With a worm-sized shadow looming over the box-office charts in the shape of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (read our ★★★★ review here), Bob Marley: One Love capitalised on the calm before the sand storm by staying on top with $13.5 million.
Paramount’s musical biopic saw receipts slide 53%, but its surprise opening weekend performance puts the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed film at $71.1 million domestically, and $120 million worldwide.
One Love had to fend off three new releases in its sophomore frame; Sony and Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — To the Hashira Training, which took second place with $11.5 million; Hilary Swank’s faith-based drama Ordinary Angels, which barely flapped its wings with $6.2 million; and Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, which tanked in eighth place with $2.5 million for the weekend.
You didn’t need to be a clairvoyant superhero to know that the second weekend of Sony-stinker Madame Web wouldn’t be troubling the upper reaches of the chart. In fact, the Dakota Johnson-led franchise starter (!) appears to be slipping from moviegoers minds already, with a second weekend decline of 61%, which equated to $6 million and a domestic tally of just $35 million. The worldwide gross currently stands at $77 million.
As cinema chains wait excitedly for the spice to start flowing next weekend, there were still a couple of good news stories for holdover films; Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney’s $25 million budgeted comedy Anyone But You crossed the $200 million mark at the global box-office, while Poor Things also danced over the $100 million global earnings line.
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