‘Everything, Everywhere’ Tops $40 Million, Survives The ‘Multiverse Of Madness’

In Friday box office news that isn’t about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys earned another $2.3 million (-38%) on its third Friday for a likely $10.36 million (-36%) weekend. That’ll give Universal’s $80 million animated caper comedy a $58.162 million domestic and (if the domestic/overseas split continues) $155 million worldwide. It’ll be on PVOD next week but the sheer lack of kid flicks over the next month, along with Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange 2 being more of a Drag Me To Hell PG-13 than a Spider-Man 3 PG-13, means that the kid-targeted toon should stick around over the next month. Ditto Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which earned $1.5 million (-41%) on Friday for a likely $6.8 million (-41%) weekend and $170.5 million domestic and (if the split holds from last Sunday) $345 million worldwide.

With Doctor Strange 2 playing to older kids and Downton Abbey: A New Era and Top Gun: Maverick playing to adults (the Tom Cruise sequel is pretty kid-friendly, but I don’t know if today’s kids care about a sequel to a flick their parents liked in the summer of 1986), there’s not much for younger kids between now and (at best) Jurassic World: Dominion on June 10 and Pixar’s Lightyear on June 17. Not quite benefiting from this lack of kid flicks is Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, despite it being a far more kid-friendly flick than The Crimes of Grindelwald. The J.K. Rowling prequel threequel earned $1.03 million (-52%) for a likely $3.9 million (-52%) weekend and $86 million domestic and over/under $355 million worldwide total. Having a rival PG-13 wizarding fantasy in the marketplace didn’t help.

Despite losing 1/3 of its screens and facing off against another multiverse flick, Everything, Everywhere All At Once didn’t quite collapse. The A24 release earned $951,212 on Friday (-39%). It will cross $40 million sometime today for a likely $3.68 million (-32%) weekend in 1,542 theaters for a $42 million cume. It’ll pass Hereditary ($44 million) next weekend to become A24’s third-biggest domestic earner. Whether it gets past Lady Bird ($49 million) and Uncut Gems ($50 million) is a matter of how it holds over the next month. The pickings are pretty slim before Top Gun: Maverick and Bob’s Burgers: The Movie on Memorial Day weekend. Even if Downton Abbey: A New Era plays like Addams Family 2 (an $18 million debut after a $33 million-opening predecessor), I wouldn’t be shocked to see it level out again after the Doctor Strange stampede.

Robert Eggers’ $70 million The Northman will earn $2.91 million (-54%) in weekend three for a $28.2 million 17-day cume, while The Lost City will earn $2.51 million (-34%) despite losing 698 theaters for a $94.4 million cume. The Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure should still crawl to $100 million domestic by the end. Nicolas Cage’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent will earn $1.56 million (-60%) for a poor $16.5 million 17-day cume. Liam Neeson’s Memory dropped 68% on Friday for a $360,000 gross. That positions the Martin Campbell-directed actioner for a $1.25 million (-60%) weekend and a miserable $5.34 million ten-day total. The Batman lost 930 theaters in weekend ten, so it earned $27,000 (-87%) in just 202 auditoriums for a $105,000 (-86%) weekend and $369.2 million cume. I guess putting it on HBO Max after 45 days was of nominal theatrical consequence.