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Movie Monday: ‘Him’ Scores a Meager Box Office Touchdown

Who won the box office this weekend? He did! Or, more accurately (but grammatically cringeworthy), Him did.

To be fair, it wasn’t exactly a Superbowl shutout. The “sports horror” movie only made $13.5 million with American audiences—on any typical week, that’d usually rank the movie in third or fourth place. But with few big-name releases to compete against, Him may as well have scored a touchdown against a team of kindergartners.

Haunting the silver spot is, once again, The Conjuring: Last Rites. Had it earned a million dollars more, it would’ve reclaimed its box office throne. However, it fell just shy, polter-heisting $12.9 million out of American pockets. That brings its cumulative domestic earnings to $151.2 million. Its worldwide cume, meanwhile, rests at a cool $400 million.

While Last Rites couldn’t reclaim its top spot, it did stand its ground against Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle, which fell from first to third this weekend. The anime apparently attracted the majority of its audience in its debut, as it earned 83% less as compared to last week. But it still had an $11.9 million domestic gain, raising its total to $104.7 million. Across the globe, the anime has earned $555 million. Still, don’t feel too bad for Infinity Castle’s fall from the top; that global cume makes it the world’s highest-grossing anime film of all time.

Though it didn’t fall down a ton, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale nevertheless dropped one spot into fourth place. It secured $6.3 million for its aristocratic coffers. Its sway over American audiences remains lackluster: In total, the movie has earned $31.6 million in the United States. And worldwide, the movie has grossed $59.5 million.

Rounding out the top five, The Long Walk appears a “long walk” away from turning a profit. This week, it shuffled its way into $6.3 million, raising its domestic cume to $22.7 million. Internationally, the film has struggled to gain momentum. So far, it’s only scrounged up $2.8 million, with a worldwide cume of $25.6 million.

Looking down the list at new releases, The Senior, the more wholesome of the two football movies on this list, scored a sixth-place finish. The Angel Studios production earned $2.8 million. Meanwhile, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey boldly went where many movies have gone before: seventh place. Perhaps its supernatural GPS should have directed more moviegoers to go see it.

The filmed stage production, Sight & Sound Presents: NOAH Live, sailed to 11th place. It collected $870,000.

Kennedy Unthank

Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He’s also an avid cook. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”

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  2. Call me an easily amused person but I do like the movie puns you guys write.

    Also, I would like to add that Sight and Sound theater is not just in the northeast, it’s also in Branson, Missouri.

  3. It is kind of sad that Him was so chock full of content issues because otherwise I think it was a pretty apropos skewering of the “idolatry” often baked into Sports and sports fandom

  4. With Jordan Peele as a producer, “Him” should have been better. The trailers certainly looked intriguing. But it’s clocking in at only 28% “fresh” at Rotten Tomatoes. That all I need to know. I’ll pass.