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- Final Destination Bloodlines emerged supreme at the weekend box office, grossing $51 million domestically and $102 million globally to become the franchise’s most profitable opening weekend.
- Marvel’s Thunderbolts* was unseated from its spot at the top after two weeks, and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners wasn’t far behind.
- Bloodlines faces serious competition at next weekend’s box office, which will see the premieres of both Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning and Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch.
This weekend’s box office is a blood bath.
Final Destination Bloodlines cleaned up with a whopping $51 million domestic opening and $102 million global opening. The film’s performance gives the gory horror franchise its most profitable opening weekend by a wide margin, with 2007’s The Final Destination in second at a mere $27.4 million.
Bloodlines is the sixth entry in the franchise, which began in 2000 with Final Destination. Directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, the film features no major stars, comes 14 years after the most recent installment (2011’s Final Destination 5), features only one franchise crossover character (William Bludworth, played by Tony Todd in his final screen role), and was up against powerful returning players at the box office. Still, as the Final Destination films have taught us time and again, death always prevails.
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The ascendancy of Bloodlines means the fall of the previous box office champ, Marvel‘s Thunderbolts*, also known as The New Avengers, which took the top spot at last weekend’s box office and upon its premiere the weekend before.
That doesn’t mean the ragtag team of antiheroes now at the center of the expansive MCU made a poor showing in their third week of release. The Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starring film dropped 50 percent from last weekend (good numbers for week three) for a $16.5 million take at the domestic box office, and held the second spot on the global charts, too, with a $32.2 million take. Thunderbolts* has now earned $155.4 million cumulatively at home and $325.7 million abroad.
In third place domestically and abroad is Sinners, Ryan Coogler‘s period vampire thriller, which has demonstrated remarkable staying power in its fifth week of release. The Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Hailee Steinfeld-starrer earned $15.4 million at home for a $204.7 million cumulative gross, and $19.2 million globally for a total of $316.7 million.
It’s no surprise that A Minecraft Movie and The Accountant 2 remain profitable, staking their place in the fourth and fifth spots on the leaderboard with $5.8 million and $4.9 million takes, respectively. Both films also shed over 100 exhibition locations since last week, but still charged ahead to global grosses of $928 million (Minecraft) and $93.8 million (Accountant), despite Minecraft debuting on video on demand last week.
The remainder of this weekend’s domestic box office numbers contain several unexpected developments. The first big, bad surprise is the poor performance of Hurry Up Tomorrow, which earned just $3.3 million in its premiere. Described as “astonishingly boring” in Entertainment Weekly‘s review, the film marked the big screen debut of music superstar the Weeknd (the stage name of Abel Tesfaye), but also seemed to suggest Tesfaye may be wrapping up that moniker — and his music career — for good.
Another indie drama proved it has some sticking power after a modest open: Andrew DeYoung’s heartfelt Friendship, starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, which earned $1.4 million in its second week of release.
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Elsewhere, IFC horror-thriller Clown in a Cornfield earned $1.3 million in its second week of release, leading to a $6.3 million domestic haul so far against a reported budget of less than $1 million.
Over on the global chart, the Chinese biopic of restaurateur Zang Jianhe, The Dumpling Queen, maintained a solid hold with a $4.4 million take. Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, the 28th film in Japan’s Detective Conan (Case Closed) franchise, earned $4.1 million in its fourth week of release and is poised to cross the $100 million mark.
Final Destination Bloodlines has its work cut out for it next weekend, which sees the premieres of both Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning and Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch.
