Snow White, it’s time to turn over the keys to the kingdom.
A Working Man, the new abduction thriller Jason Statham co-produced and stars in for Amazon MGM Studios, stole the top spot at this weekend’s box office. Statham’s new shoot-’em-up joint premiered to an impressive $15.2 million at the domestic box office, surpassing Disney‘s latest live-action remake of an animated classic, which scored $14.2 million in its second week of release.
Snow White‘s trudge through a swamp of controversy on its way to premiere no doubt hindered its critical first weekend performance, but the weekend 2 picture isn’t looking any brighter. This weekend’s $14.2 million take represents a 66 percent drop from last weekend’s $43 million opening gross, making it the biggest second weekend drop-off of any live-action remake from the Mouse House, surpassing Dumbo‘s 60 percent drop in 2019.
Still, the Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot-starring fairy tale maintained its top spot at the global box office, taking in an additional $36.3 million for a gross of $143 million. A Working Man‘s performance across 64 international markets brought its earnings up to $30.2 million at the global box office, securing it the No. 2 spot.
Jonathan Roumie in ‘The Chosen: Last Supper,’ Danielle Deadwyler in ‘The Woman in the Yard,’ and Jenna Ortega in ‘Death of a Unicorn’. Amazon MGM Studios;universal;A24
The domestic and global charts’ respective top 5s are rounded out by a diverse array of not only genres, countries of origin, and content ratings, but also formats. The bronze medalist on the domestic leaderboard isn’t even a film.
The first two episodes of the fifth season of the Christian historical series The Chosen premiered in theaters this week as The Chosen: Last Supper (Season 5) Part 1, earning $11.5 million at the domestic box office. The episodes were only theatrically released in America, but that gross still earned it the fourth spot on the global charts. Viewers eager to see what happens next in the serialized life of Jesus Christ — created, directed, and co-written by Dallas Jenkins — must download the show’s official app to watch.
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The fourth and fifth spot takers also had their premieres this weekend, making an unusually high 80 percent of the box office top 5 new releases. Universal’s Danielle Deadwyler-starring chiller, The Woman in the Yard — the first new horror film from Orphan and House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra since 2009 — earned the fourth spot with a $9.4 million weekend gross. No. 5 went to A24’s quirky genre-blender Death of a Unicorn, which stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega and brought in a $5.7 million opening take.
At the global box office, the Indian action thriller Empuraan earned the third top spot with a $12 million take, making for a $19.4 million cumulative gross to date. That already makes this Mohanlal-starring sequel to 2019’s Lucifer the fifth highest-grossing Malayalam language film of all time.
In its 12th week of release, the Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 continues its unprecedented victory march in the fifth spot at the weekend’s global box office. An $11 million weekend take makes for a staggering $2.12 billion global gross from only 12 territories.
Next weekend’s premieres are a grab bag, with no clear frontrunner to challenge A Working Man for No 1. There is the star-studded A Minecraft Movie, featuring Jennifer Coolidge, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, and more. Then there is the gritty Judy Greer star vehicle Eric LaRue, directed by Michael Shannon. Finally, Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis will vie for supremacy with Freaky Tales, an ’80s genre pastiche from Captain Marvel directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
