Did we expect any different? No, but here’s hoping we’ll see a different movie in the top spot someday.
That’s right: Avatar: Fire and Ash took the top spot at the box office again—for the fifth time in a row. The sci-fi version of the Blue Man Group earned that position via $14.5 million dollars, narrowly edging out 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple for the spot. That raises its domestic gains to $368 million. Worldwide, it soars happily at $1.32 billion.
As mentioned, second place goes to 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, for chomping down on $13 million. Worldwide, the zombie sequel brought in $31.2 million. Given the production budget alone was allegedly $63 million, the potential for profits seems to be decaying just as much as its zombies. Maybe the “28” series will find more success with “28 Decades Later”?
While it’s impressive that Fire and Ash has stayed at the top of the box office for five weeks, Zootopia 2 is the film that refuses to leave the top five. Despite the movie releasing two months ago, it has never fallen below fifth—and this week, it hopped back up to third. This time, it brought in $9.2 million with United States audiences. Worldwide, the movie has collected $1.7 billion—becoming Hollywood’s highest-grossing animated film in history. (The Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 still claims bragging rights as the world’s biggest animated movie.)
The Housemaid is the film we least expected to stick around in the top five for as long as it has, but credit where it’s due—despite releasing five weeks ago, it nevertheless took fourth with $8.6 million. That raises its domestic cume to $108.8 million and its worldwide earnings to $177.5 million.
Rounding out the top five is Marty Supreme. This week, it earned $5.5 million. A24’s ping-pong flick has earned it $80.8 million with domestic audiences and $94.8 million worldwide.
As for other releases, The Lord of the Rings re-releasesbrought in enough money to attract a dragon. The Fellowship of the Ring (originally from 2001)and The Two Towers (2002) landed in 7th and 10th place, respectively. Their one-day return to the theaters raked in $3.5 million for Fellowship and $2.4 million for Towers. That’s nearly six Silma-million dollars.
Very few people threw Charlie the Wonderdog a bone. It rolled over in 18th place, making only $782,000 in its opening weekend.
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