Do not deny the A CinemaScore for Warner Bros’ Sinners, for that heat on the Ryan Coogler-directed, Michael B. Jordan-starring title is bound to deliver a solid hold, which is rare for a horror movie. While conservative forecasts have Sinners dropping 60% ($19.2 million) in its second frame, there’s a school of thought that the period vampire movie’s hold is significantly better than 50% ($24M). Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which opened to $33M in late February 2017, posted an amazing second-weekend ease off 15%, good for $28.2M.
Sinners grossed $7.1M on Wednesday, off 17% from a $8.6M Tuesday. Through six days, the movie has grossed $71.5M in the U.S. and Canada.
Amazon MGM Studios/Artists Equity’s The Accountant 2, which has Ben Affleck reprising his gun-toting beancounter for the dark side, is bound for a $20M+ opening weekend at 3,610 theaters, fueled by men and women over 25 in first choice. Affleck heard the call of his fans, and thus made a sequel to the 2016 mob accountant crime thriller that opened to $24.7M and ended its run at $86.2M stateside, $155.5M worldwide. Gavin O’Connor, who directed the first movie, returns to helm, as well as Jon Bernthal as Affleck’s brute-force brother and Cynthia Addai-Robinson as the Deputy U.S. Treasury Director who works with Affleck. Daniella Pineda steals the show as a nefarious hitwoman.
Showtimes start today at 4 p.m. The movie’s advance ticket sales are dead on with the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum adult spring feature Lost City, which opened to $30M.
And if there wasn’t another place on the calendar for a R-rated horror movie, Sony has Screen Gems’ David F. Sandberg-directed Until Dawn, about a group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes are chasing and killing them in gruesome ways, must survive until dawn to escape it. The movie was cheap at $15M net, and it’s expected to do between $8M-$9M at 3,000 locations. Previews also start at 4 p.m. The movie is best in first choice with men under 25.
A24 is expanding the teen fantasy The Legend of Ochi from four New York City and L.A. theaters to 1,100. The pic didn’t fare well in its limited release last weekend, with a $13,000 theater average. Still, it is tops with critics at 84% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Starring Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe, Helena Zengel and directed/written by Isaiah Saxon, the pic follows a shy girl in a remote village on the island of Carpathia. She’s raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
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