Steven Spielberg is not (ahem) an alien to cinematic success. But it’s been a while since the 79-year-old director’s work has been the weekend’s biggest draw. You’d have to travel back to 2018 to see a Spielberg movie top the North American box office, when Ready Player One cleared $41.8 million during the traditional three-day weekend.
Well, eight years later, Spielberg’s Disclosure Day has done just a bit better.
Disclosure Day earned an estimated $44 million this weekend in North America, granting Spielberg his first box-office victory in eight years. The film did even better overseas, collecting about $48.9 million internationally, pushing its global tally to a tidy $92.9 million.
Not that Disclosure Day had a ton of new competition to worry about. The film was the only newcomer to land in the top five. That left the field wide open for a bevy of holdovers. And naturally, we begin with Obsession, the little horror movie that could.
Since its release in mid-May, Obsession has been bouncing around the top five like a gore-drenched pinball. This week it careened to second place with another $19 million stateside, which pushed its North American total to $188.4 million and worldwide gross to $286.5 million. Remember, this is a movie that cost less than $1 million to make.
Scary Movie, last week’s champ, took a serious tumble this weekend, losing more than 73% of its weekend-over-weekend audience. Sure, the spoof did manage to scare up $14.5 million stateside—good enough for a bronze medal finish this weekend. But like its true horror counterparts, Scary Movie comes with a relatively low price tag: about $30 million. While Plugged In felt the movie was painfully salacious and dumb, its makers are laughing all the way to the bank.
You can still find Backrooms in the top five if you go through the box office’s secret door. It earned $11.3 million this weekend to take fourth place, bringing its overall domestic total to $160 million and worldwide gross to $248.5 million.
Masters of the Universe suffered a mighty drop in its second weekend of release, taking $8.7 million for a fifth-place finish. The film has now earned $46.7 million—well below its $170 million-plus cost. At this rate, Amazon and MGM Studios may need to take out a second mortgage on Castle Grayskull.
Looking down the box-office roster a bit further, we find The Furious in eighth place, right behind Michael. The Furious earned nearly $2.8 in North America.
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