Well, it’s only been one week, but Snow White is already taking a snooze at the box office. The controversy-laden Disney remake didn’t exactly have a great opening weekend either, but it still managed to claw its way to the top of the list, even with a disappointing $43 million pot. This weekend, it dropped a massive 66% to $14.2 million, giving room for the mirror to choose a new fairest film in the land: Jason Statham’s Royal-Marine-turned-construction-worker thriller, A Working Man. The action movie checked in for its first performance review with $15 million, just enough to dethrone Rachel Zegler’s princess.
This was really a weekend of upsets, as Blumhouse’s The Woman In The Yard (it’s about exactly what it sounds like) took slot number four, dealing a fatal blow to A24’s Death Of A Unicorn, which landed in fifth position. The Woman In The Yard did have Danielle Deadwyler and a great marketing campaign to its name—the contrast of the film’s overly obvious title paired with the mystery of its actual plot seems to have worked—but Death Of A Unicorn also had a stacked cast including Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, and Paul Rudd, the A24 banner behind it, and a wacky, original plot to boot. The trades, at least, thought it would come out on top, but the film’s horn proved to be pretty blunt in its opening weekend. The Woman In The Yard managed to scare up $9 million, while Death Of A Unicorn cantered in at a mere $6 million.
Check out the rest of this week’s top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo, below:
- A Working Man, $15,215,874
- Snow White, $14,200,000
- The Chosen: Last Supper, $11,492,369
- The Woman in the Yard, $9,450,000
- Death of a Unicorn, $5,787,425
- Princess Mononoke (4K restoration), $4,004,482
- Captain America: Brave New World, $2,800,000
- Black Bag, $2,150,000
- Mickey 17, $1,920,000
- Novocaine, $1,450,079
