Early box office reports this morning indicate that if you stand perfectly still right now and listen very, very hard, you can actually hear the sound ofGuillermo del Torosipping a hot cup of tea and saying “not that that’s any of my business.” Related:Neil Marshall’sHellboyreboot opened with a less-than-fiery $12 million, good enough for third place. To compare, del Toro’sHellboymovies opened in 2004 and 2008 with $23 million and $34 million, respectively.
Hellboy, which sawStranger ThingsstarDavid Harbourstepping into the big red title role, was held back by a not-great C Cinemascore and pretty hellish reviews. For Collider, Matt Golbergwritesthat the film “saps the energy from its title character and then tries to make up the difference with painful attempts at edginess.”
Shazam!remained on top in its second weekend with another $25 million, bring the latest entry in Warner Bros.‘ever-changing DCEUto $94 million domestically. TheZachary Levi-starring superhero flick is also, unsurprisingly, soaring overseas, where it’s taken in $126 million so far.
Coming in second is newcomerLittle, which opened with $15 million. An inverse-take on Big, directorTina Gordon’s film starsRegina Hallas a hard-headed executive who gets body-swapped back to her teenage self. (Played byMarsai Martin, who is also an executive producer, the youngest in Hollywood history.)Stephen KingadaptationPet Sematary($10 million) andTim Burton’s live-actionDumbo($9.1 million) round out the top 5.
Meanwhile, LAIKA Studios still can’t find a way to bring audiences in to glimpse its gorgeous stop-motion animation. The studio’s latest, writer/directorChris Butler’sMissing Link, opened to $5.8 million, landing in ninth place.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and be back here next week to see ifThe Curse of La Lloronacan scare up any big business.
$25,140,000
$94,913,013
$15,499,000
$12,015,000
Pet Sematary (2019)
$10,000,000
$41,121,660
Dumbo (2019)
$9,816,000
$89,945,162
Captain Marvel
$8,626,000
$386,536,581
$6,946,000
$163,498,425
After (2019)
$6,200,000
Missing Link
$5,841,434
The Best of Enemies
$2,000,000
$8,101,570
