‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Shoots Up Box Office With $73.5 Million Opening
thewrap.comRotten Tomatoes scores of 95% critics and 96% audience, and a 93% overall positive rating on PostTrak. That should give “Wick 4” plenty of legs over the weeks to come, even with Paramount releasing “Dungeons & Dragons” to appeal to general audiences next weekend and Universal finding its own lane with “The Super Mario Bros.
Movie” the week after. The bad news for other studios is that “John Wick 4” made up 62% of overall weekend grosses, leaving little else for the other films currently in theaters.
The one with the biggest problems is Warner Bros./New Line’s “Shazam!: Fury of the Gods,” which is now locked to be a box office flop with a 68% drop from its poor $30.5 million weekend to take $9.7 million in its second frame and a 10-day total of $46.3 million that is less than the $53.5 million that the first “Shazam” made in just its opening weekend.
Paramount’s “Scream VI” and MGM’s “Creed III” are now in a narrow race for third, with “Scream VI” currently holding the edge with $8.4 million grossed in its third weekend for an $89.8 million domestic total.
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