DreamWorks Animation and Common’s household movie Canine Man isn’t having any bother staying atop the field workplace in its second weekend with an anticipated $13.7 million from 3,886 theaters as new choices Coronary heart Eyes and Love Hurts battle for Tremendous Bowl scraps.
That ought to put Canine Man‘s home complete at a satisfying $54.1 million by means of Sunday (the pic price a modest $40 million or so to supply).
Tremendous Bowl weekend has all the time been a problem for Hollywood studios since moviegoing plummets dramatically on the day of the large recreation (this 12 months’s championship recreation sees final 12 months’s victor the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs face off in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles). Films focusing on youthful females and style titles interesting to youthful audiences are a favourite go-to when it comes to motion pictures daring to open over Tremendous Bowl weekend, and this 12 months is not any completely different, though it’s extra weighted on the style aspect this day out.
Coronary heart Eyes, a Valentine’s Day-themed rom-com from Sony’s Display Gems and Spyglass, seems to open in second place behind Canine Man with a projected $8.5 million to $10 million from 3,102 theaters after narrowly topping Friday’s chart with $3.6 million.
The movie revolves round a masked killer — sure, the masks is within the form of a coronary heart — who travels from metropolis to metropolis discovering a pair to kill on Feb. 14. Directed by Josh Ruben, the slasher pic stars Mason Gooding, Jordana Brewster and Olivia Holt.
Incomes first rate critiques, Coronary heart Eyes didn’t fare fairly as effectively with audiences, which gave the pic a B- CinemaScore.
Coronary heart Eyes
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Common’s Love Hurts is opening in third place with an anticipated $6 million from 3,200 theaters. The motion pic revolves round a seemingly odd actual property agent who’s attempting to outrun his violent previous and stars Oscar-winning All the pieces All over the place All at As soon as actor Ke Huy Quan reverse Daniel Wu, Ariana DeBose and Marshawn Lynch. The varied forged additionally contains former NFL working again and Tremendous Bowl champion Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch.
David Leitch of the John Wick franchise is among the many movie’s producers.
Critics have bashed the movie, whereas audiences gave it a C+ CinemaScore.
Produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and Leitch, Love Hurts is written by Matthew Murray and helmed by JoJo Eusebio in his directorial debut.
Love Hurts.
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Disney’s Thanksgiving Mufasa: The Lion King is holding at No. 8 all the best way in its eighth weekend and is predicted to gross $4.2 million from 2,945 theaters for a home cume north of $235 million.
To say there’s a glut of style content material is an understatement. New Line and Warner Bros.’ sci-fi Companion pic is coming in fifth in its second weekend with an estimated $3.4 million for a 10-day home complete of $16.2 million.
Numbers can be up to date Sunday morning.