UPDATE: Damn. This isn’t good. “The Fabelmans,” which I rewatched this weekend, and enjoyed many moments, will open at around $2.2 million. It seemed to have peaked on Friday and its numbers kept going down on Saturday and Sunday.
Obviously, comparing ‘Fabelmans’ to “Glass Onion,” which also opened in 600 theaters, is probably unfair, but Rian Johnson’s sequel made around $14-15 million this weekend. More and more people are thinking it could get Best Picture nominated now …
EARLIER: Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed “The Fabelmans” is now out in theaters, more specifically 638 of them. We’re keeping a close eye on this one as it comes out at the same time other prestige films are failing at the box-office. It is also considered by many as the current Oscar frontrunner.
The results so far: ‘Fabelmans’ made roughly $800k on Wednesday and Thursday combined. What we’re specifically zeroing in on though is its upcoming three-day weekend. On Friday, it made $880k and projections are saying it’ll make roughly the same amount on Saturday and a tad less on Sunday.
This will amount to, roughly, a three-day haul of $3 million. It should be at a domestic total of around $5 million by the end of the weekend. Its budget is said to be $40 million. These numbers are a little lower than Spielberg’s last film, “West Side Story,” which ended up grossing roughly $38 million total by the end of its box-office run last year.
The film is, however, on track to make more money than Oscar contenders such as “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “TÁR,” “Armageddon Time, “She Said,” “Till,” “Bones and All,” and “Aftersun.”