May the weekend box office be ever in The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ favor
The Hunger Games prequel helped buoy a strong domestic box office
After a couple of slow weekends at the domestic box office, things have bounced back nicely thanks to four pretty big new releases that mostly did okay (and one movie with a limited rollout that did relatively good). The biggest of those big new releases is Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, which opened to $44 million, and while that’s quite a lot less than every other movie in the franchise, it was enough to take the top spot on the charts. It was followed closely by second place’s Trolls Band Together, which opened to $30 million.
Third place went to The Marvels, which fell a crushing 77 percent in its second week, making only $10.2 million and tying with Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving in its debut. Five Nights At Freddy’s also fell pretty hard, making $3.5 million in its fourth week (it has $132 million total, though) and finishing up the top five.
In the second five we have The Holdovers, making $2.7 million for a total of $8.3 million after four weeks, and then Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, with $2.5 million in its debut. Finally, the top 10 ends with The Eras Tour (which will probably end its run somewhere around $180 million total, given how it’s slowing down), Priscilla, and Killers Of The Flower Moon. Outside of the top 10 is Saltburn, which made $315,000 off of only seven screens, making for a great per-screen average (if you care, and why would you?).
Here’s the top 10 again from Box Office Mojo.
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes
- Trolls Band Together
- The Marvels
- Thanksgiving
- Five Nights At Freddy’s
- The Holdovers
- Next Goal Wins
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Priscilla
- Killers Of The Flower Moon