It's poised to deliver the second-biggest Labor Day debut behind 'Shang-Chi'.
The Big Picture After a rather eventful race for the top spot last weekend, the domestic box office won’t witness similar drama this time around, with The Equalizer 3 poised to comfortably top the chart in its debut.
Starring Denzel Washington as a retired Marine named Robert McCall, The Equalizer 3 made $13 million on Friday, after $3.8 million from Thursday previews. Each film in the trilogy has been helmed by Antoine Fuqua, who most famously directed Washington to an Oscar in Training Day. The first Equalizer film, which was released nearly 10 years ago in 2014, made $101 million domestically and $192 million worldwide.
After throwing down against Sony’s Gran Turismo last weekend and finishing second for only the second time in its blockbuster run, Warner Bros’. Barbie once again took the second spot, and is eyeing a $10 million haul in its seventh weekend of release. The film made $2.5 million on Friday, and is projected to make around $13 million over the four-day extended weekend. But there are more reasons for W.B.
A Tight Race for the Third Spot is Underway Another W.B. release will claim the third spot this weekend. The lowkey superhero title Blue Beetle made $1.5 million on its third Friday, and is eying $6.4 million across the traditional three-day frame and $8.3 million across the extended weekend. This should take the movie’s running domestic haul to a lackluster $57 million.
The fourth spot went to last week’s champion, Gran Turismo, which is eying $6.5 million across three days and roughly $8 million across the extended four-day frame. You know what this means: another tight race for the second weekend in a row. Director Neill Blomkamp’s video game adaptation, which was curiously sold as a fact-based inspirational sports drama, will struggle to hit the $30 million mark domestically even by Monday. Fifth place went to Universal’s Oppenheimer, which generated $1.
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