Per Deadline, as of Sunday morning, domestic box office projections show that the new releases for the weekend will fail to compete with Disney's two reigning champions. Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine is set to climb back to No. 1 with a three-day total of $18.3 million for its fourth non-consecutive weekend at the top of the chart, knocking 20th Century Studios' Alien: Romulus down to No. 2 in its second weekend with $16.2 million. Meanwhile, The Crow is so far falling short of its initial $6-9 million projections with an estimated debut haul of $4.6 million.

The Crow Didn't Land In The Domestic Top 5

Two Other New Releases Took Its Place

Despite being one of the buzziest new releases of the weekend, The Crow failed to land on the Top 5 chart at all, swooping down to No. 8 at the domestic box office with its debut gross. Thus, the only movement in the Top 3 is the Deadpool & Wolverine release reclaiming the throne, as the No. 3 title that was behind it and Alien: Romulus the previous weekend, the Blake Lively romantic drama It Ends with Us, continues to rake in the cash and hold its position despite ample behind-the-scenes controversy. See the full domestic Top 5 chart below:

While the Top 3 is packed with the usual suspects for August, the remainder of the chart is filled out with non-Crow new releases. The Blink Twice release led the charge, with the Channing Tatum-led thriller taking in $7.3 million while the faith-based drama The Forge, a spinoff from 2015's War Room, took No. 5 with $6.6 million. These are modest results, but neither movie boasts a particularly huge budget. The former, the directorial debut of The Batman star Zoë Kravitz, only cost $20 million, while the latter only cost $5 million and thus has already made its budget back.

The movies displaced by those new releases were Twisters, which was knocked from No. 4 to No. 6 with a solid $5.85 million in its sixth weekend, and the Coraline 15th anniversary re-release, which fell from No. 5 to No. 7 with $5.1 million. Coraline is continuing to perform exceptionally well for a re-release, especially for a relatively recent movie that did not necessarily light the box office on fire during its original run.

How The Crow's Opening Weekend Compares To The Rest Of The Franchise

The Gothic Action Franchise Is Seeing Diminishing Returns

Before the Skarsgård reimagining came to theaters, there were four other Crow movies, though only the original 1994 adaptation (starring Brandon Lee) and its 1996 standalone sequel City of Angels (starring Vincent Pérez) were released in theaters. The next two installments, which were 2000's Salvation (starring Eric Mabius) and 2005's Wicked Prayer (starring Edward Furlong), both received limited theatrical runs before premiering direct-to-video. Below, see how the 2024 installment's opening weekend compares to the previous theatrical movies from the franchise:

Even without adjusting for inflation, the controversial 2024 The Crow movie has turned out the lowest opening weekend yet of any theatrical installment in the franchise. However, it remains to be seen if it legs out to a proportionally greater total than the previous installment. At the time of writing, the movie has a Fresh 65% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which could indicate a potential word-of-mouth turnaround, especially considering the lack of major new tentpole blockbuster releases coming during the movie's second weekend in theaters.

Ultimately, it remains to be seen how the future of The Crow shapes up. The movie is not necessarily a financial failure, but the fact that it is debuting significantly below City of Angels could indicate that there will be no further movies in the universe of this particular installment. While the underperformance of the 1996 movie did not prevent two further movies from being made in the original franchise, it did prevent them from being put out in wide release, relegating them to their direct-to-video releases.

Source: Deadline

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August 23, 2024

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The Crow (2024) is a dark and gritty reimagining of the original graphic novel. It follows Eric, who is resurrected from the dead to avenge his and his soulmate’s brutal murders. Armed with supernatural abilities, Eric seeks justice against the killers responsible, navigating through a corrupt city that is as much a character as he is. This adaptation introduces new elements to captivate the modern audience!
 

Writers

James O'Barr, Zach Baylin

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Lionsgate

Budget

$50 Million

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