Stephen Kings, long walking is not a big blow, but she did not need to be

Last weekend proved that she is much larger than anyone expecting the box office. Satan Slair: Infiniti Castle led the road with a standard opening of $ 70 million. Everything else was shooting second. Well, technically, given that “The Conjuring: Last Rites” ($ 25.6 million) fell in second place after its huge opening last week. In the case of “The Long Walk”, it was a state of having to settle in the fourth distance to some extent, although this is not bad as it might seem on the surface.

“The Long Walk” for Lionsgate, which relies on Stephen King, has the same name, to $ 11.7 million locally. It also ended behind “Download Abbey: The Grand Finale” ($ 18.1 million), which it was Muslim to go to a completely different crowd. In any case, it looks like a disappointing result on the surface. But diving is deeper into the numbers, as it is one of these “good enough” situations that we can already use in the modern market.

It was directed by Francis Lawrence, from the fame of “The Hunger Games”, this King holds a very modest budget of only $ 20 million before marketing. So, although the $ 12 million sub -opening is not completely huge, it is a good idea to have a film shown with responsibility like this. It also helps to face “The Long Walk” with great reviews so farWhich may help her in the coming weeks. There are also aesthetics abroad, which have not yet been registered, for consideration.

The film is measured in the Distopy version of the United States, where a boy from every state is chosen to participate in an annual competition. The winner will be given what he wants. To win, they have to walk at a rate of three miles per hour without stopping. Less than that speed, you get a warning. Get three warnings, and you are outside – shoot at the head of the military envoy with the group. Actors include Cooper Hoffman (“Saturday night”), David Johnson (“Alien: Romulus”), and Mark Hamil (“Star Wars”).

In terms of comparisons, this is not far from 2023 “The Bogeyman”, which rose to 82.3 million dollars after its opening to 12.3 million dollars That summer. Depending on how things happen, there is still a lot of hope that this can reach more than $ 50 million worldwide, which may be enough to transfer profit.

Lionsgate Thrifty was very here, that is the key. If this film cost $ 50 million, we will have a completely different conversation about how frustrated that such a famous movie will be ignored by the fans. Will it be great if more people appear What is now classified as the highest movie Stephen King in all ages? Certainly, but this is a dark story that did not have the same collective call as something like “IT”, for example.

This is a project that was inside and outside the development for decades, with many film makers and going. The fact that Lawrence and Lyongit finally got it at all not shy of a simple miracle. It is great to be a very good movie, through most accounts, also great. Between VOD, broadcasting, box office, Blu-Ray/DVD sales, this will be fine. You will find her fans over time and will earn money. It will not be a great success, but not everything should be.

The box office is still struggling strongly to recover from the epidemic. One thing that helps is to get a higher volume of the product in the theaters. The presence of low -risk/high -risk -risk -risk films like this in theaters more regularly because anti -programming is something we can use more. A modest blow, in the end, is successful – money is money, after all – this goal can become easily modest. This can be more frequent than it is now, and we hope that other studios will pay attention.

“The Long Walk” is now in theaters.