Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon opens with a solid domestic box office debut, coming in second to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
The Big Picture The hit concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour won a would-be “Barbenheimer” redux battle this weekend, as it out-performed the epic Western Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese. The Eras Tour grossed an estimated $31 million in its second weekend, marking a steep 66% decline from its spectacular opening weekend, during which it grossed $92 million and nearly set a new October record.
Killers of the Flower Moon is an almost equally unconventional case-study. Essentially a streaming movie financed by Apple, the film is getting a major wide release curtesy of Paramount. The three and a half hour epic grossed an estimated $23 million across its first three days from over 3,600 domestic theaters, will debut on Apple TV+ at an undisclosed later date.
The film has received stellar reviews, even by Scorsese’s standards. Killers of the Flower Moon currently sits at a “fresh” 92% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It also earned an excellent A- CinemaScore from opening day audiences, matching the career-high for Scorsese; The Departed and Goodfellas also earned the same grade from fans. It’s also worth noting that 46% of the film’s initial audience, rather surprisingly, was between 18–34 years old.
Theaters Have Something for Everybody This Weekend Universal’s The Exorcist: Believer took the number three spot in its third weekend, dropping by 54%. The horror reboot, which also serves as a direct sequel to the classic 1973 film directed by William Friedkin, grossed an estimated $5.6 million.
Rounding out the top five was the stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, which received a wide re-release this weekend on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. Directed by Henry Selick, the film grossed an estimated $4.1 million from over 1,600 domestic theaters, taking its running domestic total to over $80 million, a full three decades after its initial release.
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