Warner Bros' "Clayface" is #1 this weekend with $24M domestic and $43M worldwide. That's a bit under what studio tracking was projecting a month ago ($25M-$35M), but let's not pretend this is a disaster.
On a $44M budget, these aren't amazing numbers, but Warner Bros will take it. The film needs roughly $100M to break even. Will it get there? I'm not sure. What I do know is that the audience scores are excellent, and that matters. Next weekend is the first Saturday Halloween since 2020, and nothing big opens until "Godzilla Minus Zero" on November 6. "Clayface" could have legs? We'll see.
Meanwhile, "You Can See Everything" just keeps booming. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes doc made around $20M in its second weekend, up 25% from its $15.6M opening. That jump came after it expanded from 855 theaters to 2,655. The ten-day total is about $45M. The film cost $7M. This is the success story of the fall, so far, and it's a documentary. Who saw that coming?
Then there's Paramount's "Street Fighter," which slid to fourth place with $8.6M, a brutal 72% drop. It's now at $47M domestic and $80M worldwide. A B- CinemaScore, reports of fans walking out of opening-weekend screenings... word of mouth clearly didn't carry it. Legendary and Capcom co-financed the film for $82M, and one projection has it losing more than $50M by the end of its run.
Laika's “Wildwood” finished third with $11M, slightly above Friday's $9M projection. No doubt, with that shiny A CinemaScore and critics creaming their pants over it, slightly more people showed up than expected. Variety still claims the film cost $100M, but TheInSneider is sticking to its guns and saying it was actually $400M+ (I'm sure we'll have more details clearing things up soon).
"The Social Reckoning" fell about 85% this weekend. It's over. Aaron Sorkin's "Social Network" follow-up took in $210K from 619 theaters, bringing it to $9M domestic after three weekends. Worldwide, it's sitting at roughly $15M. The budget was $50M. Compare that to "The Social Network," which grossed $225M and won Sorkin an Oscar. Sony fumbled this one, badly. It should have never been greenlit.
Speaking of fumbles, "Musk" fell 77% after Bleecker Street pulled most of its theaters. Down to just 63 screens, Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour doc made $71K in its third weekend. It opened in New York and LA on October 9 and only went wide on October 16, so this is really its second weekend. So how soon does HBO start showing it? It's set to stream there in the first quarter of 2027. But will that still happen? HBO is now under the combined Paramount-Warner Bros, and Musk just invested $1 billion into Skydance. Should be interesting to follow.
By the way, don't forget about "Heart of the Beast." In its fifth weekend, David Ayer's survival thriller made $2.4M for a $62M domestic total, and it's now at $170M worldwide — France, Italy and Spain have carried this film to that total. That's a big win for Paramount, and proof that Brad Pitt is still a draw. It also helps that audiences who saw it genuinely loved it.
You don't see this every day: a major filmmaker, mid-release, admitting he's just not very good at his job. That’s exactly what Aaron Sorkin has done as “The Social Reckoning” dies a slow death in theaters.