Box Office Weekend – New Line Wins Easter

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This weekend at the box office, New Line Cinema wins big The Curse of La Llorona takes the top spot, and Shazam! comes in close second as the moderately-budgeted superhero adventure continues to do well. In addition, Captain Marvel crosses a major milestone this weekend, just ahead of the release of Avengers: Endgame.

 

New Line’s latest Conjuring spin-off managed to snag the top spot this weekend with $26M+, just ahead of Shazam!, another New Line movie that brought in $17M+ this weekend. La Llorona brought in the smallest opening weekend for a Conjuring spin-off thus far, but that’s no concern with a $9M production budget. Meanwhile, the latest DC superhero film has managed to clear $300M globally, with $121M+ of that coming from the United States and Canada alone. Against a budget of $80M-$100M, the movie should now be safely in the profit one. Both movies here are ample proof that there’s plenty of room for movies that aren’t massive, four-quadrant events to succeed in the age of streaming.

 

Meanwhile, with that other superhero that identifies as Captain Marvel, Marvel’s first female-led superhero film has just crossed $400M domestically, likely getting a bump from people watching Marvel Cinematic Universe marathons ahead of Avengers: Endgame next weekend. (It should be interesting to see what impact this has on the two aforementioned superhero movies, along with Hellboy, which is flopping hard with a 67.8% drop after an underperforming opening.) On another note, this is also a historic weekend for Disney in that they have released their first film under the 20th Century Fox label with Breakthrough, the Christian faith-based drama about one young man’s miraculous survival after falling beneath a sheet of ice and falling into a coma. That movie is just ahead of Captain Marvel in terms of weekend box office gross.

 

Easter was a generally quiet time for the box office this time, but next weekend promises to be huge with Avengers: Endgame on the horizon. That’ll be real fun to report on, so stay tuned!

 

The Top Twelve box office performances for the three-day weekend can be summarized as follows (bolded titles are new releases):

  1. The Curse of La Llorona (Warner Bros./New Line) – $26.505M Weekend.
  2. Shazam! (Warner Bros./New Line/DC Films) – $17.34M Weekend/$121.341M Total; 29.1% Drop.
  3. Breakthrough (Disney/20th Century Fox) – $11.1M Weekend/$14.606M Total.
  4. Captain Marvel (Disney/Marvel Studios) – $9.1M Weekend/$400.026M Total; 5.7% Rise.
  5. Little (Universal Pictures) – $8.451M Weekend/$29.38M Total; 45.1% Drop.
  6. Dumbo (Disney) – $6.8M Weekend/$101.254M Total; 27.7% Drop.
  7. Pet Sematary (Paramount Pictures) – $4.85M Weekend/$49.583M Total; 50.2% Drop.
  8. Missing Link (United Artists/Laika) – $4.369M Weekend/$12.976M Total; 26.5% Drop.
  9. Us (Universal Pictures) – $4.264M Weekend/$170.444M Total; 37.4% Drop.
  10. Hellboy (Lionsgate Entertainment/Summit Entertainment) – $3.88M Weekend/$19.676M Total; 67.8% Drop.
  11. After (Aviron Pictures) – $2.5M Weekend/$10.435M Total; 58.3% Drop.
  12. Penguins (Disney/DisneyNature) – $2.347M Weekend/$3.298M Total.

Captain MarvelUs, DumboPet Sematary, Shazam!, Hellboy, and The Curse of La Llorona are now playing in theaters.