It is turning into another big weekend for Sony’s “soulless” and “joyless” latest Tom Holland “Spider-Man” comic book adaptation. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is on track to pull in another $145 million, building on a boffo Friday ($43 million) take … Continue reading →
It is turning into another big weekend for Sony’s “soulless” and “joyless” latest Tom Holland “Spider-Man” comic book adaptation.
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is on track to pull in another $145 million, building on a boffo Friday ($43 million) take at the box office. That’s not the best “second weekend” ever. But as Deadline.com points out, it’s close. It’s the first Sony movie to ever have a second weekend take this large. It’s earned over $650 million in North America alone.
As the picture opened with a stunning $360 million payday last weekend, even a 60 percent fall-off, weekend to weekend, isn’t going to make anybody cry.
Trumpflation ticket prices and IMAX “premium experience” ticket prices explain part of this. But is the movie a part of the national conversation? Not that I can tell.
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is about to become his biggest box office hit ever, surpassing even his biggest “Dark Knight” performance. It’s cruising to another $31.5 million or so this weekend, clearing $461 million in North America alone, well on its way to $500. And yes, it is still a conversation starter.
With Will Gluck’s sci-fi romance “One Night Only” earned $5.7 million, despite terrible reviews by the grownups and raves by the comically under-credentialed. That weak a take for this weekend’s third place movie tells us we have entered the dog days of the summer cinema season — low expectations for most anything else rolling out from now until Labor Day.
The latest “Super Troopers” sequel earned $4and came in fourth, and the widest opening horror title of the weekend, “Ice Cream Man” tallied$2 to come in eighth.
“Toy Story 5″ ($3.9 million, fifth) “Minions & Monsters” ($3.5, sixth place) and “Moana” ($2.8 million, seventh) cling to the top ten for yet another week.
“The Invite“ ($717k in tenth) isn’t likely to clear the $27 million mark (it’s just over $24 as of Sunday night) before summer’s end.
“Obsession,” “Young Washington,” “Hadestown” and “I Want Your Sex” slid off the charts, coming in behind an opportunistic release “CatVideoFest 2026).
That outperformed the new Anthony Bordain bio-pic “Tony” ($348k on just six theaters).
Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine