Who won the box office this weekend? He did! Or, more accurately (but grammatically cringeworthy), Him did.
To be fair, it wasn’t exactly a Superbowl shutout. The “sports horror” movie only made $13.5 million with American audiences—on any typical week, that’d usually rank the movie in third or fourth place. But with few big-name releases to compete against, Him may as well have scored a touchdown against a team of kindergartners.
Haunting the silver spot is, once again, The Conjuring: Last Rites. Had it earned a million dollars more, it would’ve reclaimed its box office throne. However, it fell just shy, polter-heisting $12.9 million out of American pockets. That brings its cumulative domestic earnings to $151.2 million. Its worldwide cume, meanwhile, rests at a cool $400 million.
While Last Rites couldn’t reclaim its top spot, it did stand its ground against Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle, which fell from first to third this weekend. The anime apparently attracted the majority of its audience in its debut, as it earned 83% less as compared to last week. But it still had an $11.9 million domestic gain, raising its total to $104.7 million. Across the globe, the anime has earned $555 million. Still, don’t feel too bad for Infinity Castle’s fall from the top; that global cume makes it the world’s highest-grossing anime film of all time.
Though it didn’t fall down a ton, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale nevertheless dropped one spot into fourth place. It secured $6.3 million for its aristocratic coffers. Its sway over American audiences remains lackluster: In total, the movie has earned $31.6 million in the United States. And worldwide, the movie has grossed $59.5 million.
Rounding out the top five, The Long Walk appears a “long walk” away from turning a profit. This week, it shuffled its way into $6.3 million, raising its domestic cume to $22.7 million. Internationally, the film has struggled to gain momentum. So far, it’s only scrounged up $2.8 million, with a worldwide cume of $25.6 million.
Looking down the list at new releases, The Senior, the more wholesome of the two football movies on this list, scored a sixth-place finish. The Angel Studios production earned $2.8 million. Meanwhile, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey boldly went where many movies have gone before: seventh place. Perhaps its supernatural GPS should have directed more moviegoers to go see it.
The filmed stage production, Sight & Sound Presents: NOAH Live, sailed to 11th place. It collected $870,000.
