Superman remained at the top of the box office for a second consecutive weekend, while I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs had franchise low openings.
Superman took in another $58.4 million, bringing its domestic total to $236.2 million and its worldwide total to $408 million. The movie dropped 53% from its opening last weekend, which is fairly solid for a big superhero movie. It’s now the 10th highest-grossing film of the year worldwide and the sixth highest-grossing domestically. Compared to other Superman movies, it’s now the third biggest domestically and the fourth biggest worldwide.
Jurassic World: Rebirth remained in second place with another $23.7 million. It now has a domestic total of $276.4 million and a worldwide total of $649.7 million.
I Know What You Did Last Summer opened in third place with $13 million. Even unadjusted for inflation, that’s the lowest opening in the franchise behind the two previous theatrical releases. Worldwide, the movie has $24.6 million. Audiences gave the film a C+ CinemaScore, which isn’t great, and it will likely decline quickly as word of mouth is unlikely to be particularly positive. It seems like, unlike its contemporary Scream, there was not a lot of pent-up anticipation for a new I Know What You Did movie.
Smurfs opened in fourth place with $11 million. That’s also the worst opening in its franchise unadjusted for inflation, around $2 million behind Smurfs: Lost Village from 2017. Worldwide, the movie has $36 million. The movie received a B+ CinemaScore, which for a family animated film is relatively low, and it may be one that most families will wait to see on streaming.
F1: The Movie rounded out the top 5 with another $9.8 million, taking it to $153.8 million domestic and $461 million worldwide.
Eddington opened in seventh place with $4.2 million. That’s toward the low end of wide A24 releases, between X and Y2K. Ari Aster’s previous wide releases were Hereditary and Midsommar, with Midsommar opening to $6.5 million. It was up from Beau is Afraid, which made $1.1 million for its highest-grossing weekend of release. Audiences gave it a C+, and reviews and opinions have been divisive, given the movie’s pandemic-era setting and political themes.
Superman had the best per-theater average of the weekend, with $13,673 in each of the 4,275 theaters it played in.
