Gran Turismo squeaks past Barbie for the win at the weekend box office
Sony's video game adaptation/true story won the domestic box office by only $200,000
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It’s been a while since the domestic box office enjoyed a nice shake-up, but that’s what happened this week thanks to some new debuts and falling fortunes. But the main story is that video game adaptation/true story Gran Turismo juuust barely beat Barbie to claim the top spot, and by “juuust barely” we mean that only $200,000 separated the two movies. Gran Turismo made $17.3 million in its debut, with Barbie making $17.1 million in its sixth week (just a few million short of $600 million total domestic).
The rest of the top five are Blue Beetle (falling to third after debuting at number one, with $12 million this week and nearly $50 million total), Oppenheimer ($9 million this week, just over $300 million total), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem ($6 million this week and almost $100 million total after four weeks). Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are holding on well, and while they’ve definitely slowed in the past month, they haven’t slowed that much.
In the bottom half of the top 10 we have Meg 2: The Trench ($5 million and a total of $74 million after four weeks) and then Strays (falling more than 40 percent in its second week with $4 million and $16 million total). Then there are those newcomers: Liam Neeson car movie Retribution and Dennis Quaid baseball movie The Hill. They both had relatively small rollouts, but the also didn’t do especially great anyway ($3.3 million for the former, $2.5 million for the latter). Finally, Haunted Mansion drops to 10th place with $2 million and a total of $62 million in its second week, with the top 10 officially saying goodbye to Talk To Me, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One, and Sound Of Freedom.
Other notable things: A re-release of Jurassic Park made $1.7 million, and Bottoms—in a very limited rollout of only 10 theaters—made a very impressible $516,000. That means its per-screen average was over $50,000, which is way better than anything else this week.
The full top 10 from Box Office Mojo is below.
- Gran Turismo
- Barbie
- Blue Beetle
- Oppenheimer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Meg 2: The Trench
- Strays
- Retribution
- The Hill
- Haunted Mansion
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I don’t think I’ve even seen a single trailer for Gran Turismo, which is only weird because I’ve been the the theater a pretty good amount in the last few months.
It played before Barbie, which was the only reason I had seen it, tbh.
That’s odd, because I feel like I’d constantly see David Harbour say how a bunch of gamer nerds could never drive a car.
I wanna see a movie where they take a fat fourteen-year-old who rips bongs right into his open Xbox mic while playing Call Of Duty and put him through Ranger School.
yeah seen the trailers quite a bit in theatres and youtube preroll on my end, but obviously the youtube stuff is dynamic.
Blue Beetle held better than I thought it was going to which may be a good sign for the character, but I have to think it may still be in a “great, but we’re not going to talk about it again” situation with the DCU.
it’s one of those things where if squint and you only look at the one datapoint it could mean something good, but i don’t think anyone wants the second weekend of their 120 million dollar superhero movie to make 13 million bucks.
Impressible.
The trailer looks very manly. And there’s a mom part.In honor of its success, let me introduce you to Joman.
Years of playing Rad Racer made me believe I would immediately recover after driving into a palm tree at 124 mph.
The only day that Gran Turismo beat Barbie was Friday which doesn’t bode well for Gran Turismo’s long term success at the box office. We will see a big drop off next weekend for it. Blue Beetle did better than I thought this weekend so maybe it can scratch out a halfway decent run.In a weird move, Universal greatly increased the number of screens playing Super Mario Bros. It played on less than 70 screens last weekend, but increased it to almost 1500 this weekend. It beat out Indiana Jones by $10k. Mission Impossible took in another $2M. It looks like it and Indiana Jones will end their respective runs with roughly the same amount of money at the box office (M:I is roughly $6m behind Indiana Jones after this weekend.)
In a weird move, Universal greatly increased the number of screens playing Super Mario Bros. It played on less than 70 screens last weekend, but increased it to almost 1500 this weekend.They’re literally running out of movies because of the strikes. I expect we’ll see more of this, and more theatrical re-releases in the coming months.
The reason why that Gran Turismo beat Barbie on Friday is that the studio counted all the money it made on previews the past two weeks in Friday’s tally. That’s pretty sneaky.
You don’t win races by playing it safe!
MI is 200 millions over Indiana Jones worldwide.
MI was surprisingly fantastic. I’m madly in love with Haley Atwell now.
gran turismo being a pretty bad movie also doesn’t bode well for its success.
Barbie goes on VOD in eight days, curious to see what that does to these numbers.
If the message of the movie isn’t family then I don’t GIVE A FUCK
One reason we haven’t seen “Blue Beetle” is that we feel like we have seen that a lot in Superhero stuff lately between “Shazam” and “Ms Marvel.” Maybe a couple others, too.
“Family is important” seems to have become the standard message for blockbusters. Inoffensive, vague, and generally agreeable.
Oppie about to make 800 million is so incredible to me I never would have guessed.
“falling more than 40 percent in its second week”
You say “more than” as if 40% is a bad week-to-week drop and not a GREAT week-to-week drop. Most movies drop 60% from their first to second weeks.
And next week Gran Turismo will have shot its wad with everyone who wanted to see this pointless stretching of the truth and Barbie will be back on top. No big.
I can’t wait to see Barbie on home streaming in (checks calendar) eight days. I am excited but that’s snark because it’s stupid that something so good for the economy of theatre-going is going to VOD so freakin’ soon. Curious to see next the box office results in two weeks.
WB is shitting the bed by releasing Barbie on VOD in eight days. Have they learned nothing?
I keep hearing “Gran Turismo” but I have zero idea what that film is… is it a sequel to the Clint Eastwood film…? I’m confused.
“Bottoms—in a very limited rollout of only 10 theaters—made a very impressible $516,000. That means its per-screen average was over $50,000, which is way better than anything else this week”So I guess you could say it’s a power bottom? Eh? Eh?