Beyoncé’s reign as queen of the field workplace shortly got here to an finish this weekend, ‘trigger she fell from the highest spot … and slipped all the way in which all the way down to #5, marking a large drop-off.
The singer’s ‘Renaissance’ live performance movie endured a 77% collapse domestically, coming in fifth place behind a handful of flicks which were in theaters for some time … and shedding out to a shocking newcomer claiming #1 — an anime movie from the nice Hayao Miyazaki.
In fact, we’re referring to ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ which snagged $12.8 million by Sunday. Clearly, that is not an enormous quantity, which makes Bey’s haul much more stunning.
‘Renaissance’ made solely $5 million domestically this weekend … fairly totally different from final weekend’s excessive mark of $21 million in North American markets. Whereas that preliminary determine was stable, for positive, it did not examine to Taylor Swift’s opening weekend for the ‘Eras’ flick.
Bear in mind, Taylor’s live performance film made $92 mil in its opening weekend … after which skilled a few 65% drop-off the subsequent week, with $33 mil — nevertheless it remained the top-grossing film on the time, beating out Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ In fact, the movie went on to take care of a stronghold on the field workplace for a number of weeks thereafter.
The opposite movies that got here forward of Bey’s flick this week … ‘Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ (#2), ‘Godzilla Minus One’ (#3) and ‘Trolls Band Collectively’ (#4).
In fact, whatever the precise numbers … ya gotta picture Bey (and definitely AMC) see the ticket gross sales as a win — and as a brand new approach to distribute these sorts of movies the place the artist themselves can reap a better proportion of the income. Extra to return, we’re positive.
