The Crow plumbs as Deadpool & Wolverine claw his way back to #1

The Crow Has so far not lived up to its potential, struggling to match its initial expectations while a holder hit reclaims the top spot during its opening weekend. The new movie is adapted from James O’Barr’s comic book series of the same name and follows Eric (Bill Skarsgãrd) back from the dead to seek revenge for the murders of himself and his girlfriend Shelly (FKA Twigs). The CrowThe weekend release was preceded by the movie earning an incredible Rotten Tomatoes score from critics, which stands at 21% at the time of writing.

Per TermAs of Sunday morning, domestic box office projections show that the new releases for the weekend will fail to compete with Disney’s two reigning champions. Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine is set to climb back to No. 1 with a three-day total of $18.3 million for its fourth non-consecutive weekend at the top of the chart, knocking off 20th Century Studios’ Alien: Romulus Down to No. 2 in its second weekend with $16.2 million. Meanwhile, The Crow Has so far fallen short of its initial $6-9 million projections With an estimated debut haul of $4.6 million.

The Crows did not land in the domestic top 5

Two other new releases took its place

Despite being one of the weekend’s busiest new releases, The Crow Failed to land on the Top 5 chart at all, swooping down to number 8 at the domestic box office with its debut Dirty. Thus, the only movement in the Top 3 is the Deadpool & Wolverine Release reclaiming the throne, as the number 3 title that was behind it and Alien: Romulus The previous weekend, the romantic drama Blake Lively It ends with usContinues to rake in the money and maintain its position despite ample behind-the-scenes controversy. See the full domestic Top 5 chart below:

While the Top 3 is packed with the usual suspects for August, The rest of the chart is filled with non-Crow New releases. The Blink twice The release led the charge, with the Channing Tatum-led thriller taking in $7.3 million while the faith-based drama The ForgeA spinoff from 2015’s War fametook number 5 with $6.6 million. These are modest results, but neither movie boasts a particularly huge budget. The first, the directorial debut of The Batman Star Zoë Kravitz, only cost $ 20 million, while the latter only $ 5 million and so has already made his budget back.

The movies displaced by the new releases were Twisterswhich dropped from No. 4 to No. 6 with a strong $5.85 million in its sixth weekend, and the Coraline 15th Anniversary Re-release, which fell from No. 5 to No. 7 with $5.1 million. Coraline is continuing to perform exceptionally well for a re-releaseEspecially for a relatively recent movie that didn’t necessarily light the box office on fire during its original run.

How the Crows’ opening weekend compares to the rest of the franchise

The gothic action franchise is experiencing diminishing returns

Before the Skarsgård reimagining came to theaters, there were four others Crow movies, though only the original 1994 adaptation (starring Brandon Lee) and its 1996 standalone sequel City of Angels (starring Vincent Pérez) were released in theaters. The next two installments, which are 2000s Yeshua (starring Eric Mavius) and 2005’s Wicked prayer (starring Edward Furlong), both received limited theatrical runs before premiering direct-to-video. below, See how the opening weekend of the 2024 installment compares to previous theatrical movies From the franchise:

Even without adjusting for inflation, the controversial 2024 The Crow Movie has turned The lowest opening weekend yet of any theatrical installment in the franchise. However, it remains to be seen if it is proportionately higher than the previous installment. At the time of writing, the movie has a fresh 65% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which could indicate a potential word-of-mouth turnaround, especially considering the lack of major new tentpole blockbuster releases coming during the movie’s second weekend in Cinemas.

Finally, it remains to be seen how the future of The Crow shapes up. The movie is not necessarily a financial failure, but the fact that it debuted significantly below City of Angels May indicate that there will be no further movies in the universe of this particular installment. Although the underperformance of the 1996 film did not prevent two more movies from being made in the original franchise, it did prevent them from being put into wide release, relegating them to their direct-to-video releases.

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