'A Working Man' Beats 'Snow White' at the Box Office
by EG
Disney's remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs stumbled badly in its second weekend (after a lackluster opening weekend), allowing Jason Statham's action movie Working Man to take the weekend's top spot on the box-office chart. Working Man's debut wasn't exactly a smash hit, either, and the weekend overall was a very sleepy one in theaters. Read on for details.
Via Variety.
In a surprise win, Jason Statham’s action thriller “A Working Man” topped the box office with $15.2 million in its opening weekend. The film, from “Suicide Squad” director David Ayer and Amazon MGM, knocked down the previous champion, Disney’s “Snow White,” which plummeted by more than 66% in its second outing.
After a sleepy $45 million start, Disney’s live-action remake of the classic fairy tale has dropped to the No. 2 spot with $14.2 million from 4,200 theaters. “Snow White,” starring Rachel Zegler as the eponymous princess and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, has generated $66.8 million domestically and $143.1 million worldwide to date. The tentpole cost above $250 million before factoring in marketing expenses, so “Snow White” needs to show some endurance at the box office to justify its hefty price tag. It’ll face competition for family audiences as the Warner Bros. video game adaptation “A Minecraft Movie” opens next weekend.
“A Working Man” earned mixed reviews and a “B” grade on CinemaScore exit polls. In the film, Statham plays a decorated military veteran who emerges from retirement after human traffickers kidnap his boss’s daughter. This start is slightly behind Ayer and Statham’s latest collaboration with Amazon MGM, 2024’s “The Beekeeper,” which launched with $16 million. That film ultimately powered its way to a decent $66 million domestically and a respectable $162 million globally.
Meanwhile, three other films — Universal and Blumhouse’s horror “The Woman in the Yard,” A24’s surrealist “Death of a Unicorn” and Fathom’s “The Chosen: Last Supper” — opened nationwide though none managed to significantly break out. As a result, overall box office revenues continue to lag with ticket sales currently 10.9% behind 2024 and 39% behind 2019, according to Comscore.
“The Chosen: Last Supper,” a faith-based TV series about Jesus and his disciples, debuted in third place with a better-than-expected $11.5 million from 2,235 cinemas over the weekend. Fathom Events is rolling out the show’s fifth season in cinemas with two-week runs of episodes.
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