Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings
Sony Pictures Dominates Weekend Box Office As Warner’s ‘The Flash’ Nosedives
June 25, 2023
Sony Pictures is on track for a resurgence at the weekend box office, thanks to the promising debut of the Jennifer Lawrence adult comedy No Hard Feelings and the animated return of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man: Across the Universe returned atop the North American theatrical ticket sales chart the weekend of June 23-25, after the Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation sequel made $5.7 million on Friday, $7.475 million on Saturday and is projected to add $6.125 million on Sunday across 3,785 screens, including Imax and PLF screens. Sony is projecting $19.3 million for the weekend, bringing its total domestic gross after four weekends to $317 million through Sunday; $561 million worldwide.
The animated follow-up to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse held off Disney/Pixar Animation’s Elemental with $18.3 million in revenue. In the No. 3 spot, and barely besting No Hard Feelings was Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Flash, with last weekend’s No. 1 experiencing a 73% freefall in ticket sales to $15.3 million. That’s a bigger percentage drop-off in sophomore ticket sales than the 59% decline for DC Universe’s Black Adam and Shazam! Fury of the Gods at 69%.
Columbia Pictures’ ‘R’-rated Hard Feelings made $6.25 million on Friday, $4.875 million on Saturday and is projected to add $3.975 million on Sunday across 3,208 screens. The studio is projecting an opening weekend total of $15.1 million. The film currently holds an 88% Rotten Tomatoes audience score and received a four-star PostTrak rating.
Paramount Pictures’ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts saw another $11.6 million in ticket sales in its third weekend, to up its North American tally to $123 million; $314 million globally. Finally, director Wes Anderson’s latest cult movie, Asteroid City, generated $9 million in projected ticket sales in its debut across 1,675 screens. That’s the highest box office debut ever for an Anderson movie.
The comedy-drama about global events interrupting a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in an American desert town in 1955, features a stellar cast, including Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Ed Norton and Bryan Cranston, among others.