‘Civil War’ & ‘Abigail’ Fighting Over First Place With $11M+ Each – Friday PM Box Office Update
21.04.2024 - 06:20
/ deadline.com
FRIDAY MIDDAY: Mish mosh at the box office with A24’s weekend two of Civil War at $3.5M today/$11M+ and Universal’s Radio Silence R-rated vampire pic, Abigail with $4M today (that includes $1M previews)/$11M vying for No. 1.
Lionsgate’s Guy Ritchie WWII period action pic, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is eyeing $3.9M-$4.3M Friday (including $1.45M previews) and $9M-$11M at 2,845 theaters, but many see the movie, which is 92% with Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences, in third place.
Fourth belongs to Legendary/Warner Bros’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire at 3,658 locations with a Friday of $2.3M and fourth weekend of $8.5M, -45%, for a running total of $170.66M. By Sunday, if those figures hold, the latest Legendary Monsterverse title will be pacing -8% behind 2014’s Godzilla the only installment to click past the $200M mark stateside with $200.6M. It will also officially make New Empire the second highest grossing installment in the Monsterverse at the domestic B.O. overtaking Kong: Skull Island‘s $168M.
Fifth is Sony’s Crunchyroll anime title Spy x Family Code: Whitewith $2M today, $5M opening. RT critics are 96% fresh on the title while audiences give it a perfect score.
FRIDAY AM: Lionsgate is calling their all-in previews for Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare at $1.45M, however that includes around $600K in advance shows from last weekend in addition to Thursday’s cash. Which means Universal’s Radio Silence vampire movie, Abigail, won Thursday previews with $1M. Meanwhile, Sony Crunchyroll’s anime movie Spy x Family Code: White did $670K from shows that began at 4PM.
The weekend crown is expected to be a game of rock, paper, scissors between Abigail and A24’s second weekend of Civil War at