New ‘Final Destination’ film slays North American box office
[LOS ANGELES] Final Destination: Bloodlines, the latest installment in the horror franchise, made a grisly splash in North American theatres this weekend, taking in US$51 million to debut in the top spot, industry estimates showed on Sunday (May 18).
“This is a sensational opening for the sixth episode of a horror series,” said analyst David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research, adding that critics’ reviews and audience scores were “excellent”.
The previous film in the franchise, Final Destination 5, opened in 2011 to just US$18 million.
Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars in the Warner Bros flick as a young woman who learns how her dying grandmother long ago cheated Death, and she now has to deal with the shocking ramifications of that.
In second for the Friday-through-Sunday period was the previous weekend’s leader, Marvel superhero film Thunderbolts* from Disney, at US$16.5 million. The film about a motley bunch of antiheroes stars Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan.
Vampire thriller Sinners starring Michael B Jordan in dual lead roles, claimed the third spot, taking in US$15.4 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated.
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Bloodlines and Sinners continued a recent string of successes for Warner Bros, on the heels of commercial flops Mickey 17, The Alto Knights and Joker: Folie a Deux, Variety noted.
Yet another Warner film, A Minecraft Movie, placed fourth, at US$5.8 million. The live-action film, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, has pulled in US$416.6 million domestically and US$512 million internationally in seven weeks.
And in fifth place, at just under US$5 million, was Amazon MGM Studios’ thriller The Accountant 2, with Ben Affleck playing a neurodivergent math genius with criminal ties and Jon Bernthal as his hit-man brother.
Rounding out the top 10 were Hurry Up Tomorrow (US$3.3 million); Friendship (US$1.4 million); Clown in a Cornfield (US$1.3 million); Until Dawn (US$800,000); and The Amateur (US$712,000). AFP
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