The Bill Skarsgård remake of the Brandon Lee supernatural thriller The Crow has already fallen out of the domestic box office top 10.
The remake of the 1994 thriller debuted in theaters on August 23 and earned $4.6 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend for a No. 8 finish at box office.
According to The Numbers, The Crow plunged out of the top 10 in its second Friday-Sunday frame with $1.8 million in domestic ticket sales in 2,752 theaters for a No. 11 finish.
The Crow has earned $8.1 in North American theaters and $1.4 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $9.5 million to date.
Per Variety, The Crow had a $50 million production budget before prints and advertising costs.
What Is ‘The Crow’ About?
The logline for The Crow reads, “Soulmates Eric (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
Like the 1994 version of The Crow, the remake is based on the comic book series of the same name by James O’Barr.
The 1994 movie has a tragic history, of course, because Brandon Lee was accidentally shot in the abdomen on the set during filming in 1993, per The Guardian, and died in the hospital the next day at age 28. Lee starred as Eric in the original version of The Crow, while Sofia Shinas played Shelly.
Rotten Tomatoes critics slammed the new version of The Crow, collectively giving the film a 22% “rotten” rating based on 117 reviews. The Rupert Sanders-directed film did, however, land a “fresh” RT Audience Score of 65% based on 500-plus verified user ratings.
The release of The Crow marks the second big blow Lionsgate has received in theaters this month. On August 9, the studio released the movie adaptation of the blockbuster video game series Borderlands. Per The Numbers, has earned $15.4 million domestically and $7.7 million internationally for a worldwide box office total of $23.4 million.
According to Deadline, Borderlands had a production budget of $120 million to $130 million with an additional $30 million spend on P&A.
Three weeks later, the film pivoted to a digital streaming release via premium video on demand.
Rated R, The Crow is playing in theaters.
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