‘The Batman’ Tops $700 Million As ‘RRR’ Plunges 92%

In holdover box office news for Friday, The Lost City earned $4.3 million (-63%) on its eighth day. That positions the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure for a $15.7 million (-48%) second-weekend gross. That’s a decent but not superlative hold, almost on par with The Proposal (-44% from a $33 million debut in June of 2009) and better than Ocean’s 8 (-54% after a $41 million debut in June of 2018). The over/under $70 million flick will have around $55 million domestic by day ten, implying that the original, star-driven high concept release (what we used to call “a movie”) will end its domestic run with between $85 million and $105 million, depending on how it legs out as essentially the only big release for a while playing explicitly (but not exclusively) to adult women.

Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $3.1 million (-44%) to bring its 29-day total to $341.3 million, setting the stage for a $11.3 million (-45%) fifth-weekend gross. That’ll give the Robert Pattinson/Zoe Kravitz actioner $349 million domestic at the end of its first month. Presuming a continued 49/51 domestic/overseas split, the Matt Reeves-directed DC flick should have around $697 million worldwide as of yesterday, meaning it should cross $700 million global by the end of this sentence. It should pass The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I ($712 million) tomorrow to become Robert Pattinson’s second-biggest global grosser behind Breaking Dawn part II ($829 million). That is most likely a bridge too far, which just shows how huge those Twilight movies were. It’s still looking like a final cume of $375 million domestic and $765 million worldwide for The Batman.

Meanwhile, Sony’s Uncharted earned $1 million (-26%) on its seventh Friday for a probable $3.72 million (-26%) weekend and $139 million domestic cume. Whether moving Morbius farther away from No Way Home hurt the former Marvel film, it certainly helped Uncharted. If it can hang on for a little longer, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adventure can best Detective Pikachu ($144 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million) as the biggest video game movie ever in unadjusted domestic earnings. Me thinks Sony should do Morbius/Uncharted double-features if the Jared Leto flick sinks like a stone next weekend. Either way, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will hope to make this entire proposition immaterial next weekend. Skipping around a bit, Spider-Man: No Way Home will earn $1.46 million (-27%) in its 16th weekend for a new $803 million cume.

FUNimation and Crunchy Roll’s Jujutsu Kasien 0 earned around $560,000 (-57%) on its third Friday. We can expect a $1.95 million (-57%) weekend and $31.44 million 17-day total for the Japanese anime horror fantasy. Alas, RRR plunged 92% on its second Friday, although that first Friday also included a full day of Thursday “previews.” Nonetheless, S. S. Rajamouli’s three-hour action spectacular earned around $440,000 on Friday setting the stage for a $1.58 million (-83%) weekend and $12.75 million 11-day cume. That’s obviously not a good hold, as this film’s domestic release was a one-weekend wonder. Still, it’s not like Rise Roar Revolt was banking on huge North American box office. Those who wanted to treat themselves by seeing it theatrically will get to do so. Everyone else will wait for Netflix.

Channing Tatum’s Dog earned $340,000 (-42%) on its seventh Friday. We can expect a $1.26 million (-41%) weekend as the $15 million MGM drama passes $60 million domestic. Everything Everywhere All at Once expanded to 38 theaters in advance of its wide release next weekend. The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert sci-fi multiverse action rom-com fantasy earned $354,953 (+73%) on Friday for a probable $1.05 million (+106%) second weekend and $1.8 million ten-day total. That $26,250 per-theater average is solid, but the real test is whether this terrific Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan flick can break out next weekend. I’m not optimistic (because I dare not hope), but if A24 can get The Green Knight to $17 million, I’d like to think they can drag Everything Everywhere All at Once past $10 million domestic.