Box Office Report for the Week of June 14

Steven Spielberg mania has caught on in the multiplexes, as his latest movie, Disclosure Day, has shattered industry expectations for a relatively tepid opening and has already become Spielberg’s best start for a non-IP movie. With a $44 million domestic opening, it has already beaten Ready Player One‘s opening cume, and its $90 million global tally continues to position Spielberg as a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.

Reactions to the film are all over the place, but they encourage viewers to form their own opinions on a movie that is sure not to leave you indifferent, whether or not you end up liking it. The film will likely suffer a precipitous drop thanks to Toy Story 5 being a probable critic-proof juggernaut and putting Pixar back on top of the billion-dollar box office pedestal, but it might also hold well if word of mouth encourages viewers to listen to what Spielberg has to say.

While Scary Movie and Masters of the Universe have fallen off, Obsession is still holding out amazingly well and keeps breaking box-office records for an independent production, now putting its global tally at $285.6 million. However, not all independent films can match Curry Barker’s meteoric success. Kenji Tanigaki‘s The Furious, an action masterpiece that will change the game if more people see it, is sadly not performing as Lionsgate had hoped, and has opened to a rather tepid $2.7 million despite incredible word of mouth from both critics and audiences. Having seen the film at TIFF last year, all I can say is this: go see it.

Adam Shankman‘s Stop! That! Train! also opened with little to no fanfare, grossing $2 million domestically. It is doing slightly better business than most Bleecker Street offerings, but nothing to write home about. So far, the summer has belonged to two unexpected successes: Curry Barker and Kane Parsons, who, in some ways, might change the landscape of Hollywood forever. That doesn’t mean that franchise films don’t have a place anymore, as Toy Story 5 will prove, but something is happening that Hollywood studios would be fools to ignore…

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the week:

1. Disclosure Day (Universal): $44.0M – 3,824 theatres
2. Obsession (Universal): $19.0M (-25%) – 3,068 theatres
3. Scary Movie (2026) (Paramount): $14.5M (-73%) – 3,504 theatres
4. Backrooms (A24): $11.2M (-57%) – 3,404 theatres
5. Masters of the Universe (Amazon MGM Studios): $8.6M (-71%) – 3,677 theatres
6. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney): $4.7M (-53%) – 2,680 theatres
7. Michael (Lionsgate): $4.1M (-46%) – 2,256 theatres
8. The Furious (Lionsgate): $2.7M – 1,251 theatres
9. Stop! That! Train! (Bleecker Street): $2.0M – 1,161 theatres
10. The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (Fathom Entertainment): $1.7M (-87%) – 2,221 theatres

Source: Comscore