Battle at the Box Office 3/17/25
Novocaine took the top spot at the box office this past weekend, but it ruled over an extremely slow weekend in theaters.
Novocaine opened to $8.8 million domestically and $10.5 million worldwide. That’s slightly below Jack Quaid’s other recent release, Companion, which made $9.7 million in its opening weekend. The movie got a B CinemaScore, which isn’t terrible but not that great either, so we’ll have to see how it holds as potential counterprogramming to Snow White this coming weekend.
Mickey 17 dropped fairly steeply in second place, taking in another $7.5 million, 60% less than last weekend’s opening. It has $33.2 million domestically and $67.3 million worldwide.
Black Bag opened in third place with $7.5 million. For Steven Soderbergh, that puts it between Logan Lucky and Solaris for opening weekend totals and around $4.2 million higher than his January release, Presence. Black Bag has a worldwide total so far of $11.8 million.
Captain America: Brave New World and The Day the Earth Blew Up rounded out the top 5. Captain America is at $388.5 million worldwide. The Day the Earth Blew Up opened with $3.1 million, which is nowhere close to either Space Jam movie and about $6 million below what Looney Tunes: Back in Action made for its opening in 2003. We should probably be glad that The Day The Earth Blew Up opened at all and didn’t suffer the same fate as Coyote vs ACME and get written off for taxes.
Just outside the top 5, The Last Supper took sixth place with $2.7 million in 1,575 theaters. A24’s Opus seems like a big miss in slightly more theaters, opening well outside the top 10 in 12th place with just over $1 million. It also has a C+ CinemaScore, so it will probably shrivel quickly.
The best per theater average went to Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, one of the Oscar contenders for Best Documentary, which made $3,172 in 1 theater.
