Friday Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Drops 72%, ‘Terrifier 2’ Continues To Defy Gravity

Warner Bros. Discovery's Black Adam topped the box office for the second week in a row with $7.5 million. It is par for the course for superhero movies that do not set the world on fire. The first-Friday to second-Friday drops are better than the second-Friday drops. We are looking at a $29 million weekend and $112 million ten day gross in 2019. It will make around $25 million if it plays like a regular superhero movie. After ten days, a movie like Venom 2 can be had for as much as $175 million domestic.

Universal's Ticket to Paradise earned $3.13 million on Friday for a likely $10.36 million weekend and $34.1 million ten-daytotal. George Clooney and Julia Roberts are in a romantic comedy. The film had a 40% drop from its debut in July. I would expect strong holds over the next month. The $60 million release passed the $100 million mark around the world. Ticket to Paradise will finish with around 80 million domestically if it follows in the footsteps of Crawdads. It is impressive by modern-day standards, but we can debate how good that was in the late 1990s/ early 2000s. It is the biggest grossing Illumination flick ever in unadjusted domestic earnings.

A $17 million horror original originally intended for Paramount+ earned over 1.5 million on Friday for a likely $5.2 million weekend and $92.50 million 31 day gross. It will pass Halloween Kills as the third-biggest R-rated grosser of all time, after Bad Boys for Life with Brad Pitt and Nope. Universal's Halloween ends earned over a million dollars on Friday and over a million dollars over the weekend. It is a $33 million horror threequel that will earn around $110 million worldwide, bringing the entire Blumhouse trilogy to over/under $500 million worldwide on a combined $63 million budget. All of us should fail. Yesterday, the Crocodile crossed $30 million domestic. There will be a 2.5 million weekend and a 32.2 million day.

In the four-day weekend, the film expanded to 1,555 theaters and earned another $575,500. That puts Art the Clown's dramedy for a weekend of almost two million dollars and a domestic gross of over eight million dollars. This, from a mostly crowdfunded horror sequel that was mostly thrown into theaters for a few days as a bit of seasonal "Why the hell not?" content, and it is likely to outgross most of this year's designed award season releases. If it had gotten an NC17, it would have ranked fourth on the list behind Henry & June, Showgirls, and Last Tango in Paris. It is far away from the $600 million that Deep Throat is said to have earned.