Snow White suffered a steep fall at the weekend box office while the Jason Statham-led action movie A Working Man clinched the top spot with $15.2 million as it made it’s big screen debut.
The controversial Disney film, which is a live-animated remaking of the original 1937 cartoon classic, grossed just $14.2M at the domestic box office – a 66.4% decline from it’s previous weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
Last week the film – which had a budget of $250 million – hit the number one spot, but with a disappointing $43M domestic gross.
The film, which has faced criticism of being ‘woke’, stars Rachel Zegler as the тιтular Snow White while Gal Gadot portrays the Evil Queen and has grossed a total of $66,814,583 domestically since it’s release.
Meanwhile, A Working Man, which was released on March 28 and sees Statham play a construction worker returning to his counter-terrorism ways to find a missing girl, earned $15,215,874.
Coming in third place was The Chosen: Last Supper – Part 1, a TV series based on Jesus’ life that earned $11,492,369 at the box office. Like A Working Man, it hit theatres on March 28.
Snow White suffered a steep fall at the box office while the Jason Statham -led A Working Man clinched the top spot with $15.2 million as it debuted in theaters over the weekend
Snow White, which is a live-animated remaking of the original 1937 cartoon classic, grossed just $14.2M at the box office – a 66% decline from it’s previous weekend
The Woman in the Yard landed in fourth place with $9,450,000, while the AR4 film Death of a Unicorn came in fifth with $5,787,425.
The horror film The Woman in the Yard is about a mysterious woman who makes repeated appearances in a family’s front yard with cryptic messages stars Danielle ᴅᴇᴀᴅwyler and Okwui Okpokwasili. The Universal Pictures film was released March 28.
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Death of a Unicorn stars Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, and Paul Rudd and follows a father and daughter who hit a unicorn with their car and take it to a wealthy pharmaceutical CEO’s wilderness retreat.
Princess Mononoke took the sixth place spot with $4,004,482, while Captain America: Brave New World landed in seventh with $2.8M – a 30.4% drop from the previous weekend.
A 4K restored version of Princess Mononoke, a classic animated film originally released in 1997, is being shown on IMAX screens.
Another film which suffered a mᴀssive dip was Black Bag, Mickey 17, and Novocaine.
Black Bag earned $2,150,000 at the box office, a 49.5% decrease from last weekend, while Mickey 17 garnered $1,920,000 – a 47.8% decrease.
Black Bag, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh, follows legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fᴀssbender) and his wife Kathryn Woodhouse (Cate Blanchett).
Meanwhile, A Working Man, which was released on March 28 and sees Statham portray a construction worker returning to his counter-terrorism profession to find a missing girl, earned $15.2
The new Snow White stars Rachel Zegler as the тιтular princess and has faced criticism for being ‘woke’ (pictured with co-star Andrew Burnap, who plays Jonathan)
Gal Gadot stars as the Evil Queen
Coming in third place was The Chosen: Last Supper – Part 1, a TV series based on Jesus’ life. Like A Working Man, it hit theatres on March 28
The Woman in the Yard landed in fourth place with $9.45M
Death of a Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, came in fifth place with $5.78M
Princess Mononoke took the sixth place spot with $4,004,482
Captain America: Brave New World landed in seventh with $2.8M – a 50% drop from the previous weekend
Black Bag earned $2,150,000 at the box office, a 50% decrease from last week
Mickey 17 garnered $1,920,000 at the box office – a 48% decrease
Novocaine made $1,450,000 at the box office, a 61% decrease from the previous week
The synopsis for the thriller reads: ‘When his beloved wife Kathryn is suspected of betraying the nation, intelligence agent George Woodhouse faces the ultimate test — loyalty to his marriage or his country.’
Mickey 17 tells the story of a man (Robert Pattinson) who joins a space colony as an ‘Expendable’, a disposable worker who gets cloned every time he dies for research purposes, in a plot set in the future.
Novocaine made $1,450,000 at the box office, a 60.6% decrease from the previous week.
The film, which stars Jack Quaid as a man who cannot feel physical pain, made the 10th spot.