Spider-Man Holds No. 1 for a Fifth Weekend as Coyote vs. Acme Opens to $15.5M
The Looney Tunes movie Warner Bros. shelved three years ago arrived at No. 2 with an A CinemaScore, while Brand New Day became the fourth-biggest global release ever. The top five, with receipts.
The last weekend of summer belonged to the same movie as the four before it: Spider-Man: Brand New Day took its fifth straight No. 1 with an estimated $22.2 million, pushing its domestic total to $891.5 million, now second all time behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a worldwide haul past $2.33 billion, fourth all time.
The story of the weekend played out one rung down. Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes hybrid Warner Bros. shelved as a write-off three years ago before Ketchup Entertainment picked it up, opened to $15.5 million from roughly 3,575 theaters, earning an A CinemaScore and a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Five straight weekends on top. Second-biggest domestic run ever behind The Force Awakens, fourth-biggest worldwide.
Shelved as a tax write-off in 2023, released by the studio that bought it out of the vault, and opened at No. 2 with an A CinemaScore. The audience got a vote after all.
Nolan's epic keeps stacking in week seven, one of the steadiest holds of the summer.
The standard second-weekend horror drop, with a domestic total already well past double the budget.
Audiences skipped Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic drama in its debut. Everyone has had enough apocalypse for a while.
By Any Means
A Civil Rights-era thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II rolls into the Labor Day frame, where adult dramas find their audience fast or not at all.
Onslaught
Adam Wingard goes small after Godzilla x Kong with a horror-actioner led by Adria Arjona.
The Read
The chart below is this column's new furniture: rank, the number, and what the number means, every Monday. Figures are weekend estimates as reported, never a guess, and the receipts row at the bottom of the chart names where every count came from.
This week's read: audiences will show up for a movie a studio gave up on, and they will skip a prestige apocalypse. The gap between Coyote's reception and The Dog Stars' quiet start is the whole modern theatrical market in two rows.
This is the industry town, so the Monday chart is not trivia here, it is the neighborhood scoreboard. The write-off that out-opened a $75 million prestige play is somebody's block in Burbank having a very interesting morning. This chart now files every Monday, and a Thursday preview joins it when the fall slate heats up.