‘Batman’ Tops $750 Million As ‘Everything Everywhere’ Tops ‘Green Knight’

In holdover box office news for the weekend, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 earned another $30 million in weekend two, dropping a reasonable 58% to bring its domestic cume to $119.6 million. Presuming its domestic/overseas split hasn’t aggressively changed since Sunday (the only new territory for this weekend was Hong Kong), its global total should be around $236 million. If it continues to play like 300: Rise of An Empire (1.365x its $78 million ten-day total) and Kong: Skull Island (1.54x its $109 million ten-day total), it’ll end its domestic run with between $163 million and $184 million. Either outcome would A) make it the biggest-grossing video game movie ever in domestic earnings and B) put it behind only Tomb Raider ($131 million in 2001/$212 million adjusted) on the inflation-adjusted list for video game movies.

The question is whether it’ll hold firm over the next two months, since most of what’s coming between now and Lightyear, save for DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys next week, is aimed at adults or older kids. Legs like Spider-Man: Homecoming (which mostly had the field to itself from July 2017 until Thor: Ragnorak in November 2017) would get it to $191 million. Meanwhile, skipping around, Sony’s Uncharted earned another $1.17 million (-56%) in weekend nine for a $144.9 million domestic and (following another $2 million overseas) $389 million worldwide. The Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg video game actioner has passed Detective Pikachu ($144 million) to become the second-biggest video game movie (behind Sonic the Hedgehog’s $148 million finish) and will keep that distinction for exactly a week. Nonetheless, the $120 million actioner is an unquestionable theatrical smash.

Paramount’s The Lost City earned another $6.5 million (-28%) in weekend four for a $78 million 24-day cume. It’ll pass Paramount’s Scream ($80 million) as early as tomorrow. With holds like that, the $70 million Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure will probably crawl to $100 million domestic, an undeniable win for the “we like regular movies too” crowd. Or maybe WB should just recast Bullock as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 4. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once expanded into 2,220 theaters in weekend four and held firm. The Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan/Stephanie Hsu multiverse fantasy earned $6.1 million (+2%) weekend and a $17.7 million ten-day total. This is an incredibly positive result for the A24 gem, already past The Green Knight ($17.1 million), and the closest thing we’re getting to an Easter miracle this weekend.

Alas, Universal’s (very good) Ambulance grossed just $4 million (-54%) in weekend two for a $15 million cume. That’s a lousy result for Michael Bay’s $40 million, R-rated actioner, although the Jake Gyllenhaal/Yahya Abdul-Mateen II/Eiza Gonzolez flick has earned $40 million worldwide, so let’s hope for a PVOD miracle. Morbius earned $4.7 million (-54%) in weekend three for a $65 million domestic cume. It has $146 million worldwide thus far on a $75 million budget. It’s not a hit, but Sony will survive. Meanwhile, in better WB news, The Batman has earned $365 million domestic and $751 million worldwide on a $185 million budget. We’ll see how the box office is impacted by its HBO Max availability beginning tomorrow. Either way, this is a huge commercial win for Matt Reeves and Peter Craig’s Dark Knight reboot.