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Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” will maintain its position as the No. 1 film on domestic charts this weekend, beating out a trio of new releases in the manga adaptation “Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training.” , Hilary’s faith-based film. The splashy drama “Ordinary Angels” and the Ethan Coen lesbian crime adventure “Drive-Away Dolls.”
“One Love” added $3.7 million to its domestic gross on Friday, a modest 51% drop from its gross seven days ago. After releasing on Valentine’s Day, the Bob Marley biopic has grossed a solid $61 million. during its first 10 days in North American theaters. Compared to contemporary genres, it’s slightly ahead of the $50 million “Rocketman” earned in 2019 over the same time period, and slightly behind 2022’s “Elvis,” which grossed $66 million. In 10 days. Worldwide, “One Love” has surpassed $100 million.
Crunchyroll’s release of the new installment of “Demon Slayer” seems to take the money. Released in 1,870 locations, “To the Hashira Training” earned $5.5 million. during Friday and previous screenings. The anime film is now aiming for a debut north of $10 million.
“Demon Slayer” is unlikely to ever enjoy the same heights it reached when its first film adaptation stunned with a $21 million-plus domestic opening in 2021, arriving in the weeks after the vaccine was first publicly available. COVID-19. The next entry in the franchise, “To the Swordsmith Village,” scored a still-solid $10.1 million debut last March. Feature film adaptations of long-running manga properties have proven to be consistent draws at the box office in recent years and this new installment is no exception.
Another constant attraction in recent years: faith-based films. Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s “Ordinary Angels” grossed $2.3 million at 3,020 locations through Friday and previews. Reviews have been positive and ticket buyers love the show, as indicated by the A+ rating determined by audience survey firm Cinema Score. The film hopes to meet its modest projections of a $7 million to $9 million debut.
Based on a true story, “Ordinary Angels” stars Swank as a hairdresser who decides to help a father and his two daughters, one of whom requires a liver transplant. Jon Gunn directs, while the script is co-written by Meg Tilly and Kelly Fremon Craig, who directed last year’s “Are You There God?” It’s me, Margaret.”
Faring even worse is Focus Features’ release of “Drive-Away Dolls,” which didn’t even bother to release Thursday’s trailer gross and has so far only earned $1.01 million. The Ethan Coen-directed road comedy won’t even gross $3 million in its opening weekend, a dead start even for a humble specialty label release. In 2016, the theme “Hail, Caesar!” of the Coen brothers. it reached $11 million in three days, and that was considered disappointing at the time. Reviews are positive for “Drive-Away Dolls,” but they are not glowing; It can be difficult for a film directed by a director to reach audiences without that critical approval. The C grade on Cinema Score doesn’t help either.
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in the film as a pair of lesbians who become entangled in a conspiracy involving dildos, murder and the highest positions in Florida government. The cast also sports names like Pedro Pascal, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo and Matt Damon. Ethan Coen directs a script he co-wrote with Tricia Cooke, his wife.
Sony’s “Madame Web” isn’t saving much theater after its disappointing six-day domestic debut of $26.2 million. The Marvel Comics adaptation earned just $1.57 million on Friday, down 63%. of his journey seven days before. The bad reviews and bad rumors are proving insurmountable. The film will be lucky to surpass the $35 million domestic gross over the weekend, not exactly franchise-breaking numbers, considering its $80 million production budget and additional marketing and distribution costs.
Universal hit “Migration” and Apple’s failed hit “Argylle” compete for the final spot in the top five, each projecting grosses of around $3 million.. For movie theaters, next weekend’s release of Warner Bros. sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two” can’t come soon enough.