New York – In unexpected discomfort, Jason Statham’s thriller “A working man” Took number 1 at the box office, overcoming the decrease quickly “Snow White,” According to study estimates on Sunday.
Even later A mediocre debutIt was predicted that the live action remake of Walt Disney Co. would continue to be the best film in US and Canadian theaters during the weekend. Instead, “Snow White”, full of Bad Buzz and Backlash, stomping on its second weekend and fell 66%.
At the same time, “A Working Man” by Amazon MGM Studios, directed by David yesterday, exceeded expectations with a debut of $ 15.2 million. Co -written by Sylvester Stallone, “A Working Man” Statham starts again and yesterday after the successful “The Beekeeper” last year ($ 162 million worldwide). This time, Statham plays a construction worker with an elite military past.
While the reviews have been mixed and the public only gave “Working Man” a “B” cinemacore, show that Statham has forged something weird in the film industry today: bankruptcy. “A Working Man” opened similarly to “The Beekeeper”, which was launched with $ 16.5 million.
However, the largest headline could have been the rapid erosion of the appetite of ticket buyers for “Snow White.” The film, directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler, was expected to raise the cinemas after a painful start by 2025. Produced by more than $ 250 million, the film has become an poisoned apple, with a world tour of two weeks of $ 143.1 million.
The next weekend, Warner Bros. ‘It is expected that “a Minecraft movie” win over the weekend and, like the “Snow White”, Target Family.
A trio of newcomers: “Death of a unicorn” of A24, “The Woman in the Yard” by Universal and Blumhouse and “Eleced: The Last Super” of The Fathom, also opened during the weekend, although none had a great impact.
“The elected: The Last Super”, was the best, with $ 11.5 million in 2,235 theaters. The Christian television series, now in its fifth season, has regularly conducted the sale of tickets before transmitting. More episodes will be launched in theaters until April.
“Death of a unicorn”, a horror comedy starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd, portrays a father and daughter who hit a unicorn on the road while driving. The film compiled $ 5.8 million of 3,050 theaters.
The most direct horror contender of the weekend, “The Woman in the Yard” by Blumhouse, starring Danielle DeadwylerHe debuted with $ 9.4 million of 2,842 cinemas. In the film of the director of “Black Adam”, Jaume Collet-Serra, a mysterious woman continues to appear in the front courtyard of a family. Although it costs little to do, with a production budget of $ 12 million, critics have criticized it.
One of the biggest hits of the weekend was the classic Studio Ghibli of 1997 “Princess Mononoke”. The Hayo Miyazaki movie raised $ 4 million in just 347 IMAX screens. The GKIDS distributor promoted that result as a victory for humanity over technology. At the beginning of the week, a new version of Chatgpt allowed users Render images in the animation similar to Studio Ghibli.
“The Penguin Less” by Sony Classic, starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce, opened with $ 1.2 million to 1,017 theaters. Coogan plays an Englishman who teaches in Argentina in 1976 to rescue a penguin from an oil spill.
With the sale of tickets in general, Hollywood marked the first quarter of 2025 with a considerable box office deficit. Sales have dropped 11% since the same point in 2024, and almost 40% since 2019, according to Comscore.
“Hopefully ‘Minecraft’ can help the market to level up, since after some disappointing weekends at the box office we need to recover some impulse in multiplex,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst.
With the final national figures that expire on Monday, the following factors on the list in the sale of estimated tickets from Friday to Sunday in the theaters of the United States and Canada, according to Comscore:
1. “A working man”, $ 15.2 million
2. “Snow White”, $ 14.2 million.
3. “The elected: last supper”, $ 11.5 million.
4. “The woman in the patio”, $ 9.5 million.
5. “Death of a unicorn”, $ 5.8 million.
6. “Princess Mononoke”, $ 4 million.
7. “Captain America: Brave New World”, $ 2.8 million.
8. “Black Bag”, $ 2.2 million.
9. “Mickey 17”, $ 1.9 million.
10. “Novocaine”, $ 1.5 million.
