Disney is expected to own No. 1 for the ninth time this summer, the likelihood that its 20th Century Studios’ Alien: Romulus will have the upper tail above Deadpool & Wolverine‘s fifth weekend, $18M to $17M. Through Tuesday, the Fede Alvarez-directed Alien: Romulus counts a running box office of $50.6M.
It Ends with Us, from Sony/Wayfarer Studios, will become Blake Lively’s highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office, overtaking Green Lantern ($116.6M) — we’re not counting her secret cameo in D&W. The romantic drama directed by and starring Justin Baldoni is set to do around $13M.
These holdovers will prevail over three studio wide entries, all of which are expected to file in the single-digit millions. What about the overindexing of the summer? Won’t that prevail here against what tracking is seeing? No, because it’s late August, and many are in back-to-school mode. Comscore reports that 33% K-12 are on break, while 58% of colleges are out.
Amazon MGM Studios’ has the Zoe Kravitz-directed thriller Blink Twice starring Channing Tatum, but it’s not expected to do Tatum-sized opening numbers (double digits-plus). The movie was greenlighted by the Michael De Luca-Pam Abdy administration at MGM.
Channing Tatum in “Blink Twice”
Amazon/MGM
Tatum plays tech billionaire Slater King, who meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie), falls head over heels and invites her to his private island. However, it’s not paradise as Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. The pic also stars Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis. Kravitz also produced and co-wrote. Good news: Critics like the movie at 80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Amazon MGM Studios dropped this shocker online marketing element on X today:
‘The Crow‘
Larry Horricks for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has the reboot of The Crow starring IT and John Wick: Chapter 4 star Bill Skarsgård, but it’s going to do less ($6M-$9M) than the original 1994 Brandon Lee movie, which opened to $11.7M. The pic is booked at 2,500 locations. Rupert Sanders directs based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr.
Blurb: Soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
The Crow was produced by Edward R. Pressman, Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida, John Jencks and Samuel Hadida. It had been scheduled to open on June 7 before Bad Boys: Ride or Die took over that spot.
Sony has director Alex Kendrick’s faith-based movie The Forge in roughly 1,700 theaters. The pic follows Isaiah (Aspen Kennedy), who receives a push to start making better life decisions after graduating from high school without any plans for his future.