Scream VI screamed loud at the box office, scoring a franchise-best opening weekend to the tune of $44.5 million. Last year’s fifth film, simply entitled Scream, opened with $31M. The latest, directed by Radio Silence, seems to be a crowd-pleaser although critics are a bit harsher. It has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 75% but a certified audience score of 93%. Exiting audiences gave it a B+ via CinemaScore and its PostTrak score is 87%.
Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Mason Gooding return from the previous film, with legacy players Hayden Panettiere and Courtney Cox from previous installments. In particular, Ortega is making waves and drawing viewers thanks to her starring role in the Netflix hit Wednesday and the recent announcement that she will play Winona Ryder’s daughter in the Beetlejuice reboot.
In its second weekend, Creed III kept punching, scoring $26.7M on its way to $100M domestically. It continues to outperform the first Creed and Creed II, cementing that this franchise has grown in popularity since it launched with more and more people discovering it, thanks to home video and streaming.
Interest may be further fueled by Michael B. Jordan’s declaration that he is crafting an entire Creed-shared universe. This would include additional theatrical movies plus streaming live-action and animated projects on Amazon Prime Video, with Amazon now owning MGM, the studio behind the Creed movies.
This week’s other major new release was Sony’s 65, a science fiction movie pitting an alien Adam Driver against dinosaurs on prehistoric Earth. Sony did little to promote 65 and didn’t lift the review ban until the day it was released, which did not bode well.
Now that the embargo has lifted, 65 is sitting at an awful 37% on Rotten Tomatoes with a slightly better 63% audience score. Exiting audiences were on the same page with 65 getting a C+ via CinemaScore and a 54% positive via PostTrak.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania slid into the single digits, cementing this as one of Disney’s poorest-performing Marvel installments. The Ant-Man franchise has never been a cash cow, despite this being sold as a pivotal part of the MCU moving forward.
The campy Cocaine Bear rounded out the Top 5, with a part of the camp-loving audience having already checked this out and moving on to 65.
Check out the Top Five below:
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- Scream VI (Paramount) – 3-day $44.5M /Wk 1
- Creed III (MGM/UAR) – 3-day $26.7M/Total $100.9MWk 2
- 65 (Sony) – 3-day $10.5M/Wk 1
- Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Disney) – 3-day $6.8M/ Total $197.7M/Wk 4
- Cocaine Bear (Universal) – 3-day $6.35M/Total $51.8M/Wk 3
Scream IV is likely to take a tumble next weekend, which is normal for a horror film. But it’s facing off against a potentially huge superhero movie Shazam!: Fury of the Gods. The DC film universe isn’t as successful as the MCU and with the sweeping changes coming up, it seems a lot of people have just tuned out.
Black Adam didn’t perform as well as expected but it still did better than the first Shazam!, so is there that much interest in this sequel?
Guess we’ll see! What did you check out this weekend? Will you be seeing Shazam!: Fury of the Gods next weekend?
