


Another blockbuster weekend for “Toy Story 5” was a given. And to some of us the indifference that a fresh, punk-riotgrrrl take on “Supergirl” with no “names (Mathias Schoenaerts excepted) and Warner Bros./DC’s MF CGI “dog” sidekick was just as easy to anticipate.
I mean, come ON.
A decent but underwhelming Thursday “preview” turnout of $7.8 million folded into a Friday opening ($18 million) did no favors for “Supergirl”
Deadline.com is calling that a $40 million comic book origin story/franchise starter. Call it fanboy “Captain Marvel” sexism or the Curse of DC Comics (reviews haven’t been enthusiastic) or superhero fatigue or the dark times we’re living through, but true “blockbusters” don’t sell under four million in tickets on their opening weekend.
Maybe it’ll have legs, but that’s unlikely.
Meanwhile, the laugh-starved, obvious and muddled message-heavy “Toy Story 5” is filling cinemas on its second weekend — $74 million, a 54 percent drop, per Deadline.
The endless “Jackass” farewell tour wraps up with “Jackass: Best & Last,” which is cruising towards a $10 million opening. Not terrible, until you remember ticket prices and figure maybe a million people will see it. A lot of people are sentimental fools over these suicidal fools. Well, maybe a million. Hell, they reopened cinemas after COVID, so God Bless them, Every One.
The no-name-stars, sad and smart horror phenom “Obsession” leaves its smart horror rival “Backrooms” in the dust with another $8.5 million weekend, good enough for fourth place on its march towards $250 million, which is where I figure it will end up.
“Disclosure Day” is down to $7 million and fading fast in fifth.
The two new titles should push “Michael” and “The Death of Robin Hood” out of the top ten, but “Leviticus” and “Masters of the Universe” are on top ten life support, too.
Check back later this weekend as I update these figures and we’ll see what we see. Or what we have seen.
