Boring, boring box office. This has to be one of the dullest weekend box offices we have seen since the days of COVID and the strikes. I can feel the will to live leaving my body simply as I write this article. Still, I won’t feel as bad as the studios, who barely raked in $55 million across the entire top ten. They could have hit up Vegas and got a better return than that.
Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk was at the top, like being voted tallest midget, and pulled in $12 million according to the fine folks at Box Office Mojo. Lionsgate has been struggling lately but at least then now point to two number-one movies already in 2025, this and Den Of Thieves 2.
Second place went to Mufasa: The Lion King which slowed and dropped nearly 30% to just over $8 million. With a worldwide gross heading for $650 million then nobody involved will be losing any sleep.
3rd place went to One Of Them Days, also hitting $8 million. In fourth was Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and fifth was Moana 2, continuing the strong family movie results of the last few weeks as their theatrical runs come to an end ahead of a PVOD debut for them both. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 also gave us this scene, so as far as I am concerned it can do absolutely no wrong:
Steven Soderbergh’s Presence may have received good reviews, but it had a disastrous debut in sixth place while audiences seemed to disagree with critics and awarded it just a C+ CinemaScore. It only snared $3.1 million for the weekend.
Wolf Man nosedived to seventh place in its second weekend, a 72% drop to just $3 million.
The Brutalist may be a major awards darling this season, but an expansion to 1,100 screens made absolutely f*ck all difference as it barely blipped by 2%, up to $2 million.
So… what was it? You all stayed at home? Had something on this weekend? Washing your hair? I was drinking heavily and shouting at the television which was a lot more fun than I think sitting through The Brutalist might be.