Blumhouse’s Wolf Man is proving to be a significant disappointment, with the poorly obtained werewolf flick solely opening in third place.
It seems to be like we’ve got the primary flop of 2025, with Common and Blumhouse’s Wolf Man badly underperforming on the field workplace this MLK weekend. Business insiders thought the film would gross not less than $20 million (we predicted $17 million). Nonetheless, poisonous word-of-mouth (the C-minus CinemaScore score is telling) has torpedoed the primary main horror launch of the yr. It made solely $10.5 million this weekend, which is nice sufficient for a third-place end. How dangerous did it do? It made much less this weekend than the horribly reviewed Night time Swim did a yr in the past, and solely made lower than one million greater than Blumhouse’s poorly obtained Imaginary. Provided that director Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man made $28 million on its first weekend again in 2020, the hope was that this may be a similar-sized hit. Nonetheless, audiences don’t appear to be responding to this grounded take, which eschews all the things audiences love in regards to the werewolf style (silver bullets, full moons, and so forth.) in favour of a physique horror vibe that’s spinoff of The Fly and emphasizes household drama over scares.
As an alternative, the low-budget One in every of Them Days (which our critic liked), starring Keke Palmer and SZA, was a shock word-of-mouth hit, grossing $11.6 million, which is nice sufficient for a first-place end. Mufasa: The Lion King was simply behind it with solely a $70k distinction (in response to ComScore), and it’ll seemingly end forward of the pack when the four-day-MLK vacation grosses are tallied up. To date, Mufasa has revamped $200 million domestically after a gradual begin on the field workplace. Whereas it can finish its run with solely a fraction of what the 2019 Lion King made, it’s had first rate legs (or paws) on the field workplace. Its Christmas rival, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, fell to fourth place with $8.6 million, whereas final week’s champ, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, fell 56% to $6.6 million. It should seemingly finish its run just below the $44 million made by its predecessor.
Disney’s Moana 2 made one other $6 million-plus this weekend, for a complete gross of $442.8 million. Nosferatu is closing in on the century mark, with the $4.3 million complete placing it near a $90 million home gross. A Full Unknown has additionally held up effectively, making $3.79 million this weekend for a $57 million home complete. If it winds up getting a whole lot of Oscar nods, it has a great probability of hitting $70 million domestically. In the meantime, Depraved made one other $3.55 million for an excellent $464 million home haul (it can seemingly finish its run simply shy of $500 million), whereas A24’s Babygirl rounded out the highest 10 with $2.02 million for a $25.3 million home gross.
We’ll be again tomorrow with a full wrap-up of the MLK weekend grosses and an replace on how awards contenders like The Brutalist and September 5 are performing.
