'Creed III' is set to top this weekend's box office after earning $5.4 million in previews.
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut, Creed III, will dethrone last week’s number one film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania from the top spot at the weekend box office. The phenomenally well-reviewed threequel made $5.4 million from Wednesday and Thursday previews, of which 74% came from Thursday. This positions the film to claim the top spot in its debut weekend, and easily out-gross both of its predecessors.
The film was projected to gross at least $36 million in its first weekend, with the higher end of projections pegged at $40 million. Creed III remains on track to hit that number, which would put it ahead of the first Creed’s $29.6 million three-day debut in 2015, and Creed II’s $35.5 million opening weekend in 2018. While the first Creed made $1.4 million in Tuesday previews before debuting on Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend, Creed II launched with $3.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Both Creed and Creed II — which served as spinoffs to the Rocky franchise and also featured Sylvester Stallone as the iconic fighter — debuted to ecstatic critical and fan reception, as has the third film. Creed III pits Jordan’s Adonis Creed, the son of Apollo Creed, against his childhood buddy Damien, played by the so-hot-right-now Jonathan Majors.
After playing in several international territories earlier this year, director Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre was also released this week. The film is bowing in over 2,000 domestic theaters, where it is expected to gross in the single-digits over the weekend. Operation Fortune, a caper film starring Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza, has already made $30 million from overseas territories.
You can watch our interview with Jordan here, and stay tuned to Collider for more box office updates over the weekend.
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