In one of the most crowded weekends of new releases of the year,Tyler Perryis once again on top of the box office.Boo 2! A Madea Halloweenis currently holding court at number one with some $7.4 million between previews and Friday estimates. That’s about $2 million less than 2016’sBoo! A Madea Halloween, which may not look good for the franchise’s future but is still more than enough to clear the way for Perry’s film to take the weekend.
The deluge of new releases has cleared the top five of all previous offerings, saveHappy Death DayandBlade Runner 2049. In second place isGeostorm, what my colleague Matt Goldberg appropriately labeled the biggest blockbuster of 1998, which brought in $4.3 million by all estimates.Happy Death Daycame in at third with $2.9 million, barely leading over the surprisingly engagingOnly the Brave, which currently is sitting in fourth place with $2.1 million. Below the top two, the top five will likely prove to be a tight race, withBlade Runner 2049coming in fifth place with $2 million, making the difference between it andOnly the Bravea scant $95,000 from estimates.
What’s most surprising is just how badThe Snowmanis doing. Based off of a popular page-turner and boasting a cast that includesMichael Fassbender,Rebecca Ferguson, andJ.K. Simmons,The Snowmanlooked to be a more-than-serviceable thriller from early trailers, despite a marketing campaign that quickly turned into a Twitter joke. And yet, the movie is currently sitting in eighth place, barely beating out It in its umpteenth frame and slotted belowSame Kind of Different as Me, the latest insufferably condescending melodrama from PureFlix.
As serial killer shows seem to be doing better than ever, it seems that interest at the movies has dipped significantly. Seeing as next weekend also brings a astonishing amount of new releases between wide and limited release – a total of 12 –The Snowmanis almost certainly dead on arrival. Then again, the latest volume of the toxicSawfranchise, which is indeed a serial killer narrative, arrives next week and will likely take the weekend. MaybeThe Snowmanreally is just that bad.
Here’s your top five for Friday:
Friday Domestic BO
Total Domestic BO
1. ‘Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween’
$7,470,000
2. ‘Geostorm’
$4,300,000
3. ‘Happy Death Day’
$2,984,000
$34,293,365
- ‘Only the Brave’
$2,125,000
5. ‘Blade Runner 2049’
$2,030,000
$68,880,203
