I do recommend this film4 Dec 2022 17:24
Across between die hard, bad Santa, home alone
Violent Night’ Unwraps a Sweet $13.3 Million at Post-Thanksgiving Box Office
”Black Panther: Wakanda Forever“ leads charts with $17.5 million
Jeremy Fuster | December 4, 2022 @ 8:19 AM
Violent Night
Universal
The usual post-Thanksgiving box office slump has been worsened by a poor slate of Thanksgiving releases. Only two films have earned over $5 million this weekend, with Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” taking a $17.5 million fourth weekend while Universal’s “Violent Night” opens to $13.3 million.
“Wakanda Forever” is on its way to becoming the third film this year to cross the $400 million domestic mark, joining “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Along with a running $393 million domestic total, the film’s overseas total has risen to $339 million, bringing its global cume to $733 million.
“Violent Night,” meanwhile is the sole newcomer this weekend, with its $13.3 million opening from 3,682 theaters slightly topping projections for a $10-12 million launch. Starring David Harbour as a surly Santa Claus dishing out punishment to the naughtiest of bad guys, the film has had generally positive reception with Rotten Tomatoes scores of 70% critics and 89% audience to go with a B+ on CinemaScore.
As expected of an R-rated action comedy, the film’s demographics skewed 59% men and 57% ages 18-35. “Violent Night” will now try to leg out through December as a seasonal offering and earn a domestic run of $40-50 million, similar to the $42 million domestic run of the 2015 Christmas horror film “Krampus.”
After these two films, there is a drop to third where Disney’s “Strange World” continues to tank, falling 63% from its weak $12.1 3-day Thanksgiving opening to $4.9 million in its second weekend. The film is still on course to become one of Disney’s biggest theatrical bombs ever with a domestic total of $25 million and a global total of $42 million against a production budget of at least $120 million before marketing costs are even factored in.
Disney is faring better with the much cheaper Searchlight horror film “The Menu,” which took in $3.6 million in its third weekend. “The Menu” actually has a higher global total than “Strange World” at $47.2 million, with $24.7 million coming from domestic grosses.
Completing the top 5 is another theatrical bomb, Sony Pictures’ “Devotion,” which despite positive reception is earning just $2.8 million in its second weekend, bringing the $90 million Korean War drama to a domestic total of just $13.8 million.