Bob Odenkirk’s modestly budgeted sequel Nobody 2 is having to settle for a third-place finish in its domestic box office debut as Zach Cregger’s horror pic, Weapons, continues to fire on all cylinders in its second weekend. Nor is Disney’s family comedy Freakier Friday helping matters.
Nobody 2, about a seemingly average suburban dad who leads a double life as a stealth operative, is on course to open on the lower end of expectations with $9.4 million after receiving a B+ CinemaScore from audiences (its audience ranking on Rotten Tomatoes is more promising at 92 percent).
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The first Nobody opened amid the pandemic to $6.8 million on its way to grossing a pleasing $68 million domestically. The sequel cost a modest $26 million to make before marketing, so no one at Universal is losing sleep, since it is sure to make up ground when hitting premium VOD as early as three weeks from now (the studio has perfected the art of PVOD).
From New Line and Warner Bros., Weapons will have no trouble staying No. 1 with as much as $25 million in its sophomore outing, a mere 42 percent drop. That’s no easy feat for a horror film, and cements the film’s status as a water-cooler sensation.
The female-skewing Freakier Friday, reteaming Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, is likewise grinning in its sophomore outing with an estimated haul $14 million to $15 million for a respectable drop in the 50 percent range.
Nobody 2 isn’t the weekend’s only new player, but is by far doing the best of the bunch.
Spike Lee’s prestige pic Highest 2 Lowest, which reunites him for the first time in years with Denzel Washington, is opening in select theaters before being made available relatively quickly on Apple TV+.
The movie is from Apple Original Films, with A24 handling its release in 220 theaters, or thereabouts. So far, A24 isn’t reporting grosses but rival distributors with access to numbers from at least 15 theaters show it on course to earn an estimated $894,000 for the weekend, based on their modeling. That would put its per-location average at a tepid $4,062. (To put things in perspective, the projected location average for Weapons, which is playing in 3,450 cinemas, is north of $7,200. And Freakier Friday, booked in 3,975 cinemas, is looking at an estimated location average of $4,000.) Generally speaking, a specialty film’s location average should be notably more when there is such a disparity in the number of theaters.
The Lionsgate-distributed Americana — starring Sydney Sweeney opposite Paul Walter Hauser and Halsey — is all-out bombing in its nationwide debut in 1,100 theaters. The pic is expected to take in around $840,000 for a paltry per-theater average of $460 and a sixteenth-place finish. The crime-heist movie, which has been well received by critics, has taken more than two years to arrive on the big screen after first premiering at SXSW in 2023.
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