Four Films Target $20M+ in Weekend Box Office Race — SkimNews
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- Avengers Endgame: Encore (Disney/Marvel) is tracking $23M-$26M at 3,060 theaters in its re-release, boosted by four extra minutes from the Russo brothers' upcoming Doomsday and booked into 390 Imax screens plus 1,300 premium large-format 'Infinity Vision' hubs.
- Sony's Resident Evil is projected at ~$22M in its second frame (-63%), with a domestic cume around $102.1M by Sunday that would make it the 19th film to cross $100M domestically this year.
- A24's Primetime, Robert Pattinson's drama about To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen, is tracking $18M-$20M+ at 2,859 theaters against a $15M net production budget, scoring 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes after $2.7M in previews.
- Paramount's Heart of the Beast, the Brad Pitt dog-survival film directed by David Ayer, is tracking $20.5M at 3,435 theaters with an 89% RT critics score and 97% audience score, against an $82M net production cost.
- Universal/DreamWorks Animation's Forgotten Island is underperforming with a projected $10.1M three-day at 3,500 sites, falling below its $13M-$15M tracking range despite a 95% fresh RT critics score.
- The top five films are projected to gross a combined $95M-$98M for the weekend, which would eclipse 2024's $93M as the best post-Covid late-September frame and approach the 2018 high of $106.4M.
Why it matters: Four films grossing $20M+ in a single late-September weekend — with the top five alone hitting $95M-$98M, up from $93M in 2024 — demonstrates unusually broad-based theatrical demand across fanboy, adult, and prestige demos heading into the fall season. The strong ensemble performance, even without any film clearing $30M, signals health for exhibition at a time when studios have grown accustomed to winner-take-all weekends.
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