Universal’s latest monster movie, the blood-sucking “Renfield,” is sinking its teeth into the domestic box office with $900,000 from 2,750 theaters in Thursday previews. It expand…
,” is sinking its teeth into the domestic box office with $900,000 from 2,750 theaters in Thursday previews. It expands to 3,375 locations on Friday.
This modern take on Dracula won’t be able to drive a stake through the heart of last week’s box office champion, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” The animated, family-friendly video game adaptation will get another high score at the box office this weekend, with an expected $58 million to $66 million in its sophomore outing.as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as his lowly servant, is projected to make just $10 million in its opening weekend.
In recent years, Universal has been dusting the cobwebs off its vault of classic monster movies. “The Invisible Man,” starring Elisabeth Moss, was a low-budget hit in 2020, but Tom Cruise’s “The Mummy” reboot in 2017 previously had flopped and forced the company to rethink its horror strategy and interconnected Dark Universe.
In addition to “Renfield” and “The Pope’s Exorcist,” the horror genre is having a big weekend with the limited release of director Ari Aster’s “Beau If Afraid,” starring Joaquin Phoenix. It will open wide next week.
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