The biggest news of the weekend is the Top 10 shakeup thanks to the surprise hit It Ends With Us. $97M through two weekends is already good enough to crack the Top 10 and kick out Garfield. 23 players just got jammed with the flip-flop, and now there are only 6 atop the list. I’m not assuming anything in the lead spot as this weekend’s newcomer could still cause more chaos.
Now, who’d have thought that it would take Disney to coax the second-best opening of the Alien franchise? With a current 81%/86% rating on RT and a shiny ‘B+’ CinemaScore (the best since 1986’s Aliens), Alien: Romulus just scored the best third-weekend of August since 2015’s Straight Outta Compton ($60M). $42M isn’t the $46M originally projected by Box Office Theory nor the $45-55M projected by Boxoffice Pro, so whether or not it can take over that easily-attainable #10 spot (currently The Fall Guy at $92.9M) will boil down to its second weekend drop.
For the curious-minded, below lists every Alien film and how they performed post-opening weekend. A low 2.x multiplier seems to be the norm, while 2007’s Requiem is skewed by a one-day “opening” on Christmas Day.
| Year | Opening (M) | Total (M) | Opening Multiplier | |
| Alien: Romulus | 2024 | 42.0 | ??? | ??? |
| Alien: Covenant | 2017 | 36.1 | 74.2 | 2.1x |
| Prometheus | 2012 | 51.0 | 126.4 | 2.5x |
| Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem | 2007 | 10.0 | 41.7 | 4.2x |
| AVP: Alien vs. Predator | 2004 | 38.2 | 80.2 | 2.1x |
| Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | 16.4 | 47.8 | 2.9x |
| Alien 3 | 1992 | 23.1 | 54.9 | 2.4x |
| Aliens | 1986 | 10.0 | 85.1 | 8.5x |
| Alien | 1979 | 3.5 | 64.3 | 18.4x |
Top 10 IN
- #9 It Ends with Us
Top 10 OUT
- The Garfield Movie
Holdover News
- Inside Out 2 ($642.5M) remains the #11 domestic movie ALL TIME after another $3M (-28.3%) in its 10th weekend. Up next at #10 is 2015’s Jurassic World ($653M).
- #2 Deadpool & Wolverine ($546M) had a great 4th weekend with $30M (-44.2%) and is locked into this spot.
- #3 Despicable Me 4 ($340M) earned another $6.2M (-21.6%) in its 7th weekend, and $350M still appears reachable.
- #4 Twisters ($238M) kept the strong holds going with another $10M (-33.3%) in its 5th weekend, and $250M also still appears reachable.
- #5 Bad Boys: Ride or Die ($193M) reduced again to only 60 theaters in its 11th weekend and refuses to retire.
- #6 Kingdom of Apes ($171M) FINALLY called it a career and is locked in.
- #7 A Quiet Place: Day One ($138M) saw its theater count get slashed to 135 and expectedly took a -76.6% hit.
- #8 IF ($111M) holds at #8.
- #9 Fall Guy ($92.9) slid down to #10 and just might drop out on the very last day of the SMP. Stay tuned.
Next Weekend: Three new Wide releases grace us next weekend, led by the reboot of The Crow (selected by 1 player). It was originally scheduled for release on 7/7 before its shift to late August.