Open Road returns to theaters this weekend with the release of their latest horror pic, Separation, in 1,751 domestic theaters. Slayer has thus far bucked a few early trends typical of the genre, though. Also worth considering is the history of anime films to be quite frontloaded at the domestic box office, with a recent example like Dragon Ball Super: Broly sliding more than 69 percent in its second weekend back in January 2019. On Dashboard, Kombat currently leads Slayer 21 percent to 16 percent among total showings booked by cinema operators. That could prove to further soften Slayer‘s drop this weekend, while exacerbating Kombat‘s. Major chains are dividing showtimes across premium formats between the two titles in an effort to correct for the demand they saw last weekend. film is losing some of premium screen footprint to Demon Slayer. Kombat‘s pre-existing 3,073 theater count last frame isn’t likely to change by much, in contrast. That figure could approach 2,000 or more as theaters continue booking. The film screened at over 1,600 domestic cinemas last weekend and is currently confirmed in no less than 1,833 theaters starting this Friday, according to The Boxoffice Company’s Showtimes Dashboard. Warner Bros., unfortunately, has not reported official daily estimates for Kombat since Sunday.Īdding a degree of fascination to the sophomore frame of these two films will be the fact that Demon Slayer‘s location count is climbing. The film has since found some stability, though, dropping only 19.9 percent on Sunday and 66 percent on Monday, then increasing almost 6 percent on Tuesday. Following that $9.54 million combined figure, Saturday slid 32.4 percent to $6.45 million. That pic declined 56 percent in its second weekend, one of the better showings of Warner’s day-and-date openers since the strategy began in December with Wonder Woman 1984.ĭemon Slayer, on the other hand, saw its Thursday evening grosses rolled into Friday’s as one overall “opening day” reported by Funimation. Kong increased 7.6 percent on its first Saturday, although it had already burned off some demand on Wednesday and Thursday in its pre-weekend start a few weeks ago. Driven primarily by males over the age of 25, the film opened to $9.09 million on Friday and slid 4.6 percent to $8.675 million on Saturday before an estimated haul of $5.535 million on Sunday.īy comparison, Godzilla vs.
Kombat‘s own $23.3 million opening weekend wasn’t far off from our pre-pandemic forecasts, nor was its natural frontloading by fans. That duo is poised to easily reign again this weekend as April comes to a close and we turn the page into May.
Last week provided another encouraging sign that audiences are increasingly ready to resume moviegoing in theaters as Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat and Funimation’s Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train demolished pandemic-era standards for R-rated films.