‘The Bad Guys’ stays number one in theaters as everyone awaits the return of Marvel’s Doctor Strange.
Animation reigns supreme over a slow May Day weekend. Both ‘The Bad Guys’ and ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ retain their places on the Weekend Box Office Top 5.
As does ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ and ‘The Northman’.
The multiverse comedy ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ returns to the Weekend Box Office Top 5 after dropping off the previous weekend. Starring Michelle Yeoh, the film is proving a sleeper hit with audiences making it one of the most notable films of the year.
The only new release over the weekend was the Liam Neeson actioner, ‘Memory’.
‘Memory’ failed to break into the Weekend Box Office Top 5, debuting in eighth place at theaters.
Theaters will get a boost next weekend as a Marvel superhero returns to take the top spot away from ‘The Bad Guys’. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Sam Raimi, will dominate the next three weekends.
Later new releases likely won’t threaten the Sorcerer Supreme. ‘Firestarter’, a remake of the Stephen King classic, releases May 13. The new iteration stars Zac Efron. The following weekend brings ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’. A sequel to the popular period melodrama brings back most of the fan favorite cast including Maggie Smith.
Memorial Day will bring Tom Cruise back to the big screen in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. A sequel to the 1986 action film that made Cruise a true Hollywood star, it will seek to knock Doctor Strange out of the sky.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOP 5 (April 29 – May 1, 2022)
- ‘The Bad Guys’ – $16.2 million – animated (drop $7.8 million, 33% down)
- ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ – $11.5 million – animated (drop $4.2 million, 27% down)
- ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ – $8.3 million – fantasy (drop $5.7 million, 41% down)
- ‘The Northman’ – $6.4 million – action-adventure (drop $5.9 million, 48% down)
- ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ – $5.5 million – comedy (return to Top 5)
Total for the Weekend Box Office Top 5 is $47.9 million. This is a drop of $25.2 million from last weekend’s total of $73.1 million, a 34% decline.