promising $2.7m. It ranks eleventh and can develop right into a restricted nationwide footprint subsequent weekend, with a wider growth set for January 24 together with nationwide Imax places.
Bleecker Road opened Mike Leigh’s Onerous Truths at quantity 20 on $165,625 from 20 websites. That was significantly forward of the $151,971 lifetime whole by way of Amazon Studios of his final launch, Peterloo, in 2018, and a way forward of the $109,000 debut of Mr. Turner by way of Sony Photos Classics in 2014.
