‘Alien: Romulus’ To Continue Face-Hug Of Box Office Despite Three Wide Entries As Summer Slows Down
deadline.comDisney is expected to own No. 1 for the ninth time this summer, the likelihood that its 20th Century Studios’ Alien: Romulus will have the upper tail above Deadpool & Wolverine‘s fifth weekend, $18M to $17M. Through Tuesday, the Fede Alvarez-directed Alien: Romulus counts a running box office of $50.6M. It Ends with Us, from Sony/Wayfarer Studios, will become Blake Lively’s highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office, overtaking Green Lantern ($116.6M) — we’re not counting her secret cameo in D&W.
The romantic drama directed by and starring Justin Baldoni is set to do around $13M. These holdovers will prevail over three studio wide entries, all of which are expected to file in the single digits.
What about the overindexing of the summer? Won’t that prevail here against what tracking is seeing? No, because it’s late August, and many are in return-to-school mode.
Comscore reports that 33% K-12 are on break while colleges are 58% out. Amazon MGM Studios’ has the Zoe Kravitz directed thriller, Blink Twice, starring Channing Tatum, but it’s not suppose to do Tatum-sized opening numbers (double-digits plus).
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