Barbarian Opens With $10 Milllion During Second Slowest Box Office Weekend of the Year

There are two Disney movies at the top of the box office during what will be the second-worst weekend of 2022 to date. 20th Century Studios’ Barbarian takes the top spot. After earning $3.8 million on Friday, the horror movie will close out its opening weekend with $10 million. Critics are liking the movie, awarding it a 92% certified fresh score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a critical consensus that reads, “Smart, darkly humorous, and above all scary, Barbarian offers a chilling and consistently unpredictable thrill ride for horror fans.” ComicBook.com’s Kofi Outlaw gave Barbarian a positive but not glowing 3.5-out-of-5 review. He writes:

“Barbarian is a dark-horse horror movie release that actually deserves theatrical viewing – not for the visuals it offers, but for the audience experience. Cregger constructed his descent into the demented and macabre with a horror connoisseur’s confidence in measuring how each moment will play to the crowd. And it definitely is a fun run to take, together.”

Star Studios’ North American release of the Indian blockbuster Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva will make it to second place. After earning $1.9 million on Friday, it’ll take in $4.4 million during its first three days in the market.

If the top earner is topping out at $10 million, that’s a bad sign for theaters. The total gross for all films this weekend is will be approximately $42.3 million, the second worst of the year to date. Spider-Man: No Way Home, but it wasn’t long before that was the summer box office bottomed out. These numbers are coming ina t the same time that Regal Cinemas’ parent company is filing for bankruptcy.

The complete list of top 10 films at the box office this weekend is in the works.