The Crow crashes at the US box office

Zoe Kravitz's directorial debut, Blink Twice, also gets off to a slow start. Deadpool & Wolverine takes advantage of that.

The summer of 2024 will have been particularly successful for blockbusters. But not for The Crow. The reinvention of the famous comic book – which became a film in 1994 – has completely missed its start at the US box office. The remake starring Bill Skarsgård is a flop with $4.6 million in revenue in a reduced 2,752 theaters, between Friday and Sunday. It thus only reaches eighth place in the ranking of the week.

A particularly low score, even for an R-rated gothic thriller. The Crow still cost $50 million to produce and $10 million to Lionsgate, which paid to distribute the film overseas. In other words, a bad week for the studio, which already has to juggle the controversy of false reviews in the trailer for Coppola's latest and the huge failure of Borderlandsthe sci-fi adventure starring Cate Blanchett, which plummeted to 16th place at the US box office and only earned $40 million worldwide (for a budget of $115 million!) after three weeks…

The Crow is therefore beaten by the other novelty of the week: Blink Twice is off to a decent start, at number four on the charts, with $7.3 million in revenue from 3,067 theaters in its opening weekend overseas. Nothing great, but an acceptable score for Zoe Kravitz's critically well-received debut with a budget of just $20 million. Blink Twice should land on its feet, without ruining Lenny's daughter's filmmaking career.

Faced with these very soft new features, it is Deadpool & Wolverine which has reclaimed the top spot at the US box office, with $18.3 million this weekend. After 5 weeks in theaters, the latest Marvel has posted a colossal jackpot of $577.2 million in North America, for an epic total of $1.21 billion overall. Despite everything, superheroes will probably not go looking for the most profitable film of the year: Inside Out 2 ($1.64 billion).

Eventually, Alien: Romulus holds strong in week 2. Even though the horror film drops to second place, it still takes $16.2 million this weekend, to accumulate $72.6 million in the United States. At the global box office, Alien: Romulus already has $225 million in revenue.