Compared to the Thanksgiving holiday last year, the box office experienced a sharp drop. The dozen most important films shown in theaters sold 12% fewer tickets than in 2021.
In second place was Disney’s computer-animated science fiction film, Strange Worldwith 11.9 million dollars in three days and 18.6 million since Wednesday.
For variety.com it was a “catastrophic” result for a film with a budget of 180 million dollars.
another premiere, devotionfrom Sony, grossed $6 million in three days and $9 million in five, ranking third at the box office, “a weak opening for a war movie,” according to David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
The film, about the friendship of two American fighter pilots during the Korean War, had a budget of $90 million.
In fourth place is the new horror film by search light“The Menu,” starring Ralph Fiennes, with $5.2 million ($7.3 million since Thanksgiving).
The superhero movie Black Adam, from Warner Bros. and starring Dwayne Johnson, also earned $3.4 million ($4.7 million as of Wednesday), finishing in fifth place.
Netflix has yet to release data on another highly anticipated film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mysterybut Gross said that the sequel to Knives Out of 2019, it raised approximately $9 million in just three days, “a fantastic result.”