{"id":721626,"date":"2026-06-07T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:21:12","slug":"box-office-scary-movie-no-1-with-55m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721626\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2019Scary Movie\u2019 No. 1 With $55M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMore than a decade after the last installment, Scary Movie<\/a> has proven its staying power, landing at the top of the weekend box office<\/a> with an estimated $55 million in domestic ticket sales for its debut weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tComing in second was the weekend\u2019s other new opening, Masters of the Universe<\/a>, earning $29.3 million at the domestic box office. Masters was followed by the A24 horror Backrooms, with $25.9 million, and close behind that is Focus Features\u2019 own genre entry, Obsession<\/a>, with $25.6 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Michael Tiddes, Paramount and Miramax\u2019s Scary Movie sees the return of franchise stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall. The R-rated comedy is the return of the spoof film franchise that sends up horror movie tropes, popular culture and current events. The film, which was made in association with original studio Miramax, is the sixth installment in the franchise but the first in more than two decades to feature the series\u2019 originators, the Wayans brothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to its $55 million domestic bow, Scary Movie earned $50.5 million abroad from more than 50 territories, with a total global haul of $105.5 million. The audience was a fairly even split between men and women, 55 percent male to 45 percent female, but heavily leaned younger, with 62 percent of ticket buyers under the age of 30.<\/p>\n

\n\tInternationally, Masters earned $25 million over 80-plus territories, for a global opening weekend of $54 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon and Mattel Films\u2019 Masters sees Nicholas Galitzine star as Prince Adam\/He-Man, the toy-turned-beloved \u201980s animated character. After being separated from his home world, Adam finds his way back to Eternia, which he needs to save from the villainous Skeletor (Jared Leto). Other classic Masters characters like Teela (Camila Mendes), Duncan\/Man-at-Arms (Idris Elba) and Evil-Lyn (Alison Brie) are on hand for the adventure directed by Travis Knight.<\/p>\n

\n\tMasters, which has a Metacritic score of 54 and a B Cinema Score, opened in 3,677 screens with an audience that skewed heavily male (66 percent to 34 percent female). In a nod to nostalgia for the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series, which ran from 1983 to 1985 and continued for years after in syndication, the biggest age demographic for the weekend was 45- to 54-year-olds, making up 29 percent of the audience.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addressing the weekend\u2019s performance, Amazon MGM Studios head of domestic theatrical distribution Kevin Wilson highlighted the film\u2019s future, saying, \u201cTravis Knight and the entire cast and filmmaking team have delivered something truly special, and this opening is exactly the kind of critical first moment that validates our holistic distribution strategy \u2014 building awareness and engagement that will carry well beyond the theatrical window.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBackrooms, the $10 million horror based on director Kane Parsons\u2019 viral YouTube short film series, and Obsession, the horror thriller about a man who wishes that his crush would return his affections to disastrous consequence, have already broken box office<\/a> records. In only its second weekend of release, Backrooms has become the highest-grossing hit for studio A24, beating out Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet-starrer Marty Supreme. As for Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession, the film is the first film outside of Christmas since 1982\u2019s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial <\/a>to have second and third weekends bigger than its first.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tEven with the film\u2019s 70 percent decline in ticket sales at the domestic box office, Backrooms continues to impress. Globally, it currently sits at $212 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor its part, Obsession continued to prove its staying power, <\/a>dropping only 7 percent in weekend-over-weekend sales. This brings Obsession\u2019s domestic total to $152 million, with the film expected to surpass the $200 million mark at the global box office by the end of the weekend. The film is Focus Features\u2019 highest-grossing title of all time.<\/p>\n

\n\tComing in fifth is Fathom Entertainment\u2019s The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, a theatrical release of the cult Australian adult webseries, which earned $19.5 million at 2,200 locations.<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-horror box office holdovers include Star Wars entry The Mandalorian and Grogu, which earned $10 million at the domestic box office for a total of $155.8 million and a global haul of $293.6 million to date. <\/p>\n

\n\tComing in seventh place is the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, with an estimated $7.7 million for the weekend, for a domestic total of $354 million. That movie, now in its seventh weekend of release, is expected to become Lionsgate\u2019s\u00a0highest-grossing title of all time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a decade after the last installment, Scary Movie has proven its staying power, landing at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6471,49,48,75,25917,337,68813,44872],"class_list":["post-721626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-masters-of-the-universe","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-scary-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}