Following a disastrous 2024 at the box office, Lionsgate already have their second number one opening of the year with the Mark Wahlberg starring Flight Risk topping the charts with $12 million.
The beleaguered studio had a run of box-office bombs last year with the likes of Borderlands, Megalopolis, and The Crow, but followed Den of Thieves 2: Pantera‘s number one opening by piloting the Mel Gibson directed action-thriller to the summit of a quiet Top 10.
The film, which we called “implausible nonsense” in our ★★★ review, also recouped $4.2 million from international markets, for a worldwide cume of just $16.2 million. It’ll have to stay airborne for quite a while in order to recoup its $25 million budget.
Such a feat wasn’t a problem for another of the chart’s new entries, Steven Soderbergh’s poltergeist-POV drama Presence [read our ★★★★ review here], which surpassed its budget over the three day weekend. Admittedly, it only grossed $3.4 million from 1,750 screens, but with a rumoured production cost of just $2 million, that’s still a win when judged against the backdrop that is the traditional January dumping ground release window.
Grosses were up year-on-year from 2024, but cinemas will be hoping for a quick upturn in fortune with the triple-whammy of Captain America: Brave New World (Feb 14), Disney’s Snow White (March 21) and Minecraft (April 4) just around the corner.
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