Box Office: ‘Bullet Train’ Nabs $13 Million Friday As ‘Easter Sunday’ Stumbles

Bullet Train opened with $12.62 million on Friday and $4.7 million on Tuesday and Thursday. We think it will make $27 million on the opening weekend. It will open with $33 million if it is leggy like The Lost City. The new-to-you adaptation of a Japanese novel is the last big movie of the summer. The film hopes for the last legs of the summer like The Sixth Sense, S.W.A.T. and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The Brad Pitt and friends flick cost $90 million and is a good fit for a non-franchise flick. It has an all-star cast, a marquee director, a high concept, halfway decent reviews, and the promise of a good movie. The tone is slapstick. The pans assure people that they will get what they pay for in the trailers. If The Lost City and Bullet Train were critical releases, they would keep hope alive.

Jo Koy's Easter Sunday wasreleased by Universal. The film about a successful entertainer returning home for the holiday and trying to solve family melodramas made $500,000 on Thursday and $2 million on Friday. It seems like a lousy $5 million opening weekend would take us back to the bad old days of 2021, when almost every non-tentpole was under $5 million on opening weekend. It's unfortunate that one of this year's few live-action comedies, one co-starring Jimmy O. Yang, is not getting a lot of positive reviews. With comedies like Bros and Ticket to Paradise opening this fall, Universal is trying to keep the comedy going.

A 24 and Stage 6 film, Bodies Bodies Bodies, opened in six theaters ahead of its wide release next weekend. Maria Bakalova, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Myha'la Herrold and Pete Davidson are some of the stars of And Then There Were None. I expect it to play better with critics than the people watching it. I didn't like the first half, but the third act worked, and it has a great ending. Halina Reijn's horror comedy made $94,762 on Friday and is expected to make $232,000 on the weekend. Even if the next month or so is filled with horror movies, the average will still be $38,683 per theater.