Last weekend's North American box office champion was another Warner Bros. film. As a highly anticipated classic horror film series, Final Destination: Bloodlines was released in 3,523 theaters in North America over the weekend, earning $51 million in opening box office, far exceeding expectations and surpassing Final Destination 4's $27.4 million opening box office, becoming the best opening weekend box office of all six episodes in the series; it also recovered the $50 million shooting cost in one fell swoop.
"Final Destination 6" is the best opening in the series.
The "Final Destination" series of films was born a quarter of a century ago in 2000, and the last "Final Destination 5" was released in 2011. It is worth mentioning that this time "Final Destination 6" not only has excellent box office, but also has a high reputation. The freshness rating on the film review website "Rotten Tomatoes" once reached 95%, but has now dropped slightly to 93%.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating of Final Destination 6 has skyrocketed.
You should know that the highest freshness of the past five "Final Destination" films on Rotten Tomatoes is only 63% for the fifth film, and the other four films failed to pass and can be classified as bad films. Moreover, viewers familiar with the series know that "Final Destination", as the name suggests, is about the tragic deaths of a group of protagonists, and no matter how it changes, it is difficult to escape this fixed pattern; therefore, although the past five films have won many fans of horror films, they are not very well received by film critics. The sixth film can win such recognition from the media, which is obviously a great innovation in story creativity and film language.
Final Destination 6 also received a B+ rating from CinemaScore audiences after the screening. Overall, like Warner's other horror film The Sinner (97% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes and A rating from CinemaScore audiences), it has an excellent reputation and is enough to support its box office to rise further in the future.
Last weekend, The Sinner, which has been released for five weeks, still received $15.42 million at the box office, ranking third on the box office chart. Together with Minecraft, which ranked fourth, Warner's works occupied three of the top four spots on the weekend box office chart. Moreover, the box office results of these three films were all unexpectedly good. The industry expects that the total box office revenue will exceed $1.5 billion, and the production costs of these three films add up to about $300 million.
Back in March this year, due to the poor box office performance of films such as "Number 17", it was rumored that Warner CEO Dave Zaslav was furious, and the positions of the two film department heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy became shaky. Just two months later, the situation is obviously very different.
"Tomorrow's Rush" was inspired by the album of the same name by the star, The Weeknd.
Another new film released last weekend was "Hurry Up Tomorrow" from Lionsgate. The film stars Abel Tesfaye, an African-American singer known by the stage name The Weeknd. The film was inspired by his album of the same name released in January this year and tells the story of a famous musician searching for himself. However, after the film was released in 2020 theaters in North America, it only took in $3.3 million at the opening, ranking sixth on the box office chart. However, the $15 million in filming funds did not come from Lionsgate, which was responsible for the distribution, so the latter will not suffer any losses.
A24's "Neighbors" stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.
The film ranked seventh on the box office list is quite surprising, because the "Friendship" released by A24 Films and starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd premiered in 6 theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 9, and the screening scale was slightly expanded to 60 theaters on May 16. But the weekend box office revenue from these 60 theaters reached 1.4 million US dollars, enough to rank among the top ten on the box office list.
This weekend's total North American box office was about $106 million, an 8% increase over the same period in 2024. The total North American box office so far this year has increased by 15% year-on-year, which has completely reversed the decline in the first quarter.
