Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems’ reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer banked $2.2 million in previews from showtimes that began at 2PM yesterday, while A24’s Ari Aster socio political-western, Eddington, did $625K.
‘Superman‘
Warner Bros/Everett Collection
Neither, nor Paramount Animation’s Smurfs, is expected to over swell with Warner Bros/DC Studios’ Superman still a fortress atop the box office chart with an expected second weekend of $55M-$60M, that James Gunn movie ending its first week with $177.7M. Superman is pacing ahead of the first week of Matt Reeves The Batman by +3% ($172.5M, final domestic $369.3M), +16% ahead of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($152.7M first week, $359M final domestic) and -3% behind the first week of GOTG Vol. 2 ($183.1M, final domestic $389.3M).
I Know What You Did Last Summer is eyeing around $13M+, while Smurfs is anywhere in the high single digits to low teens. Eddington is expected to land in the under $5M range.
The Jennifer Kaytin Robinson directed I Know What You Did Last Summer counts previews which are higher than Blumhouse/Universal’s Wolf Man ($1.4M previews, $10.8M opening) from earlier this year, and -62% less than Sony’s reboot of 28 Years Later ($5.8M previews, $30M opening). Critics have settled at 38% Rotten on I Know What You Did Last Summer while the Rotten Tomatoes audience meter is at 69%. That latter score is the best in franchise, ahead of the original 1997 installment at 41% and the 1998 sequel at 29%.
The 1997 movie, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and the late Anne Heche, opened to $15.8M and legged out to $72.5M domestic, $125.5M worldwide. The 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer debuted to $16.5M and ended its run at $40M. The movies made $165M combined. The third movie, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer starring Brooke Nevin, went direct to home video in 2006. The new installment since the return of Hewitt and Prinze Jr with newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Gabbriette Bechtel.
Eddington‘s critical score stands at 66%, which is under the 90% certified fresh of his horror opus Hereditary, and his Swedish solstice genre pic run amok, Midsommar (83% certified fresh), and 2 points under his Joaquin Phoenix trippy pic Beau Is Afraid (68% fresh).
Smurfs didn’t hold previews last night.
The rest of the week:
1.) Superman (WB) 4,135 theaters Thu $10.9M (-7% from Wed) Week $177.7M/Wk 1
2.) Jurassic World Rebirth (Uni) 4,324 theaters, Thu $4.2M (-6% from Wed), Week $60.6M (-56%), Total $252.7M/Wk 2
3.) F1 (Apple) 3,412 theaters, Thu $1.75M (-6%), Wk $20.8M (-47%), Total $144M/Wk 3
4.) How to Train Your Dragon (Uni) 3,285 theaters, Thu $1.22M (-6%), Week $13.3M (-30%)/Total $245.3M/Wk 5
5.) Elio (Dis) 2,730 theaters, Thu $683K (-11%), Week $7.1M (-31%), Total $66.9M/Wk 4