Box office: Ghostbusters leads a trio of spooky new movies
Box office: Ghostbusters leads a trio of spooky new movies
Frozen Empire is this week's big new franchise pic, while horror films Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil opened small but set records for their indie distributors.
Easter may be just around the corner, but at theatres it was a time for scary, spooky movies.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was the biggest film at the box office over the Palm Sunday weekend. It grossed an estimated $45.2 million, which is slightly better than the $44 million that the last film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, opened to in 2021, and just behind the $46 million that the female-led Ghostbusters reboot opened to in 2016.
The week’s other new releases were much smaller, and much darker:
Immaculate, an R-rated horror movie starring Sydney Sweeney as a pregnant nun, landed in 4th place with a $5.4 million gross; and
Late Night with the Devil, an R-rated horror movie about a talk show where things go seriously, supernaturally wrong on Halloween, opened to $2.8 million and is neck-and-neck with another horror movie, Imaginary, for 6th place.
And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title:
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