{"id":64689,"date":"2025-08-13T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:14:10","slug":"horror-film-to-lead-again-over-odenkirks-nobody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64689\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Film to Lead Again Over Odenkirk’s Nobody 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWill \u201cNobody 2<\/a>\u201d pack a punch at the box office? Universal\u2019s sequel to the pandemic-era hit \u201cNobody,\u201d starring Bob Odenkirk as a seemingly mild-mannered dad who actually kicks ass and takes names, is aiming for $10 million to $12 million from 3,200 North American theaters in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s marginally ahead of the original 2021 film, which debuted to $6.8 million at a time when cinemas around the country were just starting to turn the lights back on after COVID. Even with that hobbled moviegoing landscape, \u201cNobody\u201d managed to power to $27 million domestically and $57 million globally. Then, the first film was popular enough on premium video-on-demand platforms for Universal to greenlight a sequel, in which Odenkirk returns with vengeance. In the follow-up, his character Hutch Mansell takes his family on vacation to the small tourist town of Plummerville and finds himself in the crosshairs of several shady locals. \u201cNobody 2\u201d was modestly priced at $25 million, just above the first film\u2019s $16 million price tag.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNobody 2\u201d won\u2019t have the strength to unseat \u201cWeapons<\/a>,\u201d which is on its way to sleeper hit status after topping the box office last weekend with $43.5 million. Zach Cregger\u2019s R-rated thriller looks to repeat No. 1 with estimates of $20 million to $22 million in its sophomore outing, a better hold than the average horror movie. That\u2019s because \u201cWeapons\u201d is benefitting from great reviews and solid word-of-mouth. So far the film has generated $71 million globally against a $38 million production budget. It\u2019s the latest in a line of commercial winners for Warner Bros. following \u201cA Minecraft Movie,\u201d \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cFinal Destination Bloodlines\u201d and \u201cSuperman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVying for the No. 2 spot against \u201cNobody 2\u201d is Disney\u2019s \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d with projections of $10 million to $12 million in its second weekend. The PG film, reuniting Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as mother and daughter who swap places, has earned $28.5 million in North America and $43 million worldwide after three days of release.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis weekend\u2019s other newcomer, Spike Lee\u2019s crime thriller \u201cHighest 2 Lowest,\u201d will open in limited release on roughly 300 screens. Adapted from Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1963 Japanese film \u201cHigh and Low,\u201d the modern-day remake follows a powerful music mogul who is targeted by a ransom plot. Denzel Washington stars in the A24 film, his first collaboration with Lee since 2006\u2019s \u201cInside Man,\u201d alongside the cast of ASAP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright and Ice Spice. Reviews have been positive, with Variety\u2019s chief film critic Peter Debruge<\/a> praising Lee for \u201cdelivering a soul-searching genre movie that entertains while also sounding the alarm about where the culture could be headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt this point, the overall box office is 7.5% ahead of last year but 23% behind 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, according to Comscore.\u00a0With summer revenues at $3.2 billion through the middle of August, the movie theater industry\u2019s hopes of hitting the elusive $4 billion mark could be more difficult<\/a> than many box office watchers predicted at the start of popcorn season. Then again, Hollywood loves a twist ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will \u201cNobody 2\u201d pack a punch at the box office? Universal\u2019s sequel to the pandemic-era hit \u201cNobody,\u201d starring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,34244,56,54,55,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-64689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-nobody-2","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}