While North America carves up their pumpkins for Halloween, Dwayne Johnson is still carving up the box office.
Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cBlack Adam\u201d is expected to repeat in the No. 1 spot over a quiet Halloween weekend, beating out Lionsgate\u2019s seasonal horror release \u201cPrey for the Devil.\u201d
The DC Comics entry earned $7.5 million on Friday, marking a 72% fall from its opening day last week. Some rivals expect the Warner Bros. release to earn $24 million in its sophomore weekend.
That figure would mark a substantial 63% drop from last week\u2019s opening of $67 million. Even for a superhero film \u2014 a genre that tends to yield front-loaded box office performances \u2014 that\u2019s on the heftier side. It\u2019s a good bit steeper than the second weekend tumbles of recent comic book films like \u201cThe Batman\u201d (-50%) and \u201cEternals\u201d (-62%). Marvel\u2019s \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d and \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d held less strongly (both -67%), but those films landed robust openings above $100 million.
These things are relative, of course. \u201cBlack Adam\u201d is the most popular film of the fall moviegoing season. The DC entry should have no trouble pushing its domestic gross past $100 million this weekend, becoming only the 15th release this year to reach that milestone.
But with a reported production budget of $195 million along with marketing and distribution costs, it\u2019s not hard to imagine that Warner Bros. was hoping for a bigger hit, especially considering the franchise repercussions of the film\u2019s much-hyped post-credits scene. \u201cBlack Adam\u201d will get one more weekend as the dominant force at the box office before Marvel\u2019s \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d hits theaters on Nov. 11.
\u201cPrey for the Devil\u201d looks to open in third place after earning $2.83 million from 2,980 locations on Friday. Rated PG-13, the horror film from Lionsgate and Confluence hopes to reach teenage audiences over the Halloween weekend. It\u2019s been a strong month for horror, with \u201cSmile,\u201d \u201cHalloween Ends\u201d and \u201cTerrifier 2\u201d all becoming box office success stories. Lionsgate is trying to get \u201cPrey\u201d in on the action before spooky season comes to a close.
\u201cPrey for the Devil\u201d follows a nun training to become the first woman exorcist following her mother\u2019s own possession. The film stars Jacqueline Byers, Posy Taylor, Colin Salmon, Christian Navarro, Lisa Palfrey, Nicholas Ralph, Ben Cross and Virginia Madsen.
\u201cPrey for the Devil\u201d didn\u2019t log many reviews from critics, though the handful that came in were largely negative. In Variety\u2019s review, critic Dennis Harvey was amicable, writing that \u201ceven if it falls short of being particularly memorable or scary, this is a decently entertaining possession potboiler.\u201d Audiences don\u2019t seem to be too hot on the film either, landing on a middling \u201cC+\u201d grade through research firm CinemaScore.
Universal\u2019s \u201cTicket to Paradise\u201d continues to win over audiences, landing a second place finish. The Julia Roberts-George Clooney two-hander is projecting a strong hold, falling only 37% for a $10.3 million gross.
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