{"id":909669,"date":"2026-09-25T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909669\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:24:10","slug":"box-office-avengers-endgame-leads-weekend-where-four-films-eye-20m-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909669\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Avengers Endgame’ Leads Weekend Where Four Films Eye $20M+ Each"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM: If a Nor\u2019easter<\/a> doesn\u2019t shut down the power in the Northeast, four films are looking at doing over $20M each in what is another fantastic sign for moviegoing in a year that\u2019s racing to $10 billion.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently, there\u2019s no word whether theaters are closing down from New Jersey up to Boston as wind and rain is expected to hammer the region. <\/p>\n

\n\tDisney\/Marvel Studios\u2019 three-hour Avengers Endgame: Encore has the upper hand among the new stuff with an estimated $11M today and between $23M-$26M at 3,060 theaters. The pic\u2019s lifetime cume after this weekend on the high end would move to $884.3M. Even though there\u2019s no endgame for Encore in its re-release, there\u2019s no expectation for it to unseat the Marvel Studios movie over at Sony, the all-time domestic leader<\/a> Spider-Man: Brand New Day (which will have a cume around $950M by Sunday).<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Summer U.S. Box Office Hits All-Time $4.76B Record: How Audiences Surrendered To Moviegoing<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSecond belongs to Sony\u2019s second frame of Resident Evil<\/a> at 3,684 locations with a 3-day of $22M, -63%, after a $6.5M Friday. Running domestic tally by EOD Sunday should be around $102.1M for the Zach Cregger revamp. <\/p>\n

\n\tThird is a fight between Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson, respectively with Paramount\u2019s Heart of the Beast and A24\u2019s Primetime<\/a>. Heart of the Beast<\/a> at 3,435 sites is seeing a Friday of $7.5M, 3-day of $20.5M. Primetime is around $8.5M today, with many optimistic that it gets past $20M. There is a chance it could recede to $18M-$19M and that ain\u2019t a bad thing for this $15M net production which didn\u2019t cost as much as Pattinson\u2019s Mickey 17 at net $118M production cost. The Smashing Machine, this movie is not ($5.8M opening). That was another A24 hipster and sophisticated adult play a year ago which fell to the mat. <\/p>\n

\n\tTypically the family animated movie is the stronger in this final September slot, but not this year with Universal\/DreamWorks Animation\u2019s Forgotten Island<\/a> filing $3.9M today (including previews) and $10.1M 3-day for the weekend, out of its $13M-$15M range. No RT audience score yet. <\/p>\n

\n\tRight there you have the top five films alone doing between $95M-$98M for this weekend. The best post-Covid weekend for the last frame of September was 2024 with $93M. That\u2019s when Universal\/DreamWorks Animation\u2019s The Wild Robot opened to $35.7M. <\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM UPDATE AFTER EXCLUSIVE: Previews are in with Disney\/Marvel Avengers Endgame: Encore grossing $3.8M yesterday, which is ahead of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith\u2018s $3.4M previews for its re-release last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tMind you, for quite some time before Spider-Man: Brand New Day came along, Avengers: Endgame had the domestic previews record of $60M (now No. 2). <\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s Primetime starring Robert Pattinson grossed a solid $2.7M at 2,859 theaters, $200K shy of the studio\u2019s previews for 2024\u2019s Civil War ($2.9M), which went on to a $25.5M opening. Also that\u2019s way ahead of recent Pattinson previews, i.e. this past spring\u2019s The Drama ($1.7M, $14.3M opening) and last year\u2019s Bong Joon Ho sci-fi feature Mickey 17 ($2.5M, $19M opening).<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Heart of the Beast made $2M, and that\u2019s from showtimes last night and Monday Mystery screenings. That figure bests the $1.5M made by Brad Pitt\u2019s 2019 sci-fi drama Ad Astra which went bowed to $19M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Heart Of The Beast\u2019 Review: Brad Pitt And A Soulful German Shepherd Struggle To Survive The Wilderness In An Emotional Journey That Will Have You Sobbing<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWouldn\u2019t that be amazing if we had four movies this weekend doing north of $20M \u2014 meaning Avengers, Primetime, Heart of the Beast and Resident Evil? Great news here for Heart of the Beast is that it\u2019s 97% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes with way more love than Ad Astra (40% Rotten).<\/p>\n

\n\tResident Evil should it do over $20M this weekend, which would clear the century mark stateside to become the 19th movie to top $100M this year. The Zach Cregger-directed Sony\/Constantin feature ends the week with $80.1M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Resident Evil\u2019 Review: Zach Cregger Brings Style, Humor And A Game Austin Abrams To Make Smart Original Reboot Of Horror Franchise<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\/DreamWorks Animation\u2019s Forgotten Island did $1.48M in previews all-in from showtimes yesterday ($750K at 2,650 sites), Mystery Monday screenings ($342K), and Sunday sneaks ($388K). That\u2019s ahead of post-Covid\u2019s The Bad Guys ($1.1M), which debuted to $23.9M in 2022, and not too far from The Wild Robot\u2018s $1.95M previews, which translated into a $35.7M opening in 2024. Original animated movies have become increasingly harder to launch. Good news here is that Forgotten Island is 95% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and it\u2019s the only family choice until Warner Bros\u2019 animated The Cat in the Hat arrives on November 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTop 5 for week:<\/p>\n

Resident Evil (Sony) 3,684 theaters Wk $80.1M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n

Practical Magic 2 (WB) 4,163 theaters, Wk $16.2M (-57%), Total $54.1M\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Sony) 3,017 theaters, Wk $8.6M (-23%), Total $946.5M\/Wk 8<\/p>\n

The Odyssey (Uni) 1,546 theaters, Wk $8M (32%), Total $612.8M\/Wk 10<\/p>\n

Coyote vs. Acme (Ketch) 3,035 theaters, Wk $6.2M (-61%), Total $56.4M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s what\u2019s cool about this weekend. <\/p>\n

\n\tWithout any wide entry opening to north of $30M, it\u2019s going to be a fantastic late-September frame at the box office. It wouldn\u2019t be shocking if the marketplace sees the best late-September weekend since 2018, when all films totaled $106.4M. From a pure box office standpoint \u2014 forget about budgets and marketing costs for a minute \u2014 we\u2019ve got four wide openings aimed at various demos in Disney\/Marvel Studios\u2019 Avengers Endgame: Encore (fanboys), A24\u2019s Primetime (Gen-Z and Robert Pattinson fans), Paramount\u2019s Brad Pitt dog movie Heart of the Beast (flyover states and men\/women adults) and Universal\/DreamWorks Animation\u2019s Forgotten Island (families).<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Forgotten Island\u2019 Review: H.E.R. And Dave Franco Give Life To Gorgeously Animated And Frenetic Toon<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tHeading into this weekend, it was believed that No. 1 could be a fight between Avengers Endgame: Encore and the second weekend of Sony\/Constantin\u2019s Resident Evil, respectively at $25M-$30M and $21M-$24M.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there are curveballs: It\u2019s the year of Pattinson in The Drama and beggars-getting-out-of-here memes in The Odyssey, and though A24 is eyeing $12M-$16M for his latest movie Primetime, about To Catch a Predator\u2018s Chris Hansen and his case gone wrong, the $15M-net production has a shot at a $20M opening in North America at 2,814 theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt could be a three-way fight for No. 1,\u201d says one distribution source.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Primetime\u2019 Review: Robert Pattinson Channels Jerry Maguire And Dracula For Lance Oppenheim\u2019s Dark TV Morality Tale \u2013 Venice Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWe\u2019re hearing that previews tonight for the first feature narrative title from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim are chasing Avengers Endgame: Encore\u2018s $3M+ previews with a figure between $2M-$3M. Previews for the R-rated Primetime began at 4 p.m. Thursday, and Rotten Tomatoes reviews and critics are great at 86% certified fresh and 85%. Encore\u2018s showtimes began today at 2 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose previews for Primetime are ahead of Pattinson pics The Drama ($1.7M, $14.3M opening in April) and possibly Mickey 17 ($2.5M, $19M opening last year), in addition to the Gen-Z summer horror surprise Obsession ($2.6M, $17.1M opening). The A24 financed-by-foreign-sales movie is bowing abroad this weekend in France, Germany, Austria, Taiwan, Iceland, India, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Avengers Endgame: Encore, boosted by four extra minutes of the Russo brothers\u2019 upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, has preview cash that could possibly surpass that of last year\u2019s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith\u2018s re-release, which was $3.4M (that turned into a $25.4M opening). We heard presales for Encore were ahead of Revenge of the Sith\u2018s reissue. The asterisk here is that sometimes these re-releases can be front-loaded, so we\u2019ll see how Encore plays out. The Russo brothers\u2019 Encore is booked in around 3,000 theaters, boosted by Disney\/Marvel\u2019s new certification on 1,300 premium large-format screens, Infinity Vision<\/a>, plus 390 Imax hubs. Encore will share Imax and PLFs with Resident Evil.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Avengers Endgame: Encore\u2019 Trailer Clocks 77 Million Views In 24 Hours, Quadrupling Record For A Re-Release Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOverseas outlook for Encore is $25M in what\u2019s bound to be a $50M WW weekend give or take. While James Cameron\u2019s Avatar remains the No. 1 movie of all time at $2.92B worldwide, Avengers: Endgame is No. 2 with $2.799B (and Spider-Man Brand New Day No. 3 with $2.5B). There is a $124M WW box office gap between Avatar and Avengers: Endgame. Disney is in wait-and-see mode on whether Endgame could reclaim the all-time top spot before Doomsday\u2018s December 18 opening. Unlike Revenge of the Sith\u2018s one-week play, there\u2019s no endgame for Encore at the fall box office.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Heart of the Beast leaves audiences moved and crying, including Deadline chief critic Pete Hammond<\/a>. Film reviewers aren\u2019t shrugging it at 89% certified fresh on RT. Tracking outlook is $17M-$20M at 3,400 theaters. Previews began at 2 p.m. Thursdayday for the David Ayer-directed PG-13 movie, and we hear from sources they\u2019re around $1.8M (that includes Monday Mystery screenings). That figure is just north of what Pitt\u2019s fall 2019 sci-fi drama Ad Astra did in previews at $1.5M ($19M opening). The movie cost a net $82M before global marketing with dueling edits by Ayer and Pitt\u2019s (Ayer\u2019s won). Internationally, the film will open this week in 63 markets (or 95% footprint) including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Expectation abroad is $15M for what could be a $35M WW opening. The hope is that older men and women find the film. Like Primetime, this survival tale about a Special Forces veteran and his combat dog who are stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, sells itself upon viewing.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Heart Of The Beast\u2019 Trailer: Brad Pitt Journeys Through The Wilderness With A Canine Companion In Survival Thriller<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tForgotten Island from Puss in Boots: Last Wish filmmakers Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado is looking at $13M-$15M at 3,500 sites. Typically, late September is home to a family animated movie, i.e. Abominable, Cloudy With a Chance With Meatballs, The Wild Robot, the list goes on. Blurb for Forgotten Island: Two best friends become stranded on the mystical world of Nakali, where their only escape might cost them their shared lifetime of memories. Previews today stateside began at 2PM and are estimated between $800K-$1M, we hear. Pic has a staggered offshore rollout. Last weekend, $1.5M was made in Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. An additional 31 markets this weekend will bring Forgotten Island\u2018s count to 34 markets with an additional $10M in store. <\/p>\n

\n\tResident Evil\u2018s cume through Wednesday stands at $76.8M. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM: If a Nor\u2019easter doesn\u2019t shut down the power in the Northeast, four films are looking at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[308519,49,48,75,216550,229566,337,254309,38309],"class_list":["post-909669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-endgame-encore","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-forgotten-island","tag-heart-of-the-beast","tag-movies","tag-primetime","tag-resident-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909669","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=909669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}