Unless you’re Enoch or Elijah, death comes for us all. And apparently, so does yet another Final Destination movie. There hasn’t been a Final Destination flick since 2011, when the fifth installment seemingly pulled the plug on the films. But, true to form, the franchise dodges death with Final Destination Bloodlines.
That’s why you’ll find Final Destination Bloodlines at the top of the box office this week. Sure, the overall plot of the film hasn’t changed, but that didn’t stop moviegoers from paying $51 million to see it. That makes it the highest-grossing debut for any film in the franchise, nearly doubling the fourth film’s previous record ($27.4 million).
Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, the story of a group of B-list antiheroes rising to the occasion, took second place this weekend. In the United States, it earned another $16.5 million, bringing its domestic total to $155.4 million, and raising its worldwide accumulation to $325.7 million. Those aren’t record-breaking numbers for Marvel by any means, but they’re not bad for a group of misfits, either.
And in third place, Sinners continued baring its box office fangs. It added another $15.4 million to its domestic coffers. That brings its stateside total to $240.8 million.
A Minecraft Movie, surviving into its seventh week at the box office, constructed a home in fourth. It managed to mine out another $5.9 million from American pockets. That brings its domestic total to $416.6 million—and when added to its international $505.3 million, that brings the film close to surpassing the one-billion-dollar mark. While a block height limit may exist in Minecraft, it seems there’s no such thing for dollars.
The Accountant 2 rounded out the top five by adding another $5 million to the revenue side of its budget spreadsheet. Domestically, that brings the action film’s total earnings to $59 million.
But if any film didn’t have as good of a weekend as anticipated, it was pop artist The Weeknd’s, Hurry Up Tomorrow. His half-concert, half-psychological thriller debuted at sixth place with $3.3 million and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 16%. Given that the film was made on a budget of $15 million, it’ll take a lot more than vocal exercises to help this film end on a pleasant note.
One Response
By all accounts this latest “Final Destination” movie is the best of the bunch. In anticipation of seeing it later this week, I’ve been catching up on the previous installments, and some are better than others. But make no mistake: These movies aren’t meant to be profound, nor will they corrupt anyone’s moral worldview. The franchise exists for one purpose: To show a variety of clueless, self-absorbed young people get snuffed in a variety of imaginative “Rube Goldberg” ways. Show some bro tooling down the highway in an open-top Jeep while gabbing on the phone about what babe he wants to have sex with next, and you KNOW he’s in for a grisly demise. That’s what makes it kinda fun.