Listen, this was not a great weekend to take your family to the movies.
Sure, the re-release of Marvel’s top earner, Avengers Endgame: Encore, made the movie the highest grossing film of all time. At $2.925 billion, it just barely nudged out Avatar ($2.923 billion) for that honor. The Walt Disney Company boasts that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is “the most successful film franchise in history,” having generated more than $35 billion worldwide—though with 38 films included in said franchise, I’d be more surprised if they weren’t so successful.
However, if you check out the weekend’s top five earners, it’s not a pretty picture.
Endgame was actually No. 7 on the list, a six-spot drop after winning last weekend’s box office. It was Verity, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s twisted dark romance, that took home an estimated $32 million and the weekend’s top spot. When you consider that the movie depicts marital infidelity, domestic abuse and the murder of a child onscreen … well, it’s kind of a bummer—especially since second place only brought home $12 million.
Of course, that’s not saying much since Resident Evil—an adaptation of the popular zombie gaming franchise, featuring plenty of “grisly, blood-spattering gore and harsh language”—was that second-place earner.
Third place went to Heart of the Beast, a classic “Does the Dog Die?” flick, which—as the only film in the top five not rated R—may actually be the most family-friendly option of this weekend’s top earners. Still, its tense narrative can make for some harrowing moments that may disturb animal lovers (or younger kiddos).
Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen (the host of Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator” series), took home an estimated $8,000,085—which was just $85 more than the Tom Cruise flop, Digger.
Early prognostications had Digger digging up somewhere between $20 to $30 million. Unfortunately, with such poor premiere takings, the absurd film stands to lose about $150 million instead. That’s a disaster that would have Digger’s title character twisting his bolo tie in frustration.
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