Insidious Steals the Spotlight
Believe it or not, the latest Insidious flick opened like a polite ghost at a noisy party — making a tidy $60 million worldwide in just three days. That’s a decent jaunt, even if every earlier Insidious entry cleared $100 million. The series still has pull, but this one feels like a slightly quieter jump scare.
Leakgate: The Mutiny’s Whoopsie
Meanwhile, Jason Statham’s new actioner, made for about $40 million, barely scraped past $14 million. Part of the drama: the movie accidentally showed up on Prime Video in the U.S. for a couple of hours before it was supposed to. Not the kind of free press your studio wants. The film isn’t an Amazon project — it’s from Lionsgate (and other international partners) — so fingers are being pointed and emails are being sent.
Weekend Newcomers: Quiet Drops and Loud Re-releases
Other debuts like Spa Weekend and The Very, Very Distant Tree landed without making big waves, even though The Fast and the Furious got a sizable re-release in many theaters. The top new title by word-of-mouth energy? A small expansion film called Tony, which widened from 37 to 1,642 theaters and pulled in about $5 million — the kind of sleeper-move studio execs love to hype.
Slow-Burn Hits and Healthy Expansions
A24’s oddly titled Adolescence, Sex, and Death at Camp Miasma is also growing steadily: it jumped from 54 to 1,036 locations and looks set to at least double its box office haul. That’s the festival-to-mainstream trajectory indie fans live for.
Franchises and Blockbusters Holding Strong
Big studio fare is still doing what big studio fare does. Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey are holding steady, while Minions & Monsters and Obsession have each cleared the half-billion mark worldwide. The Moana remake has sailed past $300 million, and The End of Oak Street has now earned more than its $85 million production price tag.
Small Openings, Big Hopes
And for the tiny-but-watchable number: It Ends opened in five theaters in L.A. and New York and made roughly $60,000. Not a blockbuster start, but for limited runs that’s the kind of figure that can get people talking.
Fun (and Silly) One-Line Summaries
I rewrote the weekend’s shorter synopses because why not: Insidious: Beyond — The Death Hygienist. The Mutiny — You Killed My Boss, Prepare to Be Cross. Spider-Man: Brand New Day — The Friendly Neighborhood Upgrade. The Odyssey — Vacation: Ship Edition. Minions & Monsters — Yellow Mayhem. Obsession — The Hysterical and the Hemmed-In. Moana — Surf’s Up, Remake Edition. The End of Oak Street — Bad Block. It Ends — To Infinity… and Then Some?