Movie Stars Ruled the Weekend's Box Office
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 2:10PM
Ben Miller in Black Adam, Terrifier 2, The Banshees of Inisherin, box office

By Ben Miller

Don't let the haters tell you that movie stars don't matter.  The Dwayne Johnson led DC entry Black Adam easily won the weekend with $67 million.  That's Johnson's biggest opening for a film without the words Fast, Furious, or Mummy.  George Clooney & Julia Roberts counterprogramming rom-com Ticket to Paradise did just fine for itself with a $16.5 million opening.  Those two films expect to have some legs as there are no big openings release until Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on November 11th. And there are only 8 movies in wide release at that. The theaters need more movies...

Weekend Box Office (actuals)
October 21st-23rd
🔺 = new or expanding /  ★ = Recommended
links if we've written about it
WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) LIMITED / PLATFORM 
BLACK ADAM TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
1 🔺 BLACK ADAM $67 *NEW* TERRIFIER 2 $1.76 (cum. $5.1) 755 screens
2 🔺 TICKET TO PARADISE $16.5 *NEW* 2 ðŸ”º â˜… TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (sweden/uk) $601k (cum. $1.4) 280 screens  
3  SMILE $8.47 (cum. $84.4) 3 ðŸ”º â˜… TÁR $500k (cum. $1.2) 141 screens 
4  HALLOWEEN ENDS $8 (cum. $54.2)  4 🔺 â˜… TILL $363k (cum. $653k) 16 screens
5  LYLE LYLE CROCODILE $4.25 (cum. $28.8)   5 ★ DECISION TO LEAVE (south korea) $296k (cum. $437k) 48 screens
★ THE WOMAN KING $1.87 (cum. $62.8)

6 🔺 ★ THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN $184k *NEW* 4 screens

THE WOMAN KING THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

7  DON'T WORRY DARLING $2.2 (cum. $42.4 

7 🔺 PAUL'S PROMISE $140k *NEW* 396 screens

AMSTERDAM $824k (cum. $13.9)

🔺★ AFTERSUN $66k *NEW* 4 screens

9 ★ MOONAGE DAYDREAM (doc) $41k (cum. $4.152) 86 screens

10 ðŸ”º THE DIVINE PROTECTOR: MASTER SALT BEGINS $13.5k *NEW* 9 screens

11 LUMPIA WITH A VENGEANCE $11.8k (cum. $72.7k) 23 screens
*there are only 8 movies currently in wide release 12 CAT DADDIES (doc) $9.7k (cum. $24.3k)

 

On the limited/platform side, gorefest Terrifier 2 continues to make a ton of money against a $250k budget.  It's already made 20x its budget, and it's expanding to 1000+ theaters next weekend.  Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin was the per-theater champ with a $46k average on just four screens.  Most of the Oscar hopefuls in limited release are doing well as awards season looms. Banshees expands Friday alongside fellow Oscar-hopeful Till

What did you watch this weekend? I stayed in a scary movie mood with a rewatch of The Shining.  I also had a pair of Oscar-winning first-time watches with The Song of Bernadette and Terms of Endearment.

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