* So far, on its opening weekend, “The female king“holds on. At the box office. The film had a particularly good opening night.
The African story epic grossed $6.85 million when it hit theaters on Friday (9/16/22), according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.
“Woman King,” which cost $50 million to make, is expected to gross between $13.5 million and $22.5 million on its domestic debut, according to Forbes.
The film about African female warriors started causing a stir when it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, according to Variety.
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Deadline reports that “as expected, women are in the majority Woman King at 60%, with 58% over 35 and 39% over 45, another promising sign for an older population that was hesitant to come out at the height of the pandemic.
“Black moviegoers attended 59%, Caucasians 19%, Latinos and Hispanics 12%, and Asians/Others 10%. The female king saw its best business in the East and South, where seven of the top ten races came from. Los Angeles’ AMC Burbank and the Grove also made the top ten, along with the Country Club of Chicago.
“PLF screens and Imax auditoriums take up 43% of the Woman Kingweekend ticket sales right now. The best markets were NYC, Atlanta, DC, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore, Orlando, Detroit and Tampa.
And the rest of the box office? Well, in second place is “Barbarian” which earned over $1.96 million. Here is AFTER via New York Post:
The horror-thriller tells the story of a young woman, played by Georgina Campbell, who discovers that the remote house she booked on Airbnb has been double-booked by a man, played by Bill Skarsgård.
“Pearl,” the prequel to Ti West’s “X,” landed in third place with more than $1.3 million in sales Friday, its opening night. Also a horror film, it has “a bit of sex and a lot of gore, but mostly an atmosphere of feverish, sinister melodrama spiced up with nods of conspiratorial humor”, according to its review in The New York Times.
The murder mystery “See How They Run” climbed to fourth place with just over $1 million.
“Bullet Train,” which opened Aug. 5, slowed to fifth place this week with $700,000 in sales. The Brad Pitt-directed action flick has grossed $94.6 million domestically and $119.3 million in international sales since its debut.
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