It’s often said that second weekends could seal a movie’s fate at the box-office. The percentage of the change between opening and second weekend numbers tends to be used as a gauge for a film's overall commercial success. With that said, “Captain America: Brave New World” might be in trouble.
Given the low audience scores, and word of mouth having now firmly spread, this was to be expected. “Captain America: Brave New World” might have a steep -67% drop in its second weekend at the box office — the film is currently projected to earn only $30M from Friday through Sunday.
‘Brave New World’ is coming off a decent $87M opening weekend, and that was despite earning an MCU worst B- on Cinemascore. Marvel hopes that the film’s second weekend drop doesn’t match those of record-holders “Ant-Man and the Wasp” (-70%) and “The Marvels” (-78%.) — both of those went on to be used as examples of “superhero fatigue.”
Meanwhile, “The Monkey,” Neon’s second Oz Perkins movie, is expected to have a healthy $18M debut. It’s set to open on Friday in over 3200 theaters. Perkins’ $10M costing ‘Monkey’ is coming off last year’s “Longlegs” which, thanks to some nifty Neon marketing, ended up earning over $126M worldwide
As expected, Snyder's latest is being torn apart by TIFF attendees. No mercy given. The film, which had its world premiere this evening, is being called by some one of the worst movies to ever premiere at the festival.